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MICROSOFT LAUNCHES FREE AI VIDEO GENERATOR POWERED BY SORA

Bing Video Creator can generate 5-second videos at no cost, starting with 10 fast generations before switching to standard speed or requiring Microsoft Rewards points.

CHARACTER.AI MULTIMODAL CREATION TOOLS

Character.AI has expanded beyond chat with new tools like Scenes for interactive storytelling and AvatarFX for image-to-video avatar animations. These features aim to empower creators to build richer, more immersive experiences using video, images, and animation.

SALESFORCE ACQUIRES MOONHUB

Moonhub, known for its AI-powered recruiting agents, has joined Salesforce to contribute to its broader AI strategy, including the Agentforce platform.

CLAUDE CODE: AN ANALYSIS (BOOK)

This is a report on Claude Code generated by Claude Opus 4 with the help of almost all of the major flagship models. Claude Code is an agentic coding tool with a few new novel components. It has a streaming architecture that handles real-time model responses, tool execution, and UI updates, safety systems that provide security without disrupting workflow, a tool design that bridges AI reasoning and system execution, and prompt engineering that reliably controls complex model behavior. The report covers the foundation of Claude Code's architecture, data structures and the information architecture, control flow and the orchestration engine, tools and the execution engine, and much more.

WHY DO AGI TIMELINES VARY SO WIDELY?

Many lab CEOs predict 2-5 years until AGI, while outside experts forecast decades or argue AGI is impossible with the current approach. Short-timeline advocates point to saturating benchmarks, AI task completion doubling every 7 months, and the potential for automated AI research to trigger an intelligence explosion. Long-timeline skeptics counter that benchmarks only measure easily defined tasks, that Moravec's Paradox suggests we've automated the "easy" cognitive work first, and that raw intelligence alone doesn't drive scientific breakthroughs.

OPENAI GUIDE TO A/B TESTING LLMS FOR STARTUPS

HyperWrite's case study demonstrates A/B testing model performance based on actual payment conversions rather than offline benchmark scores. Its real-world tests revealed that GPT-4.1 matched Claude 3.5 Sonnet's conversion rate while reducing costs, proving that "good enough" performance at lower prices can be more valuable than benchmark leaders. The guide includes Python code for statistical testing and warns against common pitfalls like p-hacking and early result peeking.

HOW MUCH DO LANGUAGE MODELS MEMORIZE?

Researchers developed a method to separate true memorization from generalization by training models on random data where generalization is impossible versus real text. They discovered that models memorize training data until reaching capacity, then shift to learning general patterns, with GPT-style transformers storing ~3.6 bits of information per parameter. This explains why attempts to extract specific training data from modern LLMs often fail - their training datasets are much larger than their memorization capacity.

NEW WEIGHTS AND DATA FOR VISION-LANGUAGE-ACTION MODELS

Impromptu VLA introduces a new dataset of 80,000 curated driving video clips to improve the performance of vision-language-action models in unstructured scenarios. It features planning-focused Q&A annotations and has shown measurable improvements in prediction and safety metrics across existing benchmarks.

FDA LAUNCHES AI TOOL TO ACCELERATE DRUG REVIEWS AND INSPECTIONS

“Elsa” is available to all FDA employees, enabling faster clinical protocol reviews, shortened scientific evaluations, and improved identification of high-priority inspection targets. In one case, a review that would have taken 2-3 days was completed in just 6 minutes.

SNOWFLAKE BUYS CRUNCHY DATA FOR $250M, DATABRICKS BUYS NEON FOR $1B. THE NEW AI DATABASE BATTLE

Snowflake and Databricks are acquiring PostgreSQL-focused companies Crunchy Data for $250 million and Neon for $1 billion as part of a strategic move to lead the AI database market. These acquisitions underscore the rising importance of robust database infrastructure to support autonomous AI agents and suggest an increasing trend toward industry consolidation. The differentiating strategies highlight Snowflake's focus on enterprise compliance and Databricks' emphasis on serverless, AI-optimized architecture.

XAI LOOKS TO RAISE $300M IN TENDER OFFER

The sale will allow staff to sell shares to new investors at a $113 billion valuation.

CHINESE TECH COMPANIES PREPARE FOR AI FUTURE WITHOUT NVIDIA

Chinese tech giants like Alibaba, Tencent, and Baidu are shifting to domestic chips due to a shortage of Nvidia processors and stricter U.S. export controls.

