• Inside Consensus Conference, one of the biggest crypto conferences, which had a decidedly corporate sheen in 2026 amid Wall Street's embrace of digital assets (Vicky Ge Huang/Wall Street Journal)
• NetBlocks: Iran's 70+ day internet blackout is "the longest recorded national internet shutdown in a connected society", as businesses warn of layoffs, closures (Golnar Motevalli/Bloomberg)
• An analysis of US DOL data: the IT sector's unemployment rate rose from 3.6% in March to 3.8% in April, as the sector shed 13,000 jobs amid AI uncertainty (Belle Lin/Wall Street Journal)
• Paris-based Lithosquare, which uses AI to speed the discovery of critical mineral and metal deposits, raised a $25M seed led by World Fund and Kindred Capital (Rahul Raj/EU-Startups)
• NYC-based Reserv, which provides software and AI-powered claims processing tech for property and casualty insurers, raised a $125M Series C led by KKR (FinTech Global)
• MoonPay acquires DFlow, a platform that facilitates trading on the Solana blockchain, sources say for $100M in stock; DFlow had raised $7.5M across two rounds (Jack Kubinec/Fortune)
• Sydney-based AI data center operator IREN agrees to acquire Mirantis, which offers Kubernetes management and cloud infrastructure software, for $625M in stock (Shane Snider/Data Center Knowledge)
• Google seems to require Google Play Services for passing next-gen reCAPTCHA on Android, denying de-Googled Android phones and creating surveillance issues (Rick Findlay/Reclaim The Net)
• Execs at Palantir, whose stock is up ~16x since its AI platform's 2023 debut, often decry other AI as slop, as competition from frontier AI labs stiffens (Heather Somerville/Wall Street Journal)
• FCC passed an anti-robocall proposal requiring telecoms, including VoIP providers, to verify user identities before activating service, raising privacy fears (Ken Macon/Reclaim The Net)
• How SpaceMob, an online community of ~50,000, has fueled a meme-stock-like rally in satellite networking company AST, which is up ~6,000% over a 22-month period (Bloomberg)
• LayerZero apologizes for Kelp DAO exploit response, says single-verifier setup was deficient; Dune: in April, ~47% of LayerZero OApps had the same default setup (Zack Abrams/The Block)
• Anthropic, OpenAI, and other AI firms met with Hindu, Sikh, and Greek Orthodox leaders to draft principles on how to infuse models with ethics and morality (Krysta Fauria/Associated Press)
• GM agrees to pay $12.75M to resolve a California investigation into claims that it illegally sold the location and driving data of OnStar subscribers to brokers (David Shepardson/Reuters)
• Sources: ByteDance plans to increase its 2026 capex to more than $30B, up at least 25% from a preliminary plan, amid the AI boom and rising memory chip costs (South China Morning Post)
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• Instacart Promo Code: $15 Off | May 2026
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• Top Megelin Deals for Laser and LED Therapy Devices (2026)
• The Pentagon Releases New Trove of Declassified UFO Files
• Tesla’s Latest Recall? Wheels May Fall Off Cybertrucks
• There’s a Long-Shot Proposal to Protect California Workers From AI
• Nick Bostrom Has a Plan for Humanity’s ‘Big Retirement’
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• Musk v. Altman Evidence Shows What Microsoft Executives Thought of OpenAI
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| • NASA is set to begin training with a prototype of Blue Origin's crew moon lander
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• Porsche is discontinuing its performance e-bike division
• Banned drones and routers in the US will still get critical updates until 2029
• NASA's Curiosity rover gets its drill stuck, recordings from the Arctic seafloor and more science stories
• Mortal Kombat II review: More than just camp
• Chainsaw carnage, lots of music-based titles and other new indie games worth checking out
• Workers for Xbox studio Double Fine are forming a union
• Discord is back after an outage that took some users offline
• Prime Video is adding a TikTok-like feed
• Department of War sets up UFO website, but there isn't much to see
• InMusic will acquire Native Instruments, putting it under the same umbrella as Akai
• Shoot up Xenomorphs in Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2, arriving this summer
• Intel has reportedly signed a preliminary deal to produce chips for Apple
• Resident Evil Requiem gets a new Leon Must Die Forever mode, out today
• Legendary Nintendo designer Takashi Tezuka is seemingly retiring from the company
• The studio that (technically) made Disco Elysium just dropped a trailer for its new game
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• Sony and Bandai get into bed with generative AI
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