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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 … | 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.| 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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Forums: r/wallstreetbets, r/StockMarket, and r/news
| 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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| Rafe Rosner-Uddin / Financial Times: |
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| 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: Engadget, University of Toronto, Help Net Security, CleverHans Lab, arXiv, and The Independent. Bluesky: @metacurity.com
| Mathieu Pollet / Politico: |
The EU Commission unveils its proposed tech sovereignty package, including the Cloud and AI Development Act, in a bid to cut 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: New York Times, Reuters, European Commission, cep.eu, and Daily Sabah
| 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
| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Microsoft unveils Project Solara, an Android-based platform for agent-first devices, with concept hardware and pilots planned at Best Buy, Target, and others — [Editor's Note: Agents of Transformation is an independent GeekWire series, underwritten by Accenture, exploring the adoption and impact of AI and agents.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
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| Sophia Cai / Politico: |
President Trump signs a scaled-back AI EO that seeks to address AI's cybersecurity threats; sources say it imposes less scrutiny on AI than the scrapped version — President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed a scaled-back executive order that seeks to address the cybersecurity threats …
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| 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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| 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.| 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 — Chinese AI startup DeepSeek is set to raise about 50 billion yuan ($7.4 billion) in its first funding round from investors including Tencent Holdings … | 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.
More: Android Authority and Neowin
Bluesky: @joolia, @mattzollerseitz, @alisonborealis, @josephcox, and @jasonkoebler. Forums: r/Android
| 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 … | 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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| 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:
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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: Axios, The Keyword, and Wired
| 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.
More: Blockonomi, Yahoo Finance, Watcher Guru, Inc.com, Bloomberg, and Coinpaper
| 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| Financial Times: |
How OpenAI, Anthropic, and 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.| 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 …
More: 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, MacRumors, Business Today, Inc42, Livemint, and The Next Web
| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
Google adds a scam-detection feature, built on RCS, to Android 12 and later that verifies whether a call is coming from the caller's actual Android smartphone — Available for Android 12 and later, the anti-scam feature is baked into Google Dialer, which sends a silent “confirmation signal” …
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X: @backlon, @racheltobac, @racheltobac, and @racheltobac. LinkedIn: Dave Kleidermacher. Bluesky: @couts
Forums: r/technology, r/Scams, and r/Android
| Samantha Subin / CNBC: |
Palo Alto Networks reports Q3 revenue up 31% YoY to $3B, including $388M from CyberArk and Chronosphere, above $2.94B est., and forecasts Q4 revenue above est. — - Palo Alto Networks topped Wall Street's third-quarter estimates, citing AI advancements
More: Benzinga, Palo Alto Networks, Yahoo Finance, SiliconANGLE, CRN, MarketWatch, Reuters, Sherwood News, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, and Barron's Online. X: @economyapp
| Harshita Mary Varghese / Reuters: |
Sensor Tower: ChatGPT becomes the fastest app by far to hit 1B global MAUs; ChatGPT's MAUs are up 62% YoY in Q2 to date and Claude's MAUs are up 640% YoY to 56M — OpenAI's ChatGPT has crossed 1 billion global monthly active app users, becoming the fastest app ever to reach the milestone … | Reece Rogers / Wired: |
Microsoft announces Scout, an always-on enterprise AI agent built on OpenClaw that appears as a Microsoft Teams contact to automate tasks such as scheduling — Microsoft's OpenClaw-style agent appears in Teams, just like a human colleague, and automates your dull office tasks.
More: 404 Media, Microsoft 365 Blog, The Hans India, Computerworld, The Verge, Search Engine Roundtable, WinBuzzer, Command Line, The Indian Express, Digit, TestingCatalog AI News, Android Authority, Developer Tech News, WinCentral, Sources, Microsoft Learn, Help Net Security, Notebookcheck, Mashable, Axios, The Deep View, Thurrott, Neowin, and TechCrunch
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Bluesky: @josephcox, @emanuelmaiberg, and @jasonkoebler. Threads: @carnage4life. Mastodon: @thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io
| 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
| Aisha S Gani / Bloomberg: |
How Revolut founder Nikolay Storonsky's Elon Musk-style pay incentives 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
More: Reuters
| Meir Orbach / CTech: |
Israeli startup ZutaCore, which builds direct-to-chip liquid data center cooling systems, raised a $100M Series C from Mitsubishi and more at a $600M valuation — Samsung, Mitsubishi Electric and Carrier back data center infrastructure company from Sderot.
More: FinSMEs, DatacenterDynamics, Ventureburn, and SiliconANGLE
| 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 …
More: FinSMEs and The Asia Business Daily
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