|
June 6, 2025, 8:40 PM
|
Mediagazer
memeorandum
WeSmirchTop News
| Alex Leary / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Trump plans to extend TikTok's June 19 sale deadline; ByteDance told the White House that China wouldn't approve a deal until trade negotiations began — The move would mark Trump's third extension, as he seeks to stave off enforcement of a law requiring that the app be banned in the U.S. or sold
More: AppleInsider, Engadget, Tubefilter, The Information, NewsMax.com, MacRumors, Daily Mail, New York Post, The Free Press, New York Post, Yahoo Finance, TipRanks Financial, and Digital Music News
Bluesky: @greggnunziata. X: @derektmuller, @marctshort, @scottgreenfield, @foxmike90, @charlescwcooke, @eggerdc, @damonlinker, @cgasparino, @marctshort, @rickesenberg, @saramorrison, @adamkovac, @willatfire, @davidafrench, @thefp, @mkwitzke, @chrisduncania, @seangibson_, @nicoperrino, @bradsherman, @cgasparino, and @greggnunziata. Forums: MacRumors Forums
| Financial Times: |
Sources: Tucker Carlson was on WH's list of potential TikTok investors, with JD Vance pushing for his inclusion, along with others like a16z and Blackstone — Vice-president JD Vance pushed for right-wing media star's inclusion in a deal for video app — Alex Rogers in Washington …
Bluesky: @evelyndouek, @ebakerwhite, @karlbode.com, @paleofuture, and @justinhendrix. X: @tcberenson
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
What to expect at WWDC 2025: iOS 26 and other software branding changes, redesigned software interfaces, productivity enhancements, minor AI changes, and more — Company set to highlight software redesigns as it remains on sidelines of AI revolution. — Apple Inc.'s upcoming Worldwide …
More: MacRumors, MacRumors, TechCrunch, MacRumors, AppleInsider, Wall Street Journal, 9to5Mac, PhoneArena, Investor's Business Daily, CNET, CNBC, 9to5Mac, Ars Technica, CNBC, Daring Fireball, iThinkDifferent, Macworld, PocketGamer.biz, The Information, The Mac Observer, ZDNET, The Verge, TechRadar, BGR, Pocket-lint, PetaPixel, Gizmodo, The Apple Post, Thurrott, iPhone in Canada, iLounge, Engadget, iClarified, MacRumors, Neowin, MacRumors, iDownloadBlog.com, TechRadar, Yahoo Finance, Tom's Guide, Cult of Mac, Business Standard, Macworld, Wired, Tech Advisor, MacDailyNews, and Android Headlines
Bluesky: @sarahp. Mastodon: @Sarahp@mastodon.social. X: @markgurman, @joshuatopolsky, @markgurman, @markgurman, @markgurman, @film_girl, @scobleizer, and @joannastern
Forums: r/apple, Slashdot, and MacRumors Forums
| MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC: |
Winklevoss twins' crypto exchange Gemini says it has confidentially filed for an IPO in the US, after SEC dropped its probe and Gemini settled with CFTC for $5M — Gemini, the cryptocurrency exchange and custodian founded by Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, has confidentially filed for an IPO in the U.S. …
More: Gemini, Decrypt, Bloomberg, The Information, Cointelegraph, Reuters, Financial Times, BeInCrypto, Coinpedia Fintech News, Bitcoin Magazine, Wall Street Journal, Blockchain.News, Blockworks, crypto.news, CoinDesk, MarketWatch, CoinGape, Bitcoin Insider, The Block, and CryptoSlate
Bluesky: @samblum. X: @jakegallen_, @tyler_did_it, @udiwertheimer, @pentosh1, @perkinscr97, and @eleanorterrett
| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Google rolls out “scheduled actions” in the Gemini app, allowing AI Pro and AI Ultra subscribers to ask the AI assistant to perform tasks at specific times — Now subscribers can ask the AI assistant to provide calendar summaries on a daily basis or generate a summary of an event after it takes place.| Financial Times: |
Tech industry fears the fallout from the Musk-Trump rift, as some prominent tech right figures downplay its permanence; source: David Sacks was “shell-shocked” — Tech industry fears commercial and political damage from breakdown in relationship between Tesla boss and US president
More: The Hill, Blood in the Machine, Daring Fireball, TechCrunch, New York Post, CNBC, ABC News, Cryptopolitan, Fortune, Reuters, Axios, Mercury News, Politico, Sherwood News, The San Francisco Standard, New York Times, Bloomberg, Celebrity Insider, Yahoo Finance, The Irish Times, The Week, CNN, The Atlantic, NDTV Profit, FemaleFirst, 9News, The Information, and Australian Financial Review
Bluesky: @bcmerchant, @dmnd.me, @jjinandtonic, and @cascoinfoundation.org
