• Anthropic Eyes $50B Round at $900B
  • Multiple preemptive offers at $850-900B range
  • Previously resisted investor bids at $800B
  • TechCrunch
• Genomics Pioneer Craig Venter Dies at 79
  • Died from cancer treatment side effects in San Diego
  • Founder of JCVI and Diploid Genomics Inc.
  • JCVI
• Linux Kernel LPE Flaw Hits Cryptographic Code
  • CVE-2026-31431, dubbed Copy Fail
  • Unprivileged local user can escalate to root
  • The Register
• Microsoft Hikes AI Capex $25B to $190B
  • $25B increase driven by surging component costs
  • Memory and storage prices skyrocketed since late 2025
  • The Register
• Samsung Net Profit Surges Sixfold on AI Chips
  • Q1 net profit up nearly 6x YoY
  • Record earnings in core semiconductor business
  • Wall Street Journal
• Joby Launches Electric Air Taxi at JFK
  • First eVTOL to depart a major NYC airport
  • Production prototype; demos across NYC heliports
  • Flying Magazine

• Why Zig Bans All LLM Contributions
  • No LLMs for issues, PRs, or bug tracker comments
  • One of the strictest anti-AI policies in open source
  • Simon Willison