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June 22, 2026, 4:10 AM

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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: John Ternus gets ready to put his imprint on Apple's industrial design team, which has lost a true seat at Apple's executive table over the past decade  —  Also: The 2027 iPhone and AirPods plans.  —  The No. 1 priority for new Apple CEO John Ternus should be revamping …
Eli Rosenberg / The Information:
A profile of Sarah Polcz, the UC Davis law professor that Bernie Sanders' team consulted while developing his AI sovereign wealth fund proposal  —  A couple of weekends ago, Sarah Polcz, a University of California, Davis, law professor, and her husband, Adam Brown, a top scientist at Google's DeepMind …
More: RedState
Dakin Campbell / The Information:
Source: Morgan Stanley is pitching data center developers to use leveraged loans rather than bonds, and estimates ~$15B will be issued in 2026 in such loans  —  Morgan Stanley, one of the most active banks in financing data center developers, is now pitching some of those same clients …
More: Bloomberg
Henny Sender / Nikkei Asia:
Sources: ByteDance shares are trading at a $600B+ valuation in gray markets; an IPO is unlikely and its growth continues to benefit its Chinese and US backers  —  Henny Sender is the founder and managing partner of Apsara Advisory, a strategic consultancy for financial services companies.
Nikkei Asia:
Japan's top five chip equipment makers posted their first-ever fall in combined China sales, down 10% in the year ended March 31, as China boosts local players  —  TOKYO — Japan's top five manufacturers of chipmaking equipment posted a 10% decline in combined sales to China for the year ended March 31 …
Wall Street Journal:
Investigation: Polymarket is paying creators to make deceptive videos about winning bets, targeting users in the US, where its primary crypto platform is banned  —  The prediction market has flooded social media with deceptive videos by paid creators, according to a Wall Street Journal investigation
Caroline Petrow-Cohen / Los Angeles Times:
SF-based Humble Robotics, which is developing an electric, self-driving cabless freight truck with 200 miles range and 55 mph max speed, raised $24M  —  - 7 min Click here to listen to this article  — San Francisco startup Humble Robotics has raised $24 million to build an electric …
More: RuntimeWire
Wataru Suzuki / Nikkei Asia:
China adds ten US companies, including MP Materials and Teal Drones, to export controls and bars government purchases from 46 US companies, including Anduril  —  BEIJING — China on Monday announced new restrictions on exports and government procurement targeting dozens of American companies …
Luz Ding / Bloomberg:
Tencent starts testing its new Xiaowei AI assistant powered by WeLM and DeepSeek models in its WeChat app in China, in an effort to catch up in the AI race  —  Tencent Holdings Ltd. has started testing a new AI assistant for WeChat as part of its efforts to catch up with peers in China's white-hot artificial intelligence race.
More: The Next Web

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