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June 19, 2026, 7:20 AM
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Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch:
Appfigures: daily downloads of major VPN apps in India rose 49% on June 16 after India announced its Telegram ban; Proton and Turbo recorded largest increases  —  As India cut off access to messaging app Telegram for a week over concerns about exam-related fraud, users turned to virtual private networks …
Hugo Lowell / Wired:
New book: Trump mocked Zuckerberg and Bezos by showing associates their fawning texts, saying they were “kissing my ass”; Musk called it “First-class groveling”  —  “You would not believe the texts I got from these tech guys,” NYT reporters Maggie Haberman …
Artificial Analysis:
GLM-5.2 is the leading open weights model on Artificial Analysis' Intelligence Index, scoring 51, only behind Fable 5's 60, Opus 4.8's 56, and GPT-5.5's 55  —  Z ai's GLM-5.2 is the new leading open weights model on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index scoring 51 and it sits on the Pareto frontier of Intelligence vs Cost per Task
Marilen Martin / Bloomberg:
Siemens expects Xcelerator revenue to more than double in 2026, aiming to make the platform an industrial app store integrating software and hardware offerings  —  Siemens AG expects revenue from its online store to more than double this year, though the maker of industrial software and trains …
Bloomberg:
The US FERC approves new orders to fast-track data center power requests, aiming to handle them in 90 days, while bringing new requirements for AI hyperscalers  —  US regulators have taken their biggest step yet to speed the connection of data centers to the country's grids while simultaneously attempting …
Jiahui Huang / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Chinese autonomous driving company Momenta has reached a ~$9B valuation as it gears up to raise ~$1B in an upcoming Hong Kong IPO  —  The company has also been backed by Toyota and SAIC Motor  —  Chinese autonomous-driving company Momenta's valuation has reached around $9 billion …
Zack Zwiezen / Kotaku:
Take-Two's Rockstar Games announces that pre-orders for Grand Theft Auto VI will go live on June 25 for PS5 and Xbox Series consoles; TTWO closed up 4.93%  —  If you were worried about another delay, you can probably stop worrying … Some of you might roll your eyes at the seeming certainty of that statement, and understandably so.
Hayden Field / The Verge:
Barret Zoph leaves OpenAI again five months after rejoining in January; Zoph initially left OpenAI in 2024 to serve as Thinking Machines Lab co-founder and CTO  —  Five months after returning to OpenAI, Barret Zoph — the company's head of enterprise AI sales — has departed, The Verge has learned.
Marina Temkin / TechCrunch:
Source: Elastic has agreed to acquire the AI site reliability engineering startup Deductive AI for up to $85M; CRV led Deductive AI's $7.5M seed round in 2025  —  DeductiveAI, a startup that uses AI to catch and resolve bugs in software, has agreed to be sold to enterprise software company Elastic …

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Rebecca Rubin / Variety:
Sony's Spider-Man: Brand New Day opened to a record-setting $360M in North America, beating Avengers: Endgame's $357M; globally, it hit $932M, second to Endgame

Corey G. Johnson / ProPublica:
Two watchdog groups seek federal investigations into whether two FCC members broke ethics rules by accepting free Kennedy Center tickets from Paramount

Justin Fox / Bloomberg:
US federal statistics show that Manhattan had 8.3% of newspaper jobs in 2025, despite accounting for just 0.5% of the US population

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Nate Raymond / Reuters:
A US circuit court overturned an injunction against Ohio, allowing the state to implement a law forcing platforms to seek parental consent if a user is under-16
Juby Babu / Reuters:
Intel names former SK Hynix CEO Seok-Hee Lee as EVP of Intel Foundry; Naga Chandrasekaran will lead front-end technology development and front-end manufacturing
Marcus Mendes / 9to5Mac:
Apple opens iOS to alternative app marketplaces in Brazil and changes App Store commission structure following a settlement with competition watchdog CADE

Earlier Picks

Ashley Gold / Axios:
Former Trump AI adviser Dean Ball is joining OpenAI to lead a new team called Strategic Futures, focused on frontier AI policy and internal governance
Sean O'Kane / TechCrunch:
Filings: Waymo pulls its ~4K robotaxis from highways after finding 13+ instances of the cars driving into highway sections under construction
Anhata Rooprai / Reuters:
Accenture says it will buy a majority stake in Dragos and fully acquire runZero and NetRise in a combined deal for the cybersecurity startups valued at $4.18B
Kai Nicol-Schwarz / CNBC:
Intel's stock jumps 10.64% after Trump said “Apple has agreed to work with Intel to design and build its Chips in America”; INTC is up 520%+ in the past year
Richard Lawler / The Verge:
Midjourney unveils its first hardware product, the Midjourney Scanner, an ultrasound-based full-body scanner; it is unclear how AI fits into the medical effort
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