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Janko Roettgers / Lowpass:
Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth says Horizon Worlds will remain in VR for the “foreseeable future”, after Meta said Quest headset users will lose access from June 15  —  VR Worlds will be available for “foreseeable future”  —  One day after announcing the wind-down of its Horizon …
Rustin Banks / The Keyword:
Google updates Stitch, which lets users turn natural language prompts into UI designs, introducing an “AI-native” design canvas and a reasoning design agent  —  Stitch is evolving into an AI-native software design canvas that allows anyone to create, iterate and collaborate on high-fidelity UI from natural language.
Alfred Ng / Politico:
Senate hearing: FBI Director Kash Patel says the FBI does purchase “commercially available information” that can be used to track people's location history  —  The U.S. Supreme Court has required law enforcement agencies to obtain a warrant for getting people's location data …
Andy Greenberg / Wired:
Google, iVerify, and Lookout researchers discover DarkSword, a hacking tool used by Russia-sponsored and other hackers to target iOS 18 via Ukrainian websites  —  A powerful iPhone-hacking technique known as DarkSword has been discovered in use by Russian hackers.
Jyoti Mann / The Information:
Meta confirms a critical security incident after an internal rogue AI agent's actions led to the exposure of sensitive data to employees without authorization  —  A rogue AI agent recently triggered a major security alert at Meta Platforms, by taking action without approval that led …
Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
Cloudflare says it has appealed Italy's €14.2M fine for refusing to block pirate sites on its 1.1.1.1 DNS service, calling the amount “staggering”  —  Cloudflare said it has appealed a fine issued by Italy over the company's refusal to block access to websites on its 1.1.1.1 DNS service.
Zach Vallese / CNBC:
Facebook launches Creator Fast Track, offering big Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube creators guaranteed monthly pay and boosted reach to post on Facebook  —  Meta on Wednesday launched a new program aimed at luring top creators from TikTok and YouTube to Facebook, offering guaranteed pay and boosted reach.
Anthropic:
Anthropic releases a survey of 80,508 Claude users' views, hopes, and fears about AI, calling it “the largest and most multilingual qualitative study”  —  Last December, tens of thousands of Claude users around the world had a conversation with our AI interviewer to share how they use AI …
Laurent Giret / Thurrott:
Perplexity releases its Comet browser app for iOS and iPadOS with a built-in AI assistant, four months after launching on Android  —  Perplexity's Comet AI browser is coming to iOS and iPadOS today, four months after its previous launch on Android.  The mobile browser comes with a built-in AI assistant …
Dina Bass / Bloomberg:
Micron reports Q2 revenue up 196% YoY to $23.9B, above $19.7B est., expects 2026 capex to exceed $25B, above $22.4B est., and forecasts Q3 revenue above est.  —  Micron Technology Inc. warned that it will need to spend heavily on production to meet burgeoning demand, overshadowing …
Kai Nicol-Schwarz / CNBC:
Sources: European chip importers are tapping backup stores and paying higher air freight costs as the US-led Iran war disrupts Middle Eastern cargo routes  —  European companies that import semiconductors from Asia are tapping into backup stores and paying more for deliveries …
Cheng Ting-Fang / Nikkei Asia:
Chip industry executives say chip testing companies are racing to meet AI chip demand; Advantest, Teradyne, and Chroma shares more than tripled in the past year  —  TAIPEI — Companies in the chip testing supply chain are racing to keep up with a surge in demand as the AI boom drives global appetite …
Kanika Talwar / WWD:
Meta makes its Meta Lab NYC pop-up on Fifth Avenue a permanent flagship location after signing a 10-year lease; Meta's first flagship store in LA opened in 2025  —  The tech company has signed a decade-long lease for its Meta Lab town house on Fifth Avenue.
Tamara Djurickovic / Tech.eu:
Paris-based Parallel, which develops AI agents for hospitals and is initially focused on medical coding workflows, raised a $20M Series A led by Index Ventures  —  Parallel develops AI agents to automate hospital administrative workflows, improving efficiency and reducing manual work across coding, billing, and operations.
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Mike Isaac / New York Times:
Sources: several tech companies, including OpenAI, are encouraging the DOD behind the scenes to back away from designating Anthropic a “supply chain risk”  —  Tech companies have been reluctant to directly confront Trump administration officials over their contract feud with the A.I. start-up.
Upstarts Media:
Compute startup Andromeda raised funding from Paradigm at a $1.5B valuation, bringing Paradigm's total to $60M, and passed a $100M revenue run rate in 2025  —  Once a service spun up by AI investors Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross, Andromeda has now raised $60M from Paradigm to stand alone.
Madison Mills / Axios:
Ramp data: Anthropic is capturing ~73% of all spending among companies buying AI tools for the first time, up from a 50/50 split with OpenAI in January  —  Anthropic is now capturing over 73% of all spending among companies buying AI tools for the first time, according to customer data from Ramp.
Katie Roof / The Information:
Source: Fal, a GenAI model hosting service, is in talks to raise $300M-$350M at an $8B valuation; annualized revenue hits $400M, up from $200M in October 2025  —  Fal, a fast-growing cloud service for accessing and storing AI models that generate images, video, and audio …

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David Ellison / @ellisonskydance:
David Ellison announces that the combined Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery will be called Skydance “to preserve what has made each of these studios iconic”

New York Times:
Sources: Trump personally told his budget director to use taxpayer money for TV ads praising his presidency; at least four spots have run at a cost of ~$5.5M

Todd Spangler / Variety:
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Bloomberg:
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Brent Lang / Variety:
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Graham Fraser / BBC:
The UK government withdraws a proposal to let AI companies train on copyrighted works unless creators opt out, after backlash from artists like Dua Lipa
Ben Weiss / Fortune:
Stripe and Paradigm-backed blockchain startup Tempo launch the Machine Payments Protocol, which uses Tempo's new blockchain to handle AI agents' transactions
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