| 8:20 PM • | Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: Microsoft disabled 70+ of its repos on GitHub, including Azure-related tools like azure-functions-host, after hackers added credential-stealing malware to them |
| 8:10 PM • | Kif Leswing / CNBC: Google and Nvidia are helping Apple with Apple Foundation Model Cloud Pro, which Apple says is comparable to Gemini frontier models and runs on Nvidia GPUs |
| 7:15 PM • | Lucinda Shen / Axios: Infinity Constellation, which builds AI tools and software businesses for the professional services market, raised a $24M Series A; it previously raised $17M |
| 7:05 PM • | James Pero / Gizmodo: Apple unveils an Apple Intelligence feature to automatically change compromised passwords, using agentic AI, and save them to the Passwords app |
| 7:00 PM • | Axios: The Trump administration relaunches efforts to block state AI laws; Sen. Blackburn is leading negotiations and pushing KOSA as part of an AI preemption package |
| 6:35 PM • | Wall Street Journal: Meta puts $115M toward a “workforce academy”, a free 5-week program to train Americans to build data centers, offering job guarantees at Meta construction sites |
| 5:58 PM • | Richard Nieva / Forbes: Source: Cursor, which is prepping for an expected acquisition by SpaceX, passed $4B in annualized revenue in the last week, up from $3B in April and $2B in Feb. |
| 5:20 PM • | Ashley Capoot / CNBC: OpenAI confidentially files for an IPO, says it has “not decided on timing yet”, as “there are things we want to do that are likely easier as a private company” |
| 4:45 PM • | Abner Li / 9to5Google: Google lowers the price of its Google AI Plus plan to $4.99 per month, down from $7.99, and doubles the included storage to 400GB |
| 4:35 PM • | Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Google upgrades NotebookLM, which now runs on Gemini 3.5 and Antigravity, to deliver new agentic capabilities and more advanced reasoning for AI Ultra users |
| 4:05 PM • | Todd Spangler / Variety: Apple's Craig Federighi says some companies “appear to be racing forward” to develop “AI for the sake of AI” without regard for the humans using the technology |
| 3:50 PM • | Hartley Charlton / MacRumors: Apple announces new features for the Home app, including AI-generated descriptions of HomeKit Secure Video camera clips and smarter grouping of notifications |
| 3:45 PM • | Hartley Charlton / MacRumors: watchOS 27 Drops Support for Apple Watch Series 9, Ultra 1, SE 2, and Older |
| 3:25 PM • | Hartley Charlton / MacRumors: Apple announces a new Foundation Models framework for developers, a new Core AI framework, and a set of Xcode enhancements aimed at agentic coding workflows |
| 3:10 PM • | Aamir Siddiqui / Android Authority: Apple says iOS 27 will support iPhone 11, in contrast with 2019 Android flagships like Pixel 4 and Galaxy S10, which got only three years of platform updates |
| 3:05 PM • | Mia Sato / The Verge: Amazon expands its print-on-demand features to AI-generated designs created using Alexa for Shopping for products like T-shirts, water bottles, and hoodies |
| 3:00 PM • | Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: Apple announces tvOS 27, with performance enhancements, smart downloads, an updated Podcasts app, and more |
| 2:55 PM • | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Apple announces that the iOS 27 Shortcuts app will feature AI-powered workflow creation, allowing users to build automations via natural language prompts |
| 2:50 PM • | Ryan Christoffel / 9to5Mac: Apple says its most powerful on-device AI model requires an iPhone 17 Pro, iPhone Air, iPad with M4 and later, or Mac with M3 and later, all with 12GB+ of RAM |
| 2:45 PM • | Hartley Charlton / MacRumors: Apple unveils new editing tools for the Photos app as part of Apple Intelligence, including an upgraded Cleanup tool, and new Extend and Spatial Reframing tools |
| 2:40 PM • | Rajesh Mascarenhas / Bloomberg: Indian quick grocery delivery startup Zepto files for an India IPO, planning to raise ~$836M by selling new shares; Zepto was valued at $7B in its last round |
