{"id":5119,"date":"2026-05-19T00:25:55","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T21:25:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/?p=5119"},"modified":"2026-05-22T00:35:36","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T21:35:36","slug":"top-tech-stories-of-the-week-may-18th-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/top-tech-stories-of-the-week-may-18th-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Tech Stories of the Week \u2013 May 18th, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Shein buys Everlane at $100M, and the radical-transparency brand becomes a fast-fashion asset &#8211; TNW | <a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/news\/shein-acquires-everlane-100m-l-catterton-dtc\">Link<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Starlink raises prices across satellite internet plans &#8211; The Verge | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/science\/932294\/starlink-price-increase-standby-mode\">Link<\/a><\/li>\n<li>US and Philippines move &#8220;very quickly&#8221; on 4,000-acre AI hub under Pax Silica, but diplomatic immunity request was rejected &#8211; TNW | <a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/news\/us-philippines-pax-silica-ai-hub-clark-city\">Link<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Google Says Gemini 3.5 Flash Rivals &#8216;Large Flagship Models&#8217; For Coding And Agentic Tasks &#8211; Engadget | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2176592\/google-says-gemini-3-5-flash-rivals-large-flagship-models-for-coding-and-agentic-tasks\/\">Link<\/a><\/li>\n<li>The Google AI Ultra Plan Now Starts At $100 A Month &#8211; Engadget | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2176060\/the-google-ai-ultra-plan-now-starts-at-100-a-month\/\">Link<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Plex&#8217;s 200% Lifetime Pass price hike tries forcing users to another subscription &#8211; Ars Technica | <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2026\/05\/plexs-200-lifetime-pass-price-hike-tries-forcing-users-to-another-subscription\/\">Link<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Anthropic is paying $15 billion a year for access to Elon Musk\u2019s data centers &#8211; The Verge | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/science\/935229\/spacex-anthropic-ipo-ai-capacity-deal-colossus\">Link<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shein buys Everlane at $100M, and the radical-transparency brand becomes a fast-fashion asset &#8211; TNW | Link Starlink raises prices across satellite internet plans &#8211; The Verge | Link US and Philippines move &#8220;very quickly&#8221; on 4,000-acre AI hub under Pax Silica, but diplomatic immunity request was rejected &#8211; TNW | Link Google Says Gemini [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[153],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5119"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5119"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5124,"href":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5119\/revisions\/5124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}