28 May 2026
Student commencement boos are a sign of wider AI woes
As companies race to weave AI into nearly every industry, some college students are responding with open hostility. At at least three college commencement ceremonies this month, graduates loudly booed invited speakers who praised AI.
28 May 2026
A SF startup is secretly testing robots in Airbnbs, and trashing them, lawsuit claims
The reservation request didn’t seem out of the ordinary: Eight colleagues visiting the Bay Area for work were looking for an Airbnb with reliable Wi-Fi. But at check-in time April 12, a Ring camera captured footage of people moving large, black cases into Sean Donovan’s home in San Francisco. Later that night, the security system was shut off. Two days later, Donovan stopped by the house to take…
28 May 2026
How to Watch Apple's WWDC 2026 Keynote: What to Expect from iOS 27
Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference kicks off on June 8 at Apple Park in Cupertino, California. It's Apple's big annual software event that is geared toward developers, but still gives us an idea of new hardware and software to come.
28 May 2026
Anthropic: San Francisco AI company vaults to a $965 billion valuation with new funding as Claude demand surges
SAN FRANCISCO -- Artificial intelligence company Anthropic said Thursday it raised $65 billion in private funding that will push its valuation to $965 billion, a whopping number that makes the five-year-old maker of the Claude chatbot one of the world's most valuable startups as it careens toward a likely Wall Street debut.
28 May 2026
What’s rarer than a unicorn? Anthropic is almost the first $1 trillion private company in history
Two weeks ago, defense startup Anduril raised a Series H round—$5 billion at a $61 billion valuation, shocking the defense world as the largest defense-tech round in history. On Thursday, Anthropic had its own Series H, but one from a different planet.
28 May 2026
AgriFood Signals: Elbit acquires Bluewhite, more funding for virtual fencing, Anheuser-Busch awards $80k grant
AgFunderNews rounds up the most important fundings, mergers, acquisitions, closures, and industry buzz in agtech and foodtech.
28 May 2026
Why History Will Not Care About The SpaceX IPO Valuation
SpaceX’s Starship V3 lifts off on its test flight, marking a major milestone in the company’s next-generation launch program. Further boosting excitement for future IPO.
28 May 2026
The ‘completely new’ ‘60 Minutes’
"My job is going to be rethinking how we tell stories in a completely new way," Nick Bilton, who was tapped to be the new executive producer of 60 Minutes on Thursday, told me in a brief phone call this afternoon. "There’s enough people inside 60 Minutes that know which buttons to press to make sure it goes on air on a Sunday night."
28 May 2026
The $6 Billion Chinese Startup Trying to Build Hands for Every Robot
If you could buy a humanoid robot for less than a smartphone, would you? Would you buy several robots to handle cooking, cleaning, babysitting, and even your job? This is the pitch being made by Zhou Yong, the 40-year-old founder and chief technology officer of LinkerBot, one of China’s leading manufacturers of dexterous humanoid hands.