| 2:35 PM • | Tim Hardwick / MacRumors: Apple says Siri AI will be delayed in the EU for iOS 27 and iPadOS 27 due to the DMA; Siri AI will also not be available in China at launch |
| 2:25 PM • | Wired: Analysis: Meta removed code for an unreleased face-recognition system in the Meta AI app for its smart glasses, following a report on the code's existence |
| 2:20 PM • | John Quintet / iPhone in Canada: Apple announces new Apple Intelligence features for its apps, including a Notify Me feature in Safari and a Call Context feature in the Phone app |
| 2:15 PM • | Hartley Charlton / MacRumors: Apple announces Visual Intelligence updates, including a new Siri mode in the Camera app for analyzing real-world objects and support for visionOS |
| 2:05 PM • | Hartley Charlton / MacRumors: Apple overhauls Apple Intelligence, with a new architecture built on Apple Foundation Models developed with Google and adapted to run on device and on servers |
| 1:55 PM • | Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: Apple announces Siri AI, with on-screen awareness, personal context understanding, a Dynamic Island-based interface, and more, along with a new Siri app |
| 1:50 PM • | Daniel Cooper / Engadget: Apple announces new parental controls, letting kids ask to browse specific websites or contact specific people, adding automatic image filtering, and more |
| 1:42 PM • | Kevin Breuninger / CNBC: A federal judge blocks President Trump's policy imposing a $100,000 fee for employer H-1B visa applications |
| 1:40 PM • | Sam Sabin / Axios: Anthropic researchers say Mythos Preview can now turn publicly disclosed software vulnerabilities, or N-days, into working exploits in hours instead of weeks |
| 1:35 PM • | Matt Bolton / TechRadar: Apple announces that AirPods will gain a custom EQ feature as part of iOS 27 |
| 1:30 PM • | Jay Peters / The Verge: Apple unveils iOS 27, iPadOS 27, watchOS 27, and visionOS 27, highlighting performance and design improvements, including smoother system animations |
| 1:25 PM • | Ryan Christoffel / 9to5Mac: Apple announces major performance improvements across its platforms, including up to 30% faster app launches and up to 80% faster AirDrop transfers |
| 1:22 PM • | Marcus Mendes / 9to5Mac: Apple announces macOS 27 Golden Gate, featuring Liquid Glass and search improvements, a fixed corner radius across apps and system windows, and more |
| 1:20 PM • | Hartley Charlton / MacRumors: Apple announces improvements to Liquid Glass, including a new slider that lets users control transparency, ranging from fully opaque to completely clear |
| 1:00 PM • | Kate O'Keeffe / Bloomberg: The US DOD designates some of China's biggest companies, including Alibaba, BYD, and Baidu, as entities that support the Chinese military |
| 12:58 PM • | Apple on YouTube: A recording of Apple's WWDC 2026 keynote |
| 12:55 PM • | Engadget: A live blog of WWDC 2026, where Apple announced an overhauled Siri, a Siri app, new AI capabilities, OS updates focused on performance, and more |
| 12:45 PM • | Alvise Armellini / Reuters: Italy's competition authority says it has dropped its 2025 probe into Meta over allegations Meta abused its dominant position by installing Meta AI on WhatsApp |
| 12:35 PM • | Peter Rudegeair / Wall Street Journal: Sources: former OpenAI researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner's AI-focused hedge fund, Situational Awareness, has $20B+ AUM, after launching less than two years ago |
| 12:30 PM • | Reuters: Analysis: China's low-cost e-commerce exports fell 10.9% YoY in April to $9.8B, the fifth straight monthly decline, amid surging fuel costs and weakening demand |
| 12:20 PM • | Joseph Cox / 404 Media: Microsoft Hacked to Deliver Malware to Claude and Gemini Users |
| 12:00 PM • | Financial Times: Sources: Russia paused parts of a surveillance system protecting Putin after Israel used AI on footage from Iran's traffic cameras to locate Ayatollah Khamenei |
| 11:45 AM • | Maria Armental / Wall Street Journal: PointFive, which helps companies reduce unnecessary cloud and AI spending, raised a $60M Series B led by Accel, bringing its total funding to $100M |