Threads: @carnage4life, @ianbremmer, @xbryan_waynex, @caroline.banfield, @ianbremmer, and @jdickerson
X: @teddyschleifer, @markpinc, @jasminewsun, @devahaz, @shakeelhashim, and @bencjacobs. Forums: Hacker News
| Edward Ludlow / Bloomberg: |
Source: Milan Kovac, Tesla's head of engineering for Optimus, is leaving; Ashok Elluswamy, who leads Autopilot teams, will take over the humanoid robot program — Milan Kovac, the head of engineering for Optimus, informed colleagues on Friday that he is departing effective immediately …
More: The Information, Reuters, TechCrunch, Fortune, CNBC, Wall Street Journal, and Sherwood News. Bluesky: @kolchak
| Jason Shubnell / The Block: |
Eric Trump says the TRUMP memecoin team and Magic Eden have canceled the $TRUMP Wallet; Trump's World Liberty Financial reportedly sent them a cease-and-desist — - Earlier this week, Magic Eden and the $TRUMP token project announced a forthcoming “official” wallet and trading app.| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
X names Polymarket as its official prediction market partner, with plans to combine Polymarket predictions with X data to deliver live insights — X, formerly known as Twitter, announced on Friday that it has partnered with Polymarket, naming it the platform's official prediction market partner.
More: Decrypt, Polymarket, Bloomberg, CryptoSlate, The Crypto Times, Cryptopolitan, The Block, crypto.news, BeInCrypto, Crypto Briefing, Washington Examiner, MediaPost, CoinDesk, and Bitcoin Insider
X: @x, @antoniogm, @jason, and @signulll
| Ian Allison / CoinDesk: |
The UK FCA says it will lift its ban on offering crypto exchange traded notes to retail investors “to support UK growth and competitiveness” — The move is to support U.K. growth and competitiveness, the FCA said. — What to know: … U.K. financial regulator …
More: Financial Conduct Authority, Bloomberg, CNBC, crypto.news, Crypto Briefing, BeInCrypto, Cryptopolitan, Bitcoin Insider, The Block, Coinpedia Fintech News, Reuters, and CryptoSlate
LinkedIn: Ian Taylor and James Burnie
| Reuters: |
OpenAI appeals a court order in The New York Times case requiring it to keep ChatGPT outputs indefinitely, saying it conflicts with its user privacy commitments — OpenAI is appealing an order in a copyright case brought by the New York Times that requires it to preserve ChatGPT output data indefinitely … | Bloomberg: |
An Indian government official says Starlink has secured a license from the telecom ministry to launch services in the country and now must apply for spectrum — Elon Musk's Starlink Inc. has got regulatory approval in India, paving the way for rolling out its satellite internet services in the world's most-populous country.
More: CNBC-TV18, Times of India, Reuters, Associated Press, Business Standard, Moneycontrol, Moneycontrol, India Today on YouTube, CNBC-TV18 on YouTube, NEWS9 Live on YouTube, Outlook India, Zee News, The New Indian Express, The Economic Times, News9live, Republic World, India Today, Times of India, Financial Express, NDTV Profit, Fortune India, Times of India, Financial Express, The New Indian Express, Inc42 Media, Trak.in, and Digit
| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
Researchers: cybercriminals are increasingly turning from “bulletproof” hosts to “residential proxies” that disguise malicious traffic as normal online activity — In an effort to evade detection, cybercriminals are increasingly turning to “residential proxy” … | ProPublica: |
VA used a DOGE AI tool by Gumroad founder Sahil Lavingia that hallucinated contract sizes to cancel 24+ deals; Lavingia says “mistakes were made” — We obtained records showing how a Department of Government Efficiency staffer with no medical experience used artificial intelligence to identify which VA contracts to kill.
More: ProPublica, Defense One, The Independent, emptywheel, UPI, Eschaton, and FedScoop
Bluesky: @bxroberts.org, @willoremus.com, @markriedl, @charlesornstein, @justinhendrix, @catmomdo, @kwcollins, @dzaia40, @jongreen, @jkuenzie, @smcgrath.phd, @nrvscrcts, @karlbode.com, and @themorrancave
Mastodon: @skiles@carhenge.club, @astro_jcm@mastodon.online, @ernie@writing.exchange, @knittingknots2@mstdn.social, @dbreunig@note.computer, and @danlyke@researchbuzz …
LinkedIn: Erika Hall and Keith Kegley
Forums: Hacker News, r/BetterOffline, r/VeteransAffairs, r/technology, r/fednews, r/inthenews, and Ars OpenForum
Sponsor Posts
Subquadratic:
Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens.
Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens.
Cloudflare:
Cloudflare Connect 2026: The Agentic Conference — Stop preparing for agents. Start running them. 100+ sessions, workshops, and speakers from OpenAI, Arm, and Cloudflare across AI, security, and performance.
Cloudflare Connect 2026: The Agentic Conference — Stop preparing for agents. Start running them. 100+ sessions, workshops, and speakers from OpenAI, Arm, and Cloudflare across AI, security, and performance.
Zoho:
Automate your scheduling workflows with Zoho Calendar — Your calendar can do more than schedule meetings Creating a calendar event takes only a few seconds. But scheduling is rarely just about creating the event.
Automate your scheduling workflows with Zoho Calendar — Your calendar can do more than schedule meetings Creating a calendar event takes only a few seconds. But scheduling is rarely just about creating the event.
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
Grit:
Inside the AI Startup Making Customer Support 65% Cheaper
Grit explores what it takes to create, build and scale world-class organizations.
Subscribe to Grit.
Lenny's Podcast:
90 minutes of unfiltered product advice from Snap and Discord's product chief | Peter Sellis
Interviews with world-class product leaders and growth experts to uncover actionable advice to help you build, launch, and grow your own product.
Subscribe to Lenny's Podcast.
Big Technology Podcast:
AI Doom Backlash Arrives, Anthropic & OpenAI IPO Outlook, Frontier Business Momentum Slows
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.
Channels with Peter Kafka:
AI Wants to Shop for You. What Could Go Wrong?
Media and tech aren't just intersecting - they're fully intertwined. To understand how those worlds work, Peter Kafka talks to industry leaders, upstarts and observers.
Subscribe to Channels with Peter Kafka.
Invest Like the Best:
Michael Moritz - Lessons From 40 Years of Investing and Writing
The leading destination to learn about business and investing. We do this by showcasing exceptional talent and ideas.
Subscribe to Invest Like the Best.
Sources:
Baseten's CEO on why every company will want to own its AI
Candid conversations with the leaders shaping what's next in AI and the broader tech industry. Hosted by Alex Heath, who has covered Silicon Valley for more than a decade.
Subscribe to Sources.
About This Page
This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 8:40 PM ET, June 6, 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
Bloomberg:Dan Mangan / CNBC:
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Upcoming Tech Events
More News
| Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
More: TechCrunch, Business Insider, HIT Consultant, MarketWatch, Yahoo Finance, Bloomberg, and Axios. LinkedIn: Daniel van den Bergh
| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Earlier Picks
| Tanaya Macheel / CNBC: |
More: The Block, PYMNTS.com, American Banker, Reuters, Barron's Online, The Daily Hodl, MarketWatch, The Crypto Basic, Protos, DL News, CoinGape, Benzinga, The Daily Upside, NewsBTC, Fortune, Yahoo Finance, Blockworks, Insider Monkey, Blockhead, TechCrunch, PitchBook, Bloomberg Law, Cointelegraph, Finextra, CoinDesk, BeInCrypto, The Crypto Times, Crunchbase News, Cryptopolitan, and CryptoNinjas
Threads: @elatable. X: @jerallaire, @circle, @ericjackson, @nyse, @ddisparte, @mdudas, @novogratz, @defiignas, @dan_pantera, @bgurley, @psneville, @usdc, @chamath, @jasonyanowitz, @ddisparte, @nyse, @iampaulgrewal, @sandrapersing, @mdudas, @shanaggarwal, @el33th4xor, @nyse, @circle, @circle, @jgarzik, @monetsupply, @adamscochran, @vishalkgupta, @saylor, @coinbase, @brian_armstrong, @m_c_klein, and @danprimack
LinkedIn: Grace Noto, Jason Yanowitz, Jon Ma, Nik Milanović, Dion Lisle, Kia Kokalitcheva, Joel Baglole, and Aman Verjee, CFA
Forums: r/Buttcoin and Slashdot
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
More: Ars Technica, Anthropic, The Verge, AI News, ZDNET, KnowTechie, Washington Times, Business Today, Fortune, FedScoop, and implicator.ai
X: @elder_plinius, @anthropicai, and @samfbiddle
Forums: r/technews and Ars OpenForum