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A profile of Amazon CEO Andy Jassy, who is killing projects, cutting staff, and pleasing Wall Street, while steering the company toward an AI-focused era (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2026-andy-jassy-amazon-ai/?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc3ODc5MjUyMSwiZXhwIjoxNzc5Mzk3MzIxLCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJURjFQMFRLR1pBU1owMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJBRjJFNDMxQTgzRjk0OTU3QUIxNzg5NTgwOEU2Q0YxMiJ9.tsFUSww6q1mYj1NdiVNa84IpNX2AYfu4mAj1NygKcbQ
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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)
https://www.ft.com/content/ec5764f0-b783-48ac-9f16-a0ecb9da9636
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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)
https://siliconangle.com/2026/05/14/data-center-cooling-tech-startup-icetope-aims-scale-raising-26m/
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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)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-15/alphabet-sells-3-6-billion-of-yen-bonds
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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)
https://www.anthropic.com/research/2028-ai-leadership
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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)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anthropic-mythos-apple-macos-bug-339da403?st=BwCjXb&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
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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)
https://www.ft.com/content/9deae3c6-716d-4f4d-8b09-434d8519f847
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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)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/rashishrivastava/2026/05/14/xai-cofounder-igor-babuschkin-in-talks-to-raise-up-to-1-billion-for-a-new-ai-startup/
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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)
https://apnews.com/article/musk-sam-altman-openai-trial-closing-arguments-3bda5ebbec28c23ac9e481a4edcad725
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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)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-14/newsom-pitches-software-tax-to-raise-billions-in-new-revenue
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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)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/14/gemini-surges-after-winklevoss-capital-invests-100-million-in-the-crypto-exchange.html
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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)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/14/cerebras-ipo-mints-two-billionaires-sets-stage-for-potential-ai-wave.html
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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)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-14/cerebras-shares-indicated-to-surge-89-after-year-s-top-ipo
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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)
https://9to5mac.com/2026/05/14/openai-brings-codex-control-to-chatgpt-for-iphone-and-android/
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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)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/figma-raises-annual-revenue-forecast-ai-drives-strong-design-demand-2026-05-14/
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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)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-14/joshua-kushner-s-thrive-capital-invests-100-million-in-shopify
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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)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/930447/microsoft-claude-code-discontinued-notepad
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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)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-14/bitcoin-stalls-as-crypto-gains-ground-in-washington-wall-street
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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)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/spacexai-exodus-50-recent-exits-meta-thinking-machines-hire-staff
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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)
https://x.com/mingchikuo/status/2054987772289810884
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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)
https://www.ft.com/content/3788778f-ea93-4811-80a8-4c8f4c5c0b1f
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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)
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/newsletters/2026-05-14/ryan-cohen-wants-to-work-at-ebay
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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)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/14/cerebras-cbrs-stock-trade-nasdaq-ipo.html
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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)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-14/openai-apple-partnership-frays-setting-up-possible-legal-fight
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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)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/14/openai-says-hackers-stole-some-data-after-latest-code-security-issue/
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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)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/14/khosla-ventures-is-betting-10m-on-ian-crosby-whose-last-startup-bench-imploded/
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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)
https://www.theverge.com/gadgets/930343/razers-blade-18-is-getting-a-500-price-hike-and-a-new-intel-chip
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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)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/14/wirestock-raises-23m-to-supply-multi-modal-data-to-ai-labs/
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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)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/930336/att-tmobile-verizon-joint-venture-agreement-satellite-coverage
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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)
https://www.engadget.com/2172439/motorola-razr-fold-review/
http://www.techmeme.com/260514/p18#a260514p18