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A content company known for moving video tracks around the fastest has just signed the largest customer contract in its history with a border AI lab. The structural read for tech buyers is bigger than the dollar amount.Akamai Technologies reveals in it first quarter 2026 earnings that a leading provider of frontier models based in the United States has committed $1.8 billion over seven years to Akamai’s Cloud Infrastructure Services. Bloomberg, citing people familiar with the matteridentified the client as Anthropic. Both companies declined to comment on the identification. The stock closed up 27% on May 8, its biggest one-day…
Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, receives the IEEE Medal of Honor with Mary Ellen Randall, IEEE 2026 Chair in the backgroundIEEENote that I was IEEE President in 2024.]Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of Nvidia, was awarded the $2 million IEEE 2026 Medal of Honor at the IEEE Honors Ceremony in New York. He donated the entire prize money plus an additional match from the Jen-Hsun and Lori Huang Foundation to support the next generation of engineers. Specifically, the combined prize money will be used to fund new graduate fellowships in computer science and to support hands-on STEM education initiatives, known…
The Supreme Court has recognized that government requests for donor lists are sufficient to raise First Amendment concerns.gettyA recent US Supreme Court ruling suggests that sensitive donor information may be protected—for now.On April 29, 2026, the Supreme Court ruled in First Choice Women’s Resource Centers v. Davenport that a New Jersey nonprofit had standing to challenge a state subpoena seeking information from its donors. The nation’s highest court overturned a lower court ruling that said the group had to wait until the subpoena was actually served.The Court held that the nonprofit did not have to wait for the government to…
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AI agents can now pay for services, thanks to new technology from Visa and InFlow.NurPhoto via Getty ImagesAI agents are doing more and more work every day. Someone help me research the humanoid robot ecosystem. another manages my daily email and weekly calendar. Until now, however, agents have struggled to pay for services, even if I wanted to authorize them to do so. This week, that changed. San Francisco-based InFlow is launching what it calls a native agent commerce infrastructure built on top of Visa Intelligent Commerce. The combination is important because it combines two things that have been missing…
Immigrants are using artificial intelligence to help them prepare applications for immigration to the United States. Is it a good idea? Not really. Here’s why.gettyIt’s past midnight. A man sits at his kitchen table, asking ChatGPT if he can come to the United States to support his daughter, a US permanent resident facing a difficult pregnancy. He once overstayed his US visitor visa more than a decade ago. The AI confidently tells him that he is inadmissible and cannot apply for a waiver because he is not a US citizen parent or child.Weeks later, he walks into my office. Turns…
Jesse BuchananLifetouch Inc. 2025.When Jessi Buchanan’s mother took her to the doctor on April 28, 2025, she expected a stomach bug. What they found instead was a mass the size of a cantaloupe on Jessie’s right ovary. Within weeks, the then-octogenarian from Kentucky would navigate one of the world’s rarest childhood cancers—and insist, with gentle but unwavering conviction, that she be included in every decision about her body.He was 13 years old.A diagnosis no one saw comingJessie was an otherwise healthy girl who enjoyed horseback riding, volleyball, and coloring. Her symptoms – bloating, nausea, diarrhea and an inability to feel…
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