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| Cheng Ting-Fang / Nikkei Asia: |
TSMC CEO C.C. Wei says TSMC expects a 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 … | Debby Wu / Bloomberg: |
TSMC CEO C.C. Wei blames worsening traffic for delays in adding a second plant in Japan, and reaffirms plans to spend $100B in Arizona over the next five years — Wei reaffirmed a commitment to spend another $100 billion ramping up manufacturing in Arizona over the next half-decade.
More: Benzinga, Fortune, Verdict, The Japan Times, MacDailyNews, and TechSpot
| Thomas Ptacek / Fly: |
A software developer explains how AI agents help automate tedious coding tasks, and addresses concerns like hallucinations, job losses, mediocre code, and more — Tech execs are mandating LLM adoption. That's bad strategy. But I get where they're coming from.
More: Forbes and Simon Willison's Weblog
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| Gregory Meyer / Financial Times: |
A look at Walmart's use of automation to grow sales without job creation, as analysts say its staff count raise questions about the future of US retail labor — Growth in ecommerce and automation sparks questions about future of retail sector's labour force| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Q&A with Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky on Airbnb Experiences, launching new services, OpenAI, AI agents, making decisions at Airbnb, cutting PMs, Jony Ive, and more — Today, I'm talking with Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky. This is Brian's fourth time on the show, and he's one of my favorite guests …
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| Andy Robinson / Video Games Chronicle: |
Nintendo says it didn't send any Switch 2 review units to outlets as “important features and updates” will only be available via an update on its June 5 launch — NINTENDO'S DECISION NOT TO FACILITATE PRE-LAUNCH SWITCH 2 REVIEWS IS DISAPPOINTING NEWS FOR EVERYONE
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| Cristina Criddle / Financial Times: |
AI pioneer Yoshua Bengio launches LawZero, a nonprofit focused on safer AI; LawZero has raised nearly $30M from donors including Skype co-founder Jaan Tallinn — Turing Award winner launches LawZero not-profit for safer AI, while warning recent models display dangerous characteristics
More: The Guardian, Bloomberg, Axios, Time, Fortune, Axios, Verdict, HPCwire, Globe and Mail, and Tech in Asia
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| Politico: |
Pornhub's parent company plans to stop serving adult content in France as soon as June 4, in protest of government measures forcing it to verify visitors' ages — Porn industry giant protests Paris' measures to verify the age of users. — This article is also available in: French| Financial Times: |
Sources: Xiaomi is among the Chinese companies most affected by new US chip design tool export rules, including 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| Reuters: |
Microsoft, Google, CrowdStrike, and Palo Alto Networks plan to create a public glossary of state-sponsored hacking groups to ease unofficial alias confusion — Microsoft, CrowdStrike, Palo Alto (PANW.O) and Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) Google on Monday said they would create a public glossary …
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Some researchers say it looks like DeepSeek may have used Google Gemini to help train its R1-0528 reasoning model — Last week, Chinese lab DeepSeek released an updated version of its R1 reasoning AI model that performs well on a number of math and coding benchmarks.| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Adobe launches Photoshop for Android in beta for devices running Android 11 or later with 6GB+ of RAM, offering tools like layers, masks, and Generative Fill — Android users can now download Photoshop for mobile. Adobe announced on Tuesday that it's releasing the beta version …
More: 9to5Google, Ars Technica, Forbes, The Adobe Blog, Thurrott, PCMag, Android Police, Android Authority, PetaPixel, Lifewire, Droid Life, TechSpot, PhoneArena, nextpit, WinBuzzer, and BGR
| Catherine Perloff / The Information: |
How AppLovin, which lets advertisers use IP addresses to track users, began eroding Google's ad market share and pushed Google to loosen its privacy stance — In 2023, Google ad executives noticed something alarming about one aspect of their business. Once-red hot revenue growth … | Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Epic Games launches MetaHuman, its game developer tool to quickly create realistic digital human characters, now embedded as part of Unreal Engine 5.6 — The MetaHuman creator is now built right into Unreal Engine. … Epic Games' hyperrealistic MetaHuman characters are seriously impressive … | Kate Park / TechCrunch: |
Dublin-based cross-border payment startup NomuPay raised a $40M Series C at a $290M valuation, following a $37M Series B at a ~$200M valuation in January 2025 — As global trade evolves, there's an increasing demand for diverse cross-border payment options.
More: Tech.eu, Nomupay, Tech in Asia, Reuters, Tech Funding News, FinTech Global, FinSMEs, and Finextra
| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
TikTok expands Manage Topics, a feature that lets users customize how often specific topics appear in the For You feed, and adds AI-powered keyword filtering — The ‘Manage Topics’ settings let you control how often you see TikTok videos related to sports, travel, humor, dance, and other categories.
More: TechCrunch, Jerusalem Post, TikTok, iPhone in Canada, and CNET
| Gina Narcisi / CRN: |
Ciroos.AI, whose AI-powered site reliability engineering tool built on MCP and A2A helps businesses automate operations, emerges from stealth and raised $21M — Founded by a deep bench of tech talent, including former Cisco, AWS and Gigamon execs, Ciroos.AI is launching with $21 million raised …
More: FinSMEs, SiliconANGLE, and Constellation Research
| Richard Lawler / The Verge: |
Microsoft announces Windows changes in response to the EU's DMA for EEA users, including Edge not prompting users to set it as the default browser unless opened — Apparently only the Digital Markets Act can stop Bing from begging you to switch . … Microsoft's changes in response …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Elon Musk is selling $5B in xAI debt at a double-digit interest rate via Morgan Stanley, with demand already over $3.5B and commitments due by June 17 — Elon Musk is selling $5 billion in debt for his artificial intelligence startup, xAI Corp., the latest in a series … | Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: |
| Chester Dawson / Bloomberg: |
Indeed says CEO Chris Hyams has stepped down, replaced by parent company Recruit Holdings CEO Hisayuki “Deko” Idekoba, who returns to the role after six years — Hisayuki ‘Deko’ Idekoba resumed the top job from Chris Hyams, who has stepped down.| Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority: |
Google says it 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
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| Bloomberg: |
Huawei Pura X review: Huawei's ~$1,050, China-only clamshell and first flagship to debut with HarmonyOS offers novel ergonomics but an incomplete app ecosystem — Review: The clamshell device is the company's first flagship phone to launch with its new operating system to challenge iOS and Android.| Kate Park / TechCrunch: |
Tel Aviv-based Speedata, which is designing analytics processing units for big data workloads, raised a $44M Series B and aims to showcase its first APU in June — Speedata, a Tel Aviv-based startup developing an analytics processing unit (APU) designed to accelerate big data analytic and AI workloads …
More: CTech
| Tim Starks / CyberScoop: |
Cynthia Kaiser, the FBI's former deputy assistant director leading cyber policy, intel, and engagement, left to join cybersecurity company Halcyon as an SVP — The 20-year bureau pro wants to see what it's like to fight ransomware from the private sector. — Learn more.| Dina Bass / Bloomberg: |
Broadcom begins shipping its Tomahawk 6 data center switch chips, which it says can perform the work of six previous-gen chips, to improve GPU utilization rates — Data center switch will let customers get more from their Nvidia processors — Broadcom Inc. began shipping a new version …
More: Reuters, SiliconANGLE, Investor's Business Daily, Broadcom Inc., Benzinga, and Motley Fool
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