Micron reports earnings, revenue beat and issues strong forecast

Micron reported earnings and revenue on Wednesday that exceeded analysts’ estimates.

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Sam Altman comes out swinging at The New York Times

From the moment OpenAI CEO Sam Altman stepped onstage, it was clear this was not going to be a normal interview. Altman and his chief operating officer, Brad Lightcap, stood awkwardly toward the back of the stage at a jam-packed San Francisco venue that typically hosts jazz concerts. Hundreds of people filled steep theatre-style seating […]

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Kalshi closes $185M round as rival Polymarket reportedly seeks $200M

Investors are pouring big bucks into these two rival prediction markets.

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Venice Braces for Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez’s Wedding

Some Venetians are concerned about the impact the three-day event—which includes 80 private jets and more than 30 private water taxis—will have on their city.

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Bitcoin rises, NYSE battles for Trump ETF, and crypto may be coming to mortgage next

Bitcoin’s price rose on Wednesday as markets stayed in rally mode, the Fed chair talked stablecoin, and a key housing regulator mortgages may consider crypto.

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Air quality tests around xAI’s Memphis data center raise questions

A legal group is questioning why a key pollutant was omitted from air quality tests near xAI’s data center

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Creative Commons debuts CC signals, a framework for an open AI ecosystem

The idea is meant to create a balance between the open nature of the internet and the demand for ever more data to fuel AI.

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AI Agents Are Getting Better at Writing Code—and Hacking It as Well

One of the best bug-hunters in the world is an AI tool called Xbow, just one of many signs of the coming age of cybersecurity automation.

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Nvidia CEO says robotics is chipmaker’s biggest opportunity after AI

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said at the company’s annual shareholders meeting on Wednesday that robotics is a rapidly growing business.

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Meta is adding AI-powered summaries to WhatsApp

Meta announced on Wednesday that it’s adding an AI-powered summaries feature to WhatsApp. The optional new feature uses Meta AI to summarize unread messages in a chat. This summary would only be visible to you, not others in your chat, the company notes. The feature builds on the AI technology that Meta released in April, […]

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