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| Samantha Subin / CNBC: |
Micron hit a $1T market value for the first time on May 26 after its stock closed up 19.29%, rising from $700B earlier in May, driven by high memory chip demand — Micron topped a $1 trillion market value for the first time on Tuesday as shares popped 19%, driven by insatiable artificial intelligence demand for its memory chips.
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| Bloomberg: |
SK Hynix tops $1T in market value after its stock jumped 9% on May 27, becoming the third Asian company to hit the milestone, and is up 1,000%+ in the past year — SK Hynix Inc. joined Micron Technology Inc. in surpassing the $1 trillion market capitalization milestone …
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| Steven Levy / Wired: |
A deep dive into how Anthropic's Claude Code and Peter Steinberger's OpenClaw unleashed the AI agent revolution that is rapidly transforming modern computing — The definitive story of how Claude Code and OpenClaw kicked off computing's biggest transformation possibly ever.| Casey Newton / Platformer: |
Q&A with Claude Code creator and head Boris Cherny on how the title “software engineer” could disappear, why AI may create more jobs than it destroys, and more — Anthropic's Boris Cherny tells me major job loss due to automation really is coming — but job creation is, too.| Ashleigh Fields / The Hill: |
President Trump says it is “critically important” that the CFTC keep exclusive authority to oversee prediction markets, as some states attempt to regulate them — President Trump on Tuesday said it was “critically important” for the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) …
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| Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: |
Datacurve releases the DeepSWE coding benchmark, a 113-task test across 91 open-source repositories: GPT-5.5 leads at 70%, GPT-5.4 got 56%, and Opus 4.7 got 54% — For months, the leading AI coding benchmarks have told enterprise buyers a comforting but misleading story: the top models are all roughly the same.
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| Eleanor Olcott / Financial Times: |
Sources and docs detail how China is modernizing its decade-old domestic surveillance network by investing in new generations of AI-enabled cameras and software — Local police forces are modernising the country's ageing infrastructure with more powerful tracking systems| Bloomberg: |
Sources: ByteDance is discussing capex of up to $70B in 2026 as it builds out data centers and AI infrastructure, underwriting it with its $50B profit from 2025 — ByteDance Ltd., the developer of TikTok and a leading force in artificial intelligence, is planning to sharply increase …
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| Financial Times: |
How AI is starting to dismantle the hegemony of the Big Four consultancies and other large firms, as AI agents help smaller consultancies handle big workloads — The technology opens the door for smaller, well-funded challengers to take market share from the Big Four and others.
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| Michael Larabel / Phoronix: |
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 — NVIDIA's Vera data center CPU isn't ramping up until later this year but I recently had the opportunity to try out this new ARM-based CPU designed for agentic AI workloads.| Hayden Field / The Verge: |
A look at the Pentagon's embrace of autonomous weapons before its fight with Anthropic over “red lines”, and the debate over AI use in military operations — The Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons, an international forum that focuses on lethal autonomous systems … | Ina Fried / Axios: |
Biohub, the Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan-funded institute, releases a protein-structure prediction model and more, calling it “a world model” of proteins — Biohub, the Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan-funded institute, on Wednesday released what it says amounts to “a world model of protein biology.”| Trishla Ostwal / Adweek: |
OpenAI hires ServiceNow CMO Colin Fleming as CMO for its business unit, succeeding Kate Rouch, who stepped down in April 2026 “to focus on cancer recovery” — OpenAI has hired ServiceNow chief marketing officer Colin Fleming as CMO for its business unit, a move that signals … | Ina Fried / Axios: |
Demis Hassabis says he still broadly expects AGI around 2030, though he now sees 2029 as a possibility, and 2026's “agentic era” is a “bit like a practice run” — Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis said at Google's developer conference last week that humanity is standing in the …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Temu owner PDD reports Q1 revenue up 11% YoY to ~$15.7B, below ~$16.2B est., net profit down 15% to ~$1.85B, below ~$3.4B est., amid fierce competition in China — The company is rolling out more support initiatives to prevent merchants from defecting to other platforms
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| Rebecca Torrence / 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 — Fireworks AI, a startup that helps companies run artificial intelligence models, is in talks to raise a new round of funding … | Bloomberg: |
Source: at a town hall, TSMC CEO C.C. Wei told staff they will see a 30%+ bump in their profit-sharing payouts in 2026 on average, after some staff had concerns — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. chief C.C. Wei told staff they'll see more than a 30% bump in their profit-sharing payouts …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
The Shanghai Stock Exchange says memory maker CXMT cleared a listing review for the exchange's Nasdaq-like STAR Board, in what could be China's top IPO in 2026 — The listing could become China's largest IPO this year — China's securities regulator has cleared an approximately $4 billion share offering …
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| Scott Stein / CNET: |
Xreal launches a new sub-brand, X by Xreal, and the $299 a01 display glasses with micro OLED displays, 50° FOV, and 62g weight, set for July release in the US — X by Xreal is arriving in July for $299, and they look to compete with TCL's budget glasses.
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| Nikkei Asia: |
Jensen Huang says Nvidia is spending $100B-$150B annually on its Taiwan supply chain, up from $10B-$15B four years ago, and will boost its Taiwan staff to 4,000 — TAIPEI — Nvidia is now spending up to $150 billion a year on its supply chain partners in Taiwan and plans to increase its headcount in the … | The Information: |
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 — AI startup Baseten has recently been in talks with investors to raise $1 billion at an $11 billion valuation including the money … | Bloomberg: |
Sources: Taiwan suspects three people smuggled at least one Nvidia chip shipment to China after first exporting them to Japan; Taiwan detained them last week — Taiwan prosecutors suspect that three individuals successfully smuggled at least one shipment of Nvidia Corp. AI chips to China …
More: Tom's Hardware, The Next Web, Crypto Briefing, Reuters, and The New World
| Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg: |
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 — Samsung Electronics Co. union members voted in favor of a compensation deal that will hand chip workers an average bonus of about $340,000 … | Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch: |
Milan-based social travel startup WeRoad raised a $58M Series C led by Airbnb, taking its total funding to ~$100M, to expand into the US, starting in Austin — WeRoad, the Milan-based group travel startup, has raised a $58 million Series C round led by Airbnb as it prepares for its first major expansion outside Europe.
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| Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
Sources: EU leaders are divided on curbing Big Tech as they weigh cloud tender rules and giving EU companies preferential access to mobile satellite spectrum — European leaders are divided on how far to go in curbing Big Tech as they weigh momentous decisions over giving EU firms preferential access … Sponsor Posts
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