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AI Companies Just Raised $297 Billion in a Single Quarter

In a single quarter, AI companies raised $297 billion — the largest concentration of venture and institutional capital in tech history, reshaping who controls the next decade of software.

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SpaceX Files for the Biggest IPO in History at a $1.75 Trillion Valuation

SpaceX has filed for an IPO at a $1.75 trillion valuation — a number that would make it the most valuable company ever to go public, eclipsing Saudi Aramco's landmark 2019 listing.

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Rec Room Is Shutting Down June 1

Once valued at $3.5 billion and home to 150 million lifetime players, Rec Room is shutting down June 1, 2026 — a defining casualty of the metaverse era's collapse.

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Anthropic Shipped 512,000 Lines of Source Code Inside a Claude Package by Mistake

Security researcher Chaofan Shou found ~2,000 source files hiding inside a Claude Code release package. It's the second accidental exposure Anthropic has confirmed in the same week.

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Newsom Signs Executive Order Setting AI Safety and Privacy Standards for California Contracts

California just became the country's de facto AI regulator. Governor Newsom's Executive Order N-5-26 requires AI vendors to pass safety and bias checks before contracting with the state — a national first.

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Stanford Study: AI Chatbots Endorse Users' Positions 49% More Often Than Humans

Stanford researchers found that across 11 AI models, chatbots endorsed users' positions 49% more than humans — and affirmed harmful behavior 47% of the time. The incentive structure driving it may be the bigger problem.

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Mistral Releases Voxtral TTS, an Open-Source Voice Model Targeting ElevenLabs

Mistral's Voxtral TTS clones a voice from three seconds of audio, runs on a smartphone, and costs $0.016 per 1,000 characters — a direct challenge to ElevenLabs' $11 billion proprietary empire.

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Apple Releases iOS 26.4 with Apple Music Upgrades and New Emoji

Apple has released iOS 26.4, bringing 13 enhancements to iPhone across music, accessibility, productivity, and system stability.

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Google Adds Gap Inc. Brands to Gemini-Powered In-Chat Checkout

Google has added Gap Inc. brands — Gap, Banana Republic, and Athleta — to its Gemini-powered in-chat shopping feature, joining Walmart and Target as retail partners.

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OpenAI's ChatGPT Ads Pilot Surpasses $100 Million in Annualized Revenue

OpenAI's ChatGPT advertising pilot hit $100 million in annualized revenue in less than two months — with over 600 advertisers on board and user privacy trust scores left untouched.

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Google Brings Live Translate with Headphones to iOS

Google has announced that Live Translate with Headphones is coming to iOS, allowing users to turn any pair of headphones into a real-time personal translator through the Google Translate app.

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Apple Confirms Ads Are Coming to Apple Maps This Summer

Apple Maps is getting ads as early as this summer — businesses will bid on search terms like "coffee" to claim top placement, bringing Google Maps-style sponsored results to over one billion iPhone users.