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Hackers say they used Meta's AI support chatbot to change emails tied to Instagram accounts, amid a wave of high-profile account takeovers; Meta fixed the issue (Jason Koebler/404 Media)

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Source: Salesforce has a stake in Anthropic worth ~$5B; Salesforce first invested about $50M in an early 2023 round and has continually invested in rounds since (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)

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IBM shares jump 7.6% after a nearly six-month old video of President Trump praising CEO Arvind Krishna recirculated on X; IBM was already up ~40% over two weeks (Matthew Griffin/Bloomberg)

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Stockholm-based Endra, which automates the design of plumbing and electrical wiring in new buildings, raised $50M led by a16z (Lucinda Shen/Axios)

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Anthropic says it has confidentially filed for an IPO, which could happen as soon as this fall, joining OpenAI and SpaceX in preparing to go public in 2026 (Mike Isaac/New York Times)

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Anthropic confidentially submits draft S-1 to the SEC (Anthropic)

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New York City-based Mecka AI, which trains robots with human data sourced from body sensors and iPhones, raised $60M, including a $25M Series A (Ben Weiss/Fortune)

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Sekai, which lets users create mini apps through text prompts, raised a $20M Series A co-led by Khosla Ventures and Connect Ventures, after a $6M seed in 2025 (Kerry Flynn/Axios)

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Box has created 13 AI-focused roles, like AI architect and AI solutions manager, and plans to grow from 2,900 staff at the start of 2026 to 3,000+ by early 2027 (Kalley Huang/New York Times)

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Bernie Sanders says the wealth AI creates "must benefit humanity", calling for a sovereign wealth fund that would hold ownership stakes in top US AI companies (Bernie Sanders/New York Times)

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Sources: at Build, Microsoft plans to unveil a Copilot "super app", a new reasoning model developed by Microsoft AI, and Windows improvements for developers (Tom Warren/The Verge)

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Florida AG James Uthmeier sues OpenAI and Sam Altman, seeking to hold Altman personally liable for deceptive trade practices, negligence, and public nuisance (NBC News)

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Strava is adding an $11.99 monthly fee for developer API access and moving public profiles and fitness club listings behind authentication to combat AI scraping (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

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Internal documents: Chinese company Geedge is working to build AI tools to predict those who could pose a political risk, but US chip controls hampered its work (Julian E. Barnes/New York Times)

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Palo Alto Networks says Mythos found 24+ critical bugs using $1M+ in tokens; Anthropic subsidizes Mythos but some companies plan to boost their Mythos budgets (Aaron Holmes/The Information)

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SEC filing: quantum computing startup Quantinuum boosts its IPO, aiming to sell 26.5M shares for $53-$55 each, raising up to $1.46B at an up to $14.3B valuation (Liana Baker/Bloomberg)

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African e-mobility startup Spiro, which owns 100K+ electric motorcycles, raised $215M at a near-$1B valuation, after raising $100M in 2025 and $50M debt in 2026 (Loni Prinsloo/Bloomberg)

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SEC filing: SpaceX will reserve up to 5% of its Class A shares for select employees and executives' friends and family; 60%+ of shares have an extended lock-up (Charles Capel/Bloomberg)

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SEC filing: Strategy sold 32 bitcoin between May 26 and May 31 for ~$2.5M, at an average net price of $77,135 per coin, its first disclosed bitcoin disposal (CoinDesk)

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Google plans to open its first physical Google Store outside of the US "this summer", in Tokyo's Omotesando district, marking Google's 11th physical store (Damien Wilde/9to5Google)

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French private equity firm Ardian partners with data center group Verne to build an up to €5B AI "gigafactory" outside Paris, targeting 500MW in total capacity (Financial Times)

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Israeli networking company DriveNets raised a $410M Series D led by Bessemer and Atreides at an $8.5B valuation, taking its total funding to ~$1B (Meir Orbach/CTech)

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Wirescreen analysis of 3,800 Chinese military procurement records finds 500+ instances since 2019 where the PLA sought Nvidia chips, including the A100 and A800 (New York Times)

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Sources: Anthropic plans to let the EU's cyber agency ENISA join Project Glasswing and access Mythos; EU officials went to the US last week to ask for access (Gian Volpicelli/Bloomberg)

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Chinese AI developer MiniMax debuts M3, a new coding model that it says rivals Claude Opus 4.7, costing $0.12 per 1M input tokens, compared with $5 for Opus 4.7 (Juro Osawa/The Information)

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Binance launches trading for 7,000+ US stocks and ETFs for non-US users, with zero commissions and fractional share purchases, as part of its "super app" push (Jeff John Roberts/Fortune)

