21 May 2026

Ofcom says Meta, Snap, and Roblox will adopt stronger anti-grooming measures; TikTok and YouTube failed to commit to any significant changes (Ofcom)

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Ofcom says Meta, Snap, and Roblox will adopt stronger anti-grooming measures; TikTok and YouTube failed to commit to any significant changes  —  - Snap, Meta and Roblox to adopt further safety measures to protect children from stranger danger online  — Ofcom steps up scrutiny of TikTok …

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Cohere releases Command A+, a sparse MoE open model built for agentic tasks, with 218B total and 25B active parameters, its first under the Apache 2.0 license (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)

Carl Franzen / VentureBeat:
Cohere releases Command A+, a sparse MoE open model built for agentic tasks, with 218B total and 25B active parameters, its first under the Apache 2.0 license  —  Canadian AI lab Cohere made waves recently by announcing a merger with German AI startup Aleph Alpha, but now it has even more in store …

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AMD says its Mac Mini-sized Ryzen AI Halo PC starts at $3,999 with Ryzen AI Max 300 chips, for pre-order in June, and unveils AI Max 400 chips, available in Q3 (Devindra Hardawar/Engadget)

Devindra Hardawar / Engadget:
AMD says its Mac Mini-sized Ryzen AI Halo PC starts at $3,999 with Ryzen AI Max 300 chips, for pre-order in June, and unveils AI Max 400 chips, available in Q3  —  They're direct shots at NVIDIA's AI systems  —  AMD's big pitch for 2026 seems to be: “Who needs cloud AI processing when you can do it all locally?”

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Jensen Huang said that Nvidia has "largely conceded" China's AI chip market to Huawei and should "expect nothing" regarding chip sale approvals to China (Lee Ying Shan/CNBC)

Lee Ying Shan / CNBC:
Jensen Huang said that Nvidia has “largely conceded” China's AI chip market to Huawei and should “expect nothing” regarding chip sale approvals to China  —  Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said the company has “largely conceded” China's artificial intelligence chip market to Huawei …

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Filing: SpaceX set aside $530M for potential litigation losses, including lawsuits involving Grok's "Spicy" mode, which it described as a "heightened risk" (Wired)

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Filing: SpaceX set aside $530M for potential litigation losses, including lawsuits involving Grok's “Spicy” mode, which it described as a “heightened risk”  —  The rocket company has set aside more than $500 million for potential litigation losses …

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SpaceX S-1: Starlink had 10.3M subscribers in Q1 2026, a 105% increase YoY; SpaceX's "Connectivity" business, which is primarily Starlink, made $11.3B in 2025 (Michael Kan/PCMag)

Michael Kan / PCMag:
SpaceX S-1: Starlink had 10.3M subscribers in Q1 2026, a 105% increase YoY; SpaceX's “Connectivity” business, which is primarily Starlink, made $11.3B in 2025  —  (daily_creativity via Shutterstock)  —  For the first time, we have hard numbers on Starlink's paid subscriber base …

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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)

Politico:
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  —  These people, like others in this report, were granted anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly about the sensitive effort.

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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)

Tim De Chant / TechCrunch:
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  —  Elon Musk's xAI has gotten itself in hot water over its use of polluting generators at its data center near Memphis, Tennessee.

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20 May 2026

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)

Rebecca Bellan / 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  —  Elon Musk's xAI lost $6.4 billion from operations on just $3.2 billion in revenue in 2025, according to SpaceX's IPO filings.

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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)

Ina Fried / Axios:
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  —  Anthropic is paying SpaceX $1.25 billion per month through May 2029 as part of the massive compute deal the companies signed earlier this month.

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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)

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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  —  Mr. Musk's rocket and satellite maker disclosed its financial performance for the first time, as it prepares to go public in what is set to be one of the largest offerings to date.

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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)

Robbie Whelan / Wall Street Journal:
Nvidia reports Q1 net income up 211% YoY to $58.3B, beating analyst estimates of $42.9B, and raises Q2 revenue forecast to $91B  —  Astronomical rise in AI agents and demand for data-center computing lift chipmaker to another record quarter  —  Chip giant Nvidia reported record sales and income Wednesday …

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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)

Berber Jin / 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  —  The startup expects a 130% revenue surge to $10.9 billion in the June quarter and its first operating profit, defying skeptics of the AI boom

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SpaceX files publicly for its IPO, choosing Nasdaq to make its debut under the symbol SPCX (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg:
SpaceX files publicly for its IPO, choosing Nasdaq to make its debut under the symbol SPCX  —  SpaceX filed publicly for its initial public offering, moving Elon Musk's rocket, satellite and artificial intelligence company a step closer to delivering the world's biggest-ever debut.

