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| Krystal Hur / Wall Street Journal: |
Senators Adam Schiff and John Curtis introduce bipartisan legislation to ban sports betting on CFTC-regulated prediction markets, such as Kalshi and Polymarket — Sens. Schiff and Curtis seek to prevent CFTC-regulated entities, including Kalshi and Polymarket, from offering wagers on sports
More: TechCrunch, Senator John Curtis, Benzinga, PYMNTS.com, ZeroHedge News, Forbes, Sports Business Journal, Crypto Briefing, NBC News, The Crypto Times, NewsMax.com, CoinGape, Decrypt, Barron's Online, Cryip, Unchained, Cointelegraph, Front Office Sports, Proactive, and The Block
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| Nathan Bomey / Axios: |
Kalshi announces new guardrails to preemptively block politicians, athletes, and others from trading in their relevant markets — Prediction market Kalshi plans to block athletes, coaches and officials from betting on their sports and to block political candidates from trading on their campaigns, Axios has learned.
More: Decrypt, The Verge, Kalshi, New York Post, Associated Press, and Reuters
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| Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg: |
| Reuters: |
Sources: OpenAI is offering private equity firms a guaranteed minimum return of 17.5% and early access to new models to secure JVs, beating Anthropic's terms — ChatGPT maker OpenAI is offering private-equity firms a sweeter deal than rival Anthropic as both artificial intelligence companies …
More: Forbes, Benzinga, ZeroHedge News, and The Decoder
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| Lex Fridman: |
Q&A with Jensen Huang, who says “we've achieved AGI”, on running Nvidia, AI scaling laws, OpenClaw, future of coding, data centers in space, China, and more — - Watch the full YouTube version of the podcast — Table of Contents — Here are the loose “chapters” in the conversation.
More: Lex Fridman on YouTube, Ars Technica, VideoCardz.com, Tom's Hardware, The Verge, and Mashable
| Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: |
Meta hires the team behind Dreamer, which lets users create AI agents, including Hugo Barra, former Stripe CTO David Singleton, and designer Nicholas Jitkoff — Meta Platforms Inc. has hired the founders and team behind the artificial intelligence startup Dreamer, which launched earlier …
More: The Information, Dreamer, and The Decoder
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple is preparing to introduce ads in its Maps app, allowing retailers and brands to bid for ad slots against search queries — Apple Inc. is preparing to introduce advertising in its Maps app, part of a broader push to generate more money from services.
More: AppleInsider, Engadget, The Verge, Android Authority, 9to5Mac, The Mac Observer, Pocket-lint, iPhone in Canada, Dexerto, Cult of Mac, Blockonomi, and Digital Trends
| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Source: OpenAI is in talks to buy 5 GW of electricity by 2030 from Sam Altman-backed fusion startup Helion; Altman has stepped down as Helion's board chair — OpenAI is in advanced talks to buy electricity from Sam Altman-backed fusion startup Helion Energy, according to a person familiar with the situation.
More: Reuters, The Verge, Blockonomi, Crypto Briefing, Benzinga, GeekWire, The Next Web, TechCrunch, and POWER Magazine
| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple announces WWDC 2026 for June 8-12, which will be an online event free for developers, with an in-person event at Apple Park on June 8 — Apple today said that its 37th annual Worldwide Developers Conference is set to begin on Monday, June 8 and end on Friday, June 12.
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Forums: Ars OpenForum and MacRumors Forums
| Ben Weiss / Fortune: |
Doc: Kalshi and Polymarket CEOs are investing in a VC fund, led by two early Kalshi employees, that is raising up to $35M to back prediction market startups — The CEOs of Kalshi and Polymarket are locked in a brutal fight to dominate the white-hot prediction market sector.
More: CoinDesk, The Block, crypto.news, Bloomberg, The Crypto Times, and Crypto Briefing
X: @benhorney and @bdanweiss
| Suzanne Vranica / Wall Street Journal: |
OpenAI hires Dave Dugan, a former top ad executive at Meta, to lead ad sales, reporting to COO Brad Lightcap; Dugan stepped down as a Meta VP earlier in March — The AI company seeks stronger ties with brands to boost its nascent ad business — OpenAI has hired Dave Dugan …
More: eWeek, Digital Trends, Skift, Proactive, The Economic Times, Adweek, The Information, Blockonomi, and PYMNTS.com
| Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
Canal+, ITV, Sky, and other broadcasters urge the EU to designate smart TV operating systems such as Android TV and Amazon Fire OS as gatekeepers under the DMA — Google (GOOGL.O), Amazon (AMZN.O), Apple (AAPL.O) and Samsung's (005930.KS) smart TVs and virtual assistants should fall under …
More: Irish Examiner, Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, and Broadband TV News. Forums: r/technology
| Mike Sorrentino / CNET: |
Samsung rolls out Apple AirDrop support to Quick Share, starting with the Galaxy S26 series in South Korea, and plans to expand to more devices and regions — AirDrop support will start with the Galaxy S26 this week and is planned for more Galaxy devices later.
