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President Trump says it is "critically important" that the CFTC has exclusive authority to oversee prediction markets, as some states attempt to regulate them (Ashleigh Fields/The Hill)

Initial benchmarks: Nvidia's Vera Rubin CPU, which features 88 Nvidia-designed Olympus cores, packs a heavy-hitting punch, beating Intel's and AMD's x86_64 CPUs (Michael Larabel/Phoronix)

Document: Samsung plans to invest $1.5B to build a semiconductor testing plant focused on legacy chips in Vietnam; the plant is slated to open in November 2027 (Reuters)

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 (Yoolim Lee/Bloomberg)

SK Hynix tops $1T in market value after its shares jumped 11% on May 27, becoming the third Asian company to hit the milestone; SK surged 900%+ in the past year (Bloomberg)

Sources: Fireworks AI, which helps companies run AI models, is in talks to raise funding at a $15B valuation, up from $4B after raising $254M in October 2025 (Rebecca Torrence/Bloomberg)

Source: AI inference provider Baseten is in talks to raise $1B at an $11B post-money valuation, up from $5B after its $300M Series E announced in January 2026 (The Information)

OpenAI hires ServiceNow CMO Colin Fleming as CMO for its business segment; he succeeds Kate Rouch, who stepped down earlier this year to focus on her health (Trishla Ostwal/Adweek)

US cybersecurity company Zscaler reports Q3 revenue up 25% YoY to $850.5M, above $835.4M est., and forecasts Q4 revenue below est.; ZS drops 18%+ after hours (Harshita Mary Varghese/Reuters)

Sources: Bond Capital is leading a new investment for AI startup Suno, which would value it at ~$5B, up from $2.45B last fall; Suno is expected to raise $250M+ (Axios)

Charter confirms a data breach after ShinyHunters claimed to steal 40M customer records from Charter's Salesforce instance and threatened to leak the data (Lawrence Abrams/BleepingComputer)

Micron hit a $1T market value for the first time on Tuesday as shares jumped 19%, driven by demand for its memory chips in the AI race (Samantha Subin/CNBC)

London-based Perceptic, which says its end-to-end AI platform for drug development is being used by top pharmaceuticals, raised a $12M seed led by Accel (Jeremy Kahn/Fortune)

Q&A with Sundar Pichai about reshaping the information ecosystem with Search changes, putting AI agents in everything, when AI will replace him as CEO, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)

Nvidia officially retires its GeForce Control Panel app after 20 years, following the porting of all of its major features to the Nvidia app (Tom Warren/The Verge)

Human Archive, which trains robots using first-person video from 1,000+ camera-equipped caps worn by Indian home services workers, raised $8.2M from YC and more (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

SpaceX filing: X's ad revenue was $1.8B in 2025, $1.7B in 2024, and $2.3B in 2023, below Twitter's $4B in 2021; X and Grok now have 6.3M active paid subscribers (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)

American Airlines picks SpaceX's Starlink for in-flight Wi-Fi on more than 500 planes; SpaceX already has contracts with United Airlines, Southwest, and others (Leslie Josephs/CNBC)

Sources: Qualcomm reached a deal with ByteDance to supply millions of ASICs for AI data centers to support AI agents in the Doubao chatbot; QCOM jumps 4.48% (Ian King/Bloomberg)

Filing: Monzo reports its "refer a friend" payouts grew 40% YoY to £29.5M for the 12 months ending March 2026, as part of a broader £143M marketing spend (Financial Times)

China executes a man called Xu Yao for killing Yoozoo Games founder Lin Qi in 2020; Lin reportedly sidelined Xu, who helped land the 3 Body Problem Netflix deal (Koh Ewe/BBC)

How AI startups like Altur are using chatbots to help automate debt collection; YC incubated six debt collection and settlement startups in the past six years (Kate Knibbs/Wired)

Dropbox founder Drew Houston is stepping down as CEO after 19 years to become executive chairman, replaced by Ashraf Alkarmi, who is SVP and GM of Dropbox Core (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC)

Google Fitbit Air review: slim, comfortable, and stylish, robust tracking, seven-day battery life, and cheaper than Whoop, but can only be worn on the wrist (Max Buondonno/The Shortcut)

The Dutch government blocks the acquisition of authentication IT supplier Solvinity by US-based Kyndryl, citing "a possible risk to the public interest" (Pieter Haeck/Politico)

