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| Steven Levy / Wired: |
A deep dive into how Anthropic's Claude Code and Peter Steinberger's OpenClaw unleashed the AI agent revolution that is rapidly transforming modern computing — The definitive story of how Claude Code and OpenClaw kicked off computing's biggest transformation possibly ever.| Casey Newton / Platformer: |
Q&A with Claude Code creator and head Boris Cherny on how the title “software engineer” could disappear, why AI may create more jobs than it destroys, and more — Anthropic's Boris Cherny tells me major job loss due to automation really is coming — but job creation is, too.| Hannah Erin Lang / Wall Street Journal: |
Robinhood launches a feature to let users link AI agents, such as Claude or Cursor, to separate, dedicated investment accounts for trading stocks autonomously — New feature links artificial-intelligence tools to investment and credit-card accounts — AI agents were already dispensing advice …
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| Samantha Subin / CNBC: |
Micron hit a $1T market value for the first time on May 26 after its stock closed up 19.29%, rising from $700B earlier in May, driven by high memory chip demand — Micron topped a $1 trillion market value for the first time on Tuesday as shares popped 19%, driven by insatiable artificial intelligence demand for its memory chips.
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X: @speculator_io, @garyblack00, @bamabonds, @wolf_financial, @bamabonds, @realnickmugalli, and @universeice. Forums: r/wallstreetbets
| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
YouTube makes its AI content labels more prominent on desktop and mobile, and will apply them automatically if it detects “significant photorealistic AI use” — Is that YouTube video clip you're watching real or was it made with AI? — YouTube wants to make it easier for viewers …
More: YouTube Official Blog, Thurrott, The Verge, TechCrunch, The Next Web, IGN, The Wrap, MobileSyrup, The Hollywood Reporter, Digital Trends, WeRSM, and Crypto Briefing
Forums: r/entertainment and r/technology
| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Demis Hassabis says he still broadly expects AGI around 2030, though he now sees 2029 as a possibility, and 2026's “agentic era” is a “bit like a practice run” — Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis said at Google's developer conference last week that humanity is standing in the …
More: The Rundown AI. X: @kimmonismus. Forums: r/IntelligenceSupernova, r/singularity, and r/accelerate
| Financial Times: |
How AI is starting to dismantle the hegemony of the Big Four consultancies and other large firms, as AI agents help smaller consultancies handle big workloads — The technology opens the door for smaller, well-funded challengers to take market share from the Big Four and others.
More: Financial Times, Fortune, and Telegraph
| Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: |
Datacurve releases the DeepSWE coding benchmark, a 113-task test across 91 open-source repositories: GPT-5.5 leads at 70%, GPT-5.4 got 56%, and Opus 4.7 got 54% — For months, the leading AI coding benchmarks have told enterprise buyers a comforting but misleading story: the top models are all roughly the same.
More: DeepSWE and Datacurve on GitHub
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Forums: Hacker News and r/LocalLLaMA
| Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg: |
Samsung's largest union approves a pay deal that would give chip workers an average bonus of ~$340K, with ~74% of members voting in favor, staving off a strike — Samsung Electronics Co. union members voted in favor of a compensation deal that will hand chip workers an average bonus of about $340,000 …
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| Ashleigh Fields / The Hill: |
President Trump says it is “critically important” that the CFTC keep exclusive authority to oversee prediction markets, as some states attempt to regulate them — President Trump on Tuesday said it was “critically important” for the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) …
More: Decrypt, Unchained, Blockonomi, Cointelegraph, Bitcoin News, The Guardian, Benzinga, Washington Examiner, CoinGape, NBC News, The Block, Politico, Front Office Sports, crypto.news, Raw Story, CoinDesk, Bloomberg, and CoinGeek. Truth Social: @realDonaldTrump …
| Paula Doenecke / Bloomberg: |
The EU proposes new satellite access rules to let non-European companies like SpaceX bid for the airwaves, while preserving 33%+ of licenses for local companies — The European Union proposed new rules for satellite access that will allow non-European firms, like Elon Musk's Starlink …
More: European Commission, Reuters, Wall Street Journal, Politico, Euronews, and Crypto Briefing
| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
ElevenLabs launches Music v2, which can switch genres mid-track and handle complex vocal compositions, built on licensed data and cleared for commercial use — Voice AI company ElevenLabs launched a new version of its music-generation model, called Music v2, that can switch genres mid-track.| Eleanor Olcott / Financial Times: |
Sources and docs detail how China is modernizing its decade-old domestic surveillance network by investing in new generations of AI-enabled cameras and software — Local police forces are modernising the country's ageing infrastructure with more powerful tracking systems| Michael Larabel / Phoronix: |
Initial benchmarks: Nvidia's Vera Rubin CPU, which features 88 Nvidia-designed Olympus cores, packs a heavy-hitting punch, beating Intel's and AMD's x86_64 CPUs — NVIDIA's Vera data center CPU isn't ramping up until later this year but I recently had the opportunity to try out this new ARM-based CPU designed for agentic AI workloads.