| 11:30 AM • | Lily Mae Lazarus / Fortune: NY-based A Security, which uses AI to automate offensive cybersecurity, emerges from stealth with $37M in funding from Lightspeed, Wiz's Assaf Rapaport, others |
| 11:10 AM • | Katie Tarasov / CNBC: Amazon announces a multiyear, multibillion-dollar deal with Corning to produce optical fiber for its US data centers; Corning shares jump 8%+ |
| 10:40 AM • | Bloomberg: FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried formally applies for a presidential pardon; he was sentenced to 25 years in prison in 2024, following the FTX collapse |
| 10:25 AM • | Sabrina Tavernise / New York Times: A study estimates the iPhone's diffusion explains 33%-52% of the decline in US births from 2007 to 2011, with the most pronounced effects among women aged 15-24 |
| 10:10 AM • | Jaspreet Singh / Reuters: Meta says it's filing a federal court contempt order against NSO for violating a permanent injunction that barred NSO from ever targeting WhatsApp and its users |
| 9:40 AM • | Qianer Liu / The Information: Sources: Google placed an order with Intel to manufacture 3M+ TPUs in 2028; Nvidia is testing Intel tech for a processor and running 18A trials; INTC jumps 11% |
| 8:20 AM • | Bloomberg: Sources: the US urged NATO allies to channel defense spending toward efforts to replace components from Huawei in their networks and critical infrastructure |
| 8:10 AM • | Arasu Kannagi Basil / Reuters: Bending Spoons files for a US IPO, reporting a net income of $27.5M on revenue of $601M in Q1, vs. a net loss of $112.2M on revenue of $259M a year earlier |
| 8:05 AM • | Julie Bort / TechCrunch: Travis Kalanick, Mark Pincus, and other founders share their horror stories of pitching to VCs; Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince publicly calls out Vinod Khosla |
| 7:30 AM • | Yusuf Khan / Wall Street Journal: A look at Ireland's Bring Your Own Power policy, which requires new data centers to have their own power plants on site or contracts for energy produced nearby |
| 5:50 AM • | Reuters: UK PM Keir Starmer says tech companies must introduce “device controls” that stop kids from sending and receiving nude images or face laws forcing them to do so |
| 5:45 AM • | Zack Whittaker / ~this week in security~: In a notice to Maine's AG, Meta says 20,225+ Instagram accounts may have been hacked during the months-long abuse of its Meta AI chatbot, starting on April 17 |
| 5:35 AM • | Reuters: Report: UK PM Keir Starmer is set to announce a ban on “harmful” online platforms for children under 16 while maintaining access to some “safer” social media |
| 4:40 AM • | Eduard Kovacs / SecurityWeek: Meta Says 20,000 Instagram Accounts Hacked Via AI Tool Abuse |
| 1:55 AM • | Mark Bergen / Bloomberg: London-based PhysicsX, which uses AI to design industrial parts like jet engines and semiconductors, raised a $300M Series C led by Temasek at a $2.4B valuation |
| 1:25 AM • | Choi Eun-Kyung / The Chosun Daily: Nvidia and LG expand their partnership in AI, robotics, and mobility tech, including building an AI factory and co-designing future data center architectures |
| 12:40 AM • | Eddie Makuch / GameSpot: Xbox EVP Matt Booty clarifies Microsoft's new exclusivity strategy, saying new games will be reviewed case-by-case and multiplayer games will stay multiplatform |
| 9:35 PM • | Igor Bonifacic / Engadget: OpenAI rolls out Lockdown Mode, an optional security setting designed to offer users advanced protection from prompt injection attacks by limiting some features |
| 9:15 PM • | Kate Conger / New York Times: Google Cloud says its SpaceX compute deal is a “short-term” agreement “to ensure we have bridge capacity to meet surging customer demand” for Gemini Enterprise |
| 8:30 PM • | Akash Girimath / Decrypt: Privacy token Zcash plunges after the disclosure of a 2022 vulnerability in its Orchard shielded pool that could have allowed undetectable ZEC counterfeiting |
| 7:30 PM • | David Jeans / Reuters: Sources and docs detail defense tech startup Shield AI's struggles to overcome years of technical hitches and safety concerns with its V-BAT autonomous drone |
