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A look at the nasty fight between Anthropic-backed super PAC Public First and OpenAI-backed Leading the Future to sway midterms, especially Democratic primaries (@teddyschleifer / New York Times) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

Anthropic cuts its list of unauthorized secondary market sellers from eight to four after the initial notice caused panic and pushback from investors (@yazhous / Bloomberg) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

How Schneider Electric is using AI in call centers and manufacturing to complement employees' work and boost productivity, rather than to replace them (@patcohennyt / New York Times) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

Sources detail AI companies' engagement with US FERC as the energy regulator readies a June proposal to speed up data center connections to regional power grids (Politico) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

Memory chip makers are leveraging their newfound power to secure long-term agreements, a move set to reshape the industry's business model and stabilize prices (@djtgallagher / Wall Street Journal) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

A profile of OpenAI President Greg Brockman, who is overseeing product in his new role and has become an important ambassador for AI to the Trump administration (Wall Street Journal) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

BlackBerry's stock is up more than 160% over the past three months, as the company's QNX division positions its automotive software as an OS for robots (@ljkawa / Sherwood News) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

Filing shows Shanghai-based MiniMax has begun preparations for a Chinese IPO; the AI company listed in Hong Kong in January and says its ARR has reached $300M (Bloomberg) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

Google's keyword ad practices face renewed criticism after the Delhi High Court ruled against Google in a trademark dispute involving Indian company Hindware (@jagmeets13 / TechCrunch) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

The DOD's $9.7B contract with Dell has raised eyebrows as a potential payback for Michael and Susan Dell's $6.25B donation to 25M US children's Trump Accounts (CNBC) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

Miami-based Canals, which uses AI to help distributors automate workflows across sales, customer service, and more, raised a $35M Series A led by Base10 (Chris Metinko / Axios) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

How massive bonuses for Samsung's employees in the memory division have sparked debate over how companies and governments should share profits from the AI boom (Bloomberg) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

Filing: a Kentucky school district secured ~$27M in settlements from Meta, Snap, TikTok, and YouTube in a social media harms lawsuit; Meta paid the most, at $9M (@dhnovak / Reuters) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

Internal memo: Meta plans to start testing an AI pendant in 2027, release new AI glasses next month, start a "Wearables for Work" unit for enterprises, and more (@jyoti_mann1 / The Information) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

Picogrid, which is building a hardware and software integration layer for military systems, raised a $45M Series A led by Bessemer (@barratt_dewey / Tectonic Defense) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

SentinelOne's stock closes down 8% after the company announced plans to lay off 8% of its workforce and forecasted Q2 and FY revenue guidance below estimates (@samantha_subin / CNBC) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

Microsoft faces backlash after a blog post implied criminal referral and legal action against security researcher Nightmare Eclipse over public bug disclosures (@lorenzofb / TechCrunch) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

Dell stock closed up 32.81%, its best day ever, after reporting its fastest pace of revenue growth for any period since returning to the public market in 2018 (@cristenhaddad / CNBC) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

Hands-on with Gemini Spark beta rolling out to AI Ultra subs: planned a birthday party from emails and calendar, but called a live-in boyfriend a "close friend" (@543___roru / Wired) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

US Space Force says SpaceX won a $4.16B contract to build a space-based tracking network as part of President Trump's Golden Dome defensive shield (@sana_pashankar / Bloomberg) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)