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Letter: Starboard has taken a significant stake in observability company Dynatrace and is pushing for changes to boost the stock; DT jumps 7%+ after hours (Lauren Thomas/Wall Street Journal)
Sources: AI inference chip startup Etched is raising funds at a ~$20B valuation and is raising capital at a $10B valuation in a separate round led by Sequoia (Wall Street Journal)
Wall Street Journal : Sources: AI inference chip startup Etched is raising funds at a ~$20B valuation and is raising capital at a $10B valuation in a separate round led by Sequoia …
Sources: Coatue is leading a $3B investment in Databricks that values the data analytics software company at $188B, a 40% increase from its December valuation (Wall Street Journal)
Wall Street Journal : Sources: Coatue is leading a $3B investment in Databricks that values the data analytics software company at $188B, a 40% increase from its December valuation…
A look at ADI Predictstreet's troubled launch, marked by tiny trading volumes, withdrawal bugs, and other issues, as it tried to challenge Kalshi and Polymarket (Wall Street Journal)
Wall Street Journal : A look at ADI Predictstreet's troubled launch, marked by tiny trading volumes, withdrawal bugs, and other issues, as it tried to challenge Kalshi and Polymark…
Sources detail the Trump admin's heavy-handed intervention to aid Intel, including pushing it to expand local capacity and pressuring Apple to use Intel's fabs (Robbie Whelan/Wall Street Journal)
Robbie Whelan / Wall Street Journal : Sources detail the Trump admin's heavy-handed intervention to aid Intel, including pushing it to expand local capacity and pressuring Apple to…
REPORT: World Economic Forum Founder Says He Found Listening Device In Home
'The matter is especially sensitive'…
AI is forcing consulting firms to shift from hourly billing to fixed-fee or outcome-based pricing, a transition proving slow and difficult for the industry (Mark Maurer/Wall Street Journal)
Mark Maurer / Wall Street Journal : AI is forcing consulting firms to shift from hourly billing to fixed-fee or outcome-based pricing, a transition proving slow and difficult for t…
Masayoshi Son questioned Musk's orbital AI data centers, noting electricity is just 7% of costs and the AI race will be won on Earth within a few years (Tim Higgins/Wall Street Journal)
Tim Higgins / Wall Street Journal : Masayoshi Son questioned Musk's orbital AI data centers, noting electricity is just 7% of costs and the AI race will be won on Earth within a fe…
Researchers say Z.ai's GLM-5.2 matches latest US models at finding security bugs, as critics question the US' lax approach in restricting Chinese open models (Wall Street Journal)
Wall Street Journal : Researchers say Z.ai's GLM-5.2 matches latest US models at finding security bugs, as critics question the US' lax approach in restricting Chinese open models …
How the US AI build-out is pushing up prices for electricity, software, and more; in a survey, 81% of economists say it will add to inflation over the next year (Justin Lahart/Wall Street Journal)
Scaled Cognition, a reliability-focused lab that develops the Agentic Pretrained Transformer model, raised a $100M Series A led by Khosla at a $750M valuation (Steven Rosenbush/Wall Street Journal)
Steven Rosenbush / Wall Street Journal : Scaled Cognition, a reliability-focused lab that develops the Agentic Pretrained Transformer model, raised a $100M Series A led by Khosla a…
TRM Labs: Iran-linked wallets, including those tied to Iran's central bank, have moved over $3.84B in transactions through the crypto exchange CoinEx since 2019 (Wall Street Journal)
Wall Street Journal : TRM Labs: Iran-linked wallets, including those tied to Iran's central bank, have moved over $3.84B in transactions through the crypto exchange CoinEx since 20…
How a $45M donation to a group supporting Trump brought Larry Ellison deeper into Trump's circle, helped Oracle's business, and his son's acquisition of WBD (Wall Street Journal)
Wall Street Journal : How a $45M donation to a group supporting Trump brought Larry Ellison deeper into Trump's circle, helped Oracle's business, and his son's acquisition of WBD —…
Investigation: Polymarket is paying creators to make deceptive videos about winning bets, targeting users in the US, where its primary crypto platform is banned (Wall Street Journal)
