• Artemis II Astronauts Return From Historic Moon Mission
  • Four-person crew completed 695,000-mile round trip
  • Orion capsule Integrity splashed down off San Diego at 5:07pm PT
  • TechCrunch, Wired
• Top AI Researchers Flee US for China in Waves
  • Better pay and quality of life cited as primary drivers
  • Restrictive US immigration system accelerating the talent drain
  • Techmeme
• Anthropic Business Adoption Surges; Top Rival Stays Flat
  • 30.6% of US firms paid for Anthropic tools in March, up from 24.4%
  • Closest competitor held nearly flat near 35% month-over-month
  • Techmeme
• Webloc Ad System Secretly Tracks 500M Mobile Devices
  • Constantly updated real-time location stream from up to 500M devices
  • Ad-based infrastructure used to surveil location at global scale
  • Techmeme
• Supply Chain Attacks Poison Open Source Tools at Scale
  • Two March attacks hit Trivy and Axios; secrets stolen from 10K+ orgs
  • Full blast radius unknown for months; major AI vendor warned Mac users to update
  • The Register, 9to5Mac
• BlueHammer Zero-Day Turns Windows Defender Against Users
  • Exploits Defender's own update process to gain SYSTEM-level access
  • Affects every Windows machine running the built-in antivirus
  • Hacking Passion

• Claude Code Dominates HumanX; China Leads Open Models
  • AI coding tools dominated executive conversation at HumanX conference
  • Multiple execs flagged China's growing lead in open-weight model development
  • Techmeme
• Anthropic Asks Church Leaders: Is Claude a Child of God?
  • March meetings sought input on Claude's moral and spiritual development
  • Discussion included whether Claude could be considered 'a child of God'
  • Techmeme
• Bank of England Flags Mythos Risk to UK Financial Sector
  • BoE plans discussions with banks on the impact of the Mythos model
  • UK regulators join US peers in raising alarms over systemic Mythos risks
  • Bloomberg

• OpenAI Acquires Cirrus Labs; Cirrus CI Shuts June 1
  • Cirrus CI cloud platform shutting down Monday, June 1, 2026
  • Founder Fedor Korotkov launched Cirrus Labs in 2017
  • Cirrus Labs, Hacker News
• Saudi Alat Fires CEO; $100B PIF Fund Ditches Chip Plans
  • CEO Amit Midha removed from PIF-backed electronics manufacturing fund
  • Fund now scrapping planned investments in chip production
  • Techmeme
• Japan Pumps $4B More Into Rapidus; State Bet Hits $16.3B
  • New tranche bankrolls Rapidus's chip manufacturing work for Fujitsu
  • Total state investment and fees now reaches $16.3 billion
  • Techmeme

• Researchers Hit 447 TB/cm² Atomic Memory at Zero Energy
  • Non-volatile memory at atomic scale on fluorographane substrate
  • Targets the AI-era memory wall and structural NAND flash supply crisis
  • Zenodo, Hacker News
• Netherlands Greenlights Tesla Supervised FSD; First in Europe
  • Dutch regulator RDW approved after over 18 months of testing
  • First European country to officially greenlight supervised Full Self-Driving
  • The Verge, Reuters

• How UC Berkeley Broke Every Top AI Agent Benchmark
  • Team exploited structural flaws across all major agent eval benchmarks
  • Calls for trustworthy environments to replace gaming-prone leaderboards
  • Berkeley RDI, Hacker News
• The Tokenmaxxing Tide May Already Be Turning
  • Analysis signals token-maximization AI strategies may be peaking
  • The Information