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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
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
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.
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:
Madison Mills / Axios:
Anthropic says it expects Mythos-class models to be available to all customers “in the coming weeks” following the development of stronger safeguards
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 …
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 …
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 …
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
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 …
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
More: Gizmodo and Raw Story
X: @bgurley and @washingtonpost.  Bluesky: @justinhendrix
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 …
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.
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
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 …
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.
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.
Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE:
Dell reports Q1 AI server revenue up 757% YoY to $16.1B and raises its FY 2027 AI server revenue forecast to $60B, up from its prior projection of $50B  —  Dell Technologies Inc. delivered its fastest rate of revenue growth since returning to the public markets more than seven years ago …
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%+

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New York Times:
The US DOJ confirms it is probing whether ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC, and Fox violated antitrust law by briefly suspending White House pool coverage of President Trump

Max Tani / Semafor:
Sources detail how ABC News initially defended then retracted an article about President Trump's sons' defense links, saying it was published “prematurely”

David Gilmour / Mediaite:
Ex-Fox News executives accuse Fox of ignoring the scandal around former Fox star Kimberly Guilfoyle; Gretchen Carlson says the decision is “coming from the top”

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