|
June 2, 2025, 11:40 AM
|
Mediagazer
memeorandum
WeSmirchTop News
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Samsung is nearing a deal to invest in Perplexity, preload Perplexity's app on Samsung devices, add Perplexity search to Samsung's browser, and more — The two companies are in talks to preload Perplexity's app and assistant on upcoming Samsung devices and integrate …
More: Thurrott, The Information, TechCrunch, Business Today, PCMag, MobileSyrup, Tom's Guide, Lifewire, Patently Apple, Android Police, Android Headlines, Fortune, PhoneArena, Blockchain.News, WinBuzzer, Moneycontrol, Analytics India Magazine, Financial Express, Radio Free Mobile, TechRadar, Trusted Reviews, TechIssuesToday.com, SammyGuru, Sam Lover, Tech in Asia, Cryptopolitan, NDTV Profit, Business Standard, SamMobile, KED Global, Android Authority, Neowin, and DigiTimes
| Edith Hancock / Wall Street Journal: |
Apple appeals the EU's iOS interoperability order under the DMA, saying the requirements create “a process that is unreasonable, costly, and stifles innovation” — Companies face fines of up to 10% their worldwide annual turnover if the EU decides they are flouting its Digital Markets Act
More: Axios, Reuters, New York Post, MacRumors, iClarified, Patently Apple, Cult of Mac, BGR, 9to5Mac, WinBuzzer, and MacTech.com
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
A look at Apple's AI plans for WWDC; sources say it is testing its 3B, 7B, 33B, and 150B models via an internal Playground tool, and will name macOS 26 as Tahoe — Apple, a year after debuting its AI platform, will do little at WWDC to show it's catching up to leaders like OpenAI and Google.
More: CNET, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, Computerworld, T3, The Decoder, Tom's Guide, Pocket-lint, The Shortcut, iDownloadBlog.com, MacRumors, Patently Apple, PCMag, iPhone in Canada, TechRadar, Cult of Mac, Forbes, MacDailyNews, MacTech.com, BGR, Fortune India, Neowin, Digit, Tech Times, iClarified, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, The Apple Post, Laptop Mag, Appuals, iThinkDifferent, Benzinga, Neowin, 9to5Mac, WinBuzzer, PhoneArena, and Philip Elmer‑DeWitt
Bluesky: @viticci.macstories.net. Mastodon: @matthewcassinelli …, @[email protected], @[email protected], @stroughtonsmith …, @matthewcassinelli …, @matthewcassinelli …, and @[email protected]
X: @markgurman, @mattcassinelli, @morqon, @maxwinebach, @stevesi, @mikeisaac, @rudrankriyam, @markgurman, @mattcassinelli, and @jukanlosreve
Forums: r/apple and MacRumors Forums
| Matthew Garrahan / Financial Times: |
An interview with Jony Ive and Laurene Powell Jobs on tech's next chapter, meeting in 1997, Steve Jobs, Apple, Powell Jobs backing LoveFrom in 2019, and more — After Apple, the Silicon Valley visionaries are looking to artificial intelligence to shape the future again
More: MacRumors, The Verge, AppleInsider, The Guardian, Benzinga, 9to5Mac, Forbes, Fortune, Spyglass, and Apple Must
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Meta aims to help brands fully create and target ads using AI by the end of 2026, including images and budgetary goals, expanding its current AI tools — AI-powered advertising is part of CEO Mark Zuckerberg's vision for the company's future — Meta Platforms is betting that automation is the future of ads.
More: Benzinga, Reuters, The Economic Times, Adweek, Proactive, Quartz, Yahoo Finance, WinBuzzer, TheCable, Morningstar, Inc., TVNewsCheck, and Sherwood News. Bluesky: @hypervisible
| Scharon Harding / Ars Technica: |
A deep dive into Apple TV's privacy features shows that Apple's streaming device is more private than the vast majority of alternatives, save for dumb TVs — Using the Apple TV app or an Apple account means giving Apple more data, though. … Among smart TVs, streaming sticks …
More: MacRumors. Mastodon: @mookie@wantstoruletheworld …. Forums: r/apple, r/technews, r/privacy, Ars OpenForum, and MacRumors Forums
| Melissa Heikkilä / Financial Times: |
A UK government trial of 20K+ civil servants using Microsoft Copilot for three months found that they saved 26 minutes per day on average, or two weeks per year — Staff used Microsoft's Copilot to help draft documents and summarise meetings — Simply sign up to the Artificial intelligence myFT Digest …
More: Windows Central, ComputerWeekly.com, GOV.UK, and Microsoft
| Barbara Moens / Financial Times: |
The EU Commission fines European takeaway groups Delivery Hero and Glovo €329M for taking part in an “online food delivery cartel”, ending its July 2024 probe — European Commission says European food delivery groups shared trade secrets — Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT … | Emily Mullin / Wired: |
Paradromics inserted its Connexus brain implant in a patient and removed it after ~10 minutes during epilepsy surgery on May 14, a first for the Neuralink rival — Paradromics, a brain-computer interface startup, inserted its brain implant in a person—briefly—in an early test of its technology.| Maureen Farrell / New York Times: |
US asset management firms like Blackstone, KKR, and BlackRock are pouring hundreds of billions into AI data centers, creating “oversupply” and bubble concerns — Private equity firms like Blackstone are using their clients' money to buy and build data centers to fuel the artificial intelligence boom.| The Insider: |
