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Micron jumps after after leading investment bank triples price target

Analyst Timothy Arcuri wrote that AI-driven demand gives the memory-chip maker more visibility and a smoother earnings path than past cyclical swings

US is giving away plutonium to speed up nuclear power deployment

Oklo and four other companies have been selected to convert excess weapons-grade material into reactor fuel. It's a signal that nuclear bottlenecks are real

Google has killed the Display Network as advertisers know it

The company merged its oldest ad product into Demand Gen, forcing millions of marketers to relearn how display advertising works

Taiwan's supply chain posts another beat as AI demand holds the line

Memory manufacturers nearly doubled expectations in April. Servers kept pace. The composite index now runs 9% above consensus after five months of outperformance

If you aren't paying for the product, you are the product. Here's the true cost of giving your data awaytime

A white paper from the Web3 Foundation estimates the average UK internet user produces $1,604 in commercial value annually, rising to $189,405 across a 60-year "digital lifetime".

Mercer survey finds 99% of CEOs expect AI-driven layoffs

Young professionals aged 22 to 27 face the highest displacement risk

OpenAI's Altman says AI unlikely to trigger a jobs apocalypse

In a virtual interview he said the rapid AI progress has not eliminated as many white-collar jobs as he once feared and that the human element in many roles limits how far automation can go.

Pony AI CTO says simulations alone cannot win the robotaxi race

Pony AI founder and Chief Technology Officer Dr. Tiancheng Lou argued that simulation, compute and static datasets cannot substitute for massive real-world driving experience when building commercially scalable Level 4 robotaxis.

Zero-Day Clock finds AI cut exploit lead time from a year to a day

Hackers are exploiting security flaws faster than defenders can patch them. In 2027, the average window will be just one hour.

Ferrari's electric car debut backfires as stock plunges on design criticism

The Luce arrived after five years of development and Jony Ive's involvement. The market reaction was immediate: designers hate it.

Uber warns higher AI token use hasn’t yet translated into better consumer products

COO Andrew Macdonald said the company has not observed a clear connection between heavier AI token consumption and shipping useful consumer features, signalling a pullback from indiscriminate AI spending.

AI getting smarter: It solved a maths problem that stumped humans for decades

OpenAI's model found a counterexample to a longstanding geometric conjecture. The real story is how it did it.

China EV exports are booming. So, where does this leave Detroit?

April saw 278,000 Chinese EVs shipped abroad, a 40% jump year on year. Brazil, Europe and Latin America are absorbing capacity that US cannot match.

Reddit has competition as Meta launches app that allows Facebook users to post under a nickname

The standalone app surfaces Facebook Groups as a Reddit-like discussion space with AI tools, and users sign in with their Facebook account to import groups, profile and activity.

Gulf countries’ AI push hangs by fragile thread - literally

Saudi Arabia and the UAE have spent billions building AI data centers, but their connectivity depends on a handful of undersea cables that run through volatile chokepoints.

Anthropic in talks to run models on Microsoft’s Maya 200 chips

The AI inference chips as part of an effort to diversify the infrastructure that runs its models.

Trump order sparks a US deep-sea mining rush as regulators fast-track permits

At least nine companies are pursuing U.S. seabed mining access after President Donald Trump’s executive order, while NOAA and the Interior Department move to speed permitting and schedule lease sales.

SpaceX files for IPO pitching $28.5 trillion AI opportunity

The Elon Musk‑led company lodged an S‑1 with the SEC to list on Nasdaq under ticker SPCX while reframing its future around AI infrastructure and a vast total addressable market.

Google targets research sector with Gemini for Science

Google unveiled Gemini for Science at I/O, packaging several LLM-based research systems and opening access to researchers in a move that signals a shift in emphasis toward agentic, generalist AI for scientific work.

SpaceX's IPO documents reveal the company is betting everything on Elon Musk

The company values itself at $1 trillion and claims the largest addressable market in history. Investors are essentially buying faith in Musk's ability to deliver