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TL;DR SpaceX plans to acquire AI coding startup Cursor for $60 billion roughly 30 days after its IPO, which is expected to list on Nasdaq on 12 June at a $1.75 trillion valuation. The deal includes a $10 billion breakup fee and would fold one of the fastest-growing
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TL;DR Analog Devices is acquiring Empower Semiconductor for $1.5 billion in cash to strengthen its power-delivery technology for AI data centres. The deal gives ADI access to Empower’s integrated voltage regulators, which can cut system power consumption by roughly 20%. Analog Devices has agreed to buy Empower
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TL;DR Andrej Karpathy, one of OpenAI’s original 11 co-founders, has joined Anthropic’s pre-training team. He will build a new group that uses Claude itself to accelerate the most expensive phase of frontier model development. Andrej Karpathy, one of the original co-founders of OpenAI and among the most
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Generative AI’s rapid transition from text-based chatbots to high-fidelity media—spanning images, video, spatial 3D, and audio—has exposed a glaring bottleneck in the modern tech stack: infrastructure. Rendering pixels in real-time requires a staggering amount of compute, and developers are increasingly struggling to manage fragmented GPU clusters just
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AI + ML Claude maker nabs SDK and MCP tooling biz, plans to sunset platform Anthropic is acquiring Stainless, a maker of software development tools that counts rivals OpenAI and Google as clients. The deal, reportedly for more than $300 million, demonstrates Anthropic's continued interest in exercising greater control
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* 71% of Americans say AI is evolving too quickly, 51% say it’s faster than they expected * Low-paid workers at risk while high earners and tech giants are set to benefit * ‘AI hate wave’ is emerging as communities fight back New Economist data sourced from a recent YouGov poll has
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Vulnerability exploitation was the most common access vector for data breaches in 2025, the latest installment of Verizon’s annual Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) shows. The number of analyzed security incidents has increased to 31,000. Of these, more than 22,000 were confirmed breaches, nearly double compared to
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Sponsor Posts Niantic Spatial: World models need real-world data — Scaniverse is the gateway to spatial services — self-serve and built for AI and robotics. Large-area 3D reconstruction from 360° cameras and precise localization, anywhere machines operate. Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Salesforce data
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At a briefing ahead of Google I/O 2026, I watched company execs unveil a list of AI-powered features aimed at solving pain points across its software ecosystem. One tool promises to radically improve the quality of video searches: Ask YouTube, as it's called, scours the platform'
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Sponsor Posts Niantic Spatial: World models need real-world data — Scaniverse is the gateway to spatial services — self-serve and built for AI and robotics. Large-area 3D reconstruction from 360° cameras and precise localization, anywhere machines operate. Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Salesforce data
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Google’s newest smartwatch update could also give you up to 10 percent better battery life. by Jay Peters May 19, 2026, 11:24 PM UTC Jay Peters is a senior reporter covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Among
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Sponsor Posts Niantic Spatial: World models need real-world data — Scaniverse is the gateway to spatial services — self-serve and built for AI and robotics. Large-area 3D reconstruction from 360° cameras and precise localization, anywhere machines operate. Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Salesforce data