More: Tom's Hardware, NVIDIA, WinBuzzer, Barchart.com, and PC Gamer
Forums: Hacker News and r/AMD_Stock
| Nikkei Asia: |
Jensen Huang says Nvidia spends $100B-$150B per year on its Taiwan supply chain, up from $10B-$15B in 2022-2023, and will boost its 1,000 staff there to 4,000 — TAIPEI — Nvidia is now spending up to $150 billion a year on its supply chain partners in Taiwan and plans to increase its headcount in the …
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| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Biohub, a Mark Zuckerberg- and Priscilla Chan-funded institute, releases “a world model of protein biology” to researchers for prediction, design, and discovery — Biohub, the Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan-funded institute, on Wednesday released what it says amounts to “a world model of protein biology.”| Bloomberg: |
Sources: ByteDance is discussing up to $70B of 2026 capex as it builds out data centers and other AI infrastructure, underwritten by its ~$50B profit in 2025 — ByteDance Ltd., the developer of TikTok and a leading force in artificial intelligence, is planning to sharply increase …
More: The Information and Crypto Briefing
| Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter: |
Roku launches its first major homescreen overhaul in over a decade, including a large “marquee” ad spot to tout apps or shows, in a bid to drive more engagement — Don't worry, Roku City isn't going anywhere. In fact, it's going interactive. But there will be more personalization, and a more prominent ad unit too.| Maxwell Zeff / Wired: |
Trajectory, founded by ex-DeepMind, Apple, and OpenAI staff to train “continual learning” models on user interactions, raised a $15M seed at a $115M valuation — Trajectory is betting the rapid iteration cycle that supercharged vibe-coding can help all kinds of companies build AI products that learn continuously.| Hayden Field / The Verge: |
A look at the Pentagon's embrace of autonomous weapons before its fight over Anthropic's two “red lines”, and AI's creeping influence in military operations — The Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons, an international forum that focuses on lethal autonomous systems … | Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
Amazon says it is making the “architecture, starter code, and learnings” from Alexa for Shopping available to third-party retailers, starting with Kate Spade — Amazon has been using homegrown artificial intelligence technology to help users compare products and buy or reorder items on their behalf.
More: GeekWire, About Amazon, Yahoo Finance, and Crypto Briefing
| Michael Roddan / The Information: |
Polymarket is making it harder to use VPNs to access its service, blocking some IPs and suspicious accounts, and is asking some customers to identify themselves — In Russia, making bets on Polymarket isn't permitted by the popular online prediction market's rules.
More: crypto.news
| Scott Stein / CNET: |
Xreal launches a new sub-brand, X by Xreal, and $299 a01 display glasses with micro OLED displays, a 50° FOV, and a 62g weight, set for a July release in the US — X by Xreal is arriving in July for $299, and they look to compete with TCL's budget glasses.
More: Gizmodo, The Verge, Wired, The Shortcut, Android Authority, Ubergizmo, GamesBeat, The Indian Express, Tom's Guide, and Digital Trends
| Chris Metinko / Axios: |
DC-based Airis Labs, which uses AI to convert visual data to law enforcement intelligence, emerges from stealth with a $31M Series B, for $60M in total funding — Airis Labs, an AI video platform for defense, has come out of stealth with a $31 million Series B led by PSG Equity, co-founder and CEO Noam Friedman tells Axios Pro.
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