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| Bloomberg: |
Samsung says it is winding down its $2,899 Galaxy Z TriFold sales in South Korea and the US once it clears its inventory, after just three months on the market — Samsung Electronics Co. is winding down sales of its Galaxy Z TriFold smartphone after roughly three months on the market …
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Forums: r/GalaxyFold and MacRumors Forums
| David Gewirtz / ZDNET: |
OpenAI launches GPT-5.4 mini and nano, aimed at agents, coding, and multi-modal workflows, and offering near GPT-5.4-level performance at a much lower cost — ZDNET's key takeaways — GPT-5.4 mini runs more than twice as fast as GPT-5 mini. — New models aim at agents, coding, and multi-modal workflows.
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| Tyler Wilde / PC Gamer: |
Nvidia says game developers “have artistic control over DLSS 5's effects”, following backlash alleging that the AI rendering tech alters the source material — The first demo for Nvidia's new AI rendering technique doesn't do much to combat the perception that generative AI homogenizes artwork.
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Forums: r/PiratedGames, r/pcmasterrace, r/pcmasterrace, r/pcmasterrace, r/gaming, r/MauLer, r/NVDA_Stock, r/technology, and r/Games
| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Google expands Personal Intelligence, which lets Gemini tailor its responses by connecting to Gmail and other Google services, from paid users to all US users — Google announced on Tuesday that it's expanding Personal Intelligence, its feature that allows its AI assistant to tailor …
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X: @joshwoodward, @rmstein, @thefox, @geminiapp, @google, and @rajanpatel
LinkedIn: Mike Torres, Vijay Narayanan, and Charmaine D'Silva
| Anna Washenko / Engadget: |
Arizona sues Kalshi for allegedly operating an illegal gambling business and unlawfully facilitating betting on elections; Kalshi faces a similar suit in Nevada — It's also facing a similar lawsuit in Nevada. — Kalshi has been sued by Arizona's attorney general for operating … | Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Memo: Satya Nadella says ex-Snap executive Jacob Andreou will lead Copilot for commercial and consumer clients; Mustafa Suleyman will focus on new AI models — Microsoft said Tuesday that it's bringing together the engineering groups for its commercial and consumer Copilot assistants, which have yet to gain broad adoption.| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
Amazon begins three-hour deliveries in ~2K US cities and towns and one-hour deliveries in hundreds of those areas, after 2025 pilots; 90K+ products are eligible — Amazon said Tuesday it's starting one-hour and three-hour deliveries in parts of the U.S., as the company continues to look for ways to satisfy impatient consumers.
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| CoinDesk: |
Robinhood Ventures Fund I discloses its first investments, buying $14.6M of Stripe shares and $20M of ElevenLabs' preferred stock in March — The closed-end fund aims to give everyday investors exposure to private firms before they go public. — What to know:
More: Robinhood, The Block, crypto.news, Benzinga, Crypto Briefing, and Bitcoin News
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| TechCrunch: |
Mistral announces Mistral Forge to help enterprises build custom models actually trained on their own data, using Mistral open-weight models as a starting point — Most enterprise AI projects fail not because companies lack the technology, but because the models they're using don't understand their business.
More: VentureBeat and The Deep View
| Mistral AI: |
More: Mistral AI, The Register, The Decoder, Simon Willison's Weblog, SiliconANGLE, The New Stack, and Tom's Hardware
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Forums: Hacker News, r/LocalLLaMA, r/MistralAI, r/LocalLLaMA, and Lobsters
| Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge: |
Intel unveils the Core Ultra 200HX Plus CPUs for high-end gaming laptops, offering an Intel Binary Optimization Tool to improve native performance in some games — The new flagship Core Ultra 9 290HX Plus is accompanied by a Core Ultra 7 270HX Plus.| Reuters: |
Mastercard agrees to acquire London-based stablecoin payments infra startup BVNK for up to $1.8B, including $300M in contingent payments, set to close in 2026 — Mastercard (MA.N) said on Tuesday it would buy stablecoin payments infrastructure firm BVNK for up to $1.8 billion.
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LinkedIn: Sam Boboev, Emily Goodman, Andrew G. Sugrue, and Jesse Hemson-Struthers
| Riley Griffin / Bloomberg: |
Meta says Quest users will lose access to Meta Horizon Worlds on the headsets on June 15; access will continue on the Meta Horizon mobile app — Meta Platforms Inc. said that users of its Quest headsets will lose access to Horizon Worlds, a virtual destination where cartoon versions of people …
More: Meta Community Forums and The Verge
X: @lunayian, @autismcapital, @austinahlman, @sherman4949, @sal19, @bmfshow, @noridoesvr, and @andyfidel_
Threads: @wongmjane and @jetscott
Forums: Hacker News, r/OculusQuest, r/MetaQuestVR, r/virtualreality, and r/oculus
| Bloomberg: |
NetBlocks and Kentik: Iran further restricted what little internet connectivity remained to curb VPNs, possibly to forestall protests during Festival of Fire — Iran's internet, which has been heavily throttled by the regime since the outbreak of war, has gone even darker over the past 48 hours … | New York Times: |
Sources: China is penalizing people tied to Meta's $2B Manus acquisition, including by apparently restricting Manus executives from leaving China for Singapore — The country appears to be cracking down on people linked to the acquisition of Manus, a Singapore company with Chinese roots, as President Trump prepares to visit Beijing.| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Q&A with CEO Jim Lanzone on Yahoo being “very profitable”, its new AI search engine, focusing on sports content, including original video and podcasts, and more — Today, I'm talking with Jim Lanzone, who is the CEO of Yahoo. — It's basically impossible to sum up the Yahoo story … | Greg Bensinger / Reuters: |
At an all-hands, Andy Jassy said he expects AI to help AWS reach $600B in annual sales by 2036, double his prior estimate; AWS had revenue of $128.7B in 2025 — Amazon O> CEO Andy Jassy said during an internal all-hands meeting he expects artificial intelligence could help cloud computing …
More: Benzinga, WKZO, Dow Jones Newswires, and NewsMax.com
| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Jensen Huang says Nvidia is in the process of restarting manufacturing of its H200 chips for shipments to China and it has received orders from “many customers” — Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said the company is in the process of restarting manufacturing of its H200 chips for shipments to China.
