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☀️ On this day: On May 3, 1984, 19-year-old Michael Dell officially incorporated PC's Limited from room 2713 of the Dobie Center dormitory at the University of Texas at Austin, with $1,000 in starting capital. His model was simple: build IBM-compatible PCs to order and ship them directly to customers, cutting out retailers entirely. The company made $6 million in its first year; today Dell Technologies turns 42 and carries a market cap of roughly $60 billion.
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🎮 GameStop is preparing a $46 billion bid to acquire eBay
🪖 Pentagon signs AI deals with 7 companies
🐾 OpenAI adds AI-generated pets to its Codex app
🪦 Ask .com shuts down after 29 years, ending the Ask Jeeves era
🍎 MacBook Neo demand caught Apple off guard, now supply-constrained
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🎮 GameStop wants to buy eBay ↗️LINK
GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen is preparing a bid for eBay, a company worth $46 billion — nearly four times GameStop's own market cap — sending eBay shares up 13% in after-hours trading after the WSJ broke the story.
GameStop has been quietly building a stake in eBay shares ahead of a formal offer, and is sitting on $9 billion in cash to help finance it. If eBay's board says no, Cohen is ready to go directly to shareholders.
Cohen's compensation package only pays out if GameStop hits a $100 billion market cap and $10 billion in EBITDA. Buying a marketplace with 130 million active buyers is one way to make that math work — or spectacularly not.
🪖 Pentagon signs AI deals with 7 companies ↗️LINK
The U.S. Defense Department signed AI deployment agreements with Nvidia, Microsoft, AWS, and Reflection AI, giving them access to its highest-security classified networks alongside earlier deals with Google, SpaceX, and OpenAI.
The Pentagon is deliberately building a multi-vendor AI architecture after its legal dispute with Anthropic, which refused unrestricted access and won a court injunction blocking the DOD from labeling it a supply-chain risk.
Over 1.3 million DOD personnel already use GenAI .mil for unclassified work. The new IL6/IL7 deals push AI into the most sensitive operational environments, which is exactly what Anthropic said it wanted guardrails against.
🐾 OpenAI adds AI-generated pets to its Codex app ↗️LINK
OpenAI added optional animated companions to its Codex app on Windows and macOS. The pets float as overlays, showing active threads and alerting users when Codex finishes a task or needs input.
Users summon companions with "/pet" and generate custom ones with "/hatch." There are eight built-in options, plus user-created variants including, naturally, several versions of Microsoft Clippy.
OpenAI is running a contest where 10 favorite user-generated pets win their creators 30 days of ChatGPT Pro. Vibe coding now comes with a loyalty rewards program.
🪦 Ask .com shuts down after 29 years ↗️LINK
IAC shut down Ask .com on May 1, nearly 30 years after it launched as Ask Jeeves in 1997. The site's farewell message read: "Every great search must come to an end."
Ask Jeeves pioneered natural language search before Google made it irrelevant. IAC dropped the Jeeves branding in 2006, killed the independent crawler in 2010, and never found a new lane against Google, Yahoo Answers, or Quora.
The irony: Ask Jeeves built a conversational Q&A engine decades before ChatGPT made that the hottest thing in tech. It was early — just not early enough to survive the wait.
🍎 MacBook Neo demand caught Apple off guard ↗️LINK
Apple CEO Tim Cook called MacBook Neo demand "off the charts" on the Q2 earnings call, saying the company "undercalled" enthusiasm for the laptop and drove a record number of first-time Mac buyers last quarter.
Launched March 11 at $599 (or $499 for students), the MacBook Neo runs Apple's A18 Pro chip. High demand has pushed delivery estimates to 2-3 weeks for all configurations on Apple's U.S. store.
Apple was already optimistic before launch and still got blindsided. A $599 Mac with iPhone 16 Pro internals turns out to be a pretty easy sell.
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