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SpaceX files publicly for its IPO, choosing Nasdaq to make its debut under the symbol SPCX; Elon Musk's shares give him 85.1% of the voting power in the company — SpaceX filed publicly for what stands to be the largest-ever initial public offering, revealing billions in losses …
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| Ina Fried / Axios: |
SpaceX S-1: Anthropic is paying SpaceX $1.25B per month through May 2029 under their compute deal; Anthropic says it is expanding the deal to include Colossus 2 — Anthropic is paying SpaceX $1.25 billion per month through May 2029 as part of the massive compute deal the companies signed earlier this month.
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| New York Times: |
Filing: SpaceX reports 2025 revenue up 33% YoY to $18.7B, a loss of $4.9B, down from a $791M profit in 2024, and $20.7B in capital expenditures, up from $11.2B — Mr. Musk's rocket and satellite maker disclosed its financial performance as it prepares to go public in what is set to be one of the largest offerings to date.
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| Nvidia Newsroom: |
Nvidia reports Q1 revenue up 85% YoY to $81.62B, above $78.86B est., Data Center revenue up 92% YoY to $75.2B, and announces an $80B share repurchase program — - Record revenue of $81.6 billion, up 85% from a year ago — Record Data Center revenue of $75.2 billion, up 92% from a year ago
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| Lee Ying Shan / CNBC: |
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: OpenAI is preparing to file confidentially for an IPO as early as May 22; the company plans to be ready to go public as early as September — The artificial-intelligence giant is working with bankers at Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley — ChatGPT-maker OpenAI has been working …
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| OpenAI: |
OpenAI says an internal general-purpose reasoning model has disproved the Erdős unit distance conjecture, a central problem in discrete geometry posed in 1946 — For nearly 80 years, mathematicians have studied a deceptively simple question: if you place nnn points in the plane …
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| Berber Jin / Wall Street Journal: |
Investor disclosures: Anthropic says it expects to generate $10.9B in revenue in Q2, up from $4.8B in Q1, and turn a $559M operating profit, its first ever — The startup expects a 130% revenue surge to $10.9 billion in the June quarter and its first operating profit, defying skeptics of the AI boom
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| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
Cohere releases Command A+, a sparse MoE open model built for agentic tasks, with 218B total and 25B active parameters, its first under the Apache 2.0 license — Canadian AI lab Cohere made waves recently by announcing a merger with German AI startup Aleph Alpha, but now it has even more in store …
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| Bloomberg: |
Analysis: Samsung could distribute ~$26.6B to chip employees, or ~$340K each for its 78,000 staff, as a bonus in early 2027 as part of a last-minute union deal — Samsung Electronics Co. could distribute about 40 trillion won ($26.6 billion) to chip employees as a bonus for this year … | Ofcom: |
Ofcom says Meta, Snap, and Roblox will adopt stronger anti-grooming measures, while TikTok and YouTube “failed to commit to any significant changes” — - Snap, Meta and Roblox to adopt further safety measures to protect children from stranger danger online
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| Bloomberg: |
Taiwan is seeking to detain three people for forging documents to export Nvidia-powered Super Micro servers to China, Hong Kong, and Macau, breaking US rules — Taiwanese officials are seeking to detain three individuals for forging documents in order to export Nvidia Corp. AI chips to China …
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| Sherry Qin / Wall Street Journal: |
AMD pledges to invest $10B+ in Taiwan's chip industry to make advanced chip packaging for AI, and says TSMC will ramp up production of its next-gen Venice chips — The company is investing more to meet growing demand for artificial-intelligence infrastructure| CNBC: |
Jeff Bezos dismisses AI job fears, defends billionaires against “vilification”, proposes eliminating income taxes for low earners, and praises President Trump — VIDEO 54:38 — Watch CNBC's full interview with Amazon founder Jeff Bezos — Ultrabillionaire Jeff Bezos …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
The US Commerce Department plans to award $2B in grants to nine quantum computing companies and will take equity stakes; IBM is set to get $1B of the package — Trump administration hopes to spur ‘a new era of American innovation,’ Commerce's Lutnick says — WASHINGTON—The Trump administration … | Tech Xplore: |
A study conducted in the Phoenix metro area finds that waste heat from data centers can raise air temperatures in downwind neighborhoods by as much as 4°F — Waste heat from data centers can boost air temperatures in downwind neighborhoods by as much as 4 degrees Fahrenheit …
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| Anne Steele / Wall Street Journal: |
Netflix and iHeartMedia say Charlamagne tha God's The Breakfast Club will stream live on Netflix on weekdays from June 1, the service's first daily live show — Charlamagne tha God's morning radio show has been a standout success among the streamer's video podcast efforts| The Guardian: |
Granta and the Commonwealth Foundation say they can't determine yet if AI was used to write a prize-winning short story after critics pointed to signs of AI use — Granta publisher says ‘perhaps we never will know’ true authorship of work that won Commonwealth prize
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| Politico: |
Sources: the Pentagon is launching a task force to study how to safely deploy leading AI tools with hacking capabilities across Cyber Command and NSA missions — These people, like others in this report, were granted anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly about the sensitive effort.| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Manus' co-founders are in talks to raise $1B+ to buy back the Chinese-founded company, after Beijing ordered Meta to unwind its $2B acquisition — The co-founders of Manus are exploring options to fulfill Beijing's demand to unwind a controversial takeover by Meta Platforms Inc. …
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| Isabelle Bousquette / Wall Street Journal: |
Higgsfield AI premieres Hell Grind, a 95-minute fully AI-generated film, at Cannes and says it took two weeks and cost $500K to make, of which $400K was on AI — ‘Hell Grind,’ a 95-minute fully AI-generated film, premieres this week at Cannes, where questions around the technology's encroachment remain center-stage| Anu Adegbola / Search Engine Land: |
Google says it is testing new ad formats in search results and AI Mode, including Conversational Discovery ads, Highlighted Answers, and AI-powered Shopping ads — Google is introducing a new generation of Gemini-powered ad formats across AI Mode and Search designed to make ads feel more conversational …
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