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Sources: the Pentagon is launching a task force to study how to safely deploy leading AI tools with hacking capabilities across Cyber Command and NSA missions (Politico)
SpaceX S-1: xAI plans to buy another $2.8B worth of turbines for its data centers, including a $2B deal for mobile gas turbines, the type it's being sued over (Tim De Chant/TechCrunch)
SpaceX S-1: xAI had a $6.4B operating loss on $3.2B in revenue in 2025; Grok and X had 550M MAUs combined as of March 2026, and 117M used Grok's AI features (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)
SpaceX S-1: Anthropic is paying SpaceX $1.25B/mo. until May 2029 under their compute deal; Anthropic says it's expanding the deal to include Colossus 2 capacity (Ina Fried/Axios)
Filing: SpaceX reports 2025 revenue of $18.7B, up 33% YoY, a $4.9B loss, vs. a $791M profit in 2024, and $20.7B in capital expenditures, up from $11.2B (New York Times)
Nvidia reports Q1 net income up 211% YoY to $58.3B, beating analyst estimates of $42.9B, and raises Q2 revenue forecast to $91B (Robbie Whelan/Wall Street Journal)
In disclosures to investors, Anthropic says it expects to generate $10.9B in revenue in Q2, vs. $4.8B in Q1, and turn a $559M operating profit, its first ever (Berber Jin/Wall Street Journal)
SpaceX files publicly for its IPO, choosing Nasdaq to make its debut under the symbol SPCX; Elon Musk's shares give him 85.1% of the voting power in the company (Bloomberg)
Nvidia reports Q1 revenue up 85% YoY to $81.6B, Data Center revenue up 92% to $75.2B, and announces an $80B additional share repurchase authorization (Nvidia Newsroom)
OpenAI says an internal general-purpose reasoning model has disproved the Erdős unit distance conjecture, a central problem in discrete geometry posed in 1946 (OpenAI)
Granta and the Commonwealth Foundation say they can't determine yet if AI was used to write a prize-winning short story after critics pointed to signs of AI use (The Guardian)
Google says it is testing new ad formats in search results and AI Mode, including Conversational Discovery ads, Highlighted Answers, and AI-powered Shopping ads (Anu Adegbola/Search Engine Land)
Airbnb says it is adding luggage storage, airport pickups, car rentals, grocery delivery, and thousands of boutique and independent hotels to its platform (Jacob Passy/Wall Street Journal)
Sources: OpenAI is preparing to file confidentially for an IPO as early as Friday; the company plans to be ready to go public as early as September (Wall Street Journal)
Ubisoft reports a record operating loss of $1.40B for the year to March and says sales in 2026-27 will fall by about 8% to 9%; UBI falls 6%+ (Reuters)

Wired

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Meta Employees Are Scrambling to Use Up Benefits Ahead of Layoffs
Demis Hassabis Thinks AI Job Cuts Are Dumb
Google Makes It Easy to Deepfake Yourself
Google Search Goes Agentic—and Doesn’t Need You Anymore
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Gemini Spark Is Google’s Response to OpenClaw’s 24/7 AI Agent
Former OpenAI Staffers Warn That xAI’s Poor Safety Record Could Complicate SpaceX’s IPO
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Engadget

AMD prices its Ryzen AI Halo PC at $3,999, unveils Ryzen AI Max 400 chips
All the news you might have missed from Google I/O 2026
Xbox Game Pass additions for late May include Forza Horizon 6 and Remnant II
Google's redesigned Gemini comes with a new interface and AI models
Google's Gemini Omni can generate 'anything from any input,' starting with video
Google says Gemini 3.5 Flash rivals 'large flagship models' for coding and agentic tasks
Kansas City has bought more than 4,500 MacBook Neos for its students
I/O 2026 is bringing more AI to Google Play
The Google AI Ultra plan now starts at $100 a month
Google's newest app is an AI-powered image editor
Google's Universal Cart will keep an eye on your shopping
Project Genie adds Google Street View integration and goes live for global AI Ultra users
Microsoft hired an analyst with an influential video game blog to fix Xbox
Airbnb expands into hotel bookings and even grocery deliveries
Cuneflow's e-paper writing tablet uses AI to record and transcribe meetings
Hulu bundle subscribers can now access their watch history and recs in the Disney+ app
Google's Circle to Search feature can tell you if an image was AI-generated
Google shoves more AI into Search, including a dynamic Search box and agentic features
Samsung and Google just teased their upcoming Android XR smartglasses at Google I/O
The latest Xbox thumbstick topper looks like a goal post

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