| 6:00 PM • | Kif Leswing / CNBC: Marvell and Flex, a contract manufacturer for electronics, will join the S&P 500; MRVL jumps 6%+ after hours after closing down 16.74% amid a broader sell-off |
| 5:35 PM • | CNBC: Source: OpenAI and White House are discussing a government stake in the company, to seed something like the “Public Wealth Fund” that OpenAI outlined earlier |
| 5:30 PM • | Bloomberg: Sources: Apollo and Blackstone finalized a $35B package for Anthropic to lease TPUs; Broadcom is backstopping payments on the debt's largest senior portions |
| 5:20 PM • | Reuters: Trump signs a national security memorandum seeking to “accelerate the use of AI across intelligence and warfighting domains in line with American values” |
| 4:10 PM • | Noel Randewich / Reuters: US-traded chipmakers plunged on Friday, after Broadcom missed expectations; Nvidia fell 6.19%, Micron fell 13.25%, AMD fell 10.86%, and Broadcom 7.92% |
| 3:50 PM • | CNBC: Bitcoin falls below $60K, its lowest level since October 2024, amid a record streak of bitcoin ETF outflows following Strategy's bitcoin sale |
| 3:35 PM • | Rashi Shrivastava / Forbes: Sources: AI coding startup Lovable is in talks to raise funding at a $12B valuation, up from $6.6B in December 2025 |
| 3:13 PM • | Bloomberg: Filing: Google has agreed to pay SpaceX $920M per month for access to Nvidia chips as part of a cloud-services deal that runs through mid-2029 |
| 2:40 PM • | Bloomberg: Sources: Revolut is looking to run a secondary share sale that would value it at $115B, after receiving a UK bank license and applying for a charter in the US |
| 2:35 PM • | Bloomberg: President Trump says he is weighing proposals for US government to hold equity stakes in leading AI labs, and will soon discuss the idea with their executives |
| 2:26 PM • | Financial Times: Sources: Meta explores a stock offering to raise tens of billions to fund AI capital expenditures, following Google's record $85B share deal; META drops 5%+ |
| 1:15 PM • | Grace Kay / The Information: Sources say xAI used Claude models for distillation and training, including using personal accounts and the intermediary service Blackbox AI after being cut off |
| 12:50 PM • | Wall Street Journal: The largest US banks plan to launch a tokenized deposit network in 2027 to connect traditional payment rails with the infrastructure that digital assets run on |
| 12:10 PM • | Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette: Over 20 EU news publishers file a claim seeking €640M+ from Google following an EU decision that lets anyone harmed by Google's ad market abuse seek damages |
| 11:45 AM • | Lauren Feiner / The Verge: The NY State legislature passes a one-year moratorium on new large data centers, the first statewide ban of its kind if Governor Kathy Hochul signs it into law |
| 11:35 AM • | Todd Bishop / GeekWire: Filing: Reid Hoffman, who has served on Microsoft's board since 2017, will not stand for re-election at the company's 2026 annual meeting |
| 11:30 AM • | Financial Times: Sources: SpaceX prepares the largest retail allocation ever attempted in a megacap IPO, seeking to reserve as much as 25% of its $75B float for retail investors |
| 10:50 AM • | Aaron Holmes / The Information: In an internal message, Satya Nadella rebuked an internal memo that said Microsoft needs to “make people addicted” to its new AI agent product called Scout |
| 10:30 AM • | Dan Primack / Axios: Allen Control Systems, which makes AI-powered gun turrets for shooting down drones, raised a $200M Series B led by Smash Capital at a $2.2B post-money valuation |
| 10:10 AM • | Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: Blackstone-backed data center operator AirTrunk commits to investing $30B in India by 2030, with plans to develop 5GW of new data center capacity in the country |
| 9:25 AM • | Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: What to expect at WWDC 2026: an overhauled Siri, a Siri app, a slew of new AI capabilities, OS updates focused on reliability and responsiveness, and more |
| 9:10 AM • | Wall Street Journal: Sources: US officials discussed the US taking stakes in major AI companies after Sam Altman pitched the idea in 2025; Altman met Bernie Sanders on Wednesday |
