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| Imran Rahman-Jones / BBC: |
The UK CMA says publishers in the country will be allowed to opt out of Google's AI Overviews search results, giving Google nine months to implement the changes — Online publishers can choose not to appear in the AI Overviews of Google search results n the UK, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has announced.
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| Igor Bonifacic / Engadget: |
Google says it is testing a new toggle inside its Search Console with some UK domain owners, letting them decide whether their sites appear in AI search results — The company says opting out won't impact placement in regular searches. — More than three years after it began rolling … | Echo Wang / Reuters: |
Source: SpaceX aims to raise $75B in its IPO, selling 555.6M shares at $135 each, an unusual move as companies typically set a price range before their roadshow — SpaceX plans to raise $75 billion in its initial public offering by selling 555.6 million shares at a target price of $135 per share …
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| Mathieu Pollet / Politico: |
The EU Commission unveils its tech sovereignty package, including the EU's Cloud and AI Development Act, in a bid to reduce its reliance on US tech companies — The European Commission's so-called tech sovereignty plan aims to boost domestic champions rather than shut out American competitors.
More: Associated Press, New York Times, Reuters, European Commission, cep.eu, and Daily Sabah
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| Katherine Blunt / Wall Street Journal: |
The US data center build-out is falling behind schedule; JP Morgan says 60%+ of data center capacity planned for completion in 2027 isn't yet under construction — Google, which is raising a fresh $80 billion, has a strategy for getting around the biggest bottleneck| Cade Metz / New York Times: |
University of Toronto researchers claim to have developed a “worm” powered by open-source AI that exploits known flaws and tailors its attacks for each computer — Researchers at the University of Toronto showed how hackers could use artificial intelligence to create a program …
More: University of Toronto, Engadget, Help Net Security, CleverHans Lab, arXiv, and The Independent
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Microsoft debuts MAI-Thinking-1, its first advanced reasoning AI model, trained “from the ground up on clean data, without distillation from third-party models” — MAI-Thinking-1 is one of seven new models announced at Build 2026. … Microsoft announced a bunch of new in-house AI models …
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| David Phelan / Forbes: |
Apple plans to open an Apple Developer Center in Berlin in 2026, its first center in Europe and fifth globally, offering in-person developer access and sessions — In an announcement that is characteristically well-timed before the upcoming Worldwide Developers Conference which kicks off on Monday …
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| Jyoti Mann / The Information: |
Internal memo: Meta is scaling back elements of its MCI employee tracking tool, launched in April to help train its AI models, after staff raised concerns — Meta Platforms is scaling back elements of its employee tracking tool after staff raised concerns about the tool, according to an internal memo reviewed by The Information.
More: Engadget, BBC, Reuters, Yahoo Finance, and Neowin
| Financial Times: |
How OpenAI, Anthropic, and other AI startups are pursuing recursive self-improvement, in a bid to build AI that can improve itself with little to no human input — Industry chiefs say technology within their grasp is the key to superintelligence. Safety experts say we're not ready.
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| Lauren Feiner / The Verge: |
Google unveils five AI data center water commitments, including becoming water positive by 2030, local infrastructure investments, and transparency about usage — The company promises to replenish more water than it uses by 2030. … In the face of widespread backlash …
More: The Keyword, Axios, and Wired
| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
Alibaba releases Qwen3.7-Plus, a multimodal proprietary model with a 1M-token context window, costing $2 per 1M tokens, 60% less than the text-only Qwen3.7-Max — However, like its immediate predecessor Qwen3.7-Plus is available only under a “closed” commercial license via proprietary …
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| Reuters: |
Sources: DeepSeek is set to raise ~$7.4B in its first funding round from investors, including Tencent and CATL, at a valuation of between ~$52B and ~$59B — DeepSeek, China's best-known AI startup, is set to raise about 50 billion yuan ($7.4 billion) in its first funding round … | Helene Braun / CoinDesk: |
Mastercard says it plans to offer on-chain settlement using several regulated USD stablecoins, initially supporting USDC, PYUSD, USDG, USDP, RLUSD, and SoFiUSD — The company plans to offer stablecoin, weekend and holiday settlement as demand grows for real-time movement of money. … What to know:| Jason Koebler / 404 Media: |
Email: Google asked Google Play app developers to “join a confidential content offer pilot”, offering to pay for codebase access to train its AI coding tools — Google is trying to buy code from some Android developers as part of a “confidential” program.