A look at Russian GRU Unit 29155's hacking department, which started as a lone operator in 2012, and its involvement in cyberattack and disinformation campaigns — Russian GRU Unit 29155 is best known for its long list of murder and sabotage ops, which include the Salisbury poisonings in England …
More: DataBreaches.Net. Bluesky: @twmcltd, @christogrozev, and @theins.press. Mastodon: @[email protected]
Forums: r/espionage and r/craftofintelligence
| Nikkei Asia: |
SoftBank and Intel form Saimemory, a company to develop a prototype within two years of stacked DRAM chips for AI that consume ~50% of the power of current HBM — TOKYO — SoftBank and Intel are developing a type of memory for artificial intelligence expected to consume much less electricity …
More: TechPowerUp, Capacity Media, Benzinga, The Register, Electronics Weekly, and Tom's Hardware
| Le Monde: |
Paris' public prosecutor says it charged 25 people, including six minors, over a spate of kidnappings and attempted abductions targeting crypto executives — Twenty-five people, including six minors, were charged in Paris over a spate of kidnappings and attempted abductions in France's cryptocurrency world …
More: crypto.news, Blockhead, Cointelegraph, The Block, and Cryptopolitan
| Cory Weinberg / The Information: |
Filing: neobank Chime plans to sell ~26M shares in its IPO at $24 to $26, valuing it a $10.3B to $11.1B; co-founders Chris Britt and Ryan King each own 4% to 5% — Banking app Chime plans to sell shares in an initial public offering at a price that would value it at between $10.3 billion and $11.1 billion …
Sponsor Posts
ElevenLabs:
ElevenAgents by ElevenLabs — You know us for voice. Now meet ElevenAgents — featuring Expressive Mode, our most human-sounding AI voice technology in 70+ languages with ultra-low latency. Hear it for yourself.
ElevenAgents by ElevenLabs — You know us for voice. Now meet ElevenAgents — featuring Expressive Mode, our most human-sounding AI voice technology in 70+ languages with ultra-low latency. Hear it for yourself.
Intel:
5G's most deployed platform — Powering live networks with built-in Inference across Core and RAN. That's the power of Intel Inside®
5G's most deployed platform — Powering live networks with built-in Inference across Core and RAN. That's the power of Intel Inside®
Zoho:
Introducing Leaderboard in Zoho Publish — Managing one business location is straightforward. Managing ten, fifty, or hundreds? That's where clarity disappears.When multiple locations operate under the same brand or business …
Introducing Leaderboard in Zoho Publish — Managing one business location is straightforward. Managing ten, fifty, or hundreds? That's where clarity disappears.When multiple locations operate under the same brand or business …
IDrive:
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Salesforce data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Salesforce data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.Featured Podcasts
Big Technology Podcast:
Why OpenAI Killed Sora, Did Apple Just Save Siri?, Meta's Big Loss
The Big Technology Podcast takes you behind the scenes in the tech world featuring interviews with plugged-in insiders and outside agitators.
Subscribe to Big Technology Podcast.
Hard Fork:
The Ezra Klein Show: How Fast Will A.I. Agents Rip Through the Economy?
The future is already here. Each week, journalists Kevin Roose and Casey Newton explore and make sense of the latest in the rapidly changing world of tech.
Subscribe to Hard Fork.
Great Chat:
Bubble talk
A podcast mostly about tech. Brought to you weekly by Angela Du, Sally Shin, Mac Bohannon, Helen Min, and Ashley Mayer.
Subscribe to Great Chat.
Access:
AI takes over meetings, the SF vs London tech scene, and ethics in media
A show about the tech industry's inside conversation, hosted by tech reporter Alex Heath and founder whisperer Ellis Hamburger.
Subscribe to Access.
The Upstarts Podcast:
Harvey's Winston Weinberg: From Law Associate To $11 Billion Legal AI Startup CEO
Veteran tech reporter Alex Konrad sits down with breakout entrepreneurs taking on the status quo to shake up their fields in AI, design, nuclear energy, space, and more.
Subscribe to The Upstarts Podcast.
Tools and Weapons with Brad Smith:
Everybody Goes Home: How technology is helping prevent wildfires from spreading
Microsoft Vice Chair and President Brad Smith speaks with leaders in government, business, and culture to explore the most critical challenges at the intersection of technology and society.
Subscribe to Tools and Weapons with Brad Smith.
About This Page
This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 11:40 AM ET, June 2, 2025.
The most current version of the site as always is available at our home page. To view an earlier snapshot click here and then modify the date indicated.
From Mediagazer
Todd Spangler / Variety:Kathryn Wilkens / Mediaite:
Charlotte Klein / New York Magazine:
Upcoming Tech Events
Earlier Picks
| Nitasha Tiku / Washington Post: |
More: 9to5Mac, The Post Millennial, The Verge, arXiv.org, Nature, MIT Media Lab, and arXiv.org
Bluesky: @lakewitchhouse, @nitasha, @nitasha, @nitasha, and @nitasha
Forums: r/technology, r/technews, and Slashdot
| The Guardian: |
More: LBC and New York Post
Bluesky: @galenstone, @jasfriedman, @piquedpensioner, @ianmac, @nifjnick, @shayonislynn, and @lordbonkers. Mastodon: @[email protected]
Forums: r/psychology, r/skeptic, r/unitedkingdom, r/publichealth, r/entertainment, r/technology, and r/Fauxmoi