May 20, 2026

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Jeff Bezos, you were so close to making a good point: "Why is a nurse in Queens who makes $75,000 a year paying more than $1,000 a month in taxes?" Bezos said Wednesday morning on CNBC. "That's $1,000 that could help with rent, or groceries, or anything." Read More

Intuit to lay off over 3,000 employees to refocus on AI: In a memo to employees, CEO Sasan Goodarzi said the layoffs are meant to reduce complexity, simplify the company's corporate structure, and deliver better AI products. Read More

The SpaceX IPO filing has arrived: SpaceX has finally made the contents of its IPO filing public, weeks ahead of what is expected to be the largest IPO ever. Read More

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Afternoon Must-Reads

NanoClaw creator turns down $20M buyout offer, raises $12M seed instead: NanoClaw was created as a secure alternative to OpenClaw to assist the Cohen brothers with their AI marketing firm that used agents to do much of the work. But instead of running directly on a computer, NanoClaw runs sandboxed in a container. Read More

GitHub says hackers stole data from thousands of internal repositories: The code hosting giant GitHub said it was investigating a breach but said there was no evidence of customer data theft. Read More

OpenAI claims it solved an 80-year-old math problem — for real this time: OpenAI claims its reasoning model disproved a geometry conjecture unsolved since 1946 — and this time, the mathematicians who exposed its last embarrassing claim are backing it up. Read More

Customers say Trump Mobile is leaking their personal information: Trump Mobile is leaking customers’ email and home addresses but has not responded to people alerting the company of the data exposure, according to two YouTubers who said they verified that their leaked data is authentic. Read More

Sam Altman makes 'mic drop' offer to every Y Combinator startup: Altman offered to have OpenAI invest in every single startup in this Y Combinator class: tokens for equity. Read More

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Last but Not Least

Anthropic will pay xAI $1.25 billion per month for compute: Elon Musk's xAI surprised the AI world when it made a deal to sell compute to Anthropic. Now we know how much it's worth. Read More

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