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1. Blackstone REIT Raises $1.75 Billion in IPO to Buy Data Centers

   Bloomberg · 2026-05-13

   Blackstone Digital Infrastructure Trust Inc. raised $1.75 billion in a US initial public offering, as investors’ appetite for artificial intelligence infrastructure shows no sign

2. AI Bond Binge Overwhelms Wall Street, Pushing Alphabet Overseas

   Bloomberg · 2026-05-13

   Bankers were still putting the final touches on Alphabet Inc.’s blockbuster $17 billion of bond sales when word started to spread Monday morning on Wall Street: the company is

3. China’s Hot, Unprofitable AI Stocks Are Hard to Short Until July

   Bloomberg · 2026-05-13

   Short sellers eying China’s hottest AI firms have found the going hard with so little of their shares publicly traded.

4. Can AI Become Conscious?

   Towards AI · 2026-05-13

   The debate surrounding AI consciousness has been reignited by recent philosophical and technical discussions, particularly concerning the emergent properties of large language

5. Microsoft’s Edge Copilot update uses AI to pull information from across your tabs

   The Verge · 2026-05-13

   Microsoft Edge is adding a new feature that will allow its Copilot AI chatbot to gather information from all of your open tabs.

6. Notion just turned its workspace into a hub for AI agents

   TechCrunch · 2026-05-13

   Notion’s new developer platform lets teams connect AI agents, external data sources, and custom code directly into their workspace as the company pushes deeper into agentic

7. Enterprise AI Governance in 2026: Why the Tools Employees Use Are Ahead of the Policies That Cover Them

   MarkTechPost · 2026-05-13

   63% of organizations have no AI governance policy. Shadow AI is already running inside your stack — here is the data.

8. Apple may open up the App Store to agentic AI

   Engadget · 2026-05-13

   But doing so could threaten its bottom line.

9. Why the US Must Engage China on AI Safety Before It’s ‘Game Over’

   Bloomberg · 2026-05-13

   Sebastian Mallaby of the Council on Foreign Relations says Chinese AI is closing the gap—and that means Washington can’t afford to ignore safety talks.

10. Anthropic Eyeing Over $900 Billion Valuation | Bloomberg Tech 5/13/2026

    Bloomberg · 2026-05-13

    Bloomberg’s Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow discuss what to expect from the highly anticipated meeting between President Trump and China's Xi Jinping

11. Cisco Soars on Sales Forecast, AI-Focused Restructuring Plan

    Bloomberg · 2026-05-13

    Cisco Systems Inc. gained as much as 19% in late trading after the company delivered a better-than-anticipated sales forecast and announced plans to cut thousands of jobs

12. AI Chipmaker Cerebras Raises $5.55 Billion in Year’s Biggest IPO

    Bloomberg · 2026-05-13

    Cerebras Systems Inc. raised $5.55 billion in its US initial public offering, as the artificial intelligence chipmaker seizes on the surging demand for semiconductors.

13. TPG Says OpenAI Venture a Traditional Move for Firm

    Bloomberg · 2026-05-13

    OpenAI may be a marquee corporate name but working with the tech giant is business as usual for TPG Inc.

14. Musk’s xAI Races to Get Wall Street Firms to Use Grok Chatbot

    Bloomberg · 2026-05-13

    Elon Musk’s xAI has recruited multiple Wall Street firms with ties to the billionaire’s business empire to test its Grok chatbot, according to people familiar with the matter

15. AI In Focus As Top CEOs Head To China For Trade Summit

    Bloomberg · 2026-05-13

    US business leaders including Apple Inc.’s Tim Cook and Tesla Inc.’s Elon Musk on Trump’s first overseas trip since waging war in the Middle East

16. Anthropic’s Cat Wu says that, in the future, AI will anticipate your needs before you know what they are

    TechCrunch · 2026-05-13

    The head of product for Claude Code and Cowork says that the next big step for AI is proactivity.

17. Hackers Are Already Using AI to Beef Up Their Attacks, Hide Their Activity

    Bloomberg · 2026-05-13

    Security personnel are catching attackers in new ways, too.

18. Anthropic in Talks to Raise $30 Billion at a $900 Billion Valuation

    Bloomberg · 2026-05-13

    Anthropic PBC is in early talks with investors to raise at least $30 billion in fresh financing, according to people familiar with the matter

19. What It Will Take to Make AI Sustainable

    WIRED · 2026-05-13

    Researcher Sasha Luccioni argues we need better emissions data and a better sense of how people are using AI in the first place.

20. OpenAI endorses the Kids Online Safety Act

    Engadget · 2026-05-13

    The bill appears to be gaining new momentum.

21. AI chatbots are giving out people’s real phone numbers

    MIT Technology Review · 2026-05-13

    People report that their personal contact info was surfaced by Google AI—and there’s apparently no easy way to prevent it.

22. I Built the Same B2B Document Extractor Twice: Rules vs. LLM

    Towards Data Science · 2026-05-13

    A practical comparison between rule-based PDF extraction using pytesseract and an LLM-based approach with Ollama and LLaMA 3, based on a realistic B2B order scenario.

23. Companies are 'Testing & Trying' with AI Costs: Trujillo

    Bloomberg · 2026-05-13

    David Trujillo, partner at TPG, joins Dani Burger on "Bloomberg Deals." OpenAI this week unveiled a new consulting and services business

24. Anthropic overtakes OpenAI in B2B adoption for the first time according to Ramp spending data

    The Decoder · 2026-05-13

    Anthropic now leads OpenAI in B2B adoption for the first time, with 34.4 percent of US companies on the Ramp AI Index compared to OpenAI's 32.3 percent.

25. Overworked AI Agents Turn Marxist, Researchers Find

    WIRED · 2026-05-13

    In a recent experiment, mistreated AI agents started grumbling about inequality and calling for collective bargaining rights.

26. Meta AI gets a private mode where no conversation data is stored on servers

    The Decoder · 2026-05-13

    Meta is rolling out "Incognito Chat" for Meta AI on WhatsApp and in the Meta AI app.

27. Altman forced to confront claims at OpenAI trial that he's a prolific liar

    Ars Technica · 2026-05-13

    "Very painful": Altman relives his Muskian reaction to losing control over OpenAI.

28. Meta employees are protesting the company's mouse tracking program

    Engadget · 2026-05-13

    Last month, it said it would use employees' mouse movements and keystrokes to train AI models.

29. Anthropic launches Claude for Small Business to embed AI into the tools you forgot you pay for

    The Decoder · 2026-05-13

    Anthropic is launching "Claude for Small Business," a package of 15 agent-based workflows and integrations for tools like QuickBooks, PayPal, and HubSpot.

30. Honeywell CEO Discusses Company's Dealmaking, Spinoffs

    Bloomberg · 2026-05-13

    Global events like the Iran conflict and the rise of artificial intelligence are creating increased demand for Honeywell International Inc.