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📡 Bloomberg🟢 CHIPS 🌍 World 13 May · Bloomberg

AI Chipmaker Cerebras Raises $5.55 Billion in Year’s Biggest IPO.com

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📡 Bloomberg🟢 CHIPS 🌍 World 13 May · Bloomberg

How the Hormuz Blockade Is Disrupting Chip Supply Chains.com

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📡 Reuters🟢 CHIPS 🌍 World 13 May · Reuters

Intel's stock is up but the comeback is still underway

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📡 The Guardian🟢 CHIPS 🌍 World 13 May · The Guardian

Nvidia’s Jensen Huang joins other US bosses on Trump trip to China

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📡 TechCrunch🟢 SECURITY 13 May · TechCrunch

Ransomware hackers claim breach at Foxconn, a major electronics manufacturer for Apple, Google, and Nvidia | TechCrunch

Electronics manufacturing giant Foxconn, which makes devices and components for Apple, Google, Nvidia, and Son...

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Electronics manufacturing giant Foxconn, which makes devices and components for Apple, Google, Nvidia, and Sony, among other tech giants, confirmed on Monday that it was hit by a cyberattack that may have affected some of its factories.

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📡 TechCrunch🟢 SECURITY 13 May · TechCrunch

Who decides what AI tells you? Campbell Brown, once Meta's news chief, has thoughts | TechCrunch

Campbell Brown has spent her career chasing accurate information, first as a renowned TV journalist, then as F...

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Campbell Brown has spent her career chasing accurate information, first as a renowned TV journalist, then as Facebook’s first, and only, dedicated news chief. Now, watching AI reshape how people consume information, she sees history threatening to repeat itself.

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📡 Reuters🟢 POLICY 13 May · Reuters

Japan megabanks to gain access to Anthropic's Mythos in about two weeks, source says

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📡 Reuters🟢 POLICY 13 May · Reuters

OpenAI chief Altman has over $2 billion stake in companies that dealt with OpenAI, court filing shows

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📡 TechCrunch🟢 POLICY 13 May · TechCrunch

Musk’s xAI is running nearly 50 gas turbines unchecked at its Mississippi data center | TechCrunch

Elon Musk’s xAI is running nearly 50 natural gas turbines at its Mississippi data center, power plants that th...

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Elon Musk’s xAI is running nearly 50 natural gas turbines at its Mississippi data center, power plants that the state is currently not regulating thanks to a loophole. At issue is the “mobile” nature of the turbines.

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📡 Wired🟢 POLICY 13 May · Wired

OpenAI Brings Its Ass to Court - WIRED

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📡 Wired🟢 POLICY 13 May · Wired

xAI Adds 19 New Gas Turbines Despite Ongoing Lawsuit - WIRED

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📡 Bloomberg🟢 BUSINESS 13 May · Bloomberg

Blackstone REIT Raises $1.75 Billion in IPO to Buy Data Centers.com

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📡 Bloomberg🟢 BUSINESS 13 May · Bloomberg

Insider One Buys Bluecore in AI Marketing Drive Ahead of IPO.com

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📡 Bloomberg🟢 BUSINESS 13 May · Bloomberg

TPG Says OpenAI Venture a Traditional Move for Firm.com

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📡 TechCrunch🟢 BUSINESS 13 May · TechCrunch

Anduril raises $5B, doubles valuation to $61B | TechCrunch

This latest raise comes after the nine-year-old defense tech company doubled revenue in 2025 to $2.2 billion, ...

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This latest raise comes after the nine-year-old defense tech company doubled revenue in 2025 to $2.2 billion, CEO Brian Schimpf wrote in the blog post announcing the raise.

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📡 TechCrunch🟢 BUSINESS 13 May · TechCrunch

Origin Lab raises $8M to help video game companies sell data to world-model builders | TechCrunch

Now, one startup is emerging with an unlikely data source: the video game industry. “The AI systems that are b...

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Now, one startup is emerging with an unlikely data source: the video game industry. “The AI systems that are being built now need to understand how the physical world works and how things move,” co-CEO and co-founder Anne-Margot Rodde told TechCrunch.

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📡 TechCrunch🟢 BUSINESS 13 May · TechCrunch

Rivian spinoff Mind Robotics raises another $400M | TechCrunch

The funding round, first reported by the Wall Street Journal, was led by Kleiner Perkins. The venture arms of ...

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The funding round, first reported by the Wall Street Journal, was led by Kleiner Perkins. The venture arms of Volkswagen, which is partnered with Rivian on a software joint venture, and Salesforce also contributed investments.

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📡 Ars Technica🟢 TECH 🌍 World 13 May · Ars Technica

Anthropic blames dystopian sci-fi for training AI models to act “evil”

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📡 Ars Technica🟢 TECH 🌍 World 13 May · Ars Technica

Rivian adds a new onboard AI assistant to its latest software update

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📡 TechCrunch🟢 TECH 🌍 World 13 May · TechCrunch

Adaption aims big with AutoScientist, an AI tool that helps models train themselves | TechCrunch

For years, AI researchers have anticipated the moment when AI systems will be able to improve themselves bette...

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For years, AI researchers have anticipated the moment when AI systems will be able to improve themselves better than humans could. With investors pouring money into a new generation of research-driven AI labs, there are more resources than ever available to pursue the goal.

