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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.
Bloomberg:
SK Hynix tops $1T in market value after its stock jumped 9% on May 27, becoming the third Asian company to hit the milestone, and is up 1,000%+ in the past year  —  SK Hynix Inc. joined Micron Technology Inc. in surpassing the $1 trillion market capitalization milestone …
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.
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 …
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) …
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.
Nikkei Asia:
Jensen Huang says Nvidia is spending $100B-$150B annually on its Taiwan supply chain, up from $10B-$15B four years ago, and will boost its Taiwan staff 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 …
Ina Fried / Axios:
Biohub, the Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan-funded institute, releases a protein-structure prediction model and more, calling it “a world model” of proteins  —  Biohub, the Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan-funded institute, on Wednesday released what it says amounts to “a world model of protein biology.”
More: Reuters and Biohub

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WSJ opinion editor Paul Gigot defends Stanley Druckenmiller's use of AI to write an op-ed, saying “nobody can doubt that his op-ed is his genuine opinion”

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