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Forget ‘TechnoKing’: Elon Musk will really be king at SpaceX Sean O'Kane 12:35 PM PDT · May 21, 2026 Elon Musk has incredible sway over the companies he leads. And while he already calls himself “TechnoKing” at Tesla, he is a real ruler over SpaceX, wielding an unprecedented level of control...

President Donald Trump has delayed signing an executive order that would allow the government to evaluate AI models before they’re released. Trump claimed he is not happy with the language of the order: “I didn’t like certain aspects of it,” he told the White House press pool. “We’re leading...

Hark raises $700M Series A for its secretive ‘universal’ AI interface Tim Fernholz 7:00 AM PDT · May 21, 2026 What will it take to launch the first must-have AI consumer product? Maybe $700 million. At least according to Hark, an AI lab building models and hardware for an AI personal assistant...

This young startup is taking on a fragrance industry that hasn’t changed in almost half a century Dominic-Madori Davis 9:00 AM PDT · May 21, 2026 Fragrance tech company Patina says it has raised $2 million in funding investors, including Betaworks and True Ventures. The company focuses on...

Spotify takes on Google’s NotebookLM with its new app Ivan Mehta 8:27 AM PDT · May 21, 2026 One of the common features for companies to build in the age of AI is to connect services like email, calendar, documents, and notes to create a daily brief in text or audio format. Spotify is also giving...

The SpaceX IPO filing is filled with AI bets, Starship dreams, and Elon Musk at the center Sean O'Kane Kirsten Korosec 4:03 PM PDT · May 20, 2026 SpaceX, the aerospace company founded by Elon Musk 24 years ago, has finally made its IPO filing public . And once the company goes public, Musk will...

Jensen Huang says he’s found a ‘brand new’ $200B market for Nvidia Julie Bort 5:28 PM PDT · May 20, 2026 Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang is, perhaps, one of the greatest corporate hype men of all time when it comes to his company. He may even surpass Salesforce’s Marc Benioff when it comes...

Nvidia posts another record quarter, reveals $43B of holdings in startups Russell Brandom 3:03 PM PDT · May 20, 2026 Nvidia announced another record revenue figure after market close on Wednesday, reporting financial results for the quarter ending April 26. Over those three months, the company...

Anthropic has told its investors that it will more than double revenue to around $10.9 billion in its second quarter, and deliver an operating profit for the first time, the Wall Street Journal reports . That’s a big milestone and fast quarter-over-quarter growth that would put it in an...

xAI burned $6.4B last year — SpaceX’s IPO filing shows why the spending is far from over Rebecca Bellan 3:26 PM PDT · May 20, 2026 Elon Musk’s xAI lost $6.4 billion from operations on just $3.2 billion in revenue in 2025, according to SpaceX’s IPO filings . And the losses are poised to grow...

Jeff Bezos, you were so close to making a good point Amanda Silberling 10:10 AM PDT · May 20, 2026 On Wednesday morning, Jeff Bezos said in an interview on CNBC that Americans earning in the bottom half of incomes should not pay taxes. “Why is a nurse in Queens who makes $75,000 a year paying...

Intuit to lay off over 3,000 employees to refocus on AI Ram Iyer 8:14 AM PDT · May 20, 2026 Enterprise software giant Intuit is letting 17% of its staff go, or about 3,000 people, as it seeks to divert resources toward baking AI into its products, Reuters reported , citing an internal memo sent...

A day after Elon Musk lost his lawsuit that threatened OpenAI’s structure, leadership, and finances, the AI giant is ready to move forward with its initial public offering, sources told the Wall Street Journal . OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman reportedly hopes that his company will be ready...

Customers say Trump Mobile is leaking their personal information Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai 8:28 AM PDT · May 20, 2026 President Trump’s namesake cell phone provider and smartphone maker Trump Mobile is leaking customer data, including mailing addresses and email addresses, according to...

NanoClaw creator turns down $20M buyout offer, raises $12M seed instead Julie Bort 7:00 AM PDT · May 20, 2026 NanoCo , the company behind security-focused OpenClaw alternative NanoClaw, has raised an oversubscribed $12 million seed round following a viral launch, its founders tell TechCrunch...

Google updates its Gemini app to take on ChatGPT and Claude at IO 2026 Aisha Malik 10:45 AM PDT · May 19, 2026 At its annual Google I/O event on Tuesday , Google announced that the Gemini app is getting a series of new updates, including a “Daily Brief” feature, a redesigned interface, access to...

Elon Musk said Sam Altman ‘stole’ a non-profit — but the trial showed he had similar aims Tim Fernholz 1:11 PM PDT · May 19, 2026 The jury’s speedy decision to reject Elon Musk’s lawsuit against the other founders of OpenAI and Microsoft confirmed what we saw in the courtroom: Musk’s case was a...

With Gemini 3.5 Flash, Google bets its next AI wave on agents, not chatbots Rebecca Bellan 10:51 AM PDT · May 19, 2026 Google launched on Tuesday Gemini 3.5 Flash, a new AI model that the company says is its strongest yet for coding and autonomous AI agents. The model, which was introduced at...

OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic’s pre-training team Rebecca Bellan Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai 8:43 AM PDT · May 19, 2026 Andrej Karpathy, the AI researcher who co-founded and formerly worked at OpenAI and previously led AI at Tesla, has joined Anthropic. “I’ve joined...

Google updates its Gemini app to take on ChatGPT and Claude Aisha Malik 10:45 AM PDT · May 19, 2026 At its annual Google I/O event on Tuesday, Google announced that the Gemini app is getting a series of new updates, including a “Daily Brief” feature, a redesigned interface, access to a new AI...