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Boom: Boom Aerospace, which is building a supersonic plane, announces Superpower, a 42MW natural gas turbine using Boom’s supersonic engine, to power AI data centers  —  It started, as many things do these days, by scrolling on X.  —  I… Read More »Boom Aerospace, which is building a supersonic plane, announces Superpower, a 42MW natural gas turbine using Boom’s supersonic engine, to power AI data centers (Boom)

Wired: Denise Dresser, Slack CEO since 2023, is stepping down to join OpenAI as the company’s chief revenue officer  —  A memo obtained by WIRED confirms Denise Dresser’s departure from Slack.  She is now headed to OpenAI.  —  Slack CEO… Read More »Denise Dresser, Slack CEO since 2023, is stepping down to join OpenAI as the company’s chief revenue officer (Wired)

Menlo Ventures: Menlo Ventures: business spending on generative AI hit $37B in 2025, up from $11.5B in 2024; Anthropic’s share of enterprise LLM spend grew from 24% to 40% YoY  —  AI Boom vs. Bubble  —  For all the fears… Read More »Menlo Ventures: business spending on generative AI hit $37B in 2025, up from $11.5B in 2024; Anthropic’s share of enterprise LLM spend grew from 24% to 40% YoY (Menlo Ventures)

Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch: Google Photos launches new video editing tools, including specialized templates with preset music and text overlays, as well as a redesigned video editor  —  Google Photos announced on Tuesday the launch of new features aimed at… Read More »Google Photos launches new video editing tools, including specialized templates with preset music and text overlays, as well as a redesigned video editor (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch)

Maxwell Zeff / Wired: Sources: OpenAI has become more guarded about publishing research on AI’s economic harms, prompting at least two economic research staffers to leave  —  Four sources close to the situation claim OpenAI has become hesitant to publish… Read More »Sources: OpenAI has become more guarded about publishing research on AI’s economic harms, prompting at least two economic research staffers to leave (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)

Anthropic: Anthropic donates the Model Context Protocol to the Agentic AI Foundation and says there are now more than 10,000 active public MCP servers  —  Today, we’re donating the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF), a… Read More »Anthropic donates the Model Context Protocol to the Agentic AI Foundation and says there are now more than 10,000 active public MCP servers (Anthropic)

Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: Spanish police arrest a suspected 19-year-old hacker in Barcelona over allegedly stealing and attempting to sell 64M records from breaches at nine companies  —  The National Police in Spain have arrested a suspected 19-year-old hacker in… Read More »Spanish police arrest a suspected 19-year-old hacker in Barcelona over allegedly stealing and attempting to sell 64M records from breaches at nine companies (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer)

Will Knight / Wired: Anthropic, OpenAI, Block, Google, AWS, Microsoft, and others launch the Agentic AI Foundation to build open-source agent standards under the Linux Foundation  —  American AI giants are backing a new effort to establish open standards for… Read More »Anthropic, OpenAI, Block, Google, AWS, Microsoft, and others launch the Agentic AI Foundation to build open-source agent standards under the Linux Foundation (Will Knight/Wired)

Ben Weiss / Fortune: Circle launches USDCx, a privacy-focused version of its USDC stablecoin on the Aleo blockchain, to give users “banking-level privacy” with a “compliance record”  —  Blockchains are public databases.  That’s an immediate roadblock for large institutions like… Read More »Circle launches USDCx, a privacy-focused version of its USDC stablecoin on the Aleo blockchain, to give users “banking-level privacy” with a “compliance record” (Ben Weiss/Fortune)

Mathieu Rosemain / Reuters: An EssilorLuxottica independent board director says Meta now holds an “at least 3%” stake in the Ray-Ban maker, and possibly up to 5%, confirming media reports  —  Facebook-owner Meta (META.O) holds at least a 3% stake… Read More »An EssilorLuxottica independent board director says Meta now holds an “at least 3%” stake in the Ray-Ban maker, and possibly up to 5%, confirming media reports (Mathieu Rosemain/Reuters)