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Daily RoundupThe Daily Roundup: Nike Air Griffey Max 1 'Freshwater,' Two NBA Game 6s, Drake's 'Iceman,' and the Microsoft–OpenAI Reset — May 15, 2026
Nike's Air Griffey Max 1 'Freshwater' resurfaces for the cross-trainer's 30th anniversary as the most loaded Friday of the spring arrives — Drake's Iceman, two NBA closeout games, and the Microsoft–OpenAI partnership reset all land today.
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TechnologySnap 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.
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TechnologyApple 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.
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Daily RoundupThe Daily Roundup: Kith West Hollywood Reopens With NB 99X Pack, Spurs–Wolves Game 6, Cannes Honors Peter Jackson, Anduril Raises $5B at $61B — May 14, 2026
Ronnie Fieg reopens Kith West Hollywood with the Made-in-USA New Balance 99X Pack — 990v3, 990v4, 992, and 993, with the 990v3 making its first-ever collab appearance — as Victor Wembanyama's Spurs enter Game 6 up 3–2.
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TechnologyGoogle Previews Android 17 'Gemini Intelligence' Ahead of Apple's WWDC
Google previewed Android 17 with a "Gemini Intelligence" branding on May 12, four weeks before Apple's WWDC keynote. The agentic features Google demoed are the gap Apple has to close on June 8.
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TechnologyAnthropic Nears $300M+ Acquisition of Developer Tools Startup Stainless
Anthropic is in advanced talks to buy SDK-generation startup Stainless for at least $300 million — a deal that would take out a key developer-tools supplier to OpenAI and Google in the same stroke.
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Daily RoundupThe Daily Roundup: NOCTA "Alabaster" Drops, Cavs-Pistons Game 5, Final Destination's $51M Bow, and the AI Layoff Wave — May 13, 2026
NOCTA's tonal yellow 'Alabaster' capsule — shot in Rio as a World Cup prelude — goes live before Drake's Iceman album hits Friday, while Cloudflare, Coinbase, and Upwork each cite AI in cutting a combined 2,000+ jobs this week.
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TechnologyGoogle Disrupts Hacker Group Using AI to Develop Zero-Day Exploit and Bypass 2FA
Google Threat Intelligence Group says it has "high confidence" a criminal actor used an AI model to find and weaponize a zero-day in a popular open-source admin tool — and was prepared to launch a mass exploitation event before Google intervened.
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Daily RoundupThe Daily Roundup: Bluetile Monarch SB Dunk Hits SNKRS, Wolves-Spurs Game 5, Michael Crosses $500M, and Helsing Eyes $18B - May 12, 2026
Bluetile's immigrant-story SB Dunk goes wide on SNKRS today as Wembanyama returns from suspension for Game 5 — the winner faces Oklahoma City in the West Finals.
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Daily RoundupThe Daily Roundup: Thunder Sweep Watch, Cannes Opens With Pan's Labyrinth, AJ3 'World's Best Dad' Looms, and AI Layoffs Hit the Tech Middle - May 11, 2026
Oklahoma City arrives at Game 4 having won every playoff game by at least 18 points, Cannes kicks off with Pan's Labyrinth twenty years on, and the AJ3 'World's Best Dad' lands this Saturday.
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TechnologyAnthropic Rents Entire 300MW, 220,000-GPU Colossus 1 Data Center From SpaceX
Anthropic signed a deal on May 6 to take over the full 300MW, 220,000-GPU capacity of SpaceX's Colossus 1 data center in Memphis. Musk owns the rival lab. He took the check anyway. Claude Code rate limits already doubled.
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TechnologyQualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon Confirms AI-Wearable Chip Deals With OpenAI and Meta
Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon told Fortune the company is supplying chips to "pretty much all" the major AI players building post-smartphone devices, including OpenAI and Meta. The model wars get the headlines. The chip wars under them are already settled.