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Config, which is building a data layer for robotics foundation models, raised a $27M seed at a $200M+ valuation led by Samsung Venture Investment (techcrunch.com)
2026-5-13 Samsung Robot

Sam Altman Testifies That Elon Musk Wanted Control of OpenAI (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-5-13 Elon Musk

Metis TechBio, a biotech company using AI to deliver and formulate drugs, surged as much as 185% in its Hong Kong market debut after raising ~$270M in its IPO (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-13 Hong Kong IPO AI Biotech

Paymentology, which provides real-time card and payment processing technology for banks and fintechs, raised $175M co-led by Apis Partners and Aspirity Partners (tech.eu)
2026-5-13

Sources: Sam Altman recently discussed launching an AI compute company that is majority-owned by OpenAI, similar to Stargate's original data center initiative (sources.news)
2026-5-13 AI

Nvidia says that Jensen Huang is joining President Trump on his China trip; source: the president asked Huang to join after seeing media coverage of his absence (www.cnbc.com)
2026-5-13 Trump China Nvidia

Waymo recalls ~3,800 robotaxis in the US to fix software issues that may cause them to drive onto flooded roads, after some were seen stalled on flooded streets (www.cnbc.com)
2026-5-13

Sources: Jensen Huang was left out of President Trump's China trip to avoid unwanted scrutiny and awkward conversations about the sale of Nvidia chips to China (www.semafor.com)
2026-5-13 Trump China Nvidia

The US' Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is testing ACCESS, an outcome-based payment model for AI-driven medical care, with 150 tech companies (techcrunch.com)
2026-5-13 AI Medicare

Internal emails: xAI added 19 gas turbines to Colossus 2 over the past two months; xAI is fighting a lawsuit alleging Clean Air Act violations at the site (www.wired.com)
2026-5-13

Havoc, which offers autonomous boats and software to control thousands of vessels at once, raised a $100M Series A led by Cobalt and Boardman Bay (www.forbes.com)
2026-5-13

Princeton faculty votes to require proctoring in all in-person exams starting this summer, reversing an 1893 policy amid concerns about AI-fueled cheating (www.wsj.com)
2026-5-13 AI

Sources: Anthropic is in talks to raise between $30B and $50B in a funding round that would value it at up to $950B (www.nytimes.com)
2026-5-13

Vancouver-based quantum computing startup Photonic raised an additional $70M after a $130M raise announced in January, giving it a $2B post-money valuation (betakit.com)
2026-5-13 Startup Quantum

Google DeepMind details a Gemini-powered mouse pointer that understands what it is pointing at, allowing users to perform tasks without using text-heavy prompts (deepmind.google)
2026-5-13 Google

South Korea Floats 'Citizen Dividend' Using AI Profits (slashdot.org)
2026-5-13 Korea AI

US govt seeks Instructure testimony on massive Canvas cyberattack (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-13

Foxconn says some of its North American factories suffered a cyberattack in recent days; ransomware group Nitrogen claims it stole 8TB of data (www.wired.com)
2026-5-13 U.S.

Source: Anthropic is in advanced talks to acquire New York-based Stainless, which helps developers generate SDKs from APIs, for at least $300M (www.theinformation.com)
2026-5-13 New York

Instructure Pays Canvas Hackers To Delete Students' Stolen Data (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-5-13

Sources: Anthropic is in early talks to raise at least $30B at a $900B+ valuation; the round is expected to close as soon as the end of this month (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-13

Meta schedules its annual Connect event for September 23-24 and says the event will focus on “the latest in VR, wearables, metaverse, and AI” (www.roadtovr.com)
2026-5-13 VR AI

Qualcomm closed down 11.46% on Tuesday as chip stocks pull back from record AI-driven rally; Intel closed down 6.82%, Sandisk dropped 6%, and Micron 3.61% (www.cnbc.com)
2026-5-13 Intel AI

Samsung and its South Korean labor union fail to reach a pay deal; the union has said workers will strike for 18 days from May 21 if its demands are not met (www.reuters.com)
2026-5-13 Korea Samsung

Amazon Employees Are 'Tokenmaxxing' Due To Pressure To Use AI Tools (slashdot.org)
2026-5-13 Amazon AI

Meta offers to give rival AI chatbots free access to WhatsApp for a month while it discusses commitments with EU antitrust regulators to address their concerns (www.reuters.com)
2026-5-13 AI chatbot WhatsApp

UK fines water supplier $1.3M for exposing data of 664k customers (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-13

Google Announces Its Chromebook Successor: the Googlebook (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-5-13 Google

CME Group and Silicon Data announce a futures market for computing capacity, with contracts based on daily GPU benchmarks for on-demand rental rates (www.cnbc.com)
2026-5-13

Sources: Apple plans to make the Camera app fully customizable in iOS 27, along with noticeable design changes across Siri, Safari, Weather, and more (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-13 IOS Apple

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