Google's $94 billion SpaceX payday could reshape space internet while chipmaker STMicro admits it completely missed the AI boom. Plus Akamai's CEO reveals how to build massive AI infrastructure without burning down small towns in the process.
The PPTX graveyard is full of tools that promised "AI-generated slides" and delivered glorified screenshots — this one outputs actual editable PowerPoint objects.
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While everyone worried AI would kill Google's search business, people are searching more than ever — and now paying Google to search better. Google Search queries hit an all-time high in Q1 2026, with 19% revenue growth driven by AI-enhanced search experiences
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The biggest risk to Bitcoin in May 2026 isn't regulation or a hack, it's the calendar. Jerome Powell is expected to exit the Federal Reserve, with Kevin Warsh positioned to step in, creating a leadership transition at the most powerful central bank on Earth.
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While American tech workers brace for agent-driven layoffs, China just made them illegal. A Chinese court ruled a tech firm illegally fired a worker who refused a demotion after his job was automated by AI
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The Signal brings you the shakeup nobody saw coming. Michael Saylor finally stops his legendary Bitcoin buying spree, BlackRock's ETF bleeds nearly two billion dollars, and Musk wages war on his own AI creation. Travis Wright breaks down what happens when crypto's bigge
The world's most famous Bitcoin maximalist just hit pause on the buy button. Michael Saylor's MicroStrategy has paused Bitcoin purchases despite earlier signals of a major buy, citing macro uncertainty and watching the $68K price threshold.
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The men building the most powerful technology on Earth are fighting in court like children who won't share a toy. Elon Musk is suing Sam Altman to force OpenAI back to nonprofit status, remove Altman from the board, and claw back $150 billion in "ill-gotten gains"
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Institutions are back, but the money is moving sideways. BlackRock's IBIT captured $1.7B in April inflows as trade war tensions eased, signaling renewed institutional confidence in Bitcoin exposure
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The winner of this month's programming challenge isn't from San Francisco, and you can download it. Kimi K2.6, an open-weights model from China's MoonShot AI, outperformed Claude, GPT-5.5, and Gemini in a recent coding benchmark
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The slop is coming from inside the house — and Spotify's paying fractions of pennies for it. AI-generated music is flooding streaming platforms, evolving from experimental albums in 2018-2019 to mass-produced content farms today
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The paradox of deepfake detection: by the time you build a dataset comprehensive enough to catch today's fakes, tomorrow's generators have already learned to hide different artifacts.
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Generative AI is moving beyond chat into intimate confessions, payment systems, and automated stock trading. Today we cover ChatGPT becoming a digital therapist, Claude Pro's billing glitches hitting credit cards, and BNB Chain's new platform letting you trade billions
The chatbot became the confidant, the diary entry went digital, and suddenly private thoughts had an audit trail. Lindsey Hall ended her relationship after reading her boyfriend's ChatGPT history, where he confessed doubts about their relationship to the AI, including "I'm just not proud of her."
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The AI subscription you signed up for is charging you for gift cards you never bought—and the payment processor says it's your problem.
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BNB Chain just became a 24/5 stock market, and most people still think crypto is just for speculation. xStocksFi launched on BNB Chain with 50+ tokenized U.S. equities trading 24/5, bypassing traditional market hours and settlement delays
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Y Combinator just told founders to get comfortable with five-figure monthly API bills because burning tokens is cheaper than hiring humans.
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The invisible border around AI talent just became very visible, and it's redrawing the global map of who builds the agent economy. China blocked Meta's $2 billion acquisition of Manus AI, highlighting new regulatory barriers for US tech firms expanding globally amid escalating tech rivalry
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The engineers who once stopped Google from touching defense work just learned their veto power expired. Google signed Pentagon AI contracts over 600 employee objections, reversing its 2018 retreat from Project Maven when 4,000+ employees forced the company to walk away
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Travis Wright breaks down how Wall Street's wealthiest just gained access to crypto, China's AI firms going public while OpenAI stays private, and Solana overtaking Ethereum in real world assets with $2.5 billion locked in.
Wall Street just told its wealth clients to buy crypto, and two of the world's largest banks are racing to build the infrastructure for them.
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