May 28, 2026
Today's top tech stories, deduped across the newsletters I read and briefly summarized. Click a source to open the original article.
AI
SpaceX IPO prospectus reveals AI infrastructure play and moon base plans
SpaceX's IPO filing tells two stories: the company is building terrestrial data centers with Anthropic as a disclosed customer at $1.25 billion per month through May 2029, while also betting that the future of AI inference belongs in orbit. The prospectus also reveals Elon Musk received a pay package worth 1.3 billion restricted shares that carry voting rights even before performance targets are met.
OpenRouter more than doubles valuation to $1.3 billion
OpenRouter raised $113 million in a Series B led by CapitalG, pushing its valuation to $1.3 billion. The AI gateway startup provides access to over 400 models and processes 100 trillion tokens per month.
China restricts overseas travel for top AI talent at private firms
China has imposed travel restrictions on leading AI professionals at private companies, requiring approval from authorities before any overseas travel. The affected individuals include a mix of startup founders, researchers, and executives.
Google expands external testing of CodeMender, its AI security vulnerability agent
Google is opening up external testing for CodeMender, an AI agent that finds and fixes software vulnerabilities, positioning it as a direct competitor to Anthropic's Mythos. The move is part of a broader acceleration in AI-powered security tooling.
Users behave differently in AI Overviews vs. AI Mode, study finds
A study of 846,000 search sessions found that AI Overviews turn Google into a comparison layer, with users scrolling backward in 47.5% of total scrolling on AIO pages versus 27% without them. AI Mode drives faster acceptance and fewer clicks overall.
OpenAI and Anthropic accelerate toward IPOs with new partnerships and hires
OpenAI and Anthropic are ramping up launches, partnerships, and acquisitions ahead of planned IPOs. Anthropic showcased Claude Mythos finding thousands of security vulnerabilities across major companies, while OpenAI hired ServiceNow CMO Colin Fleming to lead its enterprise marketing push.
Security
Supply chain attack hits Laravel-Lang packages with credential stealer
An attacker compromised 233 versions across three Laravel-Lang repositories by abusing GitHub's version-tagging system to redirect tags to commits in an attacker-controlled fork, letting malicious code load via Composer's autoloader without touching the original files. The attack affected laravel-lang/lang, which has 7,800 GitHub stars.
Charter Communications confirms data breach after ShinyHunters extortion threat
Charter Communications confirmed a data breach after the ShinyHunters ransomware gang posted an extortion threat, claiming they accessed the company's Salesforce instance by compromising an employee's Microsoft Entra account via vishing.
Microsoft Copilot Cowork vulnerable to prompt injection and file exfiltration
Microsoft Copilot Cowork lets agents send unapproved emails to a user's own inbox that render external images, meaning a prompt injection attack can exfiltrate data and leak pre-authenticated OneDrive download links to an attacker when the victim opens the message.
Dev
Vercel cut build provisioning from 90 seconds to 5 with Firecracker microVMs
Vercel slashed build provisioning time from 90 seconds to 5 seconds using Hive, an internal platform built on AWS Firecracker microVMs. The approach was necessary because they run untrusted customer code on shared hardware, where containers' shared kernel is too risky and standard VMs are too slow to spin up per build.
IT
Dropbox founder Drew Houston steps down as CEO after 19 years
Dropbox founder Drew Houston is stepping down as CEO after 19 years, with product chief Ashraf Alkarmi becoming co-CEO and eventual successor. The transition comes as Dropbox works to reposition itself around AI products like Dash.
Other
NASA selects Blue Origin for first uncrewed lunar mission, awards moon base contracts
NASA has chosen Blue Origin to conduct the first of three uncrewed lunar missions aimed at bootstrapping a moon base, with launch as early as this fall. Astrolab and Lunar Outpost have been contracted to build approximately one-ton autonomous rovers with 200 km range, targeted for delivery to the Moon in 2028.