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Google Cloud suffered an outage on Thursday, affecting many of its customers; Cloudflare, Spotify, Discord, Snapchat, and others experienced service disruptions — Large swaths of the internet went down on Thursday, affecting a range of services, from global cloud platform Cloudflare to popular apps like Spotify.
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple has set an internal release target of spring 2026 for its delayed upgrade of Siri, as part of an iOS 26.4 software update — Apple Inc. has set an internal release target of spring 2026 for its delayed upgrade of Siri, marking a key step in its artificial intelligence turnaround effort.
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| Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: |
The public feed of the Meta AI app is filled with private and sensitive information, suggesting users might not be aware they are sharing their chats publicly — It sounds like the start of a 21st century horror film: Your browser history has been public all along, and you had no idea.
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| Bloomberg: |
Meta announces a $14.3B investment in Scale AI and hires CEO Alexandr Wang to help oversee its AI efforts; source: Scale AI's post-money valuation is $29B — Meta said Thursday that it has backed Scale, without including details. The size of the investment was $14.3 billion, according to a person familiar with the matter.| Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: |
Alexandr Wang says he is departing Scale AI as CEO to join Meta and names Chief Strategy Officer Jason Droege as interim CEO; Wang will remain a board director — Scale AI plans to promote Chief Strategy Officer Jason Droege to serve as its next chief executive officer following … | Tanaya Macheel / CNBC: |
Coinbase announces its first branded credit card, in partnership with American Express, for Coinbase One US users, and creates a lower-cost Basic subscription — Coinbase on Thursday introduced its first branded credit card in partnership with American Express.
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| CoinDesk: |
Shopify partners with Coinbase to enable USDC payments for its merchants through Coinbase's Base layer-2 network, starting with a limited group of merchants — The integration is set to roll out on June 12 to a limited group of early access merchants, with wider availability expected later in the year.
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| MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC: |
Chime shares jumped 37% in their Nasdaq debut on Thursday, closing at $37.11 and giving the company a market cap of $13.5B — Chime shares jumped 37% in their Nasdaq debut on Thursday after the provider of online banking services sold shares in an IPO that valued the company at $11.6 billion.| Bloomberg: |
A senior Trump administration official projects that Huawei's Ascend AI chip output will be at or below 200,000 for 2025, in a hearing with US lawmakers — The Chinese technology giant will be able to make just 200,000 of its Ascend AI chips in 2025, Commerce Under Secretary Jeffrey Kessler said Thursday at a Congressional hearing.
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| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Instagram plans to let users rearrange their grid, a first, and is testing a way for users to quietly post to their profile without it appearing in users' feeds — Instagram announced on Thursday that it will finally allow users to rearrange their grid, and is testing a way for users … | Jeremy Fuster / The Wrap: |
SAG-AFTRA's Interactive Media Agreement with game companies requires performers' informed consent for all planned AI use on their voice, likeness, and movements — Full text of the tentative agreement will be released June 18 for a ratification vote period that ends July 9| Erik Hayden / The Hollywood Reporter: |
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| New York Times: |
Internal docs: Fidelity, TPG, Sequoia, and others are buying ~$250M worth of shares in xAI under a tender offer valuing it at $113B; Fidelity is purchasing $20M — Two dozen venture capital firms and other investors are investing in xAI, the artificial intelligence and social media company.| Justine Calma / The Verge: |
Google is working with the US National Hurricane Center to test an AI model that forecasts cyclones, and launches Weather Lab to share its AI weather models — It's working with the US National Hurricane Center to test out its new AI-based tropical cyclone model.
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| Max A. Cherney / Reuters: |
Cloud computing startup Crusoe plans to buy ~$400M worth of AI chips from AMD to rent to customers for its US data center that will come online by fall — Crusoe CEO Chase Lochmiller said on Thursday the artificial intelligence data center builder planned to purchase roughly $400 million worth …
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: China delays approval of Synopsys' Ansys deal as the US moved in late May to ban chip design software sales by US firms, including Synopsys, to China — Beijing's antitrust regulator postpones sign-off on Synopsys and Ansys deal — A $35bn US semiconductor industry merger … | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: |
A Citizen Lab report finds that two European journalists had their iPhones hacked with Paragon spyware; Apple fixed the zero-day used in the spyware in February — Researchers revealed on Thursday that two European journalists had their iPhones hacked with spyware made by Paragon.
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Garmin unveils the $799 Venu X1 smartwatch with a 2" square AMOLED screen, a titanium body, an eight-day battery, and a blood oxygen monitor, coming on June 18 — With a 2-inch, squared-off display, Garmin's $799.99 smartwatch looks like a direct competitor to the Apple Watch Ultra 2.
More: DC Rainmaker, ZDNET, Android Central, and Wareable
| Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE: |
Texas-based Securonix acquires ThreatQuotient, which helps companies analyze threat intelligence more efficiently; ThreatQuotient had raised about $170M — Securonix Inc. today announced that it has acquired fellow cybersecurity startup ThreatQuotient Inc. to enhance its breach prevention capabilities.
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| Savyata Mishra / Reuters: |
Mattel partners with OpenAI to create AI-powered toys and games, with the first product expected in 2025, and integrates ChatGPT Enterprise in its business — Mattel (MAT.O) has teamed up with OpenAI to develop toys and games with artificial intelligence, and expects to launch …
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| Reuters: |
Customs data shows Foxconn exported $3.2B worth of iPhones from India between March and May, with an average 97% to the US, up from a 2024 average of 50.3% — Nearly all the iPhones exported by Foxconn from India went to the United States between March and May, customs data showed …
More: Business Standard
| Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware: |
AMD unveils its new MI350X and MI355X GPUs for AI workloads, claiming up to 4x AI compute performance and 35x inference gains over the prior-gen MI300X — More power consumption equals lower TCO. — AMD unveiled its new MI350X and MI355X GPUs for AI workloads here at its Advancing AI 2025 event … | Natasha Mascarenhas / The Information: |
Current and former employees of OpenAI have sold nearly $3B worth of shares in tender offers since 2021, with $1.5B+ going to SoftBank alone — My colleague Sri Muppidi broke the news Wednesday of OpenAI's latest fundraising talks as it seeks to raise an unprecedented $40 billion.
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