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| Bradley Olson / Wall Street Journal: |
After hitting their annual AI budget in months or seeing their AI bills double or triple due to “tokenmaxxing”, some companies are rationing or tracking AI use — Executives are scrambling to track returns on AI investments as the bill for massive computing needs comes due
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| Rafe Rosner-Uddin / Financial Times: |
Sources: Amazon has shut down an internal leaderboard that tracked employees' use of AI tools after workers tried to boost their scores with needless tasks — Senior executive Dave Treadwell tells staff 'don't use AI just for the sake of using AI' as costs rise
More: Semafor, CIO.com, Business Insider, Tom's Hardware, PC Gamer, Fortune, and The Decoder
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Forums: r/singularity, r/BetterOffline, r/technology, r/theprimeagen, and r/business
| Robert Hart / The Verge: |
AI startup Shift launches a free home cleaning service in NYC to record first-person video with a camera-equipped cap and use it to train robots — Shift says a ‘magic hat’ will record its cleaners working inside your home. … AI training startup Shift wants to clean your home for free.
More: Forbes, Semafor, Ars Technica, Business Insider, and Android Authority
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Bluesky: @hypervisible.blacksky.app and @vegandroid
| Nathan Bomey / Axios: |
Kalshi plans to offer perpetual futures contracts, saying it will be “the first company in American history to offer” them, to be “fully regulated” by the CFTC — Kalshi announced Friday that it will begin offering perpetual futures contracts …
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| Sebastian Herrera / Fortune: |
Sources: Microsoft is working on an app that will include GitHub Copilot, Copilot chat, Copilot Cowork, and a new agentic workflow tool called Autopilot — Microsoft needs to solve a nagging problem: It has various Copilot AI assistants throughout its portfolio of products, irking customers who seek a single destination.| Ian Carlos Campbell / Engadget: |
More: The Register, Android Authority, PCWorld, The Verge, Help Net Security, Digital Trends, Moneycontrol, Thurrott, Neowin, and Fast Company. Bluesky: @mgsiegler.com
| Danny Park / The Block: |
Paxos says the US SEC has approved its registration as a clearing agency, allowing it to provide clearing and settlement services for eligible transactions — Quick Take — Paxos said its subsidiary, Paxos Securities Settlement Company (PSSC), has received registration as a clearing agency …
More: Paxos, PYMNTS, Crypto Briefing, CoinDesk, Decrypt, Unchained, Blockonomi, CryptoNinjas, Bitcoin News, crypto.news, Yahoo Finance, and Cointelegraph
| Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg: |
Samsung says it has started shipping its first 12-layer HBM4E samples to major clients; SK Hynix said in April that it aimed to ship HBM4E samples in H2 2026 — Samsung Electronics Co. has begun shipping samples of the industry's most advanced memory to customers, taking an early lead … | Maria Curi / Axios: |
OpenAI says it has briefed the White House on its new biodefense program, which uses GPT-Rosalind to help develop biodefense and pandemic preparedness tools — OpenAI is launching a tool to help develop new biodefense and pandemic preparedness capabilities, according to an announcement shared first with Axios.
More: OpenAI, The Decoder, StartupHub.ai, and Crypto Briefing
| Financial Times: |
Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket, which exploded during testing on Thursday, was set to ferry 48 Amazon Leo satellites on Monday; Amazon paid Blue Origin $2.7B — Failure comes days before planned launch of internet satellites for Amazon
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| Claude: |
Anthropic adds dynamic workflows to Claude Code, enabling hundreds of subagents to run in parallel for complex engineering tasks such as framework migrations — Early access users and teams inside Anthropic have been using dynamic workflows for a wide range of use cases, including:
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| Madison Mills / Axios: |
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X: @robertgraham, @scaling01, @miles_brundage, @menhguin, @theprimeagen, @kimmonismus, and @polymarket. LinkedIn: Jay Martin
| Bloomberg: |
Lenovo's stock is up 105% in May, marking its biggest monthly gain since 1999, after earnings showed AI-related revenue helped offset rising memory costs — Lenovo Group Ltd. recorded its best month in more than a quarter-century, with the stock doubling in May as investor enthusiasm built around …
More: South China Morning Post
| Evan Halper / Washington Post: |
Allegations that China is behind US data center protests draw criticism from allies of the AI industry, who say the industry and politicians are in denial — Claims that China and overseas propaganda drive Americans to rise up against data centers are based on scant evidence. — Summary| ElevenLabs: |
ElevenLabs launches Dubbing v2, which it says preserves the original speaker's emotion, tone, and pacing across 90+ languages while staying synced to content — Today we're launching Dubbing v2, our revolutionary new AI dubbing model. — For the first time, the emotion and performance … | Meir Orbach / CTech: |
Sports Illustrated rights holder Minute Media lays off 12% of staff and reverses its ~$200M deal to buy VideoVerse, an AI platform to extract sports highlights — The unicorn says restructuring reflects push for efficiency and long-term growth amid changes in the media market … | Kate Park / TechCrunch: |
Xcena, whose MX1 chip performs data orchestration and KV cache management directly within memory modules, raised a $135M Series B at a $570M valuation — Every time you ask ChatGPT a question, your request triggers a data relay race. Information leaves memory, passes through a CPU for preprocessing … | Martin Coulter / Sifted: |
London-based Inherent, which aims to combine human scientific research with AI to produce innovations, emerges from stealth with $50M led by Index Ventures — London-based Inherent has recruited Entrepreneurs First cofounder Matt Clifford as an adviser — London-based AI lab Inherent …
More: Tech.eu, Bloomberg, UKTN, and Index Ventures
| Reuters: |
Former Tesla data labelers say FSD relies on laborious mapping for hazards; crash data analysis shows Tesla exaggerates FSD's safety via flawed methodology — Tesla says its Full Self-Driving software is up to 10 times safer than human drivers. But the figures the company uses to support …
More: Dow Jones Newswires, Los Angeles Times, EV, Digital Trends, InsideEVs, Foreign Policy Journal, and Business Insider
Forums: r/EVCanada, r/technology, and r/SelfDrivingCars
| Jake Angelo / Fortune: |
AI researchers ran 15-day simulations of worlds governed by different AI models: Claude Sonnet 4.6 recorded no crimes, while Gemini 3 Flash had the most at 683 — Imagine a world run by AI agents. What does it look like? What are the values or societal priorities? Is it a safer or more dangerous world?
