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| Hannah Erin Lang / Wall Street Journal: |
Robinhood launches a feature to let users link AI agents, such as Claude or Cursor, to separate, dedicated investment accounts for trading stocks autonomously — New feature links artificial-intelligence tools to investment and credit-card accounts — AI agents were already dispensing advice …
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X: @mikeisaac, @mikulaja, @bostonlooper, @conejocapital, @duderichy, @rasmic, and @jyarow. LinkedIn: Bankit Kumar. Forums: r/StockMarket
| Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg: |
Samsung's largest union approves a pay deal that would give chip workers an average bonus of ~$340K, with ~74% of members voting in favor, staving off a strike — Samsung Electronics Co. union members voted in favor of a compensation deal that will hand chip workers an average bonus of about $340,000 …
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| Paula Doenecke / Bloomberg: |
The EU proposes new satellite access rules to let non-European companies like SpaceX bid for the airwaves, while preserving 33%+ of licenses for local companies — The European Union proposed new rules for satellite access that will allow non-European firms, like Elon Musk's Starlink …
More: Reuters, European Commission, Wall Street Journal, Reuters, Politico, Crypto Briefing, and Euronews
| Samantha Subin / CNBC: |
Micron hit a $1T market value for the first time on May 26 after its stock closed up 19.29%, rising from $700B earlier in May, driven by high memory chip demand — Micron topped a $1 trillion market value for the first time on Tuesday as shares popped 19%, driven by insatiable artificial intelligence demand for its memory chips.
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
YouTube makes its AI content labels more prominent on desktop and mobile, and will apply them automatically if it detects “significant photorealistic AI use” — Is that YouTube video clip you're watching real or was it made with AI? — YouTube wants to make it easier for viewers … | Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
ElevenLabs launches Music v2, which can switch genres mid-track and handle complex vocal compositions, built on licensed data and cleared for commercial use — Voice AI company ElevenLabs launched a new version of its music-generation model, called Music v2, that can switch genres mid-track.| Financial Times: |
How AI is starting to dismantle the hegemony of the Big Four consultancies and other large firms, as AI agents help smaller consultancies handle big workloads — The technology opens the door for smaller, well-funded challengers to take market share from the Big Four and others.
More: Financial Times, Fortune, and Telegraph
| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Demis Hassabis says he still broadly expects AGI around 2030, though he now sees 2029 as a possibility, and 2026's “agentic era” is a “bit like a practice run” — Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis said at Google's developer conference last week that humanity is standing in the …
More: The Rundown AI. X: @kimmonismus. Forums: r/IntelligenceSupernova, r/singularity, and r/accelerate
| Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: |
Datacurve releases the DeepSWE coding benchmark, a 113-task test across 91 open-source repositories: GPT-5.5 leads at 70%, GPT-5.4 got 56%, and Opus 4.7 got 54% — For months, the leading AI coding benchmarks have told enterprise buyers a comforting but misleading story: the top models are all roughly the same.
More: DeepSWE, Decrypt, and Datacurve on GitHub
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| Ashleigh Fields / The Hill: |
President Trump says it is “critically important” that the CFTC keep exclusive authority to oversee prediction markets, as some states attempt to regulate them — President Trump on Tuesday said it was “critically important” for the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) …
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| Rebecca Torrence / Bloomberg: |
AI coding startup Cognition AI raised more than $1B at a $26B valuation, and says its revenue run rate has increased to $492M from $37M in May 2025 — Cognition AI Inc. has raised more than $1 billion in a new funding round at a $26 billion valuation, the latest sign of strong demand … | Steven Levy / Wired: |
A deep dive into how Anthropic's Claude Code and Peter Steinberger's OpenClaw unleashed the AI agent revolution that is rapidly transforming modern computing — The definitive story of how Claude Code and OpenClaw kicked off computing's biggest transformation possibly ever.| Casey Newton / Platformer: |
| Michael Larabel / Phoronix: |
Initial benchmarks: Nvidia's Vera Rubin CPU, which features 88 Nvidia-designed Olympus cores, packs a heavy-hitting punch, beating Intel's and AMD's x86_64 CPUs — NVIDIA's Vera data center CPU isn't ramping up until later this year but I recently had the opportunity to try out this new ARM-based CPU designed for agentic AI workloads.
