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CNBC : Musk v. Altman: Satya Nadella says Elon Musk never contacted him with concerns that Microsoft's investments in OpenAI violated any special terms or commitments —  Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella took the stand in the Musk v. Altman trial on Monday, where he testified that Elon Musk never contacted …

Rachel Metz / Bloomberg : Musk v. Altman: Ilya Sutskever testifies that his OpenAI stake is worth ~$7B and he had concerns about Altman for a year before Altman's brief ouster as CEO —  OpenAI co-founder and former chief scientist Ilya Sutskever said his stake in the ChatGPT maker is worth roughly $7 billion …

Samantha Subin / CNBC : Google's TIG says it likely thwarted the use of an AI-generated zero-day in a “mass exploitation event” and tools like OpenClaw are being used to find exploits —  Google's Threat Intelligence Group said in a report on Monday that it thwarted an effort by hackers …

Washington Post : Sources: the White House's Office of the National Cyber Director and Commerce Department's CAISI are fighting over which agency should lead AI model evaluations —  As the White House grapples with cybersecurity threats from artificial intelligence models, intelligence officials want sway in AI policy overseen by Commerce.

@trq212 : An Anthropic engineer argues HTML is a better output format for AI agents than Markdown, citing information density, ease of sharing, and two-way interaction —  Using Claude Code: The Unreasonable Effectiveness of HTML

Chance Miller / 9to5Mac : Apple releases iOS 26.5, introducing end-to-end encryption for RCS messaging in beta with supported carriers; the setting is enabled by default —  iOS 26.5 is now available to everyone after six weeks of beta testing.  The update adds fresh wallpapers, new features to Apple Maps, and more.

Jonathan Stempel / Reuters : Texas AG Ken Paxton sues Netflix for allegedly spying on consumers by collecting their data without consent, and designing its platform to be addictive —  Netflix (NFLX.O) was sued on Monday by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who accused the streaming company of spying on consumers …

Financial Times : Sources: German defense tech startup Helsing is set to raise $1.2B led by Dragoneer and Lightspeed at a valuation of about $18B, up from $14B in June 2025 —  German company backed by Spotify's Daniel Ek set to raise $1.2bn in latest funding round  —  Helsing, the German defence technology group backed …

Daniel Stenberg / daniel.haxx.se : curl founder Daniel Stenberg says Mythos identified five vulnerabilities in curl, but a manual review found three were false positives and one was “just a bug” —  yes, as in singular one.  —  Back in April 2026 Anthropic caused a lot of media noise when they concluded …

Ben Thompson / Stratechery : Agentic inference is set to be different than today's inference, and will change compute infrastructure because speed won't matter when humans aren't involved —  Subscribe to get access  —  If you were looking for the ideal time to IPO, being a chip company in May 2026 is hard to beat.

Bloomberg : Sources: Digital Asset, which builds Canton Network, a public blockchain with privacy features, is raising a ~$300M round led by a16z crypto at a ~$2B valuation —  Digital Asset Holdings LLC, the company behind a blockchain used among several big banks and trading firms …

Bloomberg : Microsoft and G42's $1B geothermal-powered data center in Kenya stalls after the government couldn't provide annual payment guarantees that Microsoft requested —  A major Microsoft Corp. data center site in East Africa has been delayed by disagreements with the Kenyan government …

Allie Garfinkle / Fortune : A profile of Anduril CEO Brian Schimpf, a Palantir alum and self-identified Democrat, as Anduril's defense tech shakes up the US military-industrial complex —  “The question isn't whether we can build the next Lockheed Martin, it's whether we can avoid becoming the thing we're trying to replace …

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg : Sources: Apple is working on a “slight redesign” for macOS 27 to address Liquid Glass issues, plans a feature to automatically group Safari tabs in “27” OSes —  Also: The latest on iOS 27 and the truth about the Vision Pro.  —  Apple is planning design changes …

Elizabeth Findell / Wall Street Journal : Most of the tech on display at this year's Border Security Expo was autonomous and AI-equipped, driven by the Trump administration's focus on US border security —  Rapid gains in artificial-intelligence technology bring new competitors into the business of securing the border

Jennah Haque / Bloomberg : Experian says 40% of the 5,000 data breaches it serviced in 2025 were AI-powered, and predicts agentic AI will be the leading cause of data breaches in 2026 —  A few months ago, I received a congratulations letter on my upcoming enrollment at the Ultimate Medical Academy in Tampa, Florida.

