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Google Cloud suffered an outage on Thursday, affecting many of its customers; Cloudflare, Spotify, Discord, Snapchat, and others experienced service disruptions — Large swaths of the internet went down on Thursday, affecting a range of services, from global cloud platform Cloudflare to popular apps like Spotify.
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple has set an internal release target of spring 2026 for its delayed upgrade of Siri, as part of an iOS 26.4 software update — Apple Inc. has set an internal release target of spring 2026 for its delayed upgrade of Siri, marking a key step in its artificial intelligence turnaround effort.| Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: |
The public feed of the Meta AI app is filled with private and sensitive information, suggesting users might not be aware they are sharing their chats publicly — It sounds like the start of a 21st century horror film: Your browser history has been public all along, and you had no idea.
More: Business Insider, Wired, Gizmodo, Neowin, 9to5Google, Android Authority, and Telegraph
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| MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC: |
Chime shares jumped 37% in their Nasdaq debut on Thursday, closing at $37.11 and giving the company a market cap of $13.5B — Chime shares jumped 37% in their Nasdaq debut on Thursday after the provider of online banking services sold shares in an IPO that valued the company at $11.6 billion.| Tanaya Macheel / CNBC: |
Coinbase announces its first branded credit card, in partnership with American Express, for Coinbase One US users, and creates a lower-cost Basic subscription — Coinbase on Thursday introduced its first branded credit card in partnership with American Express.| CoinDesk: |
Shopify partners with Coinbase to enable USDC payments for its merchants through Coinbase's Base layer-2 network, starting with a limited group of merchants — The integration is set to roll out on June 12 to a limited group of early access merchants, with wider availability expected later in the year.
More: Stripe, Decrypt, Fortune, Shopify, The Block, CryptoSlate, NFTgators, The Logic, The Crypto Times, CoinGape, Cryptopolitan, and CNBC
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| Justine Calma / The Verge: |
Google is working with the US National Hurricane Center to test an AI model that forecasts cyclones, and launches Weather Lab to share its AI weather models — It's working with the US National Hurricane Center to test out its new AI-based tropical cyclone model.
More: Google DeepMind, SiliconANGLE, 9to5Google, VentureBeat, New York Times, WinBuzzer, CNET, Engadget, and TipRanks Financial
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| Savyata Mishra / Reuters: |
Mattel partners with OpenAI to create AI-powered toys and games, with the first product expected in 2025, and integrates ChatGPT Enterprise in its business — Mattel (MAT.O) has teamed up with OpenAI to develop toys and games with artificial intelligence, and expects to launch … | Emanuel Maiberg / 404 Media: |
Meta sues Joy Timeline, which makes nudify app CrushAI, in Hong Kong to prevent it from advertising on Meta apps; in January, 90% of its traffic came from Meta — As part of what it claims is a new crackdown, Meta is suing a nudify app and “strengthening” its enforcement.
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Internal docs: Fidelity, TPG, Sequoia, and others are buying ~$250M worth of shares in xAI under a tender offer valuing it at $113B; Fidelity is purchasing $20M — Two dozen venture capital firms and other investors are investing in xAI, the artificial intelligence and social media company.| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: |
A Citizen Lab report finds that two European journalists had their iPhones hacked with Paragon spyware; Apple fixed the zero-day used in the spyware in February — Researchers revealed on Thursday that two European journalists had their iPhones hacked with spyware made by Paragon.
