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Best Early Memorial Day Mattress Deals: Helix, Saatva (2026)

It's one of the best times of the year to buy a mattress, and deals on our favorite models have already started.

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• Best Early Memorial
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Why A.I. Safety Controls Are Not Very Effective

Three years after the debut of ChatGPT, fooling A.I. systems into bad behavior is almost trivial.

Cerebras opens at $350, valuing the chipmaker at $100B+, after raising $5.5B by selling 30M shares at $185, the largest US tech IPO since Uber's debut in 2019 (Jordan Novet/CNBC)

Jordan Novet / CNBC: Cerebras opens at $350, valuing the chipmaker at $100B+, after raising $5.5B by selling 30M shares at $185, the largest US tech IPO since Uber's debut in...

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Cerebras, A.I. Chip Maker, Rises 89% in Market Debut

Cerebras, a Silicon Valley maker of artificial intelligence chips, began trading on the stock market on Thursday, as SpaceX, OpenAI and Anthropic also take steps to go public.

Sources: OpenAI is weighing legal action against Apple after expectations that ChatGPT's Siri integration would generate billions in revenue fell short (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: OpenAI is weighing legal action against Apple after expectations that ChatGPT's Siri integration would generate billions in revenue fell...

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OpenAI says two employee devices were impacted via a supply chain attack on TanStack but no user data or production systems were compromised (Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai/TechCrunch)

Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: OpenAI says two employee devices were impacted via a supply chain attack on TanStack but no user data or production systems were...

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Ian Crosby's Synthetic, which is building an AI bookkeeper, raised a $10M seed led by Khosla; Crosby founded Bench, which raised $100M+ and imploded in 2024 (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)

Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: Ian Crosby's Synthetic, which is building an AI bookkeeper, raised a $10M seed led by Khosla; Crosby founded Bench, which raised $100M+ and imploded...

• Intelligenza artificiale

Anthropic and the Gates Foundation pledge $200M to use AI in health and education initiatives; the foundation signed a similar, $50M deal with OpenAI in January (Jeffrey Dastin/Reuters)

Jeffrey Dastin / Reuters: Anthropic and the Gates Foundation pledge $200M to use AI in health and education initiatives; the foundation signed a similar, $50M deal with OpenAI...

• OpenAI
• Intelligenza artificiale
• Anthropic
• Reuters

Razer updates the Blade 18 with an Intel Core Ultra 9 290HX Plus chip, starting at $4000 with an Nvidia RTX 5070 Ti, up $500 from the comparable 2025 model (Antonio G. Di Benedetto/The Verge)

Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge: Razer updates the Blade 18 with an Intel Core Ultra 9 290HX Plus chip, starting at $4000 with an Nvidia RTX 5070 Ti, up $500 from the...

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• Razer
• Texas Instruments
• Intel Core Ultra
• Antonio G. Di Benedetto

Elon Musk’s lawyer asked Sam Altman on the stand: Are you trustworthy?

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Wirestock, which says it provides multi-modal data to six of the largest foundation AI labs, raised a $23M Series A, bringing its total funding to $26M (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Wirestock, which says it provides multi-modal data to six of the largest foundation AI labs, raised a $23M Series A, bringing its total funding to...

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• Intelligenza artificiale
• Ivan Mehta

AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon sign an "agreement in principle" to form a joint venture that aims to end wireless dead zones in the US, without giving many details (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)

Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon sign an “agreement in principle” to form a joint venture that aims to end wireless dead zones in the US, without giving...

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• Wireless
• Jess Weatherbed
• Verizon
• Verge
• AT&T
• T-Mobile

Motorola Razr Fold review: good performance and screen, great battery life, sharp cameras, and stylus support, but heavier than the Z Fold 7 and lackluster AI (Sam Rutherford/Engadget)

Sam Rutherford / Engadget: Motorola Razr Fold review: good performance and screen, great battery life, sharp cameras, and stylus support, but heavier than the Z Fold 7 and...

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• Motorola Razr
• Intelligenza artificiale
• Sam Rutherford

Gallup: 71% of Americans oppose local AI data center construction, citing water and electricity issues, with opposition higher among Democrats than Republicans (Tim Craig/Washington Post)

Tim Craig / Washington Post: Gallup: 71% of Americans oppose local AI data center construction, citing water and electricity issues, with opposition higher among Democrats than...

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• Data Center
• Intelligenza artificiale
• Gallup

AI Promised the Audemars Piguet x Swatch Wristwatch. China Will Deliver It

Watch fans spent a week falling in love with colorful Royal Oak wristwatches that didn’t exist—then the real thing arrived. Now, fantasy is becoming a manufacturing opportunity.

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• Intelligenza artificiale
• Repubblica Popolare Cinese

Klarna reports Q1 revenue up 44% YoY to $1.01B, above est., GMV up 33% YoY to $33.7B, customers up 20% YoY to 119M, and a $1M profit, vs. a $99M loss in Q1 2025 (Connor Hart/Wall Street Journal)

Connor Hart / Wall Street Journal: Klarna reports Q1 revenue up 44% YoY to $1.01B, above est., GMV up 33% YoY to $33.7B, customers up 20% YoY to 119M, and a $1M profit, vs. a...

• Wall Street Journal
• Klarna

Spotify says it will adopt Apple's HTTP Live Streaming tech later in 2026, helping Spotify creators distribute video podcast shows on Apple Podcasts and Spotify (Zac Hall/9to5Mac)

Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: Spotify says it will adopt Apple's HTTP Live Streaming tech later in 2026, helping Spotify creators distribute video podcast shows on Apple Podcasts and...

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• Apple

The UK CMA launches an antitrust investigation into Microsoft's business software dominance, focusing on its bundling of Windows, Word, Teams, and other apps (Reuters)

Reuters: The UK CMA launches an antitrust investigation into Microsoft's business software dominance, focusing on its bundling of Windows, Word, Teams, and other apps  — ...

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• Microsoft
• Reuters

Meta President Dina Powell McCormick went with President Trump on his China trip and met King Charles III in April, indicating she's Meta's new global emissary (Kurt Wagner/Bloomberg)

Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: Meta President Dina Powell McCormick went with President Trump on his China trip and met King Charles III in April, indicating she's Meta's new global...

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• Repubblica Popolare Cinese
• Cina
• Meta
• Donald Trump
• Kurt Wagner

SMIC reports Q1 revenue up 11.5% YoY to ~$2.5B and net profit up 5% YoY to ~$197.4M, below $223.6M est., weighed down by higher operating expenses, up 30% YoY (Sherry Qin/Wall Street Journal)

Sherry Qin / Wall Street Journal: SMIC reports Q1 revenue up 11.5% YoY to ~$2.5B and net profit up 5% YoY to ~$197.4M, below $223.6M est., weighed down by higher operating...

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• Wall Street Journal
• SMIC

InstaFarm Automated Indoor Microgreens Garden Review: Easy Being Green

The InstaFarm makes growing your own microgreens practical at home.

Gen Z Is Pioneering a New Understanding of Truth

The first generation to truly grow up online, Generation Z and their cohort live in a social media ecosystem that blends facts and feelings. It’s significantly shifting how...

As Meta prepares to lay off ~10% of its staff on May 20, sources say morale is low, and it moved 1,000+ engineers to an AI unit to build generative AI models (Wired)

Wired: As Meta prepares to lay off ~10% of its staff on May 20, sources say morale is low, and it moved 1,000+ engineers to an AI unit to build generative AI models  —  Next...

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• Wired
• Meta