Vicky Ge Huang / Wall Street Journal : Inside Consensus Conference, one of the biggest crypto conferences, which had a decidedly corporate sheen in 2026 amid Wall Street's embrace of digital assets —  In Miami Beach, one of the biggest crypto conferences had a decidedly corporate sheen this year

Golnar Motevalli / Bloomberg : NetBlocks: Iran's 70+ day internet blackout is “the longest recorded national internet shutdown in a connected society”, as businesses warn of layoffs, closures —  Iran's record internet blackout is taking a heavy toll on private businesses, with owners and industry officials warning …

Belle Lin / Wall Street Journal : An analysis of US DOL data: the IT sector's unemployment rate rose from 3.6% in March to 3.8% in April, as the sector shed 13,000 jobs amid AI uncertainty —  The job market for information-technology workers remains murky as tech companies shed personnel  —  The unemployment rate …

Rahul Raj / EU-Startups : Paris-based Lithosquare, which uses AI to speed up discovery of critical mineral and metal deposits, raised a $25M seed led by World Fund and Kindred Capital —  Lithosquare, a Paris-based startup that deploys Geology AI and geologist-led intelligence to amplify and accelerate the discovery …

Bloomberg : How SpaceMob, an online community of ~50,000, has fueled a meme-stock-like rally in satellite networking company AST, which is up ~6,000% over a 22-month period —  Championed by a guru known simply as the Kook, the satellite company AST has become one of the world's most expensive stocks.

Zack Abrams / The Block : LayerZero apologizes for Kelp DAO exploit response, says single-verifier setup was deficient; Dune: in April, ~47% of LayerZero OApps had the same default setup —  Quick Take  — LayerZero published a blog post Friday apologizing for poor communication in the three weeks since the $292 million Kelp DAO exploit.

Krysta Fauria / Associated Press : Anthropic, OpenAI, and other AI firms met with Hindu, Sikh, and Greek Orthodox leaders to draft principles on how to infuse models with ethics and morality —  As concerns mount over artificial intelligence and its rapid integration into society, tech companies are increasingly turning …

David Shepardson / Reuters : GM agrees to pay $12.75M to resolve a California investigation into claims that it illegally sold the location and driving data of OnStar subscribers to brokers —  GM (GM.N) has agreed to pay $12.75 million to resolve a California investigation into allegations that the Detroit automaker illegally sold …

South China Morning Post : Sources: ByteDance plans to increase its 2026 capex to more than $30B, up at least 25% from a preliminary plan, amid the AI boom and rising memory chip costs —  TikTok owner ByteDance is ramping up its spending on artificial intelligence infrastructure, boosting its planned capital expenditure …

Moneycontrol : OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google's enterprise push with PE firms poses a new competitive threat to India's IT industry, as services become increasingly automatable —  On Wall Street, the announcements sounded like the next phase of the artificial intelligence (AI) boom: frontier model companies …

Jowi Morales / Tom's Hardware : Sales of PC motherboards are expected to fall 25%+ YoY in 2026, as PC users delay their upgrades amid AI-driven price surges for memory, storage, and processors —  Fewer people are buying parts and building new PCs from scratch. … Motherboard sales are now collapsing amid unprecedented shortages fueled …

Kate Clark / Wall Street Journal : A profile of Anthropic CFO Krishna Rao, who tends to take a conservative approach to revenue projections and has chosen to raise less money than is available —  Krishna Rao is navigating unprecedented growth, compute constraints and the idiosyncratic Amodeis

Sam Rubin / Palo Alto Networks Blog : Palo Alto Networks says in its testing, three weeks of frontier AI-assisted analysis matched a full year of manual penetration testing, with broader coverage —  For the last several months, we have had early, unbounded access to the latest frontier AI models.

Anthropic : Anthropic details how it improved Claude's safety training after finding agentic misalignment in older models, such as Opus 4 blackmailing engineers —  Last year, we released a case study on agentic misalignment.  In experimental scenarios, we showed that AI models from many different …