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Clara Shih, a former top AI executive at both Salesforce and Meta, is launching a new foundation that aims to provide the next generation of workers tools to navigate the uncertain job market.

Why it matters: College students and younger workers are increasingly stressed that AI is eroding entry-level jobs.

Google on Wednesday announced a new generation of its Tensor chips with separate options for training and inference along with a consolidated enterprise platform.

Why it matters: Google is in a pitched battle with Amazon and Microsoft to be the cloud provider of choice for AI workloads.

A well-timed, optimistic post on Truth Social from President Trump about the war in Iran can send stocks higher.

Why it matters: Social media posts from the White House have become key drivers of the oil and stock markets during the conflict, particularly as its resolution seems to keep moving further and further out of reach.

After a choppy start to the year, the AI trade is back, pushing stocks to new highs.

Why it matters: Tech optimism is outweighing Iran-war pessimism, at least in the stock market.

An MQ-4C Triton crashed this month, according to U.S. Navy data and publicly available flight logs.

Why it matters: At roughly $240 million a pop, the Northrop Grumman-made maritime surveillance drone is among the single priciest losses amid the Iran war.

The builder of the U.S. Navy's futuristic fighter, known as F/A-XX, will be selected in August, according to the service's top uniformed official.

Why it matters: The long-awaited decision would cap a secretive competition between Boeing and Northrop Grumman, and also signal some sort of consensus between the White House, Pentagon and Hill.

It's been almost one year since the Trump administration revealed its Golden Dome game plan.

Why it matters: President Trump said his hemispheric missile shield will block "very close to 100%" of inbound threats, and will come online before his second term is up.

• But the public remains in the dark about what, exactly, it looks like and how it will be funded fully.

Both Anthropic and OpenAI posted their biggest-ever lobbying spends in the first quarter of 2026, with Anthropic at $1.6 million and OpenAI at $1 million, per federal lobbying disclosures.

Why it matters: The two biggest frontier AI model companies hardly spent time in Washington just years ago. Now, they're joining the ranks of more seasoned tech companies shelling out millions a quarter on lobbying.

New prediction market tools and viral videos are creating a world where tragedy is increasingly being amplified and gamified.

Why it matters: In an attention economy that rewards shock and extremes, everything has become a reality show.

The real leap in Anthropic's and OpenAI's latest cyber-capable models isn't that they can hack in entirely new ways, but that they can do it faster, at greater scale, and increasingly turn vulnerabilities into working exploits, early users tell Axios.

Why it matters: The models may only represent one big step forward today, rather than a leap into the unknown. But if their current trajectory holds, they may still outstrip defenses designed for human-scale attacks.