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| Cheng Ting-Fang / Nikkei Asia: |
TSMC CEO C.C. Wei says TSMC expects record profit in 2025 despite geopolitical, tariff, and FX risks, and confirms it is not building a fab in the Middle East — HSINCHU, Taiwan — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. on Tuesday said it expects to log a record profit for 2025 despite uncertainties brought … | Debby Wu / Bloomberg: |
TSMC CEO C.C. Wei blames worsening traffic for delays in expanding its new Japan facility, and reaffirms plans to spend $100B in Arizona in the next five years — Wei reaffirmed a commitment to spend another $100 billion ramping up manufacturing in Arizona over the next half-decade.
More: Fortune, Verdict, Focus Taiwan, The Japan Times, and Benzinga
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Elon Musk is selling $5B in debt for xAI at a double-digit interest rate, with demand already exceeding $3.5B; Morgan Stanley is shopping the debt — Elon Musk is selling $5 billion in debt for his artificial intelligence startup, xAI Corp., the latest in a series of fundraising efforts across … | Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: |
More: Benzinga, Neuralink Blog, Business Today, Reuters, Maginative, Cryptopolitan, Nairametrics, Tech in Asia, SiliconANGLE, CNBC, The Economic Times, and Bloomberg
X: @neuralink, @neuralink, and @mignano
| Financial Times: |
More: New York Times, Benzinga, StrictlyVC, Proactive, Watcher Guru, Semafor, PYMNTS.com, WinBuzzer, The Information, Reuters, TechCrunch, The Irish Times, and Capital Brief
Bluesky: @hyperlexic, @conorsen, @niedermeyer.online, @agusnox, and @davelee.me
X: @tanarrowz and @luke_metro
| Thomas Ptacek / Fly: |
A software developer explains how LLMs, especially AI agents, help automate tedious coding tasks and addresses concerns like hallucinations, job loss, and more — Tech execs are mandating LLM adoption. That's bad strategy. But I get where they're coming from.
More: Forbes, Simon Willison's Weblog, and InfoWorld
Bluesky: @bell.bz, @anildash.com, @mergesort.me, @jacky.wtf, @ernie.tedium.co, @ernie.tedium.co, @simonwillison.net, @macwright.com, and @jcoglan
X: @mitchellh, @tqbf, and @patio11
Forums: Hacker News, r/artificial, r/programmingcirclejerk, and Lobsters
| Reuters: |
Microsoft, Google, CrowdStrike, and Palo Alto plan a public glossary of state-sponsored hacking groups to ease confusion over the spread of unofficial aliases — Microsoft, CrowdStrike, Palo Alto (PANW.O) and Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) Google on Monday said they would create a public glossary …
More: Microsoft Security Blog, CrowdStrike, Microsoft Learn, SC Media, Neowin, Cyber Security News, WinBuzzer, SiliconANGLE, Cybersecurity Dive, The Hacker News, BetaNews, Cyber Daily, and BleepingComputer
Bluesky: @dannypalmer, @selenalarson, @ericjgeller.com, and @kimzetter
Forums: r/cybersecurity and Slashdot
| Cristina Criddle / Financial Times: |
AI pioneer Yoshua Bengio launches LawZero, a nonprofit focused on safer AI; LawZero has raised $30M in donations, including from Skype co-founder Jaan Tallinn — Turing Award winner launches LawZero not-profit for safer AI, while warning recent models display dangerous characteristics
More: Axios, Time, The Guardian, Tech in Asia, and Bloomberg
Bluesky: @eicathomefinn and @jjaron
X: @winwood66, @starcourse, and @dineshgovender
| Richard Lawler / The Verge: |
Microsoft announces new Windows changes in response to the EU's DMA for EEA users, including Edge not prompting users to set it as the default unless opened — Apparently only the Digital Markets Act can stop Bing from begging you to switch . … Microsoft's changes in response …
More: Windows Blog, Silicon Republic, XDA Developers, Tom's Guide, TechSpot, Tech Times, Windows Central, Neowin, and Thurrott
| New York Times: |
Sources: the FTC is investigating whether roughly a dozen US advertising and advocacy groups violated antitrust law by coordinating boycotts among advertisers — The regulator is looking into whether roughly a dozen groups violated antitrust law by coordinating boycotts among advertisers.
More: Bloomberg and HotAir
Bluesky: @carnage4life, @emptywheel, @i-hate-acronyms, @kenvogel, @democratswin, @ernie.tedium.co, @paleofuture, @jessehawken, @hypervisible, @mtsw, and @mmasnick. Mastodon: @dangillmor@mastodon.social
| Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority: |
Google is ending PayPal account integration in Google Wallet for US users, effective June 13, after stopping new PayPal account linking in April 2025 — Later this month, Google Wallet will no longer let users in the U.S. use their PayPal account for payments
More: PCMag, Thurrott, Android Police, The Verge, 9to5Google, The Hans India, TechIssuesToday.com, Tech in Asia, Tech Times, Pocket-lint, Android Headlines, WebProNews, and Phone Scoop. Forums: r/technology
| Belle Lin / Wall Street Journal: |
Snowflake agrees to acquire Crunchy Data, a cloud-based database service that helps businesses and government agencies use PostgreSQL, a source says for ~$250M — The cloud data company aims to attract customers who want to build their own artificial intelligence agents
More: CNBC, Business Wire, Crunchy Data, Verdict, Benzinga, WebProNews, VentureBeat, PYMNTS.com, Tech in Asia, Insider Monkey, Analytics India Magazine, SiliconANGLE, Maginative, CRN, TechCrunch, Investor's Business Daily, and Constellation Research
Bluesky: @romitmehta.com. X: @ramaswmysridhar, @aarondfrancis, @craigkerstiens, @crunchydata, @wking__, and @snowflake. Forums: Hacker News
| Bloomberg: |
Meta agrees to acquire power from Constellation's operating Illinois nuclear plant, in a 20-year deal starting in mid-2027 when a state subsidy expires — Constellation Energy Corp. agreed to sell power from an operating Illinois nuclear plant to Meta Platforms Inc., a deal that could spur construction …
More: Reuters, Barron's Online, CNBC, Wall Street Journal, Axios, and Meta Newsroom
| Washington Post: |
Analysis: since his inauguration, President Trump posted 2,262 times on Truth Social in 132 days, 3x+ the volume of tweets in the same period of his first term — In his current term, the influencer-in-chief has left his own record for social media missives in the dust. He posts day and night.
More: MSNBC
| Karin Matussek / Bloomberg: |
Germany's data protection commission fines Vodafone a record €45M due to data privacy violations linked to malicious behavior by third-party sales agents — Vodafone Group Plc was hit by a record €45 million ($51.3 million) data privacy fine in Germany over “malicious behavior” by third-party sales agents.
Bluesky: @campuscodi.risky.biz
| Financial Times: |
Sources: Xiaomi is among the Chinese tech companies most impacted by new US chip design export rules, affecting its new 3nm mobile chip made by TSMC in Taiwan — Companies may struggle to manufacture silicon in Taiwan with export controls preventing updates to design tools| Michael Acton / Financial Times: |
Alphabet offers to spend $500M+ over ten years to rebuild its global compliance structure, in a settlement proposal for an antitrust lawsuit from shareholders — Latest move comes as tech giant is attacked on multiple legal fronts that threaten its break-upSponsor Posts
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