Spain says it is blocking Polymarket and Kalshi as a precautionary measure while it probes possible gambling law violations over the next three to four months (Mauro Orru/Wall Street Journal)

Spotify launches a library of over 650 narrated long-form magazine articles in English for Premium users; free users can buy articles "individually for $1.99" (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)

OpenRouter raised $113M led by CapitalG, a source says at a $1.3B valuation, and now processes 25T tokens across 400+ models weekly, up from 5T six months ago (Michael J. de la Merced/New York Times)

Atlanta-based e-commerce logistics company Stord raised a $250M Series F led by Strike at a $3B valuation, up from $1.5B after a $200M Series E in May 2025 (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)

SEC filing: Quantinuum is seeking to raise $1.05B in its US IPO, marketing ~21M shares for $45 to $50 each, giving it a $12.7B valuation at the top of the range (Carmen Reinicke/Bloomberg)

Sources: SpaceX successfully pressured the Pentagon to raise Starlink fees for LUCAS kamikaze drones amid increasing tensions over Starlink's pricing (David Jeans/Reuters)

US law enforcement documents: the DHS, FBI, and other agencies introduce a novel domestic threat category termed "anti-tech violent extremism" amid the AI boom (Daniel Boguslaw/Wired)

Pony AI reports Q1 revenue up 145% YoY to ~$34.3M, above $21.7M est., and increases its 2026 robotaxi fleet target by 500 to 3,500 vehicles on fast growth (Linda Lew/Bloomberg)

Spotify co-CEO Alex Norström defends the company's expansion into AI-generated music, arguing that "controlled" products are superior to unregulated AI "slop" (Financial Times)

Xiaomi reports Q1 revenue down 11% YoY to ~$14.6B, its first quarterly decline in three years, and net income down 57% to $695M amid a global memory price jump (Bloomberg)

Sources: ByteDance is offering low-priced stock options linked to growth in its Seed AI division to staff of the unit, a first, to fend off poaching from rivals (Financial Times)

Sources: Chinese government agencies begin imposing overseas travel restrictions on individuals involved in advanced AI work, including at Alibaba and DeepSeek (Bloomberg)

Kelp DAO says its restaked Ether token has been restored after a five-week recovery effort following a $293M exploit by North Korea's Lazarus Group on April 18 (Brayden Lindrea/Cointelegraph)

A Samsung union representing its consumer electronics division says it asked a South Korean court to block a pay deal vote that mainly benefits chip workers (Reuters)

A surge in AI-generated "pro se" cases, or lawsuits filed by self-represented litigants, is democratizing the US legal system but consuming more court resources (New York Times)

Visually impaired Waymo users in California say riding in a Waymo gives them a feeling of independence and spares them from discrimination from human drivers (Sonia A. Rao/New York Times)

Massachusetts formally recognizes the App Drivers Union, which says it represents ~70,000 workers and is the first state-certified rideshare union in the US (Bryan Hecht/The Boston Globe)

The US FTC settles with Cox, MindSift, and 1010 Digital Works for $930K over claims they falsely said they could use phone mics to spy on users for ad targeting (Adi Robertson/The Verge)

X says it is cracking down on large accounts that have been gaming its revenue-sharing program by "programmatically reuploading content from smaller accounts" (Lakshmi Varanasi/Business Insider)

Iranian state media: President Masoud Pezeshkian issues an order to reopen international internet access, after a blackout lasting 87 days, per Netblocks (Reuters)

Handelsblatt: the EU plans to fine Google a high triple-digit million euro amount as part of a 2025 probe over concerns it favors its own services in Search (Reuters)

A look at the UK's AI Safety Institute, whose researchers probe AI models for safety gaps, as its work becomes a blueprint for other governments' AI policies (New York Times)

Study: the rate of fabricated references in biomedical papers has grown 12x+ since 2023; in early 2026, one in 277 papers had at least one non-existent citation (Tristan Bove/Fortune)

How Iranian threat actor Nimbus Manticore used techniques like AI-assisted malware development and SEO poisoning to target companies during the US-Iran war (Check Point Research)

SoftBank's shares jumped 4.6% to a record high on May 25, spurred by hopes of big returns from the company's stakes in OpenAI and SB Energy if they go public (Bloomberg)