This week's picks include a karaoke mic, open-back headphones, and a wireless page turner.

Melia Russell / Business Insider:
Wordsmith, whose AI tools help in-house lawyers draft contracts, handle legal questions, and more, raised a $70M Series B, bringing its total funding to $100M — The biggest promise of artificial intelligence in law is not that lawyers will work faster. It's that companies will need fewer of them on the outside.

Lakshmi Varanasi / Business Insider:
X says it is cracking down on large accounts that have been gaming its revenue-sharing program by “programmatically reuploading content from smaller accounts” — X is introducing new strategies to rein in its copycat economy. — Elon Musk's social media platform is now cracking …

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For comparison, Bing and Kagi responses

Sources

• The Verge; - Tech Crunch; - Mac Rumors; - Business Insider.

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For comparison, Bing and Kagi responses

Sources

• The Verge; - Tech Crunch; - Mac Rumors; - Business Insider.

This week's picks include a transit bag, power adapters, and headhones.

Ashley Stewart / Business Insider:
Memo: Yusuf Mehdi, a 35-year Microsoft veteran who has been its commercial chief marketing officer since 2023, will leave the company after the next fiscal year — Yusuf Mehdi, a 35-year Microsoft veteran who has been its commercial chief marketing officer since 2023, will leave the company …

Ashley Stewart / Business Insider:
Sources and documents detail Satya Nadella's effort to revamp Microsoft's senior leadership, creating a startup-style operating model to compete in the AI race — CEO Satya Nadella just dismantled the senior leadership structure that has run Microsoft for decades.

Charles Rollet / Business Insider:
Sundar Pichai announced at Google I/O that Gemini 3.5 Pro will launch next month; attendees groaned at the model coming out later than they expected — - Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced that Gemini 3.5 Pro will launch next month. — Google I/O 2026 attendees groaned at the model coming out later than they'd expected.

Lauren Edmonds / Business Insider:
Eric Schmidt faced loud boos during his University of Arizona commencement speech while discussing “rational” fears over the impact of AI and automation on jobs — - Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt gave the University of Arizona's commencement address this year.

Brent D. Griffiths / Business Insider:
A look at a new class of jobs created by AI companies, including AI storytellers or “evangelists”, forward deployed engineers, AI chiefs, and AI gig workers — - AI is changing workplaces, including within the very companies that make frontier AI models.

And How the Most Honest Commentator on the Night Still Missed the Point

This week's picks are a tiny flash drive, iPad case, and toiletry bag.

While E Ink technology has a few quirks, the InkPoster Tela delivers a digital art experience that feels far more elegant than a typical smart display.

Business Insider:
Musk v. Altman: Altman faced an intense cross-examination from Musk's attorney, who asked “are you completely trustworthy?”; Altman replied “I believe so” — - Sam Altman faced intense, at times awkward, cross-examination from Elon Musk's attorney.

I found that the vacuum packing cube created noticeably more space in my carry-on, but it also introduced a few inconveniences.

This week's picks include smart speakers, a smart fan, and E Ink Polaroid.

Floyd Mayweather Jr. has voluntarily dismissed his $100 million defamation lawsuit against Business Insider and reporter Daniel Geiger, according to a stipulation of voluntary dismissal filed in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York on May 4, 2026. Both sides agreed to bear their own fees and costs, and all…

Hugh Langley / Business Insider:
Doc and sources: Google is testing an agent in the Gemini app, internally named Remy, that can integrate with Google services to take actions on a user's behalf — - Google is working on an AI agent codenamed “Remy,” according to an internal document. — Remy is described as a …

While U.S. consumers are already navigating the household budget impacts of the Iran war at the gas pumps, they could also be facing a year or more of steadily increasing grocery costs if the Middle East conflict drags on.

That was among the findings of a Purdue University analysis that predicts the broad energy shock precipitated by a sustained war could add three to six percentage points to…

Business Insider:
Sources: Meta HR chief Janelle Gale told employees she can't rule out further layoffs; Zuckerberg said AI automation is not the driving factor behind them — - Meta previously announced it will cut 10% of its staff next month. — Meta's HR chief told staff in a meeting that she can't promise further layoffs won't happen.

Ein Gespräch mit Katharina Nocun über Kontrollverlust, Remix-Kultur und die strategische Nutzung von Verschwörungserzählungen durch autoritäre Akteure.

To SANS or not to SANS

Ikke noe deler det norske (operative) cybersikkerhetsmiljøet mer enn spørsmålet «Er SANS-kursene verdt prisen?». Mange sverger til dem, enkelte organisasjoner krever dem fra sine leverandører, arbeidsgivere legger dem alltid i stillingsannonsene, mens andre mener at verdien har sunket og prisene har gått opp. Uansett har SANS vært ensbetydende med cybersikkerhet i veldig…

SpaceX ยังไม่ซื้อ Cursor ทันที เพราะรอไอพีโอให้จบก่อน - Microsoft ก็เคยสนใจซื้อ Cursor

Body

หลังจาก SpaceX ซึ่งเป็นเจ้าของ xAI ประกาศแผนซื้อกิจการ Cursor แพลตฟอร์มช่วยเขียนโค้ดด้วย AI ด้วยมูลค่า 6 หมื่นล้านดอลลาร์ ภายใต้ข้อตกลงว่าจะปิดดีลซื้อภายในปีนี้ หรืออาจจ่ายเงินเป็นความร่วมมือมูลค่า 1 หมื่นล้านดอลลาร์แทน…

Grace Kay / Business Insider:
Sources: xAI held talks in recent weeks with Mistral and Cursor about a potential three-way partnership; Mistral co-founder Devendra Chaplot joined xAI in March — - Elon Musk's xAI recently announced a partnership with AI coding startup Cursor. — The two companies have also explored …

Hugh Langley / Business Insider:
Google says 75% of new code created inside the company is now generated by AI and reviewed by human engineers, up from 50% last fall — - Three-quarters of new code at Google is being generated by AI, the company said. — The number has been steadily increasing as the company pushes staff to adopt AI tools.

Business Insider:
Core Automation, co-founded by ex-OpenAI VP Jerry Tworek, launches to build “the world's most automated AI lab” with talent from OpenAI, Anthropic, and DeepMind — - A new AI startup, Core Automation, has entered the chat. — Started by an ex-OpenAI researcher, it has …

What The Technological Republic says about software, state power, and the future of defense tech.

Palantir’s recent X post is worth reading carefully, not because it is subtle, but because it is unusually explicit. In 22 compressed points, the company distilled the argument of The Technological Republic into a public statement of ideology: Silicon Valley owes a debt to the nation, software now…

Grace Kay / Business Insider:
Sources: xAI plans to let Cursor train Composer 2.5 AI coding model using tens of thousands of xAI's GPUs, a new strategy for xAI in a competitive AI landscape — - Elon Musk's AI company xAI plans to allow Cursor to use some of its compute power for training.

This week's picks include checked luggage, presence sensor, and a streaming box.