| 8:50 AM • | Coco Feng / South China Morning Post: A research team that includes Huawei says it successfully used Huawei's Ascend 910C chips for DeepSeek V4 Pro model's post-training, amid increased US sanctions |
| 7:40 AM • | Finya Swai / The Hill: FCC Chair Brendan Carr says the agency will review E-Rate, a $3B annual program subsidizing school and library internet access, amid kids' screen time concerns |
| 7:05 AM • | Reuters: Chinese regulator CSRC tightens oversight of the country's ~$3.4T private fund industry; the CSRC says it will encourage tech-focused VC investments and more |
| 6:50 AM • | Reuters: Sources say a months-long dispute between the White House and Anthropic is showing signs of easing across the US government as the startup prepares for its IPO |
| 6:30 AM • | Natasha Korecki / NBC News: Illinois Governor JB Pritzker plans to temporarily halt tax breaks for data centers from July 1, calling on state lawmakers to create a development framework |
| 6:10 AM • | The Economic Times: India-based Innefu Labs, which builds AI-powered software for national defense and enterprise security infrastructure, raised a $30M Series B led by Panthera |
| 5:55 AM • | James Gallagher / BBC: University of Cambridge researchers say they have developed the first vaccine with a key component entirely designed by AI and subsequently trialed it in humans |
| 5:25 AM • | Michael Considine / CNBC: OpenAI confirms it will comply with President Trump's EO that asks AI companies to allow the US government to assess their models' capabilities before release |
| 4:55 AM • | Ryan Christoffel / 9to5Mac: Apple-funded study: the App Store had $1.4T in billings and sales globally in 2025; apps with consumer AI features saw 4x more billings growth than other apps |
| 2:05 AM • | @starlink: SpaceX says Starlink now has 12M+ “active customers with high-speed internet” across 160+ countries, territories, and other markets, up from 9M in December 2025 |
| 12:35 AM • | The Information: Sources: data center developer Switch is in talks to raise billions of dollars from private equity firms, including Brookfield and KKR, at a $50B+ valuation |
| 11:20 PM • | Ashley Belanger / Ars Technica: Elon Musk petitioned the FTC in May to end its 2022 order restricting Twitter's data use, claiming Twitter no longer exists as X merged with xAI and then SpaceX |
| 10:55 PM • | Wired: Analysis: Meta discreetly added code for an unreleased “NameTag” face-recognition system for its AI smart glasses over multiple Meta AI app updates in 2026 |
| 10:30 PM • | Isabelle Lee / Bloomberg: S&P Dow Jones rejects proposals to expedite S&P 500 eligibility for mega-cap IPOs such as SpaceX's; companies remain ineligible until one year after their IPOs |
| 9:25 PM • | Zoe Kleinman / BBC: An interview with Naomi Gleit, Meta's head of product who joined the company in 2005, on Mark Zuckerberg's “unfair” reputation, AI agents for business, and more |
| 9:05 PM • | Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News: Denver-based Scotch, which makes AI-powered payments tools for liquor retailers, raised a $20M Series A from VMG Partners, following a $10M seed in 2024 |
| 8:25 PM • | Mark Tyson / Tom's Hardware: Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince says agentic traffic is “growing so fast that bots have now passed human traffic online for the first time” |
| 8:00 PM • | Wall Street Journal: Anthropic calls for top AI labs to weigh slowing or temporarily pausing development, suggesting that self-improving AI systems may soon pose societal risks |
| 7:15 PM • | NOTUS: Sources: US officials have held talks with AI companies about the government acquiring shares; Sam Altman first pitched the concept directly to Trump in 2025 |
| 6:45 PM • | OpenAI: OpenAI updates ChatGPT's memory with a “more capable and compute-efficient” architecture and a summary page that lets users review and steer what it remembers |
| 6:30 PM • | CNBC: Quantinuum closed up 0.63% in its Nasdaq debut on June 4, bringing its market value to $15.7B, after raising $1.68B in an upsized IPO |
