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The US Commerce Department plans to award $2B in grants to nine quantum computing companies and will take equity stakes; IBM is set to get $1B of the package (www.wsj.com)
2026-5-21 IBM Equity Quantum

Bluesky and Clemson researchers detail a novel Russian influence campaign that hijacked legitimate, influential accounts to spread pro-Kremlin propaganda (www.nytimes.com)
2026-5-21 Russia

Higgsfield AI premieres Hell Grind, a 95-minute fully AI-generated film, at Cannes and says it took two weeks and cost $500K to make, of which $400K was on AI (www.wsj.com)
2026-5-21 AI

Taiwan is seeking to detain three people for forging documents to export Nvidia-powered Super Micro servers to China, Hong Kong, and Macau, breaking US rules (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-21 China Hong Kong Taiwan Nvidia

GitHub links repo breach to TanStack npm supply-chain attack (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-21 GitHub

Microsoft warns of new Defender zero-days exploited in attacks (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-21 Microsoft

SpaceX S-1: Valor Equity Partners founder Antonio Gracias, a longtime Elon Musk ally, controls a 7.3% stake in SpaceX, the second-largest holder after Musk (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-21 Elon Musk Equity SpaceX

Analysis: Samsung could distribute ~$26.6B to chip employees, or ~$340K each for its 78,000 staff, as a bonus in early 2027 as part of a last-minute union deal (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-21 Samsung

Jeff Bezos dismisses AI job fears, defends billionaires against “vilification”, proposes eliminating income taxes for low earners, and praises President Trump (www.cnbc.com)
2026-5-21 Trump Tax AI Jeff Bezos

Sources: Manus' co-founders are in talks to raise $1B+ to buy back the Chinese-founded company, after Beijing ordered Meta to unwind its $2B acquisition (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-21 China

AMD pledges to invest $10B+ in Taiwan's chip industry to expand partnerships and advanced chip packaging for AI, and begins making its next-gen Venice chips (www.wsj.com)
2026-5-21 Taiwan AI AMD

NASA Expects Chinese Crewed Mission Around the Moon In 2027 (science.slashdot.org)
2026-5-21 China NASA

Paris-based Pivot, which develops AI tools for procurement and financial workflows, raised a $40M Series B co-led by Forestay Capital and Notion Capital (tech.eu)
2026-5-21 AI Paris

A study conducted in the Phoenix metro area finds that waste heat from data centers can raise air temperatures in downwind neighborhoods by as much as 4°F (techxplore.com)
2026-5-21

Bengaluru-based Scapia, which offers travel-focused co-branded credit cards and an app, raised $63M led by GC, a source says at a $500M+ post-money valuation (techcrunch.com)
2026-5-21 Credit Card

X resolved a three-year dispute with Australia's eSafety regulator after a court upheld a fine against the company for inadequate disclosures on combating CSAM (www.reuters.com)
2026-5-21 Australia

Commure, which offers AI, revenue cycle management, and workflow automation tools for healthcare providers, raised $70M led by GC at a $7B post-money valuation (www.fiercehealthcare.com)
2026-5-21 AI

Colossal Biosciences Is Growing Chickens In a 3D-Printed Artificial Eggshell (science.slashdot.org)
2026-5-21

Ofcom says Meta, Snap, and Roblox will adopt stronger anti-grooming measures; TikTok and YouTube failed to commit to any significant changes (www.ofcom.org.uk)
2026-5-21 YouTube

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 (www.engadget.com)
2026-5-21 AI AMD

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 (venturebeat.com)
2026-5-21

10 of the World's Most Hated Buildings (and Why People Despise Them) (listverse.com)
2026-5-21

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 (www.cnbc.com)
2026-5-21 China AI Nvidia

Filing: SpaceX set aside $530M for potential litigation losses, including lawsuits involving Grok's “Spicy” mode, which it described as a “heightened risk” (www.wired.com)
2026-5-21 SpaceX

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 (www.pcmag.com)
2026-5-21 SpaceX

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 (www.politico.com)
2026-5-21 AI Pentagon

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 (techcrunch.com)
2026-5-21 Mobile SpaceX

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 (techcrunch.com)
2026-5-21 AI SpaceX

Intuit To Lay Off Over 3,000 Employees To Refocus On AI (slashdot.org)
2026-5-21 AI

Google Publishes Exploit Code Threatening Millions of Chromium Users (it.slashdot.org)
2026-5-21 Google

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