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.

Technology

OpenAI Launches ChatGPT Personal Finance Tools That Connect to Your Bank Accounts

ChatGPT can now connect to 12,000+ banks and brokerages through Plaid. It is OpenAI's biggest trust ask yet — one model with a connected view of your health records and your money.

Technology

Marketing Operating System Nectar Social Raises $30M Series A Led by Menlo

Two ex-Meta sisters raised $30M from Menlo's Anthropic-partnered Anthology Fund to put autonomous agents in charge of brand social — the comment-section reply is becoming a software line, not a headcount line.

Technology

Apple's Standalone Siri App Will Reportedly Offer Auto-Deleting Chats

Apple's revamped Siri will reportedly let users auto-delete conversations after 30 days or a year — a privacy-first pitch for an assistant that is, underneath, powered by Google Gemini.

Technology

Kin Health Raises $9M to Build an AI Notetaker for Patients

The AI-scribe boom built documentation tools for doctors. Kin Health, with $9M led by Maveron, flips the customer — a notetaker the patient owns. The free-but-referral-funded model is the part to watch.

Technology

Judge Dismisses Elon Musk's Lawsuit Against OpenAI as Filed Too Late

A California jury took under two hours to find that Musk knew about OpenAI's for-profit shift by 2021 and sued too late in 2024 — ending a marquee tech grudge match on procedure, not merits.

Culture

Academy Rules AI-Generated Performances and Screenplays Ineligible for Oscars

The Academy will not nominate AI-generated performances or AI-written screenplays — a rule that turns two years of abstract argument about AI in Hollywood into enforceable procedure.

Technology

Coinbase Lays Off 14% of Staff and Restructures Around AI 'Player-Coaches'

Coinbase cut 14% of its staff — but the real story is Brian Armstrong replacing managers with "player-coaches" and betting the company on one-person "AI-native pods."

Technology

EU Delays High-Risk AI Act Rules to December 2027 in Omnibus Agreement

On May 7, EU lawmakers agreed to delay the AI Act's high-risk provisions to December 2027 — a win for industry lobbying and a marker of how the regulatory mood has shifted.

Technology

Google's Screenless Fitbit Air Arrives May 26 at $99

The Fitbit Air has no screen, no notifications, and a $99 price. In a year of AI-everything wearables, Google's most interesting move is a device that asks for almost none of your attention.

Technology

Snap and Perplexity End $400 Million AI Search Partnership

Snap's $400M deal to put Perplexity inside Snapchat is dead. The collapse is a useful signal about how hard AI distribution partnerships actually are — and why Snap is betting on hardware instead.

Technology

Apple Backs Google in Opposing EU Proposal to Open Android to AI Rivals

Apple's May 13 filing with the European Commission opposes EU measures that would force Google to give rival AI services system-level access to Android — a precedent Apple sees as a stress test for what regulators may demand of iOS next.