| 5:55 PM • | Jennifer Valentino-DeVries / New York Times: Internal docs from lawsuits by 1,400+ school districts show how social media companies targeted kids: Meta paid “teen ambassadors”, Snap sent school-hour alerts |
| 4:55 PM • | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Poke, which lets users access AI agents via text message, becomes the first AI agent approved for Apple's Messages for Business platform; Poke launched in March |
| 4:35 PM • | Bloomberg: Unsealed 2020 lawsuit: ex-IBM VP of threat intelligence alleges that IBM and AT&T concealed foreign cyber breaches to maintain eligibility for federal contracts |
| 3:57 PM • | Financial Times: Sources: Anthropic has embedded around half a dozen forward-deployed engineers within the NSA to help the agency deploy Mythos for offensive cyber operations |
| 3:45 PM • | Bloomberg: Sources: Brian Chesky is starting a new AI lab and considering a focus on user interaction and design; he will remain Airbnb's CEO and will not be the lab's CEO |
| 3:30 PM • | John Ainger / Bloomberg: In a letter to Utah's Senate President, Kevin O'Leary says he will cut a 40,000-acre data center project in Utah by 19,430 acres, after pressure from lawmakers |
| 3:20 PM • | CJ Haddad / CNBC: Supabase, which provides backend tools for building AI apps, raised a $500M Series F led by GIC at a $10B pre-money valuation, up from $5B in October 2025 |
| 2:55 PM • | Jay Peters / The Verge: Google now lets big creators and publishers in the US claim and customize dedicated Google Search profiles to aggregate their content from multiple platforms |
| 2:15 PM • | Tom Dotan / Newcomer: Founders Fund launches a TV-style game show featuring A-list founders and investors, such as Sam Altman, Dylan Field, and Palmer Luckey, playing a game of Mafia |
| 1:30 PM • | Jennifer Hiller / Wall Street Journal: Arizona Public Service, the state's largest utility, proposes a 45% electricity-rate increase for data centers to ensure “that they are paying their fair share” |
| 1:05 PM • | Politico: Two US House lawmakers unveil bipartisan AI legislation that would override some state AI laws and require top AI developers to implement risk-management plans |
| 1:00 PM • | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Meta's Oversight Board says Meta's account deactivations lack due process, violations are handed out without clarity, and there's little support for appeals |
| 12:40 PM • | Cloudflare: Cloudflare acquires VoidZero, which develops Vite, Vitest, Rolldown, Oxc, and Vite+ frameworks, and says the projects will stay open source and community-driven |
| 12:30 PM • | Anthropic: Anthropic details its progress toward recursive self-improvement, and its implications, and says Claude has authored 80%+ of the code merged into its codebase |
| 12:00 PM • | Yogita Khatri / The Block: Coinbase and Better Home & Finance fund the first Fannie Mae-backed mortgage that uses bitcoin as collateral, and plan a US-wide rollout in the coming months |
| 11:45 AM • | Nivedita Balu / Reuters: Canada unveils “AI for all”, its AI strategy that it says will help create 250,000 jobs by 2031, with a CA$500M tech fund for investing in homegrown AI startups |
| 11:25 AM • | Lily Mae Lazarus / Fortune: Honeycomb, which offers an AI-powered insurance platform for multi-unit residential properties, raised $40M led by Zeev, bringing its total funding to $95M |
| 11:05 AM • | John Kruzel / Reuters: SCOTUS rules 8:1 in favor of the FCC in its clash with wireless carriers, upholding the agency's in-house system for levying fines for regulatory violations |
| 10:40 AM • | Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg: Robinhood plans to route some 2026 soccer World Cup bets to Rothera, shifting away from Kalshi as it seeks to diversify its prediction markets providers |
| 9:01 AM • | Financial Times: Public First: 26% of Americans support increased data center construction, the lowest share among 15 large countries, such as Brazil, Japan, the UK, and Canada |
| 8:45 AM • | Dina Bass / Bloomberg: Robotics startup Generalist, which released its GEN-1 model to complete short physical tasks in April, raised $400M led by Radical Ventures at a $2B valuation |
