21 May 2026

Waymo suspends operations in Atlanta and San Antonio as its robotaxis struggle with flooded roads and says it has yet to develop a "final remedy" for flooding (Sean O'Kane/TechCrunch)

Sean O'Kane / TechCrunch:
Waymo suspends operations in Atlanta and San Antonio as its robotaxis struggle with flooded roads and says it has yet to develop a “final remedy” for flooding  —  Waymo has now paused service in two cities because its robotaxis are struggling to deal with heavy rain and flooded roads …

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Hark, founded by Figure AI CEO Brett Adcock to build AI-powered devices, raised a $700M+ Series A led by Parkway Venture at a $6B post-money valuation (Samantha Kelly/Bloomberg)

Samantha Kelly / Bloomberg:
Hark, founded by Figure AI CEO Brett Adcock to build AI-powered devices, raised a $700M+ Series A led by Parkway Venture at a $6B post-money valuation  —  Entrepreneur Brett Adcock's new startup Hark has secured over $700 million in a funding round that values the artificial intelligence …

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Sources: Anthropic is in talks to rent servers powered by Microsoft-designed chips; source: Anthropic has steadily increased its Azure usage since November 2025 (The Information)

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Sources: Anthropic is in talks to rent servers powered by Microsoft-designed chips; source: Anthropic has steadily increased its Azure usage since November 2025  —  Anthropic is in talks to rent servers powered by Microsoft-designed AI server chips as it seeks more computing power …

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Anthropic, Blackstone, and Hellman & Friedman's unnamed enterprise services JV buys Fractional AI, its first deal; sources say Fractional ends its OpenAI deal (Preeti Singh/Bloomberg)

Preeti Singh / Bloomberg:
Anthropic, Blackstone, and Hellman & Friedman's unnamed enterprise services JV buys Fractional AI, its first deal; sources say Fractional ends its OpenAI deal  —  The new artificial intelligence enterprise services firm backed by Blackstone Inc., Anthropic PBC and Hellman & Friedman …

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Flipper unveils the Flipper One, a pocketable open Arm Linux computer with similar performance to a Raspberry Pi 5, and welcomes feedback to get it market-ready (Mark Tyson/Tom's Hardware)

Mark Tyson / Tom's Hardware:
Flipper unveils the Flipper One, a pocketable open Arm Linux computer with similar performance to a Raspberry Pi 5, and welcomes feedback to get it market-ready  —  But the devs admit there's still a lot of work to be done to get the Flipper One market-ready, and they are looking for contributors.

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