More: Inc and Gizmodo
X: @kimmonismus. LinkedIn: Chris Hjelm. Bluesky: @gregjenner. Forums: r/JoeRogan, r/artificial, r/nottheonion, r/ShitAIBrosSay, r/ClaudeAI, r/ArtificialInteligence, and r/SipsTea
| Russell Brandom / TechCrunch: |
Asana acquires StackAI, a no-code platform for building AI agents, for $75M as part of Asana's broader AI pivot; PitchBook: StackAI raised ~$20M — Asana has acquired the workflow automation company StackAI for $75 million, part of a larger effort to position itself as an AI-native workplace platform.
More: Asana, The Next Web, SiliconANGLE, StackAI, Acquire.fyi, and The AI Economy
X: @arbose, @rosinoltoni, and @stackai
LinkedIn: Kaylee Hill, Danniella Markovic, Ashley Bair, and Saket Srivastava
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: SpaceX is currently targeting an IPO valuation of at least $1.8T, down from a previous $2T+ target, after consultations with advisers and investors — Video Player is loading. — Unmute — Current Time 0:01 Loaded: 17.77% Playback Rate — captions off, selected — English| Cheng Ting-Fang / Nikkei Asia: |
MediaTek says it has started to use Intel Foundry's advanced chip packaging in addition to TSMC's, as the mobile chip designer bets on AI demand for growth — TAIPEI — MediaTek says it has started working with Intel for advanced chip packaging in addition to its existing relationship with TSMC …
More: Reuters, Taipei Times, DigiTimes, and Crypto Briefing
| Jo Constantz / Bloomberg: |
A look at Anthropic's hiring process, which prohibits AI use in interviews and features a culture interview that candidates describe as highly intense — To win a coveted role, candidates shouldn't outsource their thinking to AI — and should be prepared to talk about their worldview.
More: Pulse 2.0 and Implicator.ai
X: @business and @bloombergtv
LinkedIn: Shona Ghosh, Nikki Waller, Kevin Landucci, and Jo Constantz. Bluesky: @metacurity.com. Threads: @benedictevans
| The Information: |
Sources: ByteDance has partnered with chipmaker InnoStar to develop an AI inference chip modeled after Groq's LPUs, which are built to run AI models at low cost — TikTok owner ByteDance is developing a new chip to run artificial intelligence models as part of an aggressive expansion of its homegrown AI infrastructure.
More: TechCrunch and Tom's Hardware
| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Dell reports Q1 revenue up 88% YoY to $43.84B, vs. $35.43B est., and forecasts FY 2027 revenue above estimates; DELL jumps 33%+ — Dell reported its fastest pace of revenue growth for any period since its return to the public market more than seven years ago, and topped analysts' estimates for sales and profit.
More: Gizmodo, Implicator.ai, Proactive, Forbes, Fast Company, ITPro, Yahoo Finance, blocksandfiles, Foreign Policy Journal, Reuters, The Information, Business Insider, and Constellation Research
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Forums: r/business, r/StockMarket, and r/MU_Stock
| Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: |
More: Austin American-Statesman, Benzinga, CNBC, Dell, Foreign Policy Journal, Forbes Middle East, Blockonomi, CryptoPotato, The Asia Business Daily, Barron's Online, BNN Bloomberg, ZeroHedge News, The Next Web, Yahoo Finance, Business Today, Seoul Economic Daily, Morningstar, RTÉ, DigiTimes, CRN, Thurrott, Crypto Briefing, and StartupHub.ai. LinkedIn: David Kennedy
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