John Ainger / Bloomberg: Power prices on the largest electric grid in the US, operated by PJM, jumped 76% YoY to an average of $136.53/MWh in Q1 due to rampant demand from data centers  —  Power prices on the largest electric grid in the US jumped 76% in the first quarter due to rampant demand from data centers …

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Mike Isaac / New York Times: Sources: OpenAI acquired Weights.gg, which offered AI tools to create clones of people's voices, earlier this year; PitchBook: Weights.gg had raised roughly $4M  —  The acquisition, Weights.gg, was a sort of social network for creating and sharing artificial intelligence algorithms.

Hyunjoo Jin / Reuters: Sources detail friction between Samsung's memory and logic chip businesses over higher bonuses for memory chip workers, leading many to leave or apply elsewhere  —  A looming 18-day strike at South Korean chip giant Samsung that has triggered worries within the government …

Lee Jaewoon / The Elec: Seoul-based WIRobotics, which develops wearable and humanoid robots and is collaborating with Nvidia and AWS, raised a ~$68M Series B led by JB Investment  —  Company to accelerate humanoid robot commercialization after securing major follow-on investment  —  이 기사를 공유합니다

OpenAI and Malta partner to expand AI access, offering ChatGPT Plus and training to help citizens build practical AI skills and use AI responsibly.

<p><strong>Release:</strong> <a href="https://github.com/simonw/inaturalist-clumper/releases/tag/0.1">inaturalist-clumper 0.1</a></p> <p>Part of the infrastructure I use for <a href="https://simonwillison.net/2026/May/1/inat-sightings/">publishing my iNaturalist sightings on my blog</a>. I've been running this in production for a few weeks now, inspiring some iterations on how it works, so I decided to ship a 0.1 release.</p> <p>You can see an example of the output <a href="https://github.com/simonw/inaturalist-clumps/blob/main/clumps.json">in this JSON file</a>.</p> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/projects">projects</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/inaturalist">inaturalist</a></p>

Update: On Monday May 18, the jury sided with OpenAI, delivering an advisory verdict finding that Musk’s claims are barred by the statute of limitations. US District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers accepted the verdict. In the final week of the Musk v. Altman trial, lawyers traded blows over Elon Musk’s and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s…

Mia Sato / The Verge: YouTube expands its AI likeness detection program to users over the age of 18, after rolling it out to select creators, politicians, journalists, and others  —  Likeness detection, which scans YouTube for facial matches, will now be available to anyone 18 years or older with a YouTube account.

Bloomberg: Filings: YouTube and Snap reached agreements to settle a lawsuit headed to trial in June over claims addiction to social media has disrupted students' learning  —  Snap Inc., Google's YouTube and ByteDance Ltd.'s TikTok reached agreements to settle the first lawsuit headed to trial over claims …

Josh Sisco / Bloomberg: Sources: the US FTC is investigating whether Arm is trying to illegally monopolize parts of the semiconductor market  —  Arm Holdings Plc is facing an antitrust investigation by the US Federal Trade Commission over the UK company's licensing of its semiconductor technology …

Universities promise no frontline duty and perks if students enlist in military.

Stephen Foley / Financial Times: Professional services firm EY has withdrawn a study on loyalty rewards programs after researchers at GPTZero found apparent AI hallucinations and fake footnotes  —  Incident is latest example of professional services firm being led astray by new technology  —  EY has withdrawn a study …

Lawyers accused of rushing historic settlement to seize $320 million in fees.

Warren Buffett and Greg Abel, pictured as Squishmallows here, placed a fresh bet on Delta Air Lines last quarter. Theron Mohamed/Business Insider Berkshire Hathaway tripled its Alphabet stake and placed a new bet on Delta Air Lines last quarter. The company appears to have sold many of the departed Todd Combs' stock picks. Warren Buffett's successor as CEO, Greg Abel, exited bets including Amazon, Visa, and Mastercard. Warren Buffett's successor certainly isn't shy about shaking things up. Greg Abel, who took over as Berkshire Hathaway's CEO on January 1, made sweeping changes to the conglomerate's holdings in the first three months of this year, a regulatory filing revealed on Friday. Berkshire built a fresh stake in Delta Air Lines worth $2.6 billion at the end of March, marking its return to owning airline stocks. The company also more than tripled its stake in Google-parent Alphabet, a key player in the AI boom. After purchasing nearly 18 million shares of the search-and-advertising giant in the third quarter of last year, it didn't touch the position in Buffett's final quarter as CEO. But that changed last quarter, as it ramped up its investment to almost 58 million shares, worth around $17 billion at the end of March. Abel appeared to offload many of the stocks picked by Todd Combs, previously one of Buffett's two investment managers. Buffett, who remains Berkshire's chairman, announced in December that Combs had resigned to join Jamie Dimon at JPMorgan. Berkshire exited its positions in Visa, Mastercard, UnitedHealth, Domino's Pizza, Amazon, Charter, Diageo, and several other companies. The disposals reduced its total number of holdings to around two dozen. Abel also pared other holdings including Chevron, Nucor, and Constellation Brands. On the other hand, Abel and his team added Macy's to their portfolio, and roughly tripled the size of the New York Times stake they established in the preceding quarter, boosting it to around 15 million shares valued at around $1.3 billion on March 31. Berkshire foreshadowed significant changes to its stock portfolio in its first-quarter earnings earlier this month. The report showed that it sold about $24 billion worth of stocks, and bought around $16 billion worth. The Delta wager is likely to surprise close followers of Berkshire. Buffett famously sold his stakes in the "big four" US airlines in April 2020, admitting he'd made a "mistake" by betting on them. In his shareholder letter for 2007, he described the airline business as a "bottomless pit" and quipped: "Indeed, if a farsighted capitalist had been present at Kitty Hawk, he would have done his successors a huge favor by shooting Orville down." Read the original article on Business Insider

WHO announced today that the operation to safely transfer passengers is complete.

Truncated third season feels rushed, but also gives us a fitting end to a love story for the ages.

The former Crown Prince of Iran is meeting with Iranian diaspora tech and business leaders on Saturday to discuss the future of the country. Attendees include the CEO of Uber.

Each year, some of the power solar could have produced is blocked by aerosols.

Investors can't seem to get enough of RJ Scaringe or his ideas. Storytelling and communication are one of his superpowers, according to Jiten Behl, who joined Rivian when the company had just a handful of employees.