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  1. London-based edtech startup Multiverse raised $70M at a $2.1B valuation from Index and others as it pushes into AI training; it acquired StackFuel in January (Kieran Smith/Financial Times)

    ft.com/content/ec5764f0-b783-4
    techmeme.com/260515/p1#a260515

  2. UK-based Iceotope, which develops data center liquid cooling tech, raised a $26M Series B co-led by Two Seas Capital and Barclays Climate Ventures (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)

    siliconangle.com/2026/05/14/da
    techmeme.com/260514/p46#a26051

  3. Alphabet sold $3.6B of bonds in its debut yen-denominated bond sale, the largest by a non-Japanese company, as AI-driven capital spending accelerates (Atsuko Fukase/Bloomberg)

    bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
    techmeme.com/260514/p45#a26051

  4. In a policy paper, Anthropic urges the US and allies to enforce export controls, curb distillation attacks, and export US AI to hold the lead over China by 2028 (Anthropic)

    anthropic.com/research/2028-ai
    techmeme.com/260514/p44#a26051

  5. Security research firm Calif says it used Mythos to help build a macOS kernel memory corruption exploit circumventing Apple's Memory Integrity Enforcement tech (Robert McMillan/Wall Street Journal)

    wsj.com/tech/ai/anthropic-myth
    techmeme.com/260514/p43#a26051

  6. Sources: Anthropic has agreed to the terms of a $30B fundraising at a $900B valuation, with Sequoia, Dragoneer, Greenoaks, and Altimeter co-leading the round (George Hammond/Financial Times)

    ft.com/content/9deae3c6-716d-4
    techmeme.com/260514/p42#a26051

  7. Sources: xAI co-founder Igor Babuschkin plans to raise up to $1B at an up to $5B valuation for a new AI research startup, with General Catalyst possibly leading (Forbes)

    forbes.com/sites/rashishrivast
    techmeme.com/260514/p41#a26051

  8. Musk v. Altman: in closing arguments, Musk's attorney doubled down on claims of Altman's untrustworthiness, while OpenAI's lawyer said Musk has no evidence (Associated Press)

    apnews.com/article/musk-sam-al
    techmeme.com/260514/p40#a26051

  9. California Gov. Gavin Newsom proposes a new 7.25% tax on web-based software sales, targeting $1.1B in state and local tax revenue in the upcoming budget year (Bloomberg)

    bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
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  10. Gemini reports Q1 revenue up 42% YoY to $50.3M, vs. $47.9M est., announces a $100M capital injection from Winklevoss Capital Fund; GEMI jumps 22%+ after hours (Tanaya Macheel/CNBC)

    cnbc.com/2026/05/14/gemini-sur
    techmeme.com/260514/p38#a26051

  11. Cerebras co-founders CEO Andrew Feldman and CTO Sean Lie own stakes worth $3.2B and $1.7B, respectively, representing about 5.5% and 3% of the company (CJ Haddad/CNBC)

    cnbc.com/2026/05/14/cerebras-i
    techmeme.com/260514/p37#a26051

  12. Cerebras shares closed up 68% at $311.07 in the company's Nasdaq debut after it raised $5.5B in the year's largest IPO, giving it a market value of $67B (Bloomberg)

    bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
    techmeme.com/260514/p36#a26051

  13. OpenAI adds remote access to Codex in the ChatGPT mobile app, letting users control Codex sessions running on a connected computer directly from a phone (Zac Hall/9to5Mac)

    9to5mac.com/2026/05/14/openai-
    techmeme.com/260514/p35#a26051

  14. Figma reports Q1 revenue up 46% YoY to $333.4M, vs. $313.2M est., and forecasts Q2 revenue above estimates, citing AI monetization; FIG jumps 8%+ after hours (Zaheer Kachwala/Reuters)

    reuters.com/technology/figma-r
    techmeme.com/260514/p34#a26051

  15. Sources: Joshua Kushner's Thrive Capital told its stakeholders that it has invested ~$100M in Shopify, framed as a bet on how AI could lead to gains in commerce (Natasha Mascarenhas/Bloomberg)

    bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
    techmeme.com/260514/p33#a26051

  16. Sources: Microsoft plans to remove most of its Claude Code licenses and push its developers toward GitHub Copilot CLI, after previously pushing Claude Code (Tom Warren/The Verge)

    theverge.com/tech/930447/micro
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  17. The Senate Banking Committee advances the Clarity Act, which would make CFTC the primary regulator for most digital assets while SEC oversees digital securities (Bloomberg)

    bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
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  18. Sources: 50+ researchers and engineers have left xAI since the SpaceX acquisition via layoffs, firings, and voluntary departures; many have joined Meta and TML (Theo Wayt/The Information)

    theinformation.com/articles/sp
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  19. Sources: Intel has begun testing production of "low-end/legacy iPhone, iPad, and Mac processors"; Apple thinks TSMC's resources will continue tilting toward AI (@mingchikuo)

    x.com/mingchikuo/status/205498
    techmeme.com/260514/p29#a26051

  20. Ford stock jumped as much as 25% in two days after the launch of Ford Energy, a new subsidiary providing battery storage capacity to AI data centers (Christian Davies/Financial Times)

    ft.com/content/3788778f-ea93-4
    techmeme.com/260514/p28#a26051

  21. A look at GameStop's takeover bid for eBay, a bizarre way to force eBay's board and shareholders to consider GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen's desire to run eBay (Matt Levine/Bloomberg)

    bloomberg.com/opinion/newslett
    techmeme.com/260514/p27#a26051

  22. 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)

    cnbc.com/2026/05/14/cerebras-c
    techmeme.com/260514/p26#a26051

  23. 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)

    bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
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  24. 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)

    techcrunch.com/2026/05/14/open
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  25. 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)

    techcrunch.com/2026/05/14/khos
    techmeme.com/260514/p23#a26051

  26. 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)

    theverge.com/gadgets/930343/ra
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  27. 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)

    techcrunch.com/2026/05/14/wire
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  28. AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon sign an "agreement in principle" to form a joint venture aiming to end wireless dead zones in the US, without giving many details (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)

    theverge.com/tech/930336/att-t
    techmeme.com/260514/p19#a26051

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

    engadget.com/2172439/motorola-
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