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Dust, which helps enterprises design and deploy specialized AI agents that work alongside humans, raised a $40M Series B led by Abstract and Sequoia (Chris Metinko/Axios)

Dust, which helps enterprises design and deploy sp...

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Steve Bannon and 60+ Trump allies sign a Humans First-led letter urging Trump to mandate government testing and approval of powerful AI models before release (Ashley Gold/Axios)

Steve Bannon and 60+ Trump allies sign a Humans Fi...

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How gambling companies like FanDuel and DraftKings, as well as Meta and a16z's founders, are pouring millions into state-level election campaigns via super PACs (Emily Birnbaum/Bloomberg)

How gambling companies like FanDuel and DraftKings...

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Eric Schmidt faced loud boos during his University of Arizona commencement speech while discussing "rational" fears over the impact of AI and automation on jobs (Lauren Edmonds/Business Insider)

Eric Schmidt faced loud boos during his University...

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Baidu reports Q1 revenue down 1.1% YoY to ~$4.7B, above ~$4.5B est., and net profit down 55% YoY to ~$506.6M, above ~$462.5M est., amid a slow AI payoff (Tracy Qu/Wall Street Journal)

Baidu reports Q1 revenue down 1.1% YoY to ~$4.7B, ...

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A college senior at Stanford describes how AI changed classes: cheating using AI "has become omnipresent" with students "fudging just about everything" (Theo Baker/New York Times)

A college senior at Stanford describes how AI chan...

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How Amazon, which took a measured tone to AI, went from an AI also-ran to a real contender, thanks to $200B in spending, custom AI chips, and savvy deals (Tim Higgins/Wall Street Journal)

How Amazon, which took a measured tone to AI, went...

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Polymarket and Kalshi continue to operate in India despite a government advisory on April 25, directed at VPN providers, labeling prediction markets "illegal" (Bloomberg)

Polymarket and Kalshi continue to operate in India...

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After EV maker Fisker's collapse, ~4,000 car owners formed a nonprofit to keep their cars working by reverse-engineering software and building open-source tools (Fred Lambert/Electrek)

After EV maker Fisker's collapse, ~4,000 car owner...

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In his weekly Linux kernel post, Linus Torvalds says "AI tools are great" but the flood of duplicate AI bug reports has made the security list "unmanageable" (Simon Sharwood/The Register)

In his weekly Linux kernel post, Linus Torvalds sa...

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A look at a new class of jobs created by AI companies, including AI storytellers or "evangelists", forward deployed engineers, AI chiefs, and AI gig workers (Brent D. Griffiths/Business Insider)

A look at a new class of jobs created by AI compan...

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Companies running bug bounty programs are tightening background checks and building AI agents to triage a flood of low-quality reports generated by AI (Jamie John/Financial Times)

Companies running bug bounty programs are tighteni...

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A look at how the AI industry's intense pressure and high rewards are creating "walls of resentment" between Silicon Valley workers and their spouses (Alessandra Ram/Wired)

A look at how the AI industry's intense pressure a...

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Security researcher Peter G. Neumann, who criticized lax industry attitudes toward computer security and digital privacy, died on May 17 at the age of 93 (John Markoff/New York Times)

Security researcher Peter G. Neumann, who criticiz...

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Microsoft says it's retiring Teams' Together Mode, debuted in 2020, and plans to simplify meeting layouts and focus on video quality, stability, and performance (Terrence O'Brien/The Verge)

Microsoft says it's retiring Teams' Together Mode,...

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Pwn2Own Berlin 2026: participants earned a total of ~$1.3M for 47 vulnerabilities, with successful exploits of AI products like Codex, Cursor, and LM Studio (Eduard Kovacs/SecurityWeek)

Pwn2Own Berlin 2026: participants earned a total o...

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Sources: Anthropic agrees to brief the Financial Stability Board on global financial system vulnerabilities found by Mythos, following a request by FSB's Chair (Financial Times)

Sources: Anthropic agrees to brief the Financial S...

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Samsung's shares jumped as much as 6.7% after the company resumed talks with its union and a court partially granted an injunction against illegal union actions (Yoolim Lee/Bloomberg)

Samsung's shares jumped as much as 6.7% after the ...

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