IT'S NOT YOUR IMAGINATION: AI IS SPEEDING UP THE PACE OF CHANGE

AI's rapid adoption and development are unprecedented compared to previous tech revolutions, highlighted by its swift impact on user and cost scales.

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BITCOIN TRADES AT $105,500, LONG-TERM OUTLOOK REMAINS OPTIMISTIC

Bitcoin is trading at around $105.5k after pulling back from its $111.8k all-time high. Analysts are calling this a key pivot zone that could determine the next leg of the market cycle. BTC Markets' Rachael Lucas says a push above $105K could target $115K, while a drop below $103K risks a pullback to the $93K–$97K range—without breaking the broader uptrend. Institutional flows continue to dominate, sidelining altcoins and positioning Bitcoin as a strategic macro hedge in corporate treasuries.

CIRCLE RAISES IPO TARGET TO $896M AMID STRONG INVESTOR INTEREST

Circle increased its IPO offering to 32 million shares at a $27–$28 price range, raising its target proceeds to $896 million, up from 24 million shares at $24–$26. The boost follows hints of a $6.7 billion valuation, up from $5 billion, and interest from major institutions like BlackRock, which may take a 10% stake. This surge in appetite coincides with growing stablecoin adoption, with $94.2 billion settled between January 2023 and February 2025, and a more favorable U.S. regulatory landscape under the Trump administration, including progress on the CLARITY Act and evolving SEC and CFTC guidance.

AAVE STAKING AND RISK SYSTEM OVERHAUL

Aave governance has passed the Umbrella activation, launching a new staking and slashing system to replace the legacy Safety Module. The upgrade introduces high-yield aToken staking (up to 12% on stables), phases out StkGHO, cuts AAVE emissions, and automates bad debt resolution making Aave more capital-efficient, lower-cost, and better protected. The new vault architecture will roll out in three days.

ORBITAL, AN AMM FOR POOLS OF 2, 3, OR 10,000 STABLECOINS

Orbital generalizes concentrated liquidity to pools of three or more stablecoins by organizing “ticks” as nested spherical caps around the $1 equal-price point, enabling LPs to allocate capital where stablecoins trade most tightly. Each tick's reserves lie on an n-dimensional sphere intersected by a hyperplane (the tick boundary), and interior ticks behave like full spheres while boundary ticks reduce to (n−1)-dimensional spheres. By decomposing total reserves into components parallel and orthogonal to the equal-price vector, Orbital derives a toroidal invariant that lets it compute trades and handle tick boundary crossings in constant time regardless of the pool's dimension. This design delivers significant capital efficiency, allowing a 5-coin pool with a 1% depeg tolerance to see ~150× efficiency while allowing LPs to customize exposure across multiple depeg scenarios.

THE END OF THE FOUNDATION ERA IN CRYPTO

Crypto foundations, once useful for navigating early regulatory hostility, now impose misaligned incentives, legal constraints, and centralizing inefficiencies. With emerging “control‐based” regulatory frameworks, developer companies can more effectively deploy capital, attract talent, and align with tokenholders via tools like revenue sharing, milestone vesting, and contractual safeguards. Decentralized Unincorporated Nonprofit Associations (DUNAs) and on‐chain governance tooling (BORGs) offer lightweight, transparent alternatives to foundation structures by enabling DAOs to contract and enforce obligations without opaque intermediaries. As a result, companies and DAOs can achieve true decentralization, accountability, and scale without relying on slow nonprofit foundations.

THE DEATH OF INFOFI

InfoFi platforms like Kaito profit massively by charging projects high listing fees and taking cuts from token taxes, effectively selling user attention to bidders. While companies gain temporary mindshare, they suffer from inauthentic engagement, AI-generated low‑quality content, poor conversion, and post‑campaign token sell‑offs that harm credibility. This model generates fatigue and burnout among both creators and genuine projects that can't afford or don't want to participate. InfoFi platforms should iterate and improve their algorithms, rewards, and conversion mechanisms to foster more authentic, sustainable engagement.

STABLECOIN MARKET CAPITALIZATION SURPASSES $250 BILLION

The total stablecoin market cap has surpassed $250 billion for the first time, driven by regulatory momentum and surging DeFi adoption. USDT leads with $153B, followed by USDC at $60.9B, amid the advancement of the U.S. GENIUS Act and Hong Kong's licensing framework. With TradFi firms eyeing joint stablecoin ventures and DEX volumes hitting record shares, analysts expect the stablecoin market could double by 2026.

