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| 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 …
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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 …
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| 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 …
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| 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 …
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Snowflake reports Q1 revenue up 33% YoY to $1.39B, vs. $1.32B est., and commits to spending $6B on AWS over five years; SNOW jumps 35%+ after hours — Amazon said Wednesday that its cloud division has landed a $6 billion spending commitment from Snowflake, which includes the use …
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US prosecutors charge Google engineer Michele Spagnuolo with using inside information to make $1.2M on Polymarket bets about Google's Year in Search results — Michele Spagnuolo allegedly placed bets on what users were searching for. — In this Dec. 19, 2023, file photo …
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| 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.
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| 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.| 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 … | 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 …
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| 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.
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| 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 the servers running …
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| Garrett Downs / CNBC: |
The US DOD announces a $9.7B five-year deal with Dell to provide Microsoft 365, advanced cloud subscriptions, and on-premises licensing to the US military — The Department of Defense on Wednesday announced a five-year, roughly $9.7 billion deal with Dell to provide a suite of software to the U.S. military.
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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 — Biohub, the Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan-funded institute, on Wednesday released what it says amounts to “a world model of protein biology.”
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: Uber has increased its stake in Delivery Hero to ~37% by acquiring Aspex Management's 14.6% share at a €12B valuation, after a takeover offer last week — Share purchase from Aspex Management steps up US ride-hailing group's pursuit of German food delivery company
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| 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 — TAIPEI — Nvidia is now spending up to $150 billion a year on its supply chain partners in Taiwan and plans to increase its headcount in the …
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| Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: |
Mark Zuckerberg tells shareholders that a Meta cloud computing business is “definitely on the table” if it overspends on data centers and has excess capacity — Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said his company could enter the cloud computing market if it overspends on data centers and ends up with excess capacity.
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Salesforce reports Q1 revenue up 13% YoY to $11.13B, vs. $11.05B est., Agentforce annual recurring revenue up 205% to $1.2B, and forecasts Q2 revenue below est. — Salesforce reported stronger-than-expected quarterly results on Wednesday, but the cloud software vendor issued full-year guidance … | 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 …
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| Brian Danga / The Block:NEW |
SoFi says SoFiUSD, its US dollar-pegged stablecoin on Ethereum and Solana, is now available for members to buy, sell, hold, and convert within the SoFi app — Quick Take — SoFi said its U.S. dollar-pegged stablecoin is now available for members to buy, sell, hold, and convert within the SoFi app.| Jared Perlo / NBC News: |
Illinois Legislature passes SB 315, a bill requiring annual independent third-party safety audits of leading AI companies; the bill heads to the governor's desk — The measure, SB 315, goes beyond legislation from California and New York regulating America's largest AI companies.
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| 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.
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| Chris Metinko / Axios: |
Tensormesh, whose inference platform uses KV caching to reduce costs, raised a $20M seed extension, bringing its total funding to $24.5M — Inference optimization startup Tensormesh raised a $20 million seed extension, co-founder and CEO Junchen Jiang tells Axios Pro.
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| Maria Curi / Axios: |
OpenAI announces partnerships to combat election misinformation, offering cybersecurity products to state officials and backing legislation to curb deepfakes — OpenAI is announcing new partnerships to combat misinformation, offering its cybersecurity products to state officials … | 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.
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| 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) … | 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.| Dina Bass / Bloomberg: |
HP reports Q2 revenue up 9% YoY to $14.4B, vs. $14B est., Personal Systems revenue up 13% to $10.2B, and forecasts Q3 adjusted EPS above estimates — HP Inc. gave a profit forecast for the current quarter that signaled the company continues to contend with a dramatic increase in memory chip prices.
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