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US IT unemployment rose to 3.8% in April amid AI-driven uncertainty, while Iran’s 70-day internet blackout causes severe economic strain and business closures. In major tech news, IREN is acquiring Mirantis for $625M to expand AI infrastructure, and Google’s updated reCAPTCHA now requires Play Services, impacting de-Googled Android users. Additionally, Lithosquare raised $25M for AI mineral discovery.
An attacker used Morse code to trick AI agents Grok and Bankrbot into transferring $200,000 in tokens. Meanwhile, Meta faces employee backlash over new surveillance software used to train AI models. In the software industry, 10 trillion annual downloads are straining open-source repositories, prompting new sustainability efforts. Finally, a Georgia data center’s use of 30 million gallons of unmetered water has fueled local calls for development bans.
Meta is stripping end-to-end encryption from Instagram DMs by 2026, and Donald Trump has pivoted his AI policy toward strict regulation. As GPT-5.5 costs soar, the Iran war is driving datacenter construction prices up by 20% through supply chain disruptions. A newly identified worm is emerging that deletes competing malware to hijack credentials, while Akamai surges following a major LLM deal.
Three German political parties are exiting X due to concerns over hate speech and disinformation, potentially signaling a broader European shift. In South Korea, the AI-driven semiconductor boom has pushed SK Hynix bonuses to an average of $430,000, reshaping the social landscape. Meanwhile, experts warn as nearly half of young Europeans increasingly rely on AI chatbots for mental health support.
Anthropic is scaling Claude by leveraging SpaceX’s Colossus datacenter and 220,000 GPUs. Meanwhile, Elon Musk plans a massive $119 billion semiconductor facility in Texas. In AI efficiency, navigating websites via visual clicking costs 45 times more tokens than using APIs. Cybersecurity risks also loom as 13% of employees admit to selling work credentials, while Iranian-linked groups use ransomware tactics to mask espionage.
Anthropic is expanding its ecosystem, launching a new enterprise services firm for midmarket companies and ten AI agents for financial automation. Meanwhile, OpenAI expects to spend $50 billion on compute this year through massive, partner-funded investments. In hardware, Astera Labs unveiled its Scorpio X AI fabric switch, providing a vendor-agnostic alternative to Nvidia’s NVSwitch technology.