Amazon said its Amazon Leo unit has completed 14 missions and launched more than 375 satellites. The company started scaling its satellite deployment in April and is not the third-largest constellation in orbit.
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Meta launched a $20 month Meta One Premium subscription for its glasses. Free users (nevermind that you paid for the creepy Ray Bans in the first place) will have limits on conversations. I'm sure this'll go over well.
"No subscription is required to use AI glasses. All AI glasses owners get free monthly usage for certain features. If you reach your free monthly usage limit, you can upgrade to a paid Meta One Premium plan, or wait until your free limit refreshes each calendar month.
If you reach your paid subscription usage limit, it will refresh at the start of the next billing cycle.
Conversation focus is currently available for free for 3 hours per month, or for 15 hours per month for Meta One Premium subscribers."
Here's what's next: If you don't pay up, Meta will limit your ability to see out of the glasses. Eyesight is now under a consumption plan.
Yay, Anthropic's latest models are back after a lot of thrash with the US government. The biggest takeaway from Anthropic's statement and my recap is this:
The same jailbreak that sidelined Fable 5. Anthropic said Amazon researchers found a way to bypass Fable 5's safeguards to identify software vulnerabilities. Anthropic said its testing found that other models had the same ability including Claude Haiku 4.5, Sonnet 4.6, Opus 4.6, Opus 4.7, Opus 4.8, GPT-5.4, GPT-5.5 and Kimi K2.7.
Schneider Electric acquired Cognite for $3.1 billion in a deal that'll beef up its industrial AI efforts. The plan is to combine Cognite with Scheider Electric's AVEVA industrial software unit.
Genesys said it will acquire Pinkfish, an agentic orchestration workflow company. Genesys said the acquisition will expand its Genesys Cloud AI efforts with MCP tool integration and workflow automation. Terms of the acquisition weren't disclosed.
California said state agencies will use Anthropic's Claude across operations at a 50% discount with free workforce training. Local government in California will also have access to Claude.
CoreWeave launched CoreWeave ARIA, an AI research and iteration agent designed to continuously improve models and AI agents. ARIA is designed to accelerate the AI research loop by analyzing thousands of runs and tens of thousands of metrics in mnutes.
In the big picture, CoreWeave ARIA is another data point indicating that the AI neocloud is building out its software game.
Bain said the first five months of 2026 has led to a 41% surge in deal value to $2.4 trillion. That's the second highest tally ever.
In its 2026 M&A Midyear Report, Bain said these massive deals create a "winners paradox" where companies need to pair an M&A agenda with AI transformation programs. In other words, executives need to integrate two businesses and manage an AI transformation at the same time.
Key stats on M&A:
- Overall valuations held flat at 11.6 times enterprise value/EBITDA.
- Venture capital deal surged due to OpenAI's $122 billion funding round.
- Megadeals drove a 77% year-over-year gain across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) through May 31.
Comcast is breaking up with plans to spin off NBCUniversal and Sky within a year. Mike Cavanaugh will be CEO of NBC Universal and Comcast former CFO Michael Angelakis will become CEO of Comcast. CEO Brian Roberts will "continue to be actively involved in the leadership of Comcast and NBCUniversal."
Here's a deep dive on the all-CPU Chinese LineShine supercomputer.
SK Hynix said it will accelerate its Yongin Semiconductor Cluster for completion in 2033 instead of 2045 to address AI memory demand. The company will expand its facilities in South Korea and invest more than $714 billion based on today's currency rates.
The effort is part of a Samsung, SK Hynix and South Korea plan to create an AI memory giant via four new memory chip making plants. The combined investment for South Korean companies is $1 trillion.
SK Hynix said:
"Originally scheduled for completion in 2045, the Yongin Semiconductor Cluster now aims to complete its fourth fab by 2033, bringing its construction schedule forward by 12 years. With phased investments in manufacturing facilities and production equipment, total investment in the Yongin Cluster is expected to reach KRW 600 trillion.
In addition, SK hynix will expand its production base in Cheongju(through an investment of KRW 100 trillion), while investing KRW 400 trillion in the Southwestern Region to develop a new semiconductor cluster, as the region is expected to provide the large-scale site and supporting infrastructure—including reliable electricity and water supply—required for the company’s next manufacturing hub."
Although the increased capacity is nice, if current demand holds you have years of memory price increases ahead.
The New York Times is reporting that OpenAI may put off its IPO because it may not be able to land a $1 trillion valuation. The tech industry goes crazy. Apparently, SpaceX's IPO, which popped and dropped and is holding above the IPO price for now, worries OpenAI. Keep in mind that SpaceX's math is ridiculous even if it is halved from the IPO price.
Simply put, OpenAI isn't ready for its confessional with investors, sure isn't ready for quarterly reports and sure isn't ready to encounter non-believers on Wall Street. I'm bummed though, I really wanted to financial gymnastics on paper (pixels).

