The FBI is planning to purchase nationwide access to automated license plate reader (ALPR) data, with procurement records showing the agency intends to pay millions for near real-time access to…
Microsoft consumer marketing chief Yusuf Mehdi said in a Thursday internal memo that after 35 years he’ll leave next year, starting May 2026, but stay in his role through 2027 overseeing Windows, consumer Copilot, and Microsoft 365; Satya Nadella and Takeshi Numoto are leading a transition, with no successor named.
Microsoft’s late‑May 2026 Office update lets users move the floating Copilot button to the ribbon via right‑click “Dynamic Action Button,” addressing complaints it blocked Excel cells (a dock option had made it smaller). Katie Kivett said engagement is up, but users want more control; Microsoft also cut “unnecessary” Copilot buttons from Windows 11 about a month earlier.
Palantir held a company-wide hack week this spring focused on building new user-auditing and oversight tools for its software used by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Immigration and…
Stellantis, the automaker behind Jeep, Ram, Chrysler, and Dodge, announced in May 2026 a commercial partnership with U.K.-based self-driving startup Wayve to bring hands-free driving technology to…
Scammers have exploited a loophole in Microsoft’s email systems for several months by sending spam and phishing links from msonlineservicesteam@microsoftonline.com, a real address used for account alerts and 2FA codes, a TechCrunch report (May 2026) says. The Spamhaus Project confirmed the abuse and notified Microsoft; Microsoft acknowledged the inquiry but hadn’t confirmed whether it was stopped.
GitHub disclosed in May 2026 that a malicious VS Code extension enabled TeamPCP to breach its systems. TeamPCP claims ~4,000 internal repos; GitHub confirmed 3,800, all containing GitHub code. Socket calls it a long-running supply-chain spree: 20 waves, 500+ poisoned packages.
France is accelerating a government-wide shift away from US technology platforms, replacing tools like Zoom, Microsoft Teams, and Microsoft Office with French and open-source alternatives. The push,…
An SEC filing says Anthropic will pay SpaceX $1.25B per month (~$15B yearly) for GPU access to Colossus and Colossus II in Tennessee and Mississippi, after reduced fees for May–June 2026. The deal runs through May 2029 as SpaceX targets ~$75B at a $1.75T valuation in its IPO S-1.
NanoCo landed a $12M oversubscribed seed led by Valley Capital Partners after turning down a roughly $20M acquisition offer for containerized AI agent tool NanoClaw. Built as a security-first alternative to OpenClaw, NanoClaw runs sandboxed inside a container and went from first code to term sheet in under six weeks, boosted by open-source endorsements from Andrej Karpathy and Singapore’s Foreign Minister.
Stable Audio 3.0 (May 2026) boosts music generation to 6 min 20 sec—more than double Stable Audio 2.0—across 459M (small/SFX) through 2.7B (large). Small SFX/Small/Medium are open weights; large is API/paid self-hosting and needs an enterprise license for $1M+ revenue.
In a May 2026 memo, Intuit CEO Sasan Goodarzi says it will cut ~3,000 jobs (~17% of its 18,200 employees as of July 2025) to reduce complexity and refocus on AI. TurboTax, QuickBooks and Credit Karma are in scope.
