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A website for “$TRUMP Wallet” launches, saying it is “The Official $TRUMP Wallet by President Trump” powered by NFT service Magic Eden, and opens a waitlist — New crypto trading and wallet application, created in partnership with Magic Eden, invites fans of President Trump to buy his memecoin
More: Decrypt, The Block, $TRUMP Wallet, Protos, and The Crypto Times
| Debby Wu / Bloomberg: |
TSMC CEO C.C. Wei blames worsening traffic for delays in adding a second plant in Japan, and reaffirms plans to spend $100B in Arizona over the next five years — Wei reaffirmed a commitment to spend another $100 billion ramping up manufacturing in Arizona over the next half-decade.
More: Benzinga, Verdict, Fortune, The Japan Times, MacDailyNews, and TechSpot
| Cheng Ting-Fang / Nikkei Asia: |
TSMC CEO C.C. Wei says TSMC expects a record profit in 2025 despite geopolitical, tariff, and FX risks, and confirms it is not building a fab in the Middle East — HSINCHU, Taiwan — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. on Tuesday said it expects to log a record profit … | Thomas Ptacek / Fly: |
A software developer explains how AI agents help automate tedious coding tasks, and addresses concerns like hallucinations, job losses, mediocre code, and more — Tech execs are mandating LLM adoption. That's bad strategy. But I get where they're coming from.
More: Forbes and Simon Willison's Weblog
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| Andy Robinson / Video Games Chronicle: |
Nintendo says it didn't send any Switch 2 review units to outlets as “important features and updates” will only be available via an update on its June 5 launch — NINTENDO'S DECISION NOT TO FACILITATE PRE-LAUNCH SWITCH 2 REVIEWS IS DISAPPOINTING NEWS FOR EVERYONE
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| Gregory Meyer / Financial Times: |
A look at Walmart's use of automation to grow sales without job creation, as analysts say its staff count raise questions about the future of US retail labor — Growth in ecommerce and automation sparks questions about future of retail sector's labour force| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Q&A with Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky on Airbnb Experiences, launching new services, OpenAI, AI agents, making decisions at Airbnb, cutting PMs, Jony Ive, and more — Today, I'm talking with Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky. This is Brian's fourth time on the show, and he's one of my favorite guests …
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Some researchers say it looks like DeepSeek may have used Google Gemini to help train its R1-0528 reasoning model — Last week, Chinese lab DeepSeek released an updated version of its R1 reasoning AI model that performs well on a number of math and coding benchmarks.| Cristina Criddle / Financial Times: |
AI pioneer Yoshua Bengio launches LawZero, a nonprofit focused on safer AI; LawZero has raised nearly $30M from donors including Skype co-founder Jaan Tallinn — Turing Award winner launches LawZero not-profit for safer AI, while warning recent models display dangerous characteristics
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| Catherine Perloff / The Information: |
How AppLovin, which lets advertisers use IP addresses to track users, began eroding Google's ad market share and pushed Google to loosen its privacy stance — In 2023, Google ad executives noticed something alarming about one aspect of their business. Once-red hot revenue growth … | Financial Times: |
Sources: Xiaomi is among the Chinese companies most affected by new US chip design tool export rules, including its new 3nm mobile chip made by TSMC in Taiwan — Companies may struggle to manufacture silicon in Taiwan with export controls preventing updates to design tools| Reuters: |
Microsoft, Google, CrowdStrike, and Palo Alto Networks plan to create a public glossary of state-sponsored hacking groups to ease unofficial alias confusion — Microsoft, CrowdStrike, Palo Alto (PANW.O) and Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) Google on Monday said they would create a public glossary …
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| Bloomberg: |
Meta agrees to buy power from Constellation Energy's Illinois nuclear plant, signing a 20-year deal that starts in mid-2027 when a 10-year state subsidy expires — Constellation Energy Corp. agreed to sell power from an operating Illinois nuclear plant to Meta Platforms Inc. …
More: The Verge, Meta Newsroom, Engadget, Barron's Online, The Hill, TechCrunch, DatacenterDynamics, Financial Times, Constellation, Associated Press, CNET, Mercury News, Axios, Washington Examiner, Motley Fool, NucNet, Cryptopolitan, The Daily Caller, Forbes, Benzinga, Quartz, CNBC, UPI, Axios, ANS, POWER Magazine, ZeroHedge News, Wall Street Journal, and MarketWatch
