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Gavin Newsom signs an EO mandating state agencies work with the AI industry and others to study subsidies for companies that don't replace workers with AI (www.nytimes.com)
2026-5-22 AI

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

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

Meta begins laying off 8,000 employees, or 10% of its staff, in a push to become an AI-first company; another 7,000 workers will be reassigned to AI initiatives (www.nytimes.com)
2026-5-20 AI

Google overhauls its search box, letting users input longer queries, including with photos and videos, and automate searches with Gemini 3.5 Flash-based agents (www.nytimes.com)
2026-5-20 Google

Three precedent-setting court rulings in China have said that employers replacing workers with AI is voluntary cost-cutting that does not justify mass layoffs (www.nytimes.com)
2026-5-20 China AI Layoffs

Meta begins laying off 8,000 employees, or 10% of staff, in a push to become an AI-first company; another 7,000 workers will be reassigned to AI initiatives (www.nytimes.com)
2026-5-20 AI

Google overhauls its search box, letting users ask longer queries, upload photos and videos, and use Gemini 3.5 Flash-powered agents to automate searches (www.nytimes.com)
2026-5-20 Google

OpenAI's win against Elon Musk leaves it free to continue its IPO plans, but it still faces many issues, like rising competition and dozens of other lawsuits (www.nytimes.com)
2026-5-19 IPO Elon Musk

Elon Musk's OpenAI loss is set to speed up the AI juggernaut amid rising opposition; the case offered a rare glimpse into tech's workings, ending with a whimper (www.nytimes.com)
2026-5-19 AI Elon Musk

Internal memo: Meta is reassigning 7,000 workers to four new units focused on building AI tools, as it prepares to lay off 10% of its workforce on May 20 (www.nytimes.com)
2026-5-19 AI

Internal memo: Meta is reassigning 7,000 workers to four new units focused on building AI tools, two days before it is set to lay off 10% of its workforce (www.nytimes.com)
2026-5-19 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

Security researcher Peter G. Neumann, who criticized lax industry attitudes toward computer security and digital privacy, died on May 17 at the age of 93 (www.nytimes.com)
2026-5-18

Sources: OpenAI acquired Weights.gg, which offered AI tools to create clones of people's voices, earlier this year; PitchBook: Weights.gg had raised roughly $4M (www.nytimes.com)
2026-5-16 AI

Nvidia's future in China remains unclear after the Trump-Xi Summit; Trump says China “chose not to” buy Nvidia chips as “they want to try to develop their own” (www.nytimes.com)
2026-5-15 Trump China Nvidia

Analysis: 25% of the 13,000 US federal lobbyists are involved in AI issues, up from 11% in 2023; OpenAI plans to host the opening of its DC office on Wednesday (www.nytimes.com)
2026-5-13 AI

Analysis: a16z is the largest known donor in the current US midterm election cycle, spending $115M+ so far on pro-crypto, pro-AI, or Republican Super PACs (www.nytimes.com)
2026-5-13 AI Republican

Analysis: a16z is the largest known donor in the current US midterm election cycle, spending $115M+ so far on pro-crypto, pro-AI, and Republican Super PACs (www.nytimes.com)
2026-5-13 AI Republican

How eBay CEO Jamie Iannone transformed the company, refocusing on power buyers in categories with especially high resale demand like trading cards and sneakers (www.nytimes.com)
2026-5-13 eBay

Richard Socher's Recursive Superintelligence raised $650M+ from GV, Greycroft, Nvidia, AMD, and others at a $4B valuation to pursue “recursive self-improvement” (www.nytimes.com)
2026-5-13 Nvidia AMD

Anduril raised $5B led by Thrive Capital and a16z at a $61B valuation, up from $30.5B in June 2025, taking its total funding to $6.82B, and may IPO in 2027 (www.nytimes.com)
2026-5-13 IPO

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

YouTube is shifting its creator monetization strategy by acting as a matchmaker between creators and sponsors, as Netflix and TikTok increasingly woo creators (www.nytimes.com)
2026-5-12 YouTube Netflix

Sources: Anthropic officials refused a Chinese think tank's request to change its stance and allow Beijing to access Mythos at a meeting in Singapore last month (www.nytimes.com)
2026-5-12 China Singapore

Amp, which aims to buy excess computing capacity from data center operators to sell to startups, universities, and more, raised $1.3B from a16z and others (www.nytimes.com)
2026-5-12 Startup

Instructure reached a deal with hackers who breached its Canvas platform to return stolen data and destroy copies, without disclosing what it gave in exchange (www.nytimes.com)
2026-5-12

Google's TIG reports the first confirmed instance of “prominent cybercrime threat actors” using AI to find and weaponize a zero-day in a web-based admin tool (www.nytimes.com)
2026-5-11 Google AI

Corporate lawyers say AI-transcribed meeting notes may not have attorney-client privilege, making otherwise protected conversations discoverable in lawsuits (www.nytimes.com)
2026-5-11 AI

Kalshi raised $1B led by Coatue at a $22B valuation, its third round in seven months after raising $1B and $300M+, and hits $178B in annualized trading volume (www.nytimes.com)
2026-5-7

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