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Forums: r/gadgets, r/samsunggalaxy, and r/Android
| Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
Crunchyroll is investigating a breach after hackers claimed they accessed a support agent's account and stole the personal information of ~6.8M users — Popular anime streaming platform Crunchyroll is investigating a breach after hackers claimed to have stolen personal information for approximately 6.8 million people.
More: Reuters, PCMag, MobileSyrup, and Screen Rant
| New York Times: |
The US plans to create a voluntary consortium of countries to invest $4T to secure supply chains for chips, energy, and minerals; the US will contribute $250M — Trump officials said on Monday that the war in Iran had emphasized the need to reduce vulnerabilities for energy and technology.
More: Bloomberg
| Harry McCracken / Fast Company: |
Interviews with Sundar Pichai and other Google executives on being blindsided by ChatGPT's launch, Gemini, Pichai's vision of useful AI everywhere, and more — Sundar Pichai was blindsided by ChatGPT. Soon after being named Google CEO in 2015, he'd declared that the world was entering an AI-first era.| Jake Roach / Tom's Hardware: |
Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus review: unbelievable app performance, big price cut, and improvements over the 265K, but mediocre at gaming and large power demands — Unbelievable productivity performance at an even more unbelievable price - shame gaming still takes a backseat.
More: HotHardware, KitGuru, der8auer EN on YouTube, PC Gamer, PCGamesN, Tom's Guide, VideoCardz.com, PC Gamer, Gear Seekers on YouTube, CGMagazine, Linus Tech Tips on YouTube, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, Club386, Hardware Canucks on YouTube, Notebookcheck, PCWorld, The Register, Windows Central, Moneycontrol, PCMag, Neowin, and PC Guide
| Olivia Solon / Bloomberg: |
Leonid Radvinsky, the reclusive billionaire owner of OnlyFans parent company Fenix, died at 43 from cancer; he acquired a majority stake in OnlyFans in 2018 — Leonid Radvinsky, the reclusive billionaire owner of adult content platform OnlyFans, has died of cancer, the London-based company confirmed on Monday.
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| Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: |
Drone delivery startup Zipline raised an additional $200M, including from Paradigm, bringing Zipline's Series H, originally announced in January, to $800M — U.S. autonomous drone delivery and logistics startup Zipline has raised another $200 million, adding to a recent funding round originally announced in January.
X: @siddawa, @mollysoshea, @ryanzip, @matthuang, @hhua_, and @keller
| Bloomberg: |
Singapore-based Grab agrees to buy Delivery Hero's Foodpanda operations in Taiwan for $600M in cash, its first foray outside of its Southeast Asian home market — Grab Holdings Ltd. agreed to buy Delivery Hero SE's Foodpanda operations in Taiwan for $600 million, a deal that marks its first foray outside of its Southeast Asian base.
More: Delivery Hero, TechCrunch, The Business Times, Taipei Times, Nikkei Asia, DealStreetAsia, and DigiTimes
| Brian Gormley / Wall Street Journal: |
Doctronic, which became the first company to use AI to write prescription refills through a pilot launched in Utah, raised $40M led by Abstract and Lightspeed — Doctronic, which just raised $40 million, links patients to human doctors in virtual visits and has a pilot program that refills prescriptions.| Yazhou Sun / Bloomberg: |
NYC-based Dash0, which offers AI agents to monitor and troubleshoot cloud, app, and infrastructure issues, raised $110M led by Balderton at a $1B valuation — Dash0 has raised $110 million at a $1 billion valuation in a Balderton Capital-led round to expand its monitoring platform …
More: Dash0 Blog, SiliconANGLE, and Tech Funding News
| Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: |
London-based luxury ride-hailing app Wheely launches in NYC, aiming to compete with Uber Elite; Wheely reports ~1,250 corporate accounts and ~100K active riders — Luxury ride-hailing app Wheely is making its debut in the US, presenting competition to Uber Technologies Inc. and Lyft Inc. … | Bloomberg: |
South Korean AI startup Upstage says it is in talks to acquire 10K AMD MI355 chips, in a bid to “diversify to other chips” as “we have a lot of Nvidia chips” — Korean AI startup Upstage is in discussions with Advanced Micro Devices Inc. to buy 10,000 … | Julie Bort / TechCrunch: |
Gimlet Labs, which says it is the first “multi-silicon inference cloud” for running AI workloads across diverse types of hardware, raised an $80M Series A — Stanford adjunct professor and successfully exited founder Zain Asgar just raised an $80 million Series A for a startup … Sponsor Posts
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