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| Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware: |
AMD unveils its new MI350X and MI355X GPUs for AI workloads, claiming up to 4x AI compute performance and 35x inference gains over the prior-gen MI300X — More power consumption equals lower TCO. — AMD unveiled its new MI350X and MI355X GPUs for AI workloads here at its Advancing AI 2025 event … | Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
An interview with Craig Federighi on iPadOS 26's multitasking UI, Stage Manager's interface limitations, and why the iPad's Mac-style multitasking took so long — Federighi talks to Ars about why the iPad's Mac-style multitasking took so long. — CUPERTINO, Calif.—When Apple Senior Vice President …
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| Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Scale AI plans to promote Chief Strategy Officer Jason Droege to CEO, replacing Alexandr Wang, who is set to join Meta after its investment in Scale AI — Scale AI plans to promote Chief Strategy Officer Jason Droege to serve as its next chief executive officer following …
More: Bloomberg Law, Business Insider, and CNBC
| Marcus Mendes / 9to5Mac: |
Apple unveils updates to help parents protect kids and teens online, such as easier Child Accounts setup, stronger defaults, and granular App Store age ratings — Apple today announced a sweeping set of updates aimed at helping parents protect kids and teens online, as part of its broader push …
More: Apple, How-To Geek, PCMag, iDownloadBlog.com, Thurrott, Engadget, Business Standard, and The Verge
| Bloomberg: |
Arm CEO Rene Haas sides with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, saying US export controls on China threaten to slow overall tech advances and harm consumers and companies — “If you narrow access to to technology and you force other ecosystems to grow up, it's not good,” Haas said Thursday in an interview … | Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Instagram plans to let users rearrange their grid, a first, and is testing a way for users to quietly post to their profile without it appearing in users' feeds — Instagram announced on Thursday that it will finally allow users to rearrange their grid, and is testing a way for users …
More: The Verge, Instagram, Hypebeast, Android Headlines, Social Media Today, Engadget, Mashable, USA Today, 9to5Mac, and Meta Newsroom
| Erik Hayden / The Hollywood Reporter: |
SAG-AFTRA ends the 320+ day video game performers strike after reaching a tentative new Interactive Media Agreement contract with the major video game companies — The union had taken a stand on artificial intelligence, among other concerns, as it looked to advocate for voice and performance capture workers.
More: SAG-AFTRA, VentureBeat, The Wrap, TechRaptor, PocketGamer.biz, and Deadline
| New York Times: |
Sources: FTC is discussing a consent decree on the Omnicom-Interpublic merger, prohibiting the combined company from boycotting platforms over political content — The Federal Trade Commission is considering restrictions on Omnicom and Interpublic to prevent the combined company from refusing …
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| Brody Ford / Bloomberg: |
Adobe reports Q2 revenue up 11% YoY to $5.87B, vs. $5.8B est., Digital Media revenue up 11% to $4.35B, and forecasts Q3 revenue above estimates — Adobe Inc. gave a sales outlook for the current quarter that topped analysts' estimates, but investors remain skeptical that the leader in creative software can outduel AI-focused upstarts.
More: SiliconANGLE, Reuters, adobe.com, Motley Fool, and Proactive
| Kerry Flynn / Axios: |
Lyft ramps up its ad business with three new ad formats; CEO David Risher said Lyft is on track to reach a $100M annualized ad revenue run rate by 2025's end — Lyft is ramping up its ad business with new formats, the ride-hailing company exclusively tells Axios.| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
An Interpol-led law enforcement action in 26 countries disrupted infostealer operations, leading to takedowns of 20K+ malicious IPs and domains and 32 arrests — An international law enforcement action codenamed “Operation Secure” targeted infostealer malware infrastructure … | CNN: |
Jensen Huang says Nvidia will exclude the Chinese market from its revenue and profit forecasts going forward, amid US restrictions on chip sales to China — Chipmaker Nvidia will exclude the Chinese market from its revenue and profit forecasts following the imposition of tough US restrictions …
More: Bloomberg, Cryptopolitan, South China Morning Post, and Forbes
| Martin Young / Cointelegraph: |
Gemini and Glassnode research: centralized treasuries, including governments, ETFs, and public companies, hold and control 30.9% of bitcoin's circulating supply — Centralized treasuries, including governments, ETFs and public companies, now control approximately $668 billion of Bitcoin's circulating supply.
More: Gemini, Gemini, Blockworks, Inside Bitcoins, Benzinga, crypto.news, BeInCrypto, and CoinDesk
| Zoe Kleinman / BBC: |
The UK passes the Data (Use and Access) Bill, criticized by creatives, without an amendment to force companies to declare using copyrighted material to train AI — A bill which sparked an extraordinary stand-off between some of the UK's most high-profile artists - and their backers in the House of Lords - has finally been passed.| Dana Hull / Bloomberg: |
Tesla sues ex-Optimus engineer Zhongjie Li, who worked at Tesla from 2022 to 2024, accusing him of stealing humanoid robot info and setting up a rival startup — Zhongjie “Jay” Li worked at Tesla between August 2022 and September 2024, according to a complaint filed in a San Francisco Federal Court late on Wednesday.
More: TechCrunch, The Information, New York Post, TESLARATI, and EV
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