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📡 TechCrunch🟢 TECH 🌍 World 13 May · TechCrunch

Anthropic courts a new kind of customer: small business owners | TechCrunch

Anthropic is looking to court smaller companies. To that end, the company announced Wednesday the launch of Cl...

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Anthropic is looking to court smaller companies. To that end, the company announced Wednesday the launch of Claude for Small Business, a new suite of services designed for customers who less resemble Walmart and Starbucks and more resemble the local hardware store or coffee sh...

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📡 TechCrunch🟢 TECH 🌍 World 13 May · TechCrunch

Anthropic's Cat Wu says that, in the future, AI will anticipate your needs before you know what they are | TechCrunch

With the tech industry singularly focused on AI models, Anthropic is having an exceptionally good year.

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With the tech industry singularly focused on AI models, Anthropic is having an exceptionally good year.

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📡 TechCrunch🟢 TECH 🌍 World 13 May · TechCrunch

Clio's $500M milestone arrives just as Anthropic ups the ante | TechCrunch

While AI is now being applied to everything from healthcare to customer support, no single use case has been n...

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While AI is now being applied to everything from healthcare to customer support, no single use case has been nearly as popular or lucrative as code writing.

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📡 TechCrunch🟢 TECH 🌍 World 13 May · TechCrunch

Notion just turned its workspace into a hub for AI agents | TechCrunch

By building an orchestration layer — a system that coordinates AI work across multiple tools and data sources ...

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By building an orchestration layer — a system that coordinates AI work across multiple tools and data sources — Notion is positioning itself as more than a note-taker with AI features and instead as a hub where people and agents can collaborate across tools and databases.

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📡 TechCrunch🟢 TECH 🌍 World 13 May · TechCrunch

Poppy debuts a proactive AI assistant to help organize your digital life | TechCrunch

The idea, per the company’s website, is that “Poppy pays attention so you don’t have to.” Users can connect va...

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The idea, per the company’s website, is that “Poppy pays attention so you don’t have to.” Users can connect various services to Poppy’s app, like their email, calendar, and, at a minimum, their location.

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📡 TechCrunch🟢 TECH 🌍 World 13 May · TechCrunch

WhatsApp adds an incognito mode in Meta AI chats | TechCrunch

Meta on Wednesday said it is adding the ability to start “incognito” conversations with its Meta AI chatbot wi...

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Meta on Wednesday said it is adding the ability to start “incognito” conversations with its Meta AI chatbot within WhatsApp. These conversations, the company said, will be processed in a secure environment and can’t be seen by anyone.

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📡 The Verge🟢 TECH 🌍 World 13 May · The Verge

Microsoft’s Edge Copilot update uses AI to pull information from across your tabs

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📡 Wired🟢 TECH 🌍 World 13 May · Wired

Overworked AI Agents Turn Marxist, Researchers Find - WIRED

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📡 Wired🟢 TECH 🌍 World 13 May · Wired

WhatsApp Adds Meta AI Chats That Are Built to Be Fully Private - WIRED

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📡 Ars Technica🟢 INDUSTRY 🌍 World 13 May · Ars Technica

Altman forced to confront claims at OpenAI trial that he’s a prolific liar

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📡 Ars Technica🟢 INDUSTRY 🌍 World 13 May · Ars Technica

NASA provides some details about Artemis III, but hard decisions remain

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📡 Bloomberg🟢 INDUSTRY 🌍 World 13 May · Bloomberg

Germany and Canada Are AI's $20 Billion Odd Couple.com

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📡 Bloomberg🟢 INDUSTRY 🌍 World 13 May · Bloomberg

Memory Crunch Deepens Chasm Between Stock Winners and Losers.com

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📡 Bloomberg🟢 INDUSTRY 🌍 World 13 May · Bloomberg

Microsoft Spent Over $100 Billion on OpenAI Partnership To Date.com

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📡 Bloomberg🟢 INDUSTRY 🌍 World 13 May · Bloomberg

OpenAI Floats Idea of Global AI Governance Body With US, China.com

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📡 Bloomberg🟢 INDUSTRY 🌍 World 13 May · Bloomberg

Why the US Must Engage China on AI Safety Before It’s ‘Game Over’.com

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📡 TechCrunch🟢 INDUSTRY 🌍 World 13 May · TechCrunch

Anthropic now has more business customers than OpenAI, according to Ramp data | TechCrunch

The survey, compiled from Ramp’s clients’ expense data, shows 34.4% of participating businesses are paying for...

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The survey, compiled from Ramp’s clients’ expense data, shows 34.4% of participating businesses are paying for Anthropic services, more than any other AI lab, while only 32.3% pay for OpenAI.

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📡 The Verge🟢 INDUSTRY 🌍 World 13 May · The Verge

Alexa is moving into Amazon․com

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📡 The Verge🟢 INDUSTRY 🌍 World 13 May · The Verge

Data centers are coming for rural America

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📡 The Verge🟢 INDUSTRY 🌍 World 13 May · The Verge

Mark Zuckerberg announces ‘completely private’ encrypted Meta AI chat

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📡 Wired🟢 COMMENTARY 13 May · Wired

Elon Musk Had ‘Hair-Raising’ Idea of Passing OpenAI On to His Kids, Sam Altman Says - WIRED

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