YOU PROBABLY SHOULDN'T DO CRYPTO IN 2025

Crypto Twitter is saturated with shillers and extractive tactics, making genuine alpha nearly impossible to find from popular accounts. Newcomers should avoid buying tokens based on public endorsements, especially from large profiles, as most are paid or have undisclosed positions. Airdrop farming remains one of the cleaner ways to participate, and platforms like Kaito can help smaller voices get noticed more ethically. Ultimately, succeed by spending more time learning, curating your feed, and risking less capital.

LARGEST AIRDROPS OF 2025

Berachain led 2025's airdrop wave with a $679M distribution, followed by KaitoAI and Story Protocol at ~$200M and ~$190M, respectively.

HYPERLIQUID CRITICIZED FOR MISLEADING "DECENTRALIZED" CLAIMS

Despite branding itself as a decentralized exchange, Hyperliquid is under fire for housing all user funds in a 3/4 team-controlled multisig on Arbitrum, prompting accusations of deceptive marketing.

HYPERLIQUID WILL NOT FLIP BINANCE

Hyperliquid's speed bump design protects makers but limits its potential to surpass Binance in volume.

ACTIVE STABLECOIN ADDRESSES HITS ATH

May saw a record 33.1 million active stablecoin addresses, while Circle's CCTP bridge hit an all-time high of $7.7B in volume up 83.3% from April.

ETHEREUM LEADS $286M WEEKLY INFLOWS AS BITCOIN ETF STREAK ENDS

Crypto funds saw $286M in net inflows last week, marking seven straight weeks of gains, with Ethereum products pulling in $321M their best run since 2024.

NIKE DESIGN LEADER JOHN HOKE IS LEAVING THE COMPANY THAT WAS HIS ‘DESTINY'

John Hoke, Nike's chief innovation officer, has retired after 33 years with the company. His departure comes as Nike grappled with slowing growth and a shrinking market share, despite maintaining its position as the top sportswear brand. Hoke, who moved into the innovation role in 2022 after serving as chief design officer, led efforts to integrate advanced technology into apparel, including concepts like biologically adaptive clothing for athletes.

APPLE TEASES IOS 26 REDESIGN WITH NEW ‘SLEEK PEEK' WWDC TAGLINE

Apple hinted at a significant visual redesign for iOS 26 and its other platforms with the WWDC 2025 tagline, 'Sleek peek.' The company plans to introduce a unified design language across iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, tvOS, and visionOS, incorporating transparency effects, glass-like materials, and updated navigation structures. Apple is also shifting to a year-based naming convention for its software to improve branding consistency.

JONY IVE'S OPENAI DEVICE GETS THE LAURENE POWELL JOBS NOD OF APPROVAL

Laurene Powell Jobs has endorsed the secretive AI device being developed by Jony Ive and OpenAI, praising his design process as “a wondrous thing to behold.” Both Jobs and Ive expressed concerns about the unintended consequences of technology, particularly those stemming from the iPhone. Ive emphasized a renewed focus on creating more thoughtful, human-centered innovations.

MOST DESIGNERS SAY AI IMPROVES THEIR PROCESS, BUT ETHICAL CONCERNS REMAIN

Most designers report that AI has improved their creative process, especially during early-stage ideation, helping them overcome creative blocks and accelerate exploration—though the final push toward excellence still relies on human judgment. Despite this, designers are largely left to teach themselves AI skills, leading to a disconnect between individual innovation and organizational support. Ethical concerns around authorship and consent continue to grow alongside calls for structured training and responsible integration.

EXPERIENCE SYSTEMS

Design systems are evolving beyond traditional components into intelligent "experience systems" that adapt based on user intent, context, and behavior. These advanced systems build upon foundations like design tokens and components, adding agentic flows that respond to user psychology and multimodal interfaces spanning touch, voice, gesture, and ambient interactions. A central Logic & Governance layer would ensure all adaptive responses follow established design principles and decision rules at scale. This enables systems to understand intent, adapt response modalities in real time, and proactively assist users while maintaining brand consistency across all touchpoints.

HOW TO WRITE BETTER PROMPTS FOR AI DESIGN AND CODE GENERATORS

This post presents a structured five-part prompt format that significantly improves AI-generated design and code outputs by providing clear direction beyond vague requests. The format includes Context, Description, Platform, and Visual Style, with the final component, UI Components, detailing specific elements from top to bottom with placeholder content and functional behaviors. This ensures the AI-generated interfaces are practical and ready to implement, rather than generic or abstract designs.

