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Robotics startup Generalist, which released its GEN-1 model to complete short physical tasks in April, raised $400M led by Radical Ventures at a $2B valuation (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)

Robotics startup Generalist, which released its GE...

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London- and NY-based Airspeed, which aims to use AI agents to replace sales software like traditional CRM dashboards, raised a $20M Series A led by DN Capital (Mike Butcher/Pathfounders)

London- and NY-based Airspeed, which aims to use A...

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Q&A with Satya Nadella on Microsoft's competitive position, MAI models, OpenAI, the software business, GitHub Copilot, Project Solara, data centers, and more (Ben Thompson/Stratechery)

Q&A with Satya Nadella on Microsoft's competitive ...

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Sam Altman says he has no plans to put money into the 2026 US midterms; OpenAI is seeking to distance itself from Greg Brockman-backed Leading the Future PAC (Emily Birnbaum/Bloomberg)

Sam Altman says he has no plans to put money into ...

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Revolut co-founder and CTO Vlad Yatsenko plans to step down in July, replaced by executive Donato Lucia; Yatsenko joined as Revolut's first employee (Aisha S Gani/Bloomberg)

Revolut co-founder and CTO Vlad Yatsenko plans to ...

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Flourish, which is building Cortex AI, a brain-like synthetic intelligence system that uses less power than LLMs, raised $500M, including $100M from Jeff Bezos (Steven Levy/Wired)

Flourish, which is building Cortex AI, a brain-lik...

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Challenger: US tech companies announced cuts to 38,242 jobs in May, the most since August 2024, taking 2026's total so far to 123,653 cuts, up 65% YoY (Julia Fanzeres/Bloomberg)

Challenger: US tech companies announced cuts to 38...

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Amazon unveils its next-gen Proteus warehouse robot, adding AI-powered language capabilities to let workers assign tasks, rolling out in Europe in H1 2027 (Robert Hart/The Verge)

Amazon unveils its next-gen Proteus warehouse robo...

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Corporate spending management platform Ramp raised $750M at a $44B valuation led by Iconiq, Singapore's GIC, and the OTPP, taking its total funding to $3B (Bloomberg)

Corporate spending management platform Ramp raised...

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France secured €110B+ of proposed AI and data center investments this week, amounting to ~10 GW of new computing capacity, equivalent to ~10 nuclear reactors (Sarah White/Financial Times)

France secured €110B+ of proposed AI and data cent...

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Foxconn says it will work with Intel to jointly develop and deploy next-gen AI infrastructure, including server racks with Intel Xeon processors and AI chips (Wen-Yee Lee/Reuters)

Foxconn says it will work with Intel to jointly de...

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TSMC CEO C.C. Wei says the company won't be able to fulfill demand led by US customers even as more capacity comes online in the US over the next few years (Debby Wu/Bloomberg)

TSMC CEO C.C. Wei says the company won't be able t...

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A look at debates over AI consciousness; LLM conversations are cleverly disguised examples of sentence continuation, without denying how impressive LLMs can be (Ted Chiang/The Atlantic)

A look at debates over AI consciousness; LLM conve...

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A deep dive into the case for data centers in space, as SpaceX prepares to go public: Elon Musk's claims, the wider debate, power supply issues, costs, and more (Daniel Nishball/SemiAnalysis)

A deep dive into the case for data centers in spac...

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SpaceX wins a property tax exemption for its planned $55B Terafab chip facility in Texas, despite Texans threatening legal action, amid local opposition to AI (Stephanie Findlay/Financial Times)

SpaceX wins a property tax exemption for its plann...

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CoinGecko: Hyperliquid-linked HYPE token is up ~180% YTD, lifting its market value above $16B and pushing it into the top 10 digital assets by market cap (Bloomberg)

CoinGecko: Hyperliquid-linked HYPE token is up ~18...

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Alibaba says it is opening Qwen to third-party AI agents, starting with KFC, Mixue, and others, and Qwen's app serves 100M+ daily lifestyle services engagements (Iris Deng/South China Morning Post)

Alibaba says it is opening Qwen to third-party AI ...

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Applied Materials plans to expand its Southeast Asia workforce by 25% in 2026, hiring ~1,000 workers mainly in Singapore, a key chip packaging equipment hub (Cheng Ting-Fang/Nikkei Asia)

Applied Materials plans to expand its Southeast As...

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