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June 5, 2024, 7:15 PM
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Kif Leswing / CNBC:
Nvidia hits a $3T market cap and passes Apple as the second most valuable public US company, behind Microsoft  —  Nvidia passed Apple in market cap on Wednesday as investors continue betting on the chipmaker behind the artificial intelligence boom.  It is now the second-most valuable public company, behind Microsoft.
Wes Davis / The Verge:
Humane tells Ai Pin owners that they should “immediately” stop using the charging case, citing issues with a battery cell that “may pose a fire safety risk”  —  Humane is telling AI Pin owners today that they should “immediately” stop using the charging case that came with its AI gadget.
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Google is acquiring software virtualization company Cameyo to deeply integrate virtualized Windows app support into ChromeOS, after a partnership in April 2023  —  Google is acquiring software virtualization company Cameyo in a push to deeply integrate virtualized Windows app support into ChromeOS.
Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg:
The Greater Memphis Chamber says xAI plans to develop a new facility in Memphis to house a supercomputer and could receive tax breaks and other incentives  —  - Startup could receive tax breaks and other business incentives  — New facility would come on the heels of $6 billion fundraising
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
A look at Apple's OpenAI deal before WWDC; sources say Apple plans to offer AI features as an opt-in service, and is working on two LLM-powered robotic devices  —  An OpenAI agreement is due to be announced at the Apple's developer conference next week.  —  When a 23-year-old Sam Altman took …
Paul Sawers / TechCrunch:
SAP plans to acquire Tel Aviv-based WalkMe, which helps users navigate other software UIs, for $1.5B in cash; WalkMe had raised ~$300M before its June 2021 IPO  —  Enterprise software giant SAP is acquiring “digital adoption” platform provider WalkMe in an all-cash transaction worth $1.5 billion.
Bloomberg:
How a series of hacks, including a recent ransomware attack, show the challenges facing the UK's NHS, which employs 1.7M workers and cares for 68M UK residents  —  - Health care is the most-targeted industry for cyber extortion  — Latest attack targeted a “life-critical” supplier to UK's NHS
Will Shanklin / Engadget:
Twitch says its Twitch Tier 1 subscriptions in the US will increase from $4.99 per month to $5.99 per month on July 11, the first price hike for US subscribers  —  Monthly Tier 1 memberships will go up by $1 in July.  —  Twitch is joining Spotify, Max, Peacock, Crunchyroll …
Nduka Orjinmo / Bloomberg:
In a letter, 16 Republican lawmakers accused Nigeria of taking Binance executive Tigran Gambaryan “hostage” and urged President Biden to help secure his release  —  - Tigran Gambaryan was detained on a trip to Nigeria in February  — Binance, Gambaryan face charges including aiding tax evasion
Sage D. Young / Unchained:
Coinbase launches its smart wallet, which uses passkeys instead of seed phrases and works without app or extension installs, in a move to simplify onboarding  —  The launch of Coinbase's smart wallets, which don't require seed phrases or the downloading of a browser extension or an application …
Joanna Stern / Wall Street Journal:
Apple plans to fix another Screen Time bug that lets kids visit X-rated websites; two researchers say they reported the bug to Apple in March and August 2021  —  Apple's Screen Time continues to be marred by bugs that let its youngest users circumvent parental controls
Upmanyu Trivedi / Bloomberg:
The UK's Competition Appeal Tribunal rules that a class action lawsuit against Google over allegations the company abused its digital ad dominance can proceed  —  London judges ruled a class action lawsuit to proceed against Google potentially seeking billions of pounds in damages over allegations …
Reuters:
Duolingo deletes LGBTQ+ references in Russia after being warned by the country's communications regulator that the content is classed as “extremism”  —  Language learning app Duolingo (DUOL.O) has deleted references in Russia to what Moscow calls “non-traditional sexual relations” …
Ryan Weeks / Bloomberg:
Paxos International, a UAE-based affiliate of Paxos, launches Lift Dollar, or USDL, a stablecoin pegged to the US dollar that will pay a ~5% yield to holders  —  - The Lift Dollar is issued by new affiliate Paxos International  — USDL will pay a yield to holders equal to about 5% per annum
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Stability AI releases Stable Audio Open, a text-to-audio model that generates up to 47 seconds of samples and sound effects, prohibited for commercial use  —  Stability AI, the startup behind the AI-powered art generator Stable Diffusion, has released an open AI model for generating sounds …
Shakeel Hashim / Transformer:
Former OpenAI researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner says he was fired in April 2024 for writing a memo to the board over concerns about OpenAI's security practices  —  Leopold Aschenbrenner also said he was interrogated about his team's “loyalty to the company”  —  Leopold Aschenbrenner …
Kevin Roose / New York Times:
Current and former OpenAI and Google DeepMind staff sign an open letter warning of a culture of recklessness and secrecy at “frontier AI companies”

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NBC News:
Trump says he was “only kidding” about offering UFC CEO Dana White the press secretary job, after White posted an AI image of himself at the White House lectern

Ed Christman / Billboard:
CISAC Global Collections Report: global music publishing collections grew to nearly $15.89B in 2025, up 5.3% YoY, with digital royalties of $7.25B, up 28% YoY

Washington Post:
An ex-Trump campaign aide and others say Trump ally Laura Loomer was paid $3K-$5K per political X post; she announced a hiatus from her show after an inquiry

More News

Yogita Khatri / The Block:
M^0, a decentralized stablecoin minting protocol, raised a $35M Series A led by Bain Capital Crypto; the round was structured as equity plus tokens
Olivia Solon / Bloomberg:
How Uganda's government under President Yoweri Museveni has increasingly used the country's biometric identity system to target opponents and consolidate power
Joseph Cox / Wired:
An excerpt from the book Dark Wire, which details how the biggest FBI sting operation ran the Anøm encrypted phone company to surveil criminals in Europe
Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times:
A profile of cloud GPU provider CoreWeave, which plans to spend $2.2B to build three European data centers in 2024 and repurpose some Core Scientific facilities

Earlier Picks

Simon Sharwood / The Register:
Australia's eSafety commissioner ends the legal action asking X to remove a video of a clergyman's stabbing; Musk labeled the action an assault on free speech
Saritha Rai / Bloomberg:
Twelve Labs, which provides foundational models to help users search and analyze troves of video, raised a $50M Series A co-led by NEA and Nvidia's NVentures
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Joe Benarroch, X's head of business operations and one of Linda Yaccarino's closest advisers, is leaving; his style rubbed colleagues the wrong way
Jordan Novet / CNBC:
Databricks plans to acquire Tabular, a data management startup that helps companies optimize data stored in the Apache Iceberg format and others, for $1B+
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