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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)

Nvidia Newsroom:
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  —  - Record revenue of $81.6 billion, up 85% from a year ago  — Record Data Center revenue of $75.2 billion, up 92% from a year ago

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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)

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OpenAI says an internal general-purpose reasoning model has disproved the Erdős unit distance conjecture, a central problem in discrete geometry posed in 1946  —  Read the proof(opens in a new window)Read the companion remarks(opens in a new window)  —  Loading...

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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)

The Guardian:
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  —  Granta publisher says ‘perhaps we never will know’ true authorship of work that won Commonwealth prize

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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)

Anu Adegbola / Search Engine Land:
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  —  Google is introducing a new generation of Gemini-powered ad formats across AI Mode and Search designed to make ads feel more conversational …

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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)

Jacob Passy / Wall Street Journal:
Airbnb says it is adding luggage storage, airport pickups, car rentals, grocery delivery, and thousands of boutique and independent hotels to its platform  —  Platform ramps up hotel-booking options, car rentals and AI-enabled features, expecting World Cup to drive record use

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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)

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  —  The artificial-intelligence giant is working with bankers at Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley  —  ChatGPT-maker OpenAI has been working …

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Ubisoft reports a record operating loss of $1.40B for the year to March and says sales in 2026-27 would fall by about 8% to 9%; UBI falls 6%+ (Reuters)

Reuters:
Ubisoft reports a record operating loss of $1.40B for the year to March and says sales in 2026-27 would fall by about 8% to 9%; UBI falls 6%+  —  French videogame publisher Ubisoft warned on Wednesday of another year of losses and lower sales after a record annual operating loss, deepening pressure on the company as it restructures.

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An interview with Match Group CEO Spencer Rascoff about plans for Tinder, including a redesign, AI features, live events, and group dating to win over Gen Z (Samantha Kelly/Bloomberg)

Samantha Kelly / Bloomberg:
An interview with Match Group CEO Spencer Rascoff about plans for Tinder, including a redesign, AI features, live events, and group dating to win over Gen Z  —  The dating app's turnaround bets on live events, group dating and an AI-heavy redesign.  —  At a pickleball venue near Santa Monica State beach …

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Internal memo: Xbox hires game industry analyst Matthew Ball as chief strategy officer, and names Scott Van Vliet, who led Azure AI infrastructure, as Xbox CTO (Tom Warren/The Verge)

Tom Warren / The Verge:
Internal memo: Xbox hires game industry analyst Matthew Ball as chief strategy officer, and names Scott Van Vliet, who led Azure AI infrastructure, as Xbox CTO  —  The second major Xbox leadership changes this month. … Microsoft has recruited game industry analyst Matthew Ball as Xbox chief strategy officer.

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Internal memo: Mark Zuckerberg told employees that he does not expect more company-wide layoffs this year (Katie Paul/Reuters)

Katie Paul / Reuters:
Internal memo: Mark Zuckerberg told employees that he does not expect more company-wide layoffs this year  —  Meta (META.O) CEO Mark Zuckerberg told employees in an internal memo on Wednesday that he does not expect more company-wide layoffs this year, according to a copy of the memo seen by Reuters.

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OpenAI's Chris Lehane says he is pursuing "reverse federalism", lobbying blue states to pass AI safety laws and create a de facto US standard, as DC dithers (Brendan Bordelon/Politico)

Brendan Bordelon / Politico:
OpenAI's Chris Lehane says he is pursuing “reverse federalism”, lobbying blue states to pass AI safety laws and create a de facto US standard, as DC dithers  —  OpenAI's effort comes after nearly a year in which the tech lobby has pressured Congress to block states from passing AI laws …

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Stability AI releases a new family of audio models called Stability Audio 3.0 that is trained on licensed data; the top model can generate six-minute songs (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Stability AI releases a new family of audio models called Stability Audio 3.0 that is trained on licensed data; the top model can generate six-minute songs  —  Stability AI, the company behind Stable Diffusion, is releasing a new family of audio models, called Stability Audio 3.0.

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