More: Tom's Hardware, TechPowerUp, Wccftech, NVIDIA, WinBuzzer, Barchart.com, and PC Gamer
| Eleanor Olcott / Financial Times: |
Sources and docs detail how China is modernizing its decade-old domestic surveillance network by investing in new generations of AI-enabled cameras and software — Local police forces are modernising the country's ageing infrastructure with more powerful tracking systems| Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter: |
Roku launches its first major homescreen overhaul in over a decade, including a large “marquee” ad spot to tout apps or shows, in a bid to drive more engagement — Don't worry, Roku City isn't going anywhere. In fact, it's going interactive. But there will be more personalization, and a more prominent ad unit too.| Maxwell Zeff / Wired: |
Trajectory, founded by ex-DeepMind, Apple, and OpenAI staff to train “continual learning” models on user interactions, raised a $15M seed at a $115M valuation — Trajectory is betting the rapid iteration cycle that supercharged vibe-coding can help all kinds of companies build AI products that learn continuously.
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| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
Amazon says it is making the “architecture, starter code, and learnings” from Alexa for Shopping available to third-party retailers, starting with Kate Spade — Amazon has been using homegrown artificial intelligence technology to help users compare products and buy or reorder items on their behalf.
More: The Information, GeekWire, About Amazon, Yahoo Finance, and Crypto Briefing
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: ByteDance is discussing up to $70B of 2026 capex as it builds out data centers and other AI infrastructure, underwritten by its ~$50B profit in 2025 — ByteDance Ltd., the developer of TikTok and a leading force in artificial intelligence, is planning to sharply increase …
More: The Information and Crypto Briefing
| Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch: |
Milan-based social travel startup WeRoad raised a $58M Series C led by Airbnb, taking its total funding to ~$100M, to expand into the US, starting in Austin — WeRoad, the Milan-based group travel startup, has raised a $58 million Series C round led by Airbnb as it prepares for its first major expansion outside Europe.
More: FinSMEs, Skift, Ventureburn, The Next Web, and Tech.eu
| Anna Tong / Forbes: |
NYC-based Pace, whose AI agents automate back-office operations for insurance companies, raised a $46M series B led by Thrive and Sequoia at a $375M valuation — The startup says its AI agents can handle the dull work insurers have long shipped to offshore operators.
More: FinTech Global, Business Wire, Coverager, and Pulse 2.0
| Anna Tong / Forbes: |
Opendoor Co-Founder Eric Wu's NavigateAI, which is building an expert AI coach for construction workers, raised a $25M seed led by Elad Gil at a $225M valuation — After pioneering automated home buying, the serial real estate tech entrepreneur is shifting focus from buying physical assets to empowering the workers who build them.
More: Investing.com, Ventureburn, FinSMEs, and Navigate AI
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| Scott Stein / CNET: |
Xreal launches a new sub-brand, X by Xreal, and $299 a01 display glasses with micro OLED displays, a 50° FOV, and a 62g weight, set for a July release in the US — X by Xreal is arriving in July for $299, and they look to compete with TCL's budget glasses.| Hayden Field / The Verge: |
A look at the Pentagon's embrace of autonomous weapons before its fight over Anthropic's two “red lines”, and AI's creeping influence in military operations — The Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons, an international forum that focuses on lethal autonomous systems … | Nikkei Asia: |
Jensen Huang says Nvidia spends $100B-$150B per year on its Taiwan supply chain, up from $10B-$15B in 2022-2023, and will boost its 1,000 staff there to 4,000 — TAIPEI — Nvidia is now spending up to $150 billion a year on its supply chain partners in Taiwan and plans to increase its headcount in the …
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