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Anthropic files IPO, Nvidia launches RTX Spark
Anthropic’s confidential IPO filing flips the AI power balance, signaling that its code‑generation model is now a market‑ready revenue engine capable of challenging OpenAI’s dominance. The move arrive
Meta Pulls AI‑Generated Clickbait Feed After Test
Meta tested a new AI‑driven “For You” feed that auto‑generates clickbait stories and images, then pulled the feature after scrutiny over unlabelled, potentially misleading content and the lack of comp
OpenAI adds Lockdown Mode to curb ChatGPT data leaks
OpenAI is rolling out a new Lockdown Mode for ChatGPT across all personal and Business plans. The optional security setting disables features such as live web browsing, image support, deep research, a
Trump proposes US stake in AI giants
President Trump announced a plan for the United States to acquire a minority stake in leading AI companies, positioning the American public as shareholders in the sector's booming growth and sharing i
Firms Cap AI Tool Usage as Costs Outpace Returns
After three years of AI hype that progressed from suspicion to mania, a reckoning is underway: early-adopting companies like Uber, Amazon, and GitHub are capping AI tool usage as the costs outpace mea
Mbodi AI hires founding ML engineer for robot learning
Mbodi AI, a Y Combinator‑backed robotics startup, is building an embodied AI platform that lets users teach robots new skills via natural language and deploy them in production within minutes. The com
Bright Data SDK Turns Smart TVs Into Scraping Proxies
Security researchers have reverse-engineered Bright Data's iOS SDK and found it turns consumer devices — especially always-on smart TVs — into web-scraping exit nodes for the AI industry, with an opt-
CISA Adds SolarWinds Serv-U DoS Flaw to KEV Catalog
CISA has added a high-severity SolarWinds Serv-U denial-of-service flaw—CVE-2026-28318, requiring no authentication—to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, ordering federal agencies to patch b
20-Year Engineer: AI Code Criticism Misses the Point
A software engineer with 20+ years of experience pushes back against a daily Hacker News refrain criticizing AI-generated code as buggy, arguing users only care whether the product works and that AI-a
Microsoft Unveils 7 In-House MAI Models, Free of OpenAI
Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman disclosed at Build 2026 that a contract revision roughly six months ago freed Microsoft from OpenAI restrictions on building frontier AI in-house, coinciding with t
Reid Hoffman is leaving Microsoft’s board to go ‘founder mode’ with startup Manus
Reid Hoffman is leaving Microsoft's board after a decade to focus on his AI-driven drug discovery startup Manus, which recently raised over $50 million. Manus, co-founded by Hoffman and led by Dr. Sid
Google to Pay SpaceX $920M Monthly for AI Compute
Google has struck a $30 billion, multi‑year agreement with SpaceX to buy AI compute at $920 million a month, tapping roughly 110,000 Nvidia chips in xAI data centers to fuel its AI services.
iOS 27 Turns Siri Into a Chatbot, Opens to Rival AIs
Apple's WWDC 2026 (June 5) will reveal a chatbot-style Siri in iOS 27 that draws on personal data, lives in the Dynamic Island, and integrates rival AIs like Claude and Gemini through new Extensions.
IBM Accused of Covering Up Chinese Hack Breaches
Former IBM threat‑intelligence VP William Barlow alleges that IBM’s core network was breached by Chinese state‑linked hackers (APT 10) between 2013 and 2016 and that the company concealed the incident
Google to Pay SpaceX $920M Monthly for AI Compute
Google will pay SpaceX $920 million per month for AI compute capacity—including roughly 110,000 Nvidia GPUs—under a deal running through June 2029, giving SpaceX a major revenue stream days before its
Startup Battlefield 200: Apply by June 8 for $100k
Founders have three days left to submit their startups for Startup Battlefield 200, with the June 8 deadline offering a chance to pitch at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 and compete for $100,000 in equity‑fr
ICLR 2026: Transformers Proven Exponentially More Succinct Than LTL, RNNs
An ICLR 2026 paper proves that fixed-precision transformers can describe certain languages exponentially more compactly than linear temporal logic or recurrent neural networks, and doubly exponentiall
Equity Podcast Highlights Offline Startups, AI Funding
The Equity podcast episode spotlights a shift toward offline experiences, featuring startups such as Board that organize in‑person games and cyberdeck creators building DIY computers. The hosts also d
Supabase doubles valuation to $10B in 8 months
Supabase secured a $500 million Series F round, valuing the open‑source Postgres platform at $10 billion pre‑money (or $10.5 billion post‑money). The company said usage has surged 600 % in the past ye
Only 10% of SOCs See Excellent AI Value, SOC-CMM 2026 Finds
The SOC-CMM 2026 Maturity Report, surveying roughly 200 SOCs, found only 10% report excellent AI value despite record adoption, attributing the gap to architecture: the 10% run AI across the SOC lifec
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