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| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
Anthropic says it has confidentially filed for an IPO, joining OpenAI and SpaceX in preparing to go public this year — The artificial intelligence company has seen explosive growth over the last year thanks largely to new technology that can automatically write computer code.
More: Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Anthropic, The Guardian, San Francisco Business Times, Associated Press, The Verge, TechCrunch, Engadget, CNN, Reuters, Axios, Decrypt, Los Angeles Times, BBC, Sherwood News, CNBC, Crypto Briefing, Yahoo Finance, Constellation Research, The Hans India, and Business Insider
X: @hosseeb, @kylejeong, @auchenberg, @jimcramer, @dee_bosa, @zck, @mikeisaac, and @anthropicai
| Juro Osawa / The Information: |
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 — Chinese AI developer MiniMax on Monday launched a new large language model called M3, saying the new model's coding capability approaches …
| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Nvidia announces the RTX Spark, an Arm-based consumer chip family it calls “the most efficient PC chip ever built”, made on TSMC 3 in partnership with MediaTek — Nvidia enters the consumer laptop realm. Nvidia enters the consumer laptop realm.
More: Nvidia Newsroom, Windows Blog, BBC, CNBC, 9to5Google, Club386, Ars Technica, Investor's Business Daily, IGN, Tom's Hardware, Reuters, OSnews, iDrop News, Bloomberg, 9to5Mac, Windows Central, Barron's Online, The Economic Times, RINewsToday, PCMag, Moneycontrol, Aardvark, VideoCardz.com, Crypto Briefing, The Indian Express, Ukrainian National News, ServeTheHome, TechRadar, TechEBlog, Blockonomi, New Electronics, PCGamesN, T3, The Tech Portal, Neowin, The Mac Observer, CTech, Hürriyet Daily News, Thurrott, Upcomer, MediaTek Inc., CNET, PC Gamer, Trusted Reviews, WinCentral, Android Authority, Gizmodo, The Shortcut, DigiTimes, VideoCardz.com, Press Start, Tom's Guide, XDA Developers, VideoCardz.com, The Hindu BusinessLine, Fortune, and Capital Brief
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Forums: r/pcgaming, r/linux, r/pcmasterrace, r/hardware, r/hardware, r/nvidia, and r/intelstock
| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
More: YouTube, How-To Geek, Gizmodo, Microsoft Devices Blog, Windows Latest, Windows Central, HotHardware, Tom's Hardware, GSMArena.com, PCWorld, TechSpot, PCMag, MacRumors, Digital Trends, Boing Boing, Trusted Reviews, Pureinfotech, Guru3D, VideoCardz.com, The Shortcut, Ghacks, DigiTimes, Digit, Thurrott, Axios, WinCentral, Engadget, Tom's Guide, and XDA Developers
X: @timsweeneyepic, @zacbowden, @ben_a_adams, @tomwarren, @bdsams, @bdsams, @surface, @tomwarren, @pavandavuluri, @tomwarren, @ryanshrout, @kellabyte, and @pavandavuluri. LinkedIn: Abhay Dalvi. Bluesky: @emilprotalinski. Forums: r/Surface
| Katie Tarasov / CNBC: |
More: New York Times, Wall Street Journal, PCWorld, Taipei Times, Bloomberg Law, Eurogamer.net, Benzinga, The Motley Fool, Blockonomi, Tech Times, The Verge, Fast Company, The Week, The Hans India, The Information, Anadolu Ajansı …, iPhone in Canada, Forbes, Yahoo Finance, Sweden Herald, PCMag, PC Gamer, Blue's News, Crypto Briefing, and ANI News
Forums: r/technology, r/wallstreetbets, and Slashdot
| Jeffrey Kampman / Tom's Hardware: |
Intel details its Crescent Island data center GPUs, built on its Xe3P architecture and using LPDDR5X memory instead of HBM, calling them “built for agentic AI” — Unusual memory choice brings lots of AI data closer to the chip for efficiency — At Computex 2026 …
More: Financial Times, PC Gamer, DatacenterDynamics, Benzinga, Blockonomi, Bitcoin News, The Information, The Tech Portal, Crypto Briefing, VideoCardz.com, and Intel
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Forums: r/intelstock and r/hardware
| Jake Roach / Tom's Hardware: |
More: VideoCardz.com, The Register, Guru3D, HotHardware, Nikkei Asia, DatacenterDynamics, Neowin, and GamesBeat
| NBC News: |
Florida AG James Uthmeier sues OpenAI and Sam Altman, seeking to hold Altman personally liable for deceptive trade practices, negligence, and public nuisance — Florida's seeks to hold Sam Altman personally liable, accusing OpenAI of marketing ChatGPT as safe while concealing that it could drive users toward harm.| Gian Volpicelli / Bloomberg: |
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 — Anthropic PBC is set to give the European Union's cybersecurity body access to Mythos, the first EU agency to get access … | Stephen Nellis / Reuters: |
Nvidia unveils an open humanoid reference design built on Isaac GR00T and its Jetson Thor chip, combining a Unitree H2 Plus robot and Sharpa five-fingered hands — Nvidia (NVDA.O) plans to work with humanoid robot makers in the U.S., Europe and South Korea in addition to China's Unitree … | Ina Fried / Axios: |
| Bloomberg: |
Nasdaq, FTSE, and other index providers are shortening their entry timelines to accommodate SpaceX's record $75B IPO, as Elon Musk targets retail investors — The company's ambitious listing plan is set to clear the way for other mega-offerings. It also risks threatening the integrity of the market itself
More: Seoul Economic Daily, Motley Fool, and Fortune
| Bernie Sanders / New York Times: |
Bernie Sanders says the wealth AI creates “must benefit humanity”, calling for a sovereign wealth fund that would hold ownership stakes in the top AI companies — Artificial intelligence will almost certainly be the most transformational technology in the history of the world.