VISUAL EDITOR FOR ASTRO, REACT, NEXT.JS, AND TAILWIND

Piny is a powerful visual editor for Astro, React, Next.js, and Tailwind CSS. Edit code visually, navigate components, and streamline styling with no special libraries or extra setup.

FRAMER WORKSHOP

Workshop is an AI tool designed to help developers and designers quickly generate customizable website components by simply describing what they need.

TURN YOUR LONG VIDEO INTO VIRAL CLIPS

Vizard utilizes AI to transform your long-form videos into short clips, ready for channels like TikTok, Instagram, YouTube Shorts, and more.

BROOKLYN FILM FESTIVAL FLIPS THE SCRIPT ON SCREEN TIME IN PLAYFUL NEW VISUAL IDENTITY

The Brooklyn Film Festival's new visual identity, titled “Welcome to Good Screen Time” reclaims screen time as a communal and cinematic experience. It offers a bold, playful alternative to the isolating effects of digital overload. Designed by studio Otherway, the identity uses vibrant visuals, social media-inspired motion, and immersive sound to position the festival as a refreshing, human-centered escape from the chaos of constant scrolling.

POLYTECHNIC'S WHIMSICAL DESIGNS FOR ANYWHERE BOOK CLUB RESHAPE THE READING EXPERIENCE

Polytechnic developed a whimsical and inclusive visual identity for Anywhere Book Club (ABC) centered around a genderless tamandua mascot illustrated by Marcus Oakley to embody curiosity, silliness, and companionship. The design system, featuring playful typography and nostalgic visuals, fosters mutual enjoyment for children and adults alike, reinforcing ABC's mission to make reading fun, supportive, and universally engaging.

THE POST-TEST DEBRIEF: A NEW SUPERPOWER FOR GROWTH DESIGNERS

Adobe's growth design team created the "Posttest Debrief," a 30-minute session held after each A/B test, which turned scattered data into clear customer insights and strategy. It addressed the issue of buried test results, which made it challenging to connect findings or build on past learnings. By bringing together designers, product managers, and analysts on a shared whiteboard, teams moved beyond win-or-lose metrics to uncover deeper behavioral patterns. This method accelerated planning, refined hypotheses, and established a growing body of insights to prevent repetitive testing.

THIS INTERNATIONAL FANTASTIC FOUR FILM POSTER IS MY FAVOURITE DESIGN YET

The new “Fantastic Four: First Steps” international poster reignited fan excitement with its retro minimalist design, earning praise for ditching generic CGI styles in favor of bold, stylized artwork that reflected the film's nostalgic aesthetic.

THE BEST BARS IN NEW YORK FOR STIFF DRINKS AND STUNNING DESIGN

New York City's best bars combine exceptional cocktails with distinctive design personalities that encourage lingering despite the city's constant allure of the next destination.

ANGEL INVESTING FOR DESIGNERS

Designers can become effective investors without needing millionaire status - domain expertise often matters more than the capital amount.

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VANTA BUG EXPOSED CUSTOMERS' DATA TO OTHER CUSTOMERS

Vanta experienced a data breach affecting fewer than 4% of its 10,000+ customers due to a product code bug, not an intrusion. The incident exposed employee account data, including names, roles, and security configurations between customer instances. Vanta identified the issue on May 26 and will complete remediation by June 4.

US COMMUNITY BANK SAYS THIEVES DRAINED CUSTOMER DATA THROUGH THIRD-PARTY HOLE

MainStreet Bancshares disclosed that hackers stole data from 4.65% of its customer base through a third-party vendor attack in March. The bank's own systems weren't compromised.

QUALCOMM FIXES THREE ADRENO GPU ZERO-DAYS EXPLOITED IN ATTACKS

Qualcomm has patched three zero-day vulnerabilities in its Adreno GPU driver that are being actively exploited in targeted attacks. CVE-2025-21479 and CVE-2025-21480 cause memory corruption through unauthorized GPU command execution and CVE-2025-27038 is a use-after-free vulnerability in Chrome's graphics rendering. Google's Threat Analysis Group confirmed these vulnerabilities are under limited, targeted exploitation, and Qualcomm provided patches to device manufacturers in May with urgent deployment recommendations. This continues a pattern of Qualcomm chipset vulnerabilities being exploited by threat actors, including a previous zero-day used by Serbian authorities with Cellebrite software to unlock activists' and journalists' Android devices.