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Epic Games launches MetaHuman, its game developer tool to quickly create realistic digital human characters, now embedded as part of Unreal Engine 5.6 — The MetaHuman creator is now built right into Unreal Engine. … Epic Games' hyperrealistic MetaHuman characters are seriously impressive …
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| Politico: |
Pornhub's parent company plans to stop serving adult content in France as soon as June 4, in protest of government measures forcing it to verify visitors' ages — Porn industry giant protests Paris' measures to verify the age of users. — This article is also available in: French| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Adobe launches Photoshop for Android in beta for devices running Android 11 or later with 6GB+ of RAM, offering tools like layers, masks, and Generative Fill — Android users can now download Photoshop for mobile. Adobe announced on Tuesday that it's releasing the beta version …
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
TikTok expands Manage Topics, a feature that lets users customize how often specific topics appear in the For You feed, and adds AI-powered keyword filtering — The ‘Manage Topics’ settings let you control how often you see TikTok videos related to sports, travel, humor, dance, and other categories.
More: TechCrunch, Jerusalem Post, TikTok, iPhone in Canada, and CNET
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Elon Musk is selling $5B in xAI debt at a double-digit interest rate via Morgan Stanley, with demand already over $3.5B and commitments due by June 17 — Elon Musk is selling $5 billion in debt for his artificial intelligence startup, xAI Corp., the latest in a series … | Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: |
| Gina Narcisi / CRN: |
Ciroos.AI, whose AI-powered site reliability engineering tool built on MCP and A2A helps businesses automate operations, emerges from stealth and raised $21M — Founded by a deep bench of tech talent, including former Cisco, AWS and Gigamon execs, Ciroos.AI is launching with $21 million raised …
More: FinSMEs, SiliconANGLE, and Constellation Research
| Kate Park / TechCrunch: |
Dublin-based cross-border payment startup NomuPay raised a $40M Series C at a $290M valuation, following a $37M Series B at a ~$200M valuation in January 2025 — As global trade evolves, there's an increasing demand for diverse cross-border payment options.
More: Tech.eu, Nomupay, Tech in Asia, Reuters, Tech Funding News, FinTech Global, FinSMEs, and Finextra
| Tim Starks / CyberScoop: |
Cynthia Kaiser, the FBI's former deputy assistant director leading cyber policy, intel, and engagement, left to join cybersecurity company Halcyon as an SVP — The 20-year bureau pro wants to see what it's like to fight ransomware from the private sector. — Learn more.| Chester Dawson / Bloomberg: |
Indeed says CEO Chris Hyams has stepped down, replaced by parent company Recruit Holdings CEO Hisayuki “Deko” Idekoba, who returns to the role after six years — Hisayuki ‘Deko’ Idekoba resumed the top job from Chris Hyams, who has stepped down.| Richard Lawler / The Verge: |
Microsoft announces Windows changes in response to the EU's DMA for EEA users, including Edge not prompting users to set it as the default browser unless opened — Apparently only the Digital Markets Act can stop Bing from begging you to switch . … Microsoft's changes in response …
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| Kate Park / TechCrunch: |
Tel Aviv-based Speedata, which is designing analytics processing units for big data workloads, raised a $44M Series B and aims to showcase its first APU in June — Speedata, a Tel Aviv-based startup developing an analytics processing unit (APU) designed to accelerate big data analytic and AI workloads …
More: CTech
| Bloomberg: |
Huawei Pura X review: Huawei's ~$1,050, China-only clamshell and first flagship to debut with HarmonyOS offers novel ergonomics but an incomplete app ecosystem — Review: The clamshell device is the company's first flagship phone to launch with its new operating system to challenge iOS and Android.| Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority: |
Google says it is ending PayPal account integration in Google Wallet for US users, effective June 13, after stopping new PayPal account linking in April 2025 — Later this month, Google Wallet will no longer let users in the U.S. use their PayPal account for payments
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