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A look at the Seckinger school cluster in Georgia, including the US' "first AI-themed educational institution", as parents say AI integration is often sparse (New York Times)

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Nasdaq, FTSE, and other index providers are shortening their entry timelines to accommodate SpaceX's record $75B IPO, as Elon Musk targets retail investors (Bloomberg)

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Q&A with Bill Gurley on Anthropic staffers believing "they can create God, and that by creating God, they are like this Prometheus kind of species", and more (@theallinpod)

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Q&A with Brian Chesky on running Airbnb in "founder mode", differences between "founder mode and hustle culture", AI customer service, listing hotels, and more (Jordyn Holman/New York Times)

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Meituan reports Q1 revenue up 5.6% YoY to ~$13.5B, above ~$13.4B est., and a ~$1B net loss, its third straight quarter of losses amid a food delivery price war (Tracy Qu/Wall Street Journal)

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Jensen Huang says Anthropic, OpenAI, and SpaceX are among the first big users of Nvidia's new Vera CPUs, which are 1.8x faster at AI workloads than x86 chips (Ian King/Bloomberg)

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SoftBank becomes Japan's biggest company by market value after hitting an all-time high, overtaking Toyota, which has been the country's largest for 20+ years (Financial Times)

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Coinbase launches direct Indian rupee deposit and withdrawal rails via the Immediate Payment Service, aiming to remove its reliance on P2P and intermediaries (Omkar Godbole/CoinDesk)

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Netherlands-based Invisix, which is developing advanced chipmaking measurement tools, raised a €20M seed, with the participation of a "tier-one" chipmaker (Tamara Djurickovic/Tech.eu)

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Grab says it commits to "Taiwan's data security and public trust", after reports of Grab's collaborations with China's Huawei and Alibaba sparked concerns (Kentaro Takeda/Nikkei Asia)

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A look at Operation Jailbreak, a US Army-led hackathon where nine defense firms use AI to integrate weapons systems, drawing on Ukraine interoperability lessons (Demetri Sevastopulo/Financial Times)

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A look at Pangram, considered the gold standard for detecting AI writing, and the dangers of its claimed one in 10,000 false-positive rate when used at scale (Matteo Wong/The Atlantic)

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Nvidia unveils DGX Station, a desktop Windows PC powered by its GB300 Grace Blackwell chip with up to 748 GB of memory, capable of running 1T-parameter models (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)

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Nvidia says its Vera Rubin computing platform is ramping into "full production", with first systems expected to ship in the fall, after a March announcement (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)

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Nvidia unveils Cosmos 3, an open physical AI foundation model, to help robots and autonomous cars better understand the real world with limited training data (Ina Fried/Axios)

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Nvidia unveils Isaac GR00T, an open humanoid reference design powered by its Jetson Thor chip, combining a Unitree H2 Plus robot and Sharpa five-fingered hands (Stephen Nellis/Reuters)

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LG's shares jumped 300%+ in 2026, after largely sitting out South Korea's chip-rally in 2025, as LG seeks to expand into physical AI businesses such as robots (Sangmi Cha/Bloomberg)

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AI startup Runway, most recently valued at $5.3B, plans to make London its European headquarters and invest $200M+ into the UK's AI ecosystem by the end of 2028 (Kai Nicol-Schwarz/CNBC)

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Jensen Huang says Microsoft and Nvidia will "reinvent the PC", starting with 30+ laptops and 10 desktops coming in the fall from Dell, HP, Lenovo, and others (Katie Tarasov/CNBC)

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Nvidia says RTX Spark offers up to 20 CPU cores and a Blackwell GPU with 6,144 CUDA cores, capable of "100 FPS 1440p gaming" or running 120B-parameter models (Jeffrey Kampman/Tom's Hardware)

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Microsoft unveils the Surface Laptop Ultra, with an Nvidia RTX Spark SoC, a 15" mini-LED touchscreen, and up to 128GB of unified memory, coming this fall (Sean Hollister/The Verge)

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Nvidia announces the RTX Spark, an Arm-based consumer PC chip family that it says is "the most efficient PC chip ever built", made in partnership with MediaTek (Sean Hollister/The Verge)

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Intel details its Crescent Island data center GPUs based on its Xe3P architecture and using LPDDR5X memory instead of HBM, calling them "built for agentic AI" (Jeffrey Kampman/Tom's Hardware)

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Intel teases its Xeon 7 Diamond Rapids CPUs, built on 18A-P node, with PCIe 6.0, and 50% more cores and twice the memory bandwidth vs. Xeon 6, launching in 2027 (Jake Roach/Tom's Hardware)

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