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Engineering notes, case studies, and lessons from the field.
GitHub Copilot Switches to Token-Based AI Credits Billing — Effective June 1
GitHub replaced its Premium Request Units system with AI Credits, aligning billing to actual token usage per model. Code completions remain free; plan prices are unchanged, but agentic workloads could bust monthly quotas.
Quantinuum Prices $1.05B IPO — Largest Quantum Computing Public Offering Ever
Honeywell-backed Quantinuum is going public on Nasdaq as QNT at a $12.7B valuation, marking the first full-stack quantum computing company to reach public markets. Trading begins June 3–4.
DuckDuckGo Installs Jump 30% as Google Forces AI on Every Search
DuckDuckGo saw a 30% week-over-week spike in US app installs after Google made AI Overviews the default with no opt-out, with iOS installs peaking at 69.9% in a single day and CEO Gabriel Weinberg accusing Google of 'force-feeding AI.'
Cognition Raises $1B at $26B Valuation — Devin AI Agent Hits $492M Annualized Revenue
AI coding agent startup Cognition raised $1B led by Lux Capital and General Catalyst, vaulting from a $10.2B valuation to $26B in eight months as ARR grew from $37M to $492M, with Goldman Sachs, Mercedes-Benz, and US government agencies among its customers.
Intel Ships Arc G3 — Its First Chips Purpose-Built for Gaming Handhelds
Intel launched the Arc G3 and Arc G3 Extreme on May 28, its first processors designed from the ground up for gaming handhelds rather than adapted laptop silicon, directly challenging AMD's Ryzen Z2 dominance in the portable gaming market.
NVIDIA and Microsoft Tease 'New Era of PC' at Computex — N1X ARM Chip Confirmed for June 1
NVIDIA and Microsoft posted coordinated 'A new era of PC' teasers on May 29, pointing to Jensen Huang's GTC Taipei keynote at Computex where the co-developed N1X Windows-on-Arm SoC is expected to officially launch.
CVE-2026-27771: Gitea Flaw Exposed Private Container Images Across 31,750 Deployments for 4 Years
A critical access control bug in Gitea's container registry allowed any unauthenticated user to pull private Docker and OCI images via standard protocol calls, bypassing UI-layer restrictions. The flaw existed undetected for approximately four years — patch to Gitea 1.26.2 now.
OpenAI Maps Safety Commitments to Law for the First Time in Frontier Governance Framework
OpenAI published its Frontier Governance Framework, directly mapping internal safety practices to California's Transparency in Frontier AI Act and the EU AI Act's GPAI Code of Practice. It is the first time the company has tied its Preparedness Framework to binding legal obligations.
IBM and Red Hat Commit $5B to Project Lightwell — AI-Powered Open-Source Security at Scale
IBM and Red Hat announced a $5 billion initiative deploying 20,000+ engineers and AI agents to identify and patch vulnerabilities across the open-source supply chain. Eleven major financial institutions signed on as founding partners.
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