More: Washington Examiner and Newser
X: @logandobson, @scaling01, @altryne, @emostaque, @ourrevolution, @rbmd1982, @deanwball, @nateforutah, @mattbruenig, @sensanders, @kevintfrazier, @richardhanania, @ranavain, @mattbruenig, @matthewstoller, and @janeaflegal
Bluesky: @moskov.goodventures.org, @jeremyschulman, and @melissaryan
Forums: r/stupidpol, r/DemocraticSocialism, and r/economy
| Ian King / Bloomberg: |
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 — Nvidia Corp. said Anthropic PBC, OpenAI and SpaceX are among the first big users of its upcoming microprocessor … | Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: |
| Kalley Huang / New York Times: |
Box says it created 13 new AI-focused roles, like AI architect and AI solutions manager, and plans to grow its staff to 3,000 by early 2027, up from 2,900 — Box, a Silicon Valley software maker, expects to have more employees, not fewer, as it hires A.I. architects, A.I. solutions managers and other new A.I.-related positions.| Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: |
Nvidia unveils DGX Station for Windows, a desktop PC powered by a GB300 Grace Blackwell chip with up to 748 GB of memory, capable of running 1T-parameter models — Nvidia Corp. says it's uprooting supercomputers from the vast, sprawling data center complexes they normally live inside …
More: HotHardware, Nvidia Newsroom, and GamesBeat
X: @mweinbach, @michaelarnaldi, @gnukeith, and @chrisschmitz
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Sources: at Build, Microsoft plans to unveil a Copilot “super app”, a new reasoning AI model developed by Microsoft AI, and lots of Windows developer features — Build will include a Copilot super app, a new reasoning AI model, and lots of Windows improvements.| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Strava is adding a $11.99 monthly fee for developer API access and moving public profiles and fitness club listings behind authentication to combat AI scraping — AI companies have grown into data-hungry entities as their models require ever-larger datasets to train on.
More: Computerworld, The Verge, Strava, and Crypto Briefing
| Omkar Godbole / CoinDesk: |
Coinbase launches direct Indian rupee deposit and withdrawal rails via the Immediate Payment Service, aiming to remove its reliance on P2P and intermediaries — Coinbase announces INR rails to make the platform fully accessible to Indian retail traders. … What to know:| Financial Times: |
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 — Demand for AI stocks powers tech giant's shares as it takes top spot by market capitalisation — Tech giant SoftBank … | Kerry Flynn / Axios: |
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 — Sekai has raised a $20 million Series A to grow a platform for creating mini apps through text prompts, founder and CEO Lucky Zhang exclusively tells Axios.
More: Crypto Briefing
| @theallinpod: |
Q&A with Bill Gurley on Anthropic employees believing “they can create God, and that by creating God, they are like this Prometheus kind of species”, and more — Bill Gurley: Anthropic Thinks It's Building God @Jason: It is the ultimate level of narcissism and delusion of grandeur to think you can create God. @bgurley: “Anthropic is a mystery to me. I've never, ever seen a company that is both leading their field and the most [video]
| Ben Weiss / Fortune: |
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 — Data is the oil of the AI boom—and the startup Mecka AI hopes to tap the vast reservoir of hand gestures, walking gaits, and immense collection … | Jordyn Holman / New York Times: |
Q&A with Brian Chesky on running Airbnb in “founder mode”, how “founder mode and hustle culture” are different, AI customer service, adding hotels, and more — The home-sharing app recently added car rentals, groceries and — perhaps most surprisingly — hotels.| Julian E. Barnes / New York Times: |
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 — New research examines how a Chinese company struggled to develop its predictive surveillance technology while U.S. restrictions were in place.| Brody Ford / Bloomberg: |
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 — Salesforce Inc. has a stake in Anthropic PBC worth about $5 billion after repeatedly investing in the ascendant AI startup.
More: Moneycontrol
| CoinDesk: |
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 — The 8-K filing Monday says proceeds from the May 26-31 sale, executed at an average price of $77,135 a coin, will fund distributions on Strategy's preferred stock.
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X: @defiyst, @thestalwart, and @negligible_cap
| Lucinda Shen / Axios: |
Stockholm-based Endra, which automates the design of plumbing and electrical wiring in new buildings, raised $50M led by a16z — Endra, a startup automating the design of plumbing and electrical wiring in new buildings, raised $50 million led by Andreessen Horowitz, it tells Axios exclusively.
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