More: Financial Times, Tom's Hardware, The Information, Bloomberg, Sherwood News, and Punchbowl News
| Sam Clark / Politico: |
EU countries introduce sanctions on hacking groups, including Iran's Emennet Pasargad, which hacked magazine Charlie Hebdo in 2023, and two Chinese companies — Countries impose measures on Iranian, Chinese companies providing hacking services. — BRUSSELS — European Union countries … | Kevin McLaughlin / The Information: |
You.com appoints Saahil Jain as new CTO after co-founder Bryan McCann left to Anthropic; You.com, which began in consumer search, is targeting enterprise more — AI startup You.com, valued at $1.5 billion after a funding round in September, is changing its senior leadership as it focuses on helping businesses adopt AI.
More: You.com
| Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News: |
Candex, which helps large companies pay small, one-time, or irregular vendors, raised a $40M Series C, bringing its total funding to more than $120M — For companies operating around the world, hiring vendors for one-off purchases in other countries can be a complicated process, eating up time and resources.
More: FinSMEs, VC News Daily, and Pulse 2.0
| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
Q&A with Jensen Huang on Nvidia's CUDA core, reasoning and coding, CPUs' role in accelerated computing, Groq, China and the doomers, Nvidia's nature, and more — This week's Stratechery Interview is running early this week, as I had the chance to speak in person with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang …
More: Data Center Knowledge, Yahoo Finance, Network World, and Key Context
| Nathan Lambert / Interconnects AI: |
Open model providers will largely lose if they keep chasing closed frontier AI models; instead, open models should serve as complementary tools to closed agents — Markets, capabilities, cope, and bewilderment in the industrialization of language models. — Article voiceover
More: Nvidia Newsroom. X: @charles0neill, @vintrotweets, and @natolambert
Bluesky: @timkellogg.me, @natolambert, and @tedunderwood.com
| Carrie Budoff Brown / Politico: |
Q&A with Ted Sarandos on his visit to Brussels, Netflix's European investments, EU regulation, YouTube, TikTok, WBD, Trump's Susan Rice criticism, AI, and more — Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos arrives in Brussels on Tuesday with a clear message for EU regulators ahead of a looming review … | Chris Metinko / Axios: |
Tel Aviv- and Seattle-based Native, which helps companies monitor security across cloud providers, emerges from stealth with an $11M seed and a $31M Series A — What to read next
More: Seattle Business Journal, FinSMEs, GeekWire, and CTech
| Lucas Ropek / TechCrunch: |
World launches AgentKit, a software development tool that enables sites to verify that a real human is behind the purchasing decisions of AI shopping agents — World, co-founded by Sam Altman, is dedicated to creating what it calls “proof of human” tech—ID verification tools …
More: Ars Technica, The Register, Gizmodo, World, PYMNTS.com, Cointelegraph, CoinDesk, Decrypt, Crypto Briefing, The Block, and Unchained
| Berber Jin / Wall Street Journal: |
In an all-hands, OpenAI CEO of Applications Fidji Simo described a strategy shift to refocus on coding and business users, urging staff to avoid “side quests” — A top leader urges staff not to be distracted by ‘side quests’ as the company plans shift of resources to coding, enterprise businesses
More: CNBC, MobileSyrup, Futurism, Gizmodo, Fortune, Quartz, The Decoder, PCMag, PYMNTS.com, and Business Today
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Bluesky: @edzitron.com, @devonheinen, @peoriabummer, and @carnage4life
Threads: @carnage4life, @carnage4life, and @rkesteva
Forums: r/technology, r/ChatGPT, and Slashdot
| Bloomberg: |
Baidu is integrating OpenClaw with its Xiaodu devices to work as voice-controlled remotes, joining Tencent and Alibaba in racing to capitalize on agentic AI — Baidu Inc. is betting on the breakout success of OpenClaw to offset a decline in its core business.| Samantha Subin / CNBC: |
Gecko Robotics secures a $71M US Navy contract to use robots to slash repair time for dated ships, as the US races to reindustrialize its aging defense systems — Gecko Robotics, a Pittsburgh-based robotics startup, on Tuesday announced a $71 million deal with the U.S. Navy to cut … Sponsor Posts
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