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OpenClaw creator’s $1.3 million monthly OpenAI bill reveals the real cost of autonomous AI coding at scale

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SpaceX raises Starlink prices across every consumer plan and doubles the cost of Standby Mode

Meta begins cutting 8,000 jobs this week as record profits fund a $145 billion AI infrastructure bet

Amazon’s new Alexa feature generates entire podcast episodes using AI and licensed journalism from 200+ newsrooms

Hackers stole fingerprints and medical data from 1.8 million people in NYC’s largest public hospital breach

Musk loses OpenAI lawsuit as jury unanimously rules his claims were filed too late

HistoSonics gets Taiwan approval for its tumour-destroying ultrasound system as it pushes into Asia

Sigma Computing doubles valuation to $3 billion in Series E as agentic analytics race heats up

Coursera announces $500 million buyback one week after closing its $2.5 billion Udemy merger

Grafana Labs refuses ransom after hackers steal already-open-source code

Anthropic’s co-founder will speak at the Vatican launch of the pope’s AI encyclical

Omnia and Casa dos Ventos sign $2bn power deal anchoring TikTok’s Brazil data centre

Your next pipeline miss may start in AI Search

NextEra agrees $67bn all-stock deal for Dominion in largest power acquisition ever

Musk’s xAI promised employees $420 for their tax data. Two months later, nothing.

Decart raises $300M to put a real-time world model in front of Amazon’s chips

Google has sold so much TPU capacity that its own researchers are queueing for the rest

XPeng starts its robotaxi line in Guangzhou, three years behind the leaders and ahead of any other Chinese automaker

The US is building a 4,000-acre AI hub in the Philippines, and the sovereignty questions are already piling up

Dust raises $40M to push enterprise AI past the single-player era

Google I/O 2026: everything announced so far, from Gemini Intelligence to the death of the Chromebook

Pope Leo XIV calls AI-directed warfare a “spiral of annihilation” in historic La Sapienza address

Two crypto billionaires sit behind both the Trump family token and Iran’s sanctions-evasion engine

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CBA names AI researcher Professor Mary-Anne Williams as Chief AI Scientist

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Shein buys Everlane at $100M, and the radical-transparency brand becomes a fast-fashion asset

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Exadel buys London consultancy Tangent to bolt experience design onto its AI engineering line

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Apple’s India App Store case gets a procedural compromise from the Delhi bench

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Anthropic is briefing the Financial Stability Board on what Mythos has been finding

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HSBC opens a $4bn credit line for Chinese clean-tech to go global

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Samsung union holds 21 May strike date as Monday mediation opens in Sejong

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Berlin’s LawX raises €7.5m to build the backoffice layer of legal AI

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Apple’s Siri app in iOS 27 will auto-delete your chats. It may also launch as a beta, again.

The seven new job titles that AI created, from Claude Evangelist to Chief AI Officer

Soderbergh used Meta’s AI in his Lennon documentary. Critics hated it. He says that’s the point.

OpenAI merges ChatGPT and Codex under Greg Brockman. The side quests are over.

Dr. Jeffrey L. Brown on rethinking hormone health through advanced testing

How workplace infrastructure supports business performance

ArXiv will ban researchers for a year if they submit papers they did not bother to read

Trump calls Taiwan arms deal a “negotiating chip” after three days with Xi in Beijing

GM, Ford, and Stellantis have cut 20,000 white-collar jobs. AI is about to accelerate the trend.

Cerebras just had the biggest US tech IPO since Snowflake. SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic are next.

Samsung and its union meet Monday in a last attempt to prevent an 18-day chip factory strike

Destinus is raising €200M ahead of an IPO. The cruise missile maker wants a €5B valuation.

Asus crammed an RTX 5080 into a 3-litre box. It costs $4,400 and the performance gain is 2.3%.

Chinese EVs are arriving in Canada. Nearly 400 dealers are already fighting to sell them.

Malta just became the first country to give every citizen free ChatGPT Plus. There’s one condition.

Asus ROG and Xreal built the first 240Hz AR gaming glasses. They cost $849 and ship in June.

A student with a laptop and a radio stopped four high-speed trains. The crypto keys hadn’t been changed in 19 years.

The man who put a Roomba in every home wants to replace your dog with a plush robot

Faraday Future raised $25 million for its robotics pivot. The fine print tells a different story.