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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Meta launches Meta Business Agent globally on WhatsApp and Instagram DMs, after a two-year pilot of the customer support AI bot in India, Mexico, and others — For years, WhatsApp has been a communication layer for businesses of all sizes around the world.
More: Wall Street Journal, Engadget, CNBC, Bloomberg, Financial Times, Reuters, and Meta Newsroom
| Bloomberg: |
Bitcoin fell as much as 7% over 24 hours to below $67K on June 2 for the first time since April, following Strategy's first BTC sale since 2022; MSTR fell 9.15% — Souring Bitcoin sentiment has triggered almost $1.5 billion in crypto liquidations over the past 24 hours, as the largest digital asset sank back to a two-month low.| Aditya Kalra / Reuters: |
Doc: Apple agreed in May to submit the financials of its India business to the country's antitrust body as part of an investigation over alleged market abuses — Apple has agreed to submit the financials of its India business to the country's antitrust body as part of an investigation …
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| Aisha S Gani / Bloomberg: |
How Revolut founder Nikolay Storonsky's Elon Musk-style pay packages pushed his fortune to ~$20.4B, making him the UK's richest person, ahead of a planned IPO — CEO Nik Storonsky turned a scrappy startup into a fintech juggernaut — now he has to convince the world that his company is as safe as a bank| Casey Newton / Platformer: |
Q&A with labor economist Kathryn Anne Edwards on why much of the AI jobs panic is overblown, why the US should start to plan for AI job loss scenarios, and more — Labor economist Kathryn Anne Edwards isn't worried AI will create a new class of permanently idle Americans …
More: Casey Newton on YouTube
| Sawdah Bhaimiya / CNBC: |
Marvell's stock closed up 32.52% on June 2, its biggest one-day gain, after Jensen Huang called the US data center chipmaker the “next trillion-dollar company” — Nvidia's CEO Jensen Huang hailed Marvell Technology as the next trillion-dollar firm, sending its shares up 32% on Tuesday.| Gavin Finch / Reuters: |
The US sanctions Nobitex, Iran's largest crypto exchange, accusing it of helping Iran's government and blacklisted state institutions evade Western sanctions — The United States announced sanctions on Iran's biggest cryptocurrency exchange on Tuesday, accusing it of enabling the Iranian government …
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| Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: |
Boston-based software monitoring startup Coralogix raised a $200M Series F at a $1.6B post-money valuation, up from $1B+ after a $115M Series E in June 2025 — Coralogix, a Boston-headquartered software monitoring startup founded in Israel, has raised $200 million in a new funding round … | Stephen Nellis / Reuters: |
Microsoft unveils Majorana 2, a quantum chip that it developed using AI tools for materials science, and says it will have commercial quantum machines by 2029 — Microsoft (MSFT.O) on Tuesday unveiled a new quantum computing chip that it redesigned with the help of AI …
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| Tracy Qu / Wall Street Journal: |
Baidu CFO Henry He says the company plans to spin off and list its chip unit Kunlunxin in Hong Kong and Shanghai in 2026, making it more like a “neutral player” — Plans to spin off and list Kunlunxin Technology in Hong Kong and Shanghai are on track
More: DigiTimes
| Katherine Blunt / Wall Street Journal: |
Google sold $35B in stock in its equity raise this week, up from its planned $30B and taking its total funding to $85B; a source says it contacted 75 investors — $35 billion — That's how much stock Google parent Alphabet ended up selling this week in underwritten public offerings … | Belle Lin / Wall Street Journal: |
Anthropic unveils a Services Track for its Claude Partner Network, a ranking based on what companies built with Claude, and releases a Claude Partner Hub portal — AI giant is solidifying its Claude Partner Network to help demonstrate ‘durability of revenue’ as it nears going public
More: Quartz, Anthropic, and Yahoo Finance
| Ben Glickman / Wall Street Journal: |
AI market research platform AlphaSense raised $350M from Vitruvian, Accenture, and others at a $7.5B valuation, up from $4B in 2024, ahead of a possible IPO — Firm raises $350 million from investors including Accenture and JPMorgan's asset-management unit.
More: Reuters and China Money Network
| Kylie Robison / Core Memory: |
How startups Westmag, which raised an $11M, a16z-led seed in August 2025, and Atlas are seeking to make actuators, the foundation of hardware, outside of China — Westmag and Atlas Motion Systems are here to fix the actuator crisis — At a hardware happy hour in the Mission …
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