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| Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: |
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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| 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.
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| Bloomberg: |
Meta announces a $14.3B investment in Scale AI and hires CEO Alexandr Wang to help oversee its AI efforts; source: Scale AI's post-money valuation is $29B — Meta said Thursday that it has backed Scale, without including details. The size of the investment was $14.3 billion, according to a person familiar with the matter.
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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.
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| 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.
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| Tanaya Macheel / CNBC: |
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| Dominic Preston / The Verge: |
Google plans to shut down Android's Instant Apps, which let users launch apps without installing them, later this year citing low usage and engagement — The installation-free apps will join the Google graveyard in December. … Google has confirmed that it plans to shut … | Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Walmart, Amazon, and Expedia have recently explored issuing or using stablecoins in the US to potentially save fees from cash and card transactions — Corporate coins could take payments activity away from banks and the traditional financial system| Matt Swider / The Shortcut: |
Nintendo Switch 2 review: great build quality, better haptics, and improved performance for Switch 1 games, but weak battery life and only a few launch titles — 🏆 Review score: 5 out of 5 — 🏅 Editor's Choice Award — ✅ 🎮 Excellent build quality and premium feel| Dong Cao / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Tencent is in early talks to acquire Nexon, the South Korean gaming giant behind Dungeon & Fighter Mobile; Tencent pursued a Nexon acquisition in 2019 — Shenzhen-based Tencent has reached out to the family of Nexon's late founder Kim Jung-ju to discuss the possibility of an acquisition …
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| 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 … | Reuters: |
Customs data shows Foxconn exported $3.2B worth of iPhones from India between March and May, with an average 97% to the US, up from a 2024 average of 50.3% — Nearly all the iPhones exported by Foxconn from India went to the United States between March and May, customs data showed … | Jeremy Fuster / The Wrap: |
SAG-AFTRA's Interactive Media Agreement with game companies requires performers' informed consent for all planned AI use on their voice, likeness, and movements — Full text of the tentative agreement will be released June 18 for a ratification vote period that ends July 9| Erik Hayden / The Hollywood Reporter: |
| Financial Times: |
Sources: China delays approval of Synopsys' Ansys deal as the US moved in late May to ban chip design software sales by US firms, including Synopsys, to China — Beijing's antitrust regulator postpones sign-off on Synopsys and Ansys deal — A $35bn US semiconductor industry merger …
More: Benzinga, Reuters, and Cryptopolitan
| 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.
More: Fortune, SiliconANGLE, Capital Brief, Forerunner, ICONIQ, and Crunchbase News
| Heather Somerville / Wall Street Journal: |
The Army Reserve launches Detachment 201, an innovation corps with Palantir CTO, Meta CTO, and other tech execs advising on AI and tech as lieutenant colonels — Silicon Valley executives are joining a new innovation corps in Army Reserve — The nerd brigade is reporting for duty.
Bluesky: @newsincontext. Mastodon: @jeffjarvis@mastodon.social. Threads: @boztank and @boztank. X: @kevinweil
| Bloomberg: |
A senior Trump administration official projects that Huawei's Ascend AI chip output will be at or below 200,000 for 2025, in a hearing with US lawmakers — The Chinese technology giant will be able to make just 200,000 of its Ascend AI chips in 2025, Commerce Under Secretary Jeffrey Kessler said Thursday at a Congressional hearing.
More: The Information, Nikkei Asia, and Reuters
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