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THE DAILY BRIEF

SATURDAY, MAY 30, 2026

■ TOP STORY

OPENAI SAYS IT HAS BRIEFED THE WHITE HOUSE ON ITS NEW…

Maria Curi / Axios: OpenAI says it has briefed the White House on its new biodefense program, which uses GPT-Rosalind to help develop biodefense and pandemic preparedness tools —…

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MICROSOFT UNDER FIRE FOR THREATENING SECURITY RESEARCHER…

A public spat between Microsoft and an independent security researcher reopens a long-running debate over who is responsible for securing software.

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ANTHROPIC REACHES VALUATION OF $965BN, BEATING OPENAI TO…

Claude’s parent company’s $65bn in latest funding round underscores vast sums of money still flowing into industry Anthropic, the AI firm behind the Claude chatbot, announced on…

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LENOVO'S STOCK IS UP 105% IN MAY, MARKING ITS BIGGEST…

Bloomberg: Lenovo's stock is up 105% in May, marking its biggest monthly gain since 1999, after earnings showed AI-related revenue helped offset rising memory costs — Lenovo Group…

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XCENA, WHOSE MX1 CHIP PERFORMS DATA ORCHESTRATION AND KV…

Kate Park / TechCrunch: Xcena, whose MX1 chip performs data orchestration and KV cache management directly within memory modules, raised a $135M Series B at a $570M valuation —…

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