Wall Street Journal : Investigation: Polymarket is paying creators to make deceptive videos about winning bets, targeting users in the US, where its primary crypto platform is bann…
Nation-state hackers are increasingly using preinstalled software on low-cost home devices to create residential proxy networks and mask cyberattack traffic (Robert McMillan/Wall Street Journal)
Robert McMillan / Wall Street Journal : Nation-state hackers are increasingly using preinstalled software on low-cost home devices to create residential proxy networks and mask cyb…
A profile of Anthropic researcher Nicholas Carlini, who warned about Mythos in March and is now part of an Anthropic team briefing the White House on safeguards (Wall Street Journal)
As "nudify" tools proliferate, unleashing a new form of bullying among kids, parents and schools are struggling to protect young victims from AI deepfakes (Wall Street Journal)
Wall Street Journal : As “nudify” tools proliferate, unleashing a new form of bullying among kids, parents and schools are struggling to protect young victims from AI deepfakes — A…
Sources: Frank founder Charlie Javice, sentenced in September 2025 to 85 months for defrauding JPMorgan Chase, has been seeking a presidential pardon from Trump (Wall Street Journal)
Crypto-data provider Blockworks says it has acquired its rival Messari; source: Blockworks paid more than $10M for Messari, which was valued at $300M in 2022 (Vicky Ge Huang/Wall Street Journal)
Vicky Ge Huang / Wall Street Journal : Crypto-data provider Blockworks says it has acquired its rival Messari; source: Blockworks paid more than $10M for Messari, which was valued …
Sources: BlackRock put in an order to buy at least $5B worth of SpaceX shares; SpaceX received an over $1B request from a single family-office investor (Wall Street Journal)
Wall Street Journal : Sources: BlackRock put in an order to buy at least $5B worth of SpaceX shares; SpaceX received an over $1B request from a single family-office investor — Othe…
Sixteen economists on what AI will mean for the US economy, workers, and workplaces: AI will boost productivity in the near term, but only two expect more jobs (Wall Street Journal)
Wall Street Journal : Sixteen economists on what AI will mean for the US economy, workers, and workplaces: AI will boost productivity in the near term, but only two expect more job…
Israel says it ‘struck military targets’ in Iran after Tehran launched missile attack
Israel Defense Forces said Sunday night its air force “struck military targets belonging to the Iranian terror regime in western and central Iran” after Iran fired missiles toward …
The government has no business in AI
People worry about the ways artificial intelligence will change jobs, education, creativity, and daily lives, according to polling. But they harbor skepticism about the ability of …
Platner insists abuse allegations ‘simply not true’ as scandals continue to pile up
Graham Platner, the Democratic candidate running for the Senate in Maine, denied the latest abuse allegations brought against him by multiple women on Thursday following another bo…
Anthropic calls for top AI labs to weigh slowing or temporarily pausing development, suggesting that self-improving AI systems may soon pose societal risks (Wall Street Journal)
Wall Street Journal : Anthropic calls for top AI labs to weigh slowing or temporarily pausing development, suggesting that self-improving AI systems may soon pose societal risks — …
Locals in Graham Platner’s tiny Maine town think he should drop out of Senate race over ‘horrible’ scandals
Some locals in Sullivan, population 1,200, are downright disgusted.…
Forage, a payments processor that helps retailers and food-delivery companies accept EBT cards, raised a $40M Series B led by Mouro Capital at a $225M valuation (Yuliya Chernova/Wall Street Journal)
Yuliya Chernova / Wall Street Journal : Forage, a payments processor that helps retailers and food-delivery companies accept EBT cards, raised a $40M Series B led by Mouro Capital …
GOP Congressmen React To Dems Publicly Plotting A Supreme Court Power Grab
Democrats are promising major changes to the Supreme Court, and Republican lawmakers say those proposals could fundamentally alter the nation's highest court.…
