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June 2, 2025, 8:30 PM
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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
Belle Lin / Wall Street Journal:
Snowflake agrees to acquire Crunchy Data, a cloud-based database service that helps businesses and government agencies use PostgreSQL, a source says for ~$250M  —  The cloud data company aims to attract customers who want to build their own artificial intelligence agents
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.
Reuters:
Microsoft, Google, CrowdStrike, and Palo Alto plan a public glossary of state-sponsored hacking groups to ease confusion over the spread of unofficial aliases  —  Microsoft, CrowdStrike, Palo Alto (PANW.O) and Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) Google on Monday said they would create a public glossary …
Financial Times:
Sources: xAI is launching a $300M secondary stock offering that values the group at $113B, allowing staff to sell shares to new investors  —  Deal to allow investors to buy into group following March takeover of X  —  Tabby Kinder, George Hammond and Hannah Murphy in San Francisco, and Ivan Levingston in London
New York Times:
Sources: the FTC is investigating whether roughly a dozen advertising and advocacy groups violated antitrust law by coordinating boycotts among advertisers  —  The regulator is looking into whether roughly a dozen groups violated antitrust law by coordinating boycotts among advertisers.
Maya Goldman / Axios:
FDA debuts agency-wide AI tool meant to help scientific reviewers and others streamline their work and, soon, to identify high-priority targets for inspections  —  The Food and Drug Administration on Monday is launching an agency-wide generative AI tool aimed at helping scientific reviewers …
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
Michael Acton / Financial Times:
Alphabet offers to spend $500M+ over ten years to rebuild its global compliance structure, in a settlement proposal for an antitrust lawsuit from shareholders  —  Latest move comes as tech giant is attacked on multiple legal fronts that threaten its break-up
Belle Lin / Wall Street Journal:
Netic, which sells an AI platform that helps home services firms automate client outreach and handle calls, raised $20M from Greylock, Founders Fund, and others  —  The startup Netic launched a platform that helps skilled trade companies book appointments and generate new sales using artificial intelligence
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 …
David Heaney / UploadVR:
Sources: Meta prioritizes an ultralight Horizon OS headset with a compute puck for 2026, and may not ship a new Quest with a traditional form factor until 2027  —  Meta is prioritizing shipping an ultralight Horizon OS headset with a tethered compute puck in 2026, multiple sources tell UploadVR.

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Dan Mangan / CNBC:
President Trump files a $10B defamation lawsuit against the BBC, alleging it intentionally doctored a Panorama documentary to misrepresent his January 6 speech

Jem Bartholomew / Columbia Journalism Review:
US Press Freedom Tracker: 32 journalists arrested or charged in 2025, vs. 50 in 2024, and 170 assaulted, nearly as many as the previous three years combined

Byron Tau / Associated Press:
Sources: Bay Area radio station KCBS-AM, which faced MAGA backlash over ICE coverage, scaled back political reporting after Brendan Carr's threats of a probe

More News

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
X aims to roll out an “XChat” messaging feature “with encryption, vanishing messages and the ability to send any kind of file” to all users this week
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%
Emily Mullin / Wired:
Paradromics says it successfully tested its Connexus brain implant, which encodes memory, in a patient during epilepsy surgery, a first for the Neuralink rival
Karin Matussek / Bloomberg:
Germany's Federal Cartel Office warns Amazon that its marketplace retailer price controls likely violate national and EU laws, in its preliminary assessment

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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
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
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