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• Gabriel Valdivia opens waitlist for Patina, a local private AI workspace for Mac

  Local-first personal intelligence that connects iMessage, Gmail, Calendar, Slack, Notion, Figma, Health, WhatsApp, and more with data stored as local files; plans start at $30/month or a $99 lifetime license; waitlist at patina.md.

• Jia Chen unveils Jam, a simple marketing interface for the agentic era

  Jam claims 2,000+ companies, developers, and operators already using the tool, after starting as a side project that devtool founders paid thousands to access.

• Cosmo aims to give AI agents a desktop UI, launched by Shiyuan on X

  In an X thread, Shiyuan says Cosmo lets you type or speak from the desktop while the interface renders live; some demo changes are not live yet.

• Runway pushes Aleph 2.0 into an editing workflow with new Edit Studio

  Runway is steering its video model toward controllable, preview-first editing, not just one-shot generation, per a thread on X and a new Generative Session page.

• Microsoft starts canceling Claude Code licenses, pushes engineers to GitHub Copilot CLI

  Internal memo sets a June 30 cutoff for most Claude Code seats; Microsoft frames the shift as convergence on a first-party CLI and a cost move tied to fiscal year-end, per The Verge.

• TeamPCP claims 4,000 GitHub repos after poisoned VSCode plug-in; 3,800 confirmed

  Wired reports the group has hidden malware in 500+ open source tools across 20 waves, breaching hundreds of companies and now offering GitHub code for sale.

• Inside 'Google Zero': AI answers move intent off the open web

  Founders and indie publishers describe the same analytics signature as Google's summary-style results, including AI Overviews, satisfy queries on the results page and thin out the clicks that fund new work.

• ClickUp CEO Zeb Evans says agent-driven workflows can 100x orgs and 1000x top performers

  In an X thread announcing a 22% cut, Evans framed a shift to agents and smaller, faster teams, citing a weeklong frontend architecture rebuild, 40x research, faster code review of agent outputs, and million-dollar bands for outsized impact.

• Hark raises $700M Series A for a stealth bid at a universal AI interface

  Founder Brett Adcock lands a $6B valuation as Hark readies multimodal models and dedicated hardware for a personal AI assistant.

• Anthropic-backed services firm acquires Fractional AI to anchor enterprise push

  San Francisco-based Fractional AI, founded by Chris Taylor, Eddie Siegel, and Travis May, will be the operational core of a new Anthropic, Blackstone, and H&F backed firm.

• Minkai Xu introduces Gemini Omni, a self-described world model, in a Google DeepMind X post

  Researcher-builder Minkai Xu says he has been heads-down for months on a world model, with the announcement appearing on Google DeepMind's X account.

• OpenAI will watermark ChatGPT images with Google's SynthID and launch a provenance checker

  Images from ChatGPT, the OpenAI API, and OpenAI Codex will carry SynthID and C2PA signals, with a checker to verify provenance and new participation in C2PA conformance.

• Lab0 says its AI FDE cuts enterprise rollouts from 6 months to 10 days

  Founders say the agent automates discovery-to-go-live, from drafting docs and test plans to configuration and integrations; Lab0 also says it is already working with Adobe.

• Chinese cities are rolling out AI robot barber kiosks, Cointelegraph says

  Cointelegraph said in a thread on X that 3D-scanning robot barber kiosks are appearing in Chinese cities for 60 yuan a cut, but did not name the maker or list specific cities.

• Stanford cs329x publishes human-centered LLM playbook

  The cs329x report, led by Caleb Ziems and Dora Zhao, maps design, data, tuning, evals, and deployment tradeoffs, and flags engagement-optimization and sycophancy incentives misaligned with goals like user empowerment and mastery.

• Startup Spotlight: ThineAI opens iOS beta as ambiant memory app (aka for when you blackout)

  Rai says ThineAI runs in the background to capture work and life context and return it on demand; early access is rolling out to iOS testers, with Android not live yet.

• Zach Dell's Base Power inks 40 MW residential battery deal with Austin Energy

  Austin Energy will dispatch a 40 MW fleet of home batteries from Base Power for peak shaving and price spikes, while homeowners get whole-home backup.

• ElevenLabs launches Speech Engine to turn chat agents into voice with one prompt

  The new pipeline layers onto existing stacks, adds 70+ languages, enterprise compliance, and pricing from 8 cents per minute via ElevenAPI.

• Zenly alumni raise $20m for Paris-based Prelude to rebuild digital onboarding

  CEO Matias Berny and CPO/co-founder Quentin Le Bras founded Prelude in 2022 to turn the phone number from a one-time passcode into a continuous trust and fraud defense layer; its Auth and Intel APIs underpin a full-stack onboarding platform and ~40% lower verification costs.

• NASA says it is building a Moon Base for long-duration Artemis missions

  The agency announced a dedicated @NASAMoonBase habitat effort and set a May 26 livestream to share lunar exploration updates tied to Artemis and future Mars prep.

• Flock Safety loses Bandera, TX contract as councilmember pushes internet and phone ban

  After a 3-2 vote to cancel Flock Safety's LPR contract, a dissenting councilmember vowed to propose banning phones, internet, and cameras across the 900-person town.

• SpaceX S-1 signals a regulated X Money push alongside SPCX listing

  The IPO filing creates a dual-class, founder-controlled structure and outlines an X Money Product for P2P and commerce; it flags AML, money transmission, banking, and crypto exposure while leaving licensing and data-governance specifics unclear.

• OpenAI says internal model cracks Erdos unit distance problem

  The general-purpose reasoning model produced a polynomial-improvement construction; external mathematicians checked the proof and published a companion paper.

• Sam Altman moves to take OpenAI public, per WSJ

  WSJ reports OpenAI could file its IPO paperwork in days, possibly as early as Friday, with Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley advising.