Anthropic unveils a Services Track for its Claude Partner Network, a ranking based on what companies built with Claude, and releases a Claude Partner Hub portal (Belle Lin/Wall Street Journal)
Google sold $35B in stock in its equity raise this week, up from its planned $30B and taking its total funding to $85B; a source says it contacted 75 investors (Katherine Blunt/Wall Street Journal)
Baidu CFO Henry He says the company expects to spin off and list its chip unit Kunlunxin in Hong Kong and Shanghai in 2026, making it a "neutral player" (Tracy Qu/Wall Street Journal)
AI market research platform AlphaSense raised $350M from Vitruvian, Accenture, and others at a $7.5B valuation, up from $4B in 2024, ahead of a possible IPO (Ben Glickman/Wall Street Journal)
The US data center build-out is falling behind schedule; JP Morgan says 60%+ of data center capacity planned for completion in 2027 isn't yet under construction (Katherine Blunt/Wall Street Journal)
Barcelona-based HR software startup Factorial raised a $150M Series D led by General Catalyst at a $2.5B valuation to expand AI agents and grow in Germany (Mauro Orru/Wall Street Journal)
Mauro Orru / Wall Street Journal : Barcelona-based HR software startup Factorial raised a $150M Series D led by General Catalyst at a $2.5B valuation to expand AI agents and grow i…
GitLab is laying off 350 staff, or 14% of its workforce, as it pivots to become an AI-focused enterprise software development platform, and exits 22 countries (Dean Seal/Wall Street Journal)
Dean Seal / Wall Street Journal : GitLab is laying off 350 staff, or 14% of its workforce, as it pivots to become an AI-focused enterprise software development platform, and exits …
More shoes to drop for Graham Platner?
Maine Democrats’ deeply-troubled U.S. Senate nominee-in-waiting, Graham Platner, is still considered the favorite in his bid to unseat moderate incumbent Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME).…
Top Graham Platner Adviser Threatened To Defame Female Staffer Over Sexting Scandal
'It's no one's fucking business what happened in Graham & Amy's marriage.'…
Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner breaks silence on sexting scandal – with wife glued to his side
Embattled Democratic Maine Senate hopeful Graham Platner has finally addressed the infidelity scandal roiling his campaign after putting his wife forward to answer for him in a wid…
Watch: Platner Weighs in on 'Sexting' Story - It's an Absolute Trainwreck
Okay, I thought Democrats had no conscience when it comes to the latest revelations about the presumptive Democratic candidate for the Senate in Maine, Graham Platner, with them sc…
New Twist in Platner Scandal: Whistleblower Says She Was Threatened by Campaign Strategist
Morris Katz, the supposed wunderkind behind New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani, is also the campaign strategist for Maine Democrat U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner. At present, Katz…
Graham Platner's wife campaign video statement responding to infidelity allegations widely panned by critics
Critics rebuke Amy Gertner's video defending husband Graham Platner's Senate bid, saying it confirms rather than denies infidelity allegations.…
Bill Gates' carefully crafted public image has been eroded by revelations about his ties to Epstein; Gates was recently snubbed from Microsoft's CEO Summit (Emily Glazer/Wall Street Journal)
Emily Glazer / Wall Street Journal : Bill Gates' carefully crafted public image has been eroded by revelations about his ties to Epstein; Gates was recently snubbed from Microsoft'…
As robotaxi companies attempt to scale in the US, they face increasing scrutiny and mounting criticism from drivers, law enforcement, and local governments (Sean McLain/Wall Street Journal)
Sean McLain / Wall Street Journal : As robotaxi companies attempt to scale in the US, they face increasing scrutiny and mounting criticism from drivers, law enforcement, and local …
PitchBook: VC investment in global robotics and physical AI jumped to $26B in 2025 from $4.2B in 2019, and has already topped $23B as of May 20 this year (Kate Clark/Wall Street Journal)
