NEWS
- Vibe.co acquired by Walmart for $1.4B — announced day one of Cannes Lions
- Meta reassigns 30–50% of engineers to AI data labeling, eyes billions in additional fundraising
- Zuckerberg directs Meta to build a prediction markets app called Arena to rival Polymarket and Kalshi
- Meta glasses hit 7M units sold as Kylie Jenner partnership launches — Snap bets $100M on Robert Downey Jr.
- SpaceX prices $25B bond sale shortly after $86B IPO, triggering bubble territory warnings from Allianz
- Anthropic's Mythos models shut down for two weeks after White House AI security intervention
- OpenAI restricts GPT 5.6 access to 20 pre-approved companies under White House security review
- Apple raises prices up to $200 on Macs, iPads, and Apple TV amid global memory shortage
- OpenAI launches Jalapeno chip with Broadcom and secures 40% of global DRAM wafer output through 2029
- Character AI's 2021 seed deck surfaces in lawsuit, revealing Noam Shazeer's early vision and GPT-3 origins
- Patrick Collison and tech leaders put $500M into Intercept to eliminate the flu and all respiratory viruses
- Apple's Vision Pro and Smart Glasses chief departs for OpenAI's hardware division
- Figma launches Motion Design at Config 2026, enabling AI-generated animation in seconds