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May 29, 2026, 10:20 PM

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Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch:
Microsoft faces backlash after a blog post implied criminal referral and legal action against security researcher Nightmare Eclipse over public bug disclosures  —  After a security researcher published a series of unpatched bugs in Microsoft products, along with code to exploit them …
Pritam Biswas / Reuters:
Coinbase and Kalshi introduce perpetual crypto futures, marking the first time the contracts will be available to US investors via domestic, regulated exchanges  —  Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase (COIN.O) and prediction markets platform Kalshi said on Friday they are introducing perpetual crypto futures …
Bradley Olson / Wall Street Journal:
Executives at Uber, Meta, Microsoft, and other companies are trying to rein in “tokenmaxxing” by employees, which led to ballooning AI use costs  —  Executives are scrambling to track returns on AI investments as the bill for massive computing needs comes due
PCMag:
What to expect at Computex 2026: AI chips, budget PCs competing with the MacBook Neo, Nvidia entering laptop SoC market with the rumored N1X chip, and more  —  The theme for Computex 2026, according to organizer TAITRA, is “AI Together.”  Sure, it sounds a little like a tech-industry group hug.
Sana Pashankar / Bloomberg:
US Space Force says SpaceX won a $4.16B contract to build a space-based tracking network as part of President Trump's Golden Dome defensive shield  —  SpaceX has won a contract for more than $4 billion to build satellites to track foreign aircraft and missiles as part of President Donald Trump's Golden Dome defensive shield.
CJ Haddad / CNBC:
Dell stock closed up 32.81%, its best day ever, after reporting its fastest pace of revenue growth for any period since returning to the public market in 2018  —  Shares of Dell Technologies closed 32.76% higher on Friday, wrapping its best day ever after the company reported its fastest pace …
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
Barratt Dewey / Tectonic Defense:
Picogrid, which is building a hardware and software integration layer for military systems, raised a $45M Series A led by Bessemer  —  Picogrid is proving that teamwork really does make the dream work.  —  This morning, the El Segundo-based hardware and software integration startup announced …
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.
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 …
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 …
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.

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