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CNBC: Musk v. Altman: the jury unanimously rejects Elon Musk's claims against Sam Altman, finding that the claims were filed outside of the statute of limitations -
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Wall Street Journal: Blackstone announces a JV with Google to create a US company that will offer customers access to Google's TPUs, and makes a $5B initial equity commitment -
Eli Tan / New York Times: Internal memo: Meta is reassigning 7,000 workers to four new units focused on building AI tools, as it prepares to lay off 10% of its workforce on May 20 -
Jason Schreier / @jasonschreier: In a town hall, PlayStation studio business CEO Hermen Hulst told staff that the company's narrative single-player games will now be PlayStation exclusive -
Jay Peters / The Verge: Sony is hiking the starting price of one-month and three-month PlayStation Plus subscriptions in “select regions”, blaming “ongoing market conditions” -
Amrith Ramkumar / Wall Street Journal: Anthropic says it began letting Mythos users share cybersecurity threats with others who may face similar vulnerabilities last week, changing its stance -
Grant Bourzikas / Cloudflare: Cloudflare tests Mythos against 50+ repositories, highlights its ability to chain bugs into a single exploit, and details a vulnerability discovery harness -
Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: A CISA contractor maintained a now-offline GitHub repo that exposed credentials to AWS GovCloud accounts and CISA systems; CISA is investigating the situation -
Bloomberg: Sources: AI chip designer Tenstorrent has drawn early takeover interest from Intel and Qualcomm; Tenstorrent could be valued at $5B+ in a potential deal -
Bloomberg: Sources: Analog Devices, one of the largest analog chip makers, is in talks to buy Empower, which makes chips used to regulate voltage, for $1.5B in cash -
Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: Anthropic acquires NYC-based Stainless, which generates SDKs from APIs, and plans to wind down its hosted products, after reportedly discussing a $300M+ deal -
Cursor: Cursor releases Composer 2.5, built on Kimi K2.5, and says it is better at sustained work on long-running tasks and follows complex instructions more reliably -
Riley Griffin / Bloomberg: A deep dive into Meta's Hyperion data center campus in Louisiana, expected to reach 5 GW of compute capacity; source: Meta plans to spend $200B+ on the project -
Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: NYC Health + Hospitals says hackers accessed its network from Nov. 2025 to Feb. 2026, exposing personal data, medical records, and fingerprints of 1.8M+ people -
Benedict Evans: An overview of macro tech trends: capex explosion, unprecedented surge in chip demand, supply chain bottlenecks, model commoditization, AI automation, and more -
Joseph Cox / 404 Media: Procurement records: the FBI seeks a vendor that can provide access to automated license plate readers nationwide; Flock and Motorola are among the few options -
Jason Nelson / Decrypt: Vitalik Buterin says AI-assisted “formal verification” could help secure blockchain networks, smart contracts, and cryptographic systems against software flaws -
Rahul Raj / EU-Startups: Milan-based legal AI company Lexroom raised a €42.9M Series B led by Left Lane, after raising a €16M Series A in September 2025, taking total funding to €62.7M