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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 …
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Valve raises Steam Deck OLED prices due to “rising memory and storage costs”; the 512GB model is now $789, up from $549, and the 1TB model is $949, up from $649  —  The 1TB OLED model got a $300 price increase, and now costs $949. … Valve has significantly increased the price …
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 …
Chloe Taylor / CNBC:
The UK's GCHQ head says the UK and allies have a “narrowing window” to counter cyber threats from China and Russia, as Russia intensifies “daily” hybrid warfare  —  Choose CNBC as your preferred source on Google and never miss a moment from the most trusted name in business news.
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 …
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Meta rolls out Plus plans for Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp globally, will test $7.99/mo. and $19.99/mo. Meta AI plans, a $49.99/mo. creator plan, and more  —  Meta is doubling down on its subscription offerings.  On Wednesday, the social networking giant announced it's now rolling …
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 …
Reuters:
OpenAI Foundation says it is committing an initial $250M for grants, partnerships, and direct work aimed at helping workers and economies navigate AI disruption  —  The non-profit that controls OpenAI will commit an initial $250 million for grants, partnerships and direct work aimed …
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 …
Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:
Starlette, an open-source Python framework underpinning FastAPI, has a vulnerability, called BadHost, that can allow hackers to bypass authorization  —  Millions of AI agents and tools around the world have been imperiled by a critical vulnerability that can allow hackers to breach …
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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) …
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 …
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.
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Amazon MGM Studios announces the GenAI Creators' Fund, greenlights three AI animated series for Prime Video, and launches an AI production platform with AWS  —  Amazon MGM Studios is touting the power of AI to help create “cinematic” entertainment in a big new initiative …
Maxwell Zeff / Wired:
Trajectory, founded by ex-DeepMind, Apple, OpenAI and Meta researchers to build continual learning models, raised a $15M seed at a $115M post-money 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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New York Times:
Sources: the White House directed FBI Director Kash Patel to personally oversee the probe into NYT reporting about Air Force One, before subpoenas were issued

New York Times:
Sources: California is preparing to file a lawsuit to block Paramount's WBD merger as soon as this week, joined by New York, WA, CT, and possibly other states

Brooks Barnes / New York Times:
Lionsgate's Michael crosses $1B at the global box office, its first film to reach the milestone, per Rentrak, reviving Hollywood's last major independent studio

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Ina Fried / Axios:
Biohub, a Mark Zuckerberg- and Priscilla Chan-funded institute, releases “a world model of protein biology” to researchers for prediction, design, and discovery
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

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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
Samantha Subin / CNBC:
Micron hit a $1T market value for the first time on Tuesday as its stock closed up 19.29%, after hitting $700B earlier in May, driven by high memory chip demand
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