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Overhyped
May 5, 2026 · 2 min

GameStop offers $56B for eBay without clear financing plan

The meme-stock retailer wants to buy a company four times its size, proposing to turn stores into authentication hubs and livestream studios.

Verified
May 5, 2026 · 2 min

OpenAI president's own journal entries bolster Musk's lawsuit

Greg Brockman's 2017 writings show internal debates about converting the nonprofit to for-profit status, potentially supporting Elon Musk's charity theft claims.

Verified
May 5, 2026 · 2 min

Google DeepMind staff vote to unionize over military AI contracts

London workers demand right to refuse projects violating ethical standards as Google expands Pentagon partnerships.

Verified
May 5, 2026 · 2 min

Meta scans photos for bone structure to block kids under 13

Facebook and Instagram deploy AI to analyze height and bone structure in user photos, expanding age detection beyond account data to visual cues.

Verified
May 5, 2026 · 2 min

Sierra raises $950M at $15B valuation for AI customer agents

Bret Taylor's startup claims 40% of Fortune 50 as customers while burning through enterprise AI budgets industrywide.

Verified
May 5, 2026 · 2 min

Musk expert witness warns AGI race threatens AI safety controls

Berkeley professor Stuart Russell testified that competition for artificial general intelligence creates tension between speed and safety measures.

Verified
May 5, 2026 · 2 min

Image AI models pull 6.5x more downloads than text updates

Appfigures data shows visual AI features drive downloads but most fail to convert that spike into subscription revenue.

Verified
May 5, 2026 · 2 min

Cerebras targets $26.6B IPO with OpenAI as major customer and creditor

AI chipmaker files for $3.5B offering backed by $1B OpenAI loan and $10B+ supply deal, with Sam Altman and other OpenAI execs as early investors.

Verified
May 5, 2026 · 2 min

Nvidia CEO claims AI creates jobs amid 15% job loss predictions

Jensen Huang counters economic anxiety with industrialization argument while academic estimates predict widespread displacement.

Verified
May 4, 2026 · 2 min

P&C insurer builds E&S platform in 15 weeks with IntellectAI

National carrier deployed functional underwriting platform for excess casualty coverage using configuration over custom development.

Verified
May 4, 2026 · 2 min

Pmtbox raises $15M seed to consolidate merchant payments stack

Enterprise commerce platform closes Utah's largest seed round in a decade to unify fragmented payment, risk, and data infrastructure.

Verified
May 4, 2026 · 2 min

Reserv raises $125M Series C to scale AI-driven claims processing

Insurance TPA targets 60x capacity expansion from 500K to 30M annual claims over four years with KKR-led funding round.