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Cursor releases Composer 2.5, saying it's better at sustained work on long-running tasks and follows complex instructions more reliably; it's built on Kimi K2.5 (cursor.com)
2026-5-19

Sources: competition for Google's TPUs among its employees and researchers intensified as it prioritizes cloud customers and flagship AI products over research (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-19 Google AI

NextEra's $67B deal to buy Dominion, the largest utility merger in US history, signals a new era of utility consolidation to accommodate AI-driven power demand (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-19 AI

Sony is hiking the starting price of one-month and three-month PlayStation Plus subscriptions in “select regions”, blaming “ongoing market conditions” (www.theverge.com)
2026-5-19 Sony

Nasdaq-listed Bitcoin Depot, North America's largest bitcoin ATM operator, files for bankruptcy, blaming “increasingly stringent compliance obligations” (www.coindesk.com)
2026-5-19 U.S. Bitcoin

Internal chats: in March, xAI offered employees $420 in exchange for completed tax filings as training data for Grok, but the bonuses haven't been paid out (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-19 Tax

The US Is Betting On AI To Catch Insider Trading In Prediction Markets (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-5-19 AI

Amazon's Alexa+ now produces AI-generated “podcasts” on various topics in the US, featuring chats between two AI “co-hosts”, using content from media outlets (variety.com)
2026-5-19 Amazon AI

WHO Declares Ebola Outbreak a Global Health Emergency (science.slashdot.org)
2026-5-19 Ebola

Arkham: Iran's largest crypto exchange, Nobitex, processed $2.3B+ since 2023 via Tron and BNB Chain, including $23M+ since the Iran war started in February (www.reuters.com)
2026-5-19 Iran

Grafana says stolen GitHub token let hackers steal codebase (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-18 GitHub

A look at Apple's ongoing strategy of repurposing binned chips for cheaper devices; sources: Apple ordered more A18 Pros for the MacBook Neo amid its popularity (www.wsj.com)
2026-5-18 Apple MacBook

Strategy acquired 24,869 bitcoin for ~$2.01B at an average price of $80,985 between May 11 and May 17, taking its holding to 843,738 BTC, or 4% of total supply (www.theblock.co)
2026-5-18 Bitcoin

Decart, which offers real-time generative video and GPU optimization tech, raised $300M at a ~$4B valuation, up from $3.1B after raising $153M in August 2025 (www.wsj.com)
2026-5-18

Iranian media: Iran launches “Hormuz Safe”, a Bitcoin-backed insurance service for shipping companies transiting the Strait of Hormuz; ~1,500 ships are trapped (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-18 Bitcoin Iran Insurance

The Vatican says Anthropic co-founder Christopher Olah will join Pope Leo on May 25 to launch the pope's first encyclical, setting out his views on the AI age (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-18 AI

Steven Soderbergh Defends AI Use in His New Documentary about John Lennon (entertainment.slashdot.org)
2026-5-18 AI

Sources: internal competition among Google staff and researchers for TPUs intensified as it prioritizes cloud customers and flagship AI products over research (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-18 Google AI

Dust, which helps enterprises design and deploy specialized AI agents that work alongside humans, raised a $40M Series B led by Abstract and Sequoia (www.axios.com)
2026-5-18 AI

Microsoft testing adjustable taskbar, Start menu in Windows 11 (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-18 Microsoft

Lifetime access to 90+ cybersecurity courses is $50 right now (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-18

Steve Bannon and 60+ Trump allies sign a Humans First-led letter urging Trump to mandate government testing and approval of powerful AI models before release (www.axios.com)
2026-5-18 Trump AI Bannon

How gambling companies like FanDuel and DraftKings, as well as Meta and a16z's founders, are pouring millions into state-level election campaigns via super PACs (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-18

Eric Schmidt faced loud boos during his University of Arizona commencement speech while discussing “rational” fears over the impact of AI and automation on jobs (www.businessinsider.com)
2026-5-18 AI

A college senior at Stanford describes how AI changed classes: cheating using AI “has become omnipresent” with students “fudging just about everything” (www.nytimes.com)
2026-5-18 AI

Baidu reports Q1 revenue down 1.1% YoY to ~$4.7B, above ~$4.5B est., and net profit down 55% YoY to ~$506.6M, above ~$462.5M est., amid a slow AI payoff (www.wsj.com)
2026-5-18 AI

Polymarket and Kalshi continue to operate in India despite a government advisory on April 25, directed at VPN providers, labeling prediction markets “illegal” (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-18 India VPN

How Amazon, which took a measured tone to AI, went from an AI also-ran to a real contender, thanks to $200B in spending, custom AI chips, and savvy deals (www.wsj.com)
2026-5-18 Amazon AI

After EV maker Fisker's collapse, ~4,000 car owners formed a nonprofit to keep their cars working by reverse-engineering software and building open-source tools (electrek.co)
2026-5-18

In his weekly Linux kernel post, Linus Torvalds says “AI tools are great” but the flood of duplicate AI bug reports has made the security list “unmanageable” (www.theregister.com)
2026-5-18 Linux AI

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