1. Spurs and Thunder battle inside Paycom Center in Game 2 of the 2026 Western Conference Finals.
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    Games to Watch — Friday, May 22: Wemby and SGA Tip Off Game 3 in San Antonio

    Victor Wembanyama and Shai Gilgeous-Alexander tip off Game 3 in San Antonio — the Spurs' first Conference Final home game since the Duncan era. Two Western finals running simultaneously, both tied 1-1.

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  2. OpenAI Reports $5.7 Billion Q1 Revenue, $1 Billion Ahead of Anthropic
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    OpenAI Reports $5.7 Billion Q1 Revenue, $1 Billion Ahead of Anthropic

    OpenAI generated $5.7 billion in Q1 2026 — about $1 billion more than Anthropic and the company's strongest quarter to date, per The Information. Codex and the enterprise API line drove most of the surge. Anthropic's gap is structural: enterprise demand has outrun the compute it has under contract.

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  3. Alibaba Releases Qwen3.7-Max Agent Model With 69.7 on Terminal-Bench 2.0
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    Alibaba Releases Qwen3.7-Max Agent Model With 69.7 on Terminal-Bench 2.0

    Alibaba's Qwen team released Qwen3.7-Max, a proprietary agent foundation model that posts a 69.7 on Terminal-Bench 2.0-Terminus, sustains 35-hour autonomous runs across 1,000+ tool calls, and is benchmarked to run inside Claude Code, OpenClaw, and Qwen Code.

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  4. Microsoft Is in Talks to Sell Anthropic Its Maia 200 AI Chips
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    Microsoft Is in Talks to Sell Anthropic Its Maia 200 AI Chips

    Six months after Microsoft's $5B investment and Anthropic's $30B Azure commitment, the two companies are negotiating to put Claude workloads on Microsoft's custom Maia 200 chips. The deal would give Anthropic a fourth compute supplier and Microsoft its first major external Maia customer.

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  5. Cursor Hits $3 Billion ARR With SpaceX Holding a $60 Billion Buy Option
    Technology

    Cursor Hits $3 Billion ARR With SpaceX Holding a $60 Billion Buy Option

    Cursor's annualized revenue passed $3 billion in late April with 3,000 customers paying at least $100,000 a year. SpaceX holds a 30-day option to buy the company for $60 billion after it lists June 12 — or pay a $10 billion break fee.

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  6. Tuchel Names England's 26-Man World Cup Squad With Kane as Captain
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    Tuchel Names England's 26-Man World Cup Squad With Kane as Captain

    Thomas Tuchel named his 26-man England squad for the 2026 World Cup on Thursday. Harry Kane captains his third tournament, Cole Palmer is out, and nine players earn their first senior tournament call-ups. The Wembley reveal made the cuts official ten days before FIFA's June 2 deadline.

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  7. Canadiens Beat Hurricanes 6-2 in Game 1 of Eastern Conference Final
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    Canadiens Beat Hurricanes 6-2 in Game 1 of Eastern Conference Final

    Montreal hung four goals on Carolina in the first period, ended Frederik Andersen's playoff shutout streak in seconds, and rode Juraj Slafkovsky's two-goal night and Jakub Dobes' 25 saves to a 6-2 Game 1 win. The Hurricanes' 8-0 playoff start is over.

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  8. The Mandalorian and Grogu Opens Star Wars' First Theatrical Run Since 2019
    Culture

    The Mandalorian and Grogu Opens Star Wars' First Theatrical Run Since 2019

    Lucasfilm's first theatrical Star Wars release since The Rise of Skywalker opens this Memorial Day weekend. Tracking has The Mandalorian and Grogu at $74-100M domestic over four days, with a $165M budget that lets even a modest opening qualify as a reset for the franchise.

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  9. Trump Postpones AI Executive Order Signing Hours Before Tech CEO Summit
    Technology

    Trump Postpones AI Executive Order Signing Hours Before Tech CEO Summit

    Trump pulled the planned AI executive order signing hours before tech CEOs including Dario Amodei were due at the White House, saying he didn't like certain aspects. The draft would have required labs to share new models with the federal government 90 days before release.

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  10. The Daily Roundup: Nigel Sylvester x Air Jordan 4 'Brick After Brick', Knicks Take 2-0 on Cavs, Mandalorian & Grogu Opens, and Google I/O Aftershocks — May 22, 2026
    Daily Roundup

    The Daily Roundup: Nigel Sylvester x Air Jordan 4 'Brick After Brick', Knicks Take 2-0 on Cavs, Mandalorian & Grogu Opens, and Google I/O Aftershocks — May 22, 2026

    Nigel Sylvester's Air Jordan 4 Brick After Brick ($230) drops today. Knicks lead Cavs 2-0 in the ECF, The Mandalorian & Grogu opens nationwide, and Google I/O aftershocks continue to ripple through tech.

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  11. Stephen Colbert Ends Late Show With Paul McCartney Singing "Hello, Goodbye"
    Culture

    Stephen Colbert Ends Late Show With Paul McCartney Singing "Hello, Goodbye"

    Colbert's finale ran 17 minutes long, closed with Paul McCartney performing "Hello, Goodbye," and pulled in Barack Obama, David Letterman, and the full Strike Force Five for one last broadcast. The 33-year CBS franchise is now off the air, with the slot returning to local affiliates.

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  12. Knicks Beat Cavaliers 109-93 in Game 2 to Take 2-0 ECF Lead
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    Knicks Beat Cavaliers 109-93 in Game 2 to Take 2-0 ECF Lead

    Josh Hart scored a playoff career-high 26 points and the Knicks closed out Game 2 with an 18-0 third-quarter run, beating Cleveland 109-93 at Madison Square Garden. New York heads to Cleveland up 2-0, two wins from its first Finals trip since 1999.

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