Morning Brief — 2026-05-29

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🇺🇸 US News

Former AG Pam Bondi will testify before Congress over her handling of the Epstein files.
The U.S. government is preparing to print a $250 note featuring Trump’s face, despite current law barring living people on currency.
Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket exploded on a Florida launch pad during an engine-firing test.
A former senior CIA officer is accused of stealing gold bars and millions in cash.

The U.S. and Iran are close to a deal, but Vance says negotiators are “not there yet.”
Netanyahu says he has directed the IDF to expand control of Gaza to 70%.
Al Jazeera says Washington and Tehran are nearing a 60-day truce aimed at reopening Hormuz.
Romania called an emergency meeting after a Russian drone hit a residential block and injured two people.

Stock futures rose slightly Friday while oil fell as traders watched Iran-U.S. ceasefire developments.
The S&P 500 is on pace for a nearly 5% monthly gain after a record-setting session.
The Nasdaq is leading May with an roughly 8% advance as tech earnings stay powerful.
Dow futures were up about 81 points, or 0.2%, before the final trading day of May.

Anthropic raised $65B at a $965B post-money valuation to expand Claude, safety research, and compute.
Samsung began shipping 12-layer HBM4E AI memory samples, lifting shares as much as 6.5%.
Figma Make can now connect to production or sandbox repos for visual software edits.
Amazon is selling access to the shopping-assistant tech behind Alexa for Shopping.
ElevenLabs says Music v2 can generate commercially cleared songs with faster rap delivery and genre switches.

Dell shares surged 38% after guidance rose and Q1 beat expectations.
Samsung shares jumped after the company shipped next-generation AI memory chip samples.
LG Electronics shares spiked 24% after debuting Google-based automotive display tech.
QQQ remains a clean AI-tech proxy as Nasdaq leadership continues into month-end.

OpenClaw’s May 28 pre-release steadies Agent and Codex runtime recovery, subagent workspace separation, and channel delivery.
ClawHub now shows 52.7k tools, 180k users, and 12M downloads across its skill and plugin ecosystem.
The latest release also adds plugin display names, skill verification, trust surfaces, and iOS Pro UI refreshes.