Memory chip makers are leveraging their newfound power to secure long-term agreements, a move set to reshape the industry's business model and stabilize prices (Dan Gallagher/Wall Street Journal)
A profile of OpenAI President Greg Brockman, who is overseeing product in his new role and has become an important ambassador for AI to the Trump administration (Wall Street Journal)
Wall Street Journal : A profile of OpenAI President Greg Brockman, who is overseeing product in his new role and has become an important ambassador for AI to the Trump administrati…
After hitting their annual AI budget in months or seeing their AI bills double or triple due to "tokenmaxxing", some companies are rationing or tracking AI use (Bradley Olson/Wall Street Journal)
Bradley Olson / Wall Street Journal : After hitting their annual AI budget in months or seeing their AI bills double or triple due to “tokenmaxxing”, some companies are rationing o…
The CFTC moves to vacate a $5M settlement with Gemini, reversing a Biden-era enforcement action, following a lobbying campaign by the Winklevoss twins (Wall Street Journal)
Wall Street Journal : The CFTC moves to vacate a $5M settlement with Gemini, reversing a Biden-era enforcement action, following a lobbying campaign by the Winklevoss twins — A $5 …
Trade Desk's market cap fell ~70% from a December 2024 peak as it contends with frustrated agency partners, competition from Google, and a new entrant, Amazon (Patience Haggin/Wall Street Journal)
Patience Haggin / Wall Street Journal : Trade Desk's market cap fell ~70% from a December 2024 peak as it contends with frustrated agency partners, competition from Google, and a n…
Robinhood launches a feature to let users link AI agents, such as Claude or Cursor, to separate, dedicated investment accounts to trade stocks autonomously (Hannah Erin Lang/Wall Street Journal)
The Shanghai Stock Exchange says memory maker CXMT cleared a listing review for the exchange's Nasdaq-like STAR Board, in what could be China's top IPO in 2026 (Wall Street Journal)
Temu owner PDD reports Q1 revenue up 11% YoY to ~$15.7B, below ~$16.2B est., net profit down 15% to ~$1.85B, below ~$3.4B est., amid fierce competition in China (Wall Street Journal)
Wall Street Journal : Temu owner PDD reports Q1 revenue up 11% YoY to ~$15.7B, below ~$16.2B est., net profit down 15% to ~$1.85B, below ~$3.4B est., amid fierce competition in Chi…
A progressive pope takes aim at AI and risks killing its miracles
Pope Leo XIV's new encyclical warns AI threatens humanity and calls for regulation, echoing Sen. Bernie Sanders' push for a federal moratorium.…
Iran: ‘shot down Reaper drone’ after US launched new strikes
The Iranian military said early Tuesday that it shot down an American Reaper drone after the Trump administration launched what it characterized…
Spain says it is blocking Polymarket and Kalshi as a precautionary measure while it probes possible gambling law violations over the next three to four months (Mauro Orru/Wall Street Journal)
The Average Guys Outsmarting Wall Street on Prediction Markets
How prediction market “sharps” have made millions wagering on everything from war to Rotten Tomatoes.…
Wall Street Journal board warns Trump against ‘economic bailout’ in Iran deal
The Wall Street Journal editorial board on Sunday pushed back on the reported terms of a peace deal being negotiated by the Trump administration and Iranian government. The editori…
A growing number of execs are creating AI digital twins to manage tasks; Reid Hoffman says "Reid AI" has delivered 75+ addresses and presentations since 2024 (Joann S. Lublin/Wall Street Journal)
A profile of Meta CTO Andrew "Boz" Bosworth, a top lieutenant of Mark Zuckerberg who is leading the gargantuan effort to transform Meta into an AI-first company (Meghan Bobrowsky/Wall Street Journal)
Meghan Bobrowsky / Wall Street Journal : A profile of Meta CTO Andrew “Boz” Bosworth, a top lieutenant of Mark Zuckerberg who is leading the gargantuan effort to transform Meta int…
Hands-on with a pre-release build of Google Docs Live, an AI-powered voice tool for drafting documents, rolling out this summer to AI Pro and Ultra subscribers (Nicole Nguyen/Wall Street Journal)
Nicole Nguyen / Wall Street Journal : Hands-on with a pre-release build of Google Docs Live, an AI-powered voice tool for drafting documents, rolling out this summer to AI Pro and …