| 8:30 AM • | Mike Butcher / Pathfounders: London- and NY-based Airspeed, which aims to use AI agents to replace sales software like traditional CRM dashboards, raised a $20M Series A led by DN Capital |
| 8:15 AM • | Ben Thompson / Stratechery: Q&A with Satya Nadella on Microsoft's competitive position, MAI models, OpenAI, the software business, GitHub Copilot, Project Solara, data centers, and more |
| 8:00 AM • | Emily Birnbaum / Bloomberg: Sam Altman says he has no plans to put money into the 2026 US midterms; OpenAI has tried to distance itself from the Greg Brockman-backed Leading the Future PAC |
| 7:45 AM • | Aisha S Gani / Bloomberg: Revolut co-founder and CTO Vlad Yatsenko plans to step down in July, to be replaced by Head of Technology Donato Lucia; Yatsenko was Revolut's first employee |
| 7:35 AM • | Steven Levy / Wired: Flourish, which is building Cortex AI, a brain-like synthetic intelligence system that uses less power than LLMs, raised $500M, including $100M from Jeff Bezos |
| 7:25 AM • | Julia Fanzeres / Bloomberg: Challenger: US tech companies announced cuts of 38,242 jobs in May, the most since August 2024, taking 2026's total so far to 123,653 cuts, up 65%+ YoY |
| 7:15 AM • | Robert Hart / The Verge: Amazon unveils its next-gen Proteus warehouse robot, adding AI-powered language capabilities that let workers assign it tasks, rolling out in Europe in H1 2027 |
| 7:05 AM • | Bloomberg: Corporate spending management platform Ramp raised $750M at a $44B valuation led by Iconiq, Singapore's GIC, and the OTPP, taking its total funding to $3B |
| 7:01 AM • | Sarah White / Financial Times: France secured €110B+ of proposed AI and data center investments this week, amounting to ~10 GW of new computing capacity, equivalent to ~10 nuclear reactors |
| 6:40 AM • | Wen-Yee Lee / Reuters: Foxconn says it will work with Intel to jointly develop and deploy next-gen AI infrastructure, including server racks with Intel Xeon processors and AI chips |
| 6:30 AM • | Debby Wu / Bloomberg: TSMC CEO C.C. Wei says the company won't be able to fulfill the demand led by US customers even as more capacity comes online in the US over the next few years |
| 6:20 AM • | Ted Chiang / The Atlantic: A look at AI consciousness debates; LLM conversations are cleverly disguised examples of sentence continuation, but that doesn't deny how impressive LLMs can be |
| 6:05 AM • | Daniel Nishball / SemiAnalysis: A deep dive into the case for data centers in space, as SpaceX prepares to go public: Elon Musk's claims, the wider debate, power supply issues, costs, and more |
| 5:50 AM • | Stephanie Findlay / Financial Times: SpaceX wins a property tax exemption for its planned $55B Terafab chip facility in Texas, despite Texans threatening legal action, amid local opposition to AI |
| 5:40 AM • | Bloomberg: CoinGecko: Hyperliquid-linked HYPE token is up ~180% YTD, lifting its market value above $16B and pushing it into the top 10 digital assets by market cap |
| 5:30 AM • | Iris Deng / South China Morning Post: Alibaba says it is opening Qwen to third-party AI agents, starting with KFC, Mixue, and others, and Qwen's app serves 100M+ daily lifestyle services engagements |
| 5:17 AM • | Cheng Ting-Fang / Nikkei Asia: Applied Materials plans to expand its Southeast Asia workforce by 25% in 2026, hiring ~1,000 workers mainly in Singapore at its key chip packaging equipment hub |
| 2:40 AM • | Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times: A profile of Anthropic as it prepares to go public and broaden access to Mythos, amid criticism that commercial pressures forced it to cut corners on AI safety |
| 2:25 AM • | Mike Masnick / Liberalism.org: Centralized control over online platforms not only leads to enshittification, but to “despotification”; decentralized protocols bring back democratic ideals |
| 2:20 AM • | Jonathan M. Gitlin / Ars Technica: A study of Waymo robotaxi data for 13.8M trips from August 2023 to December 2025: the share of miles driven with a passenger on board climbed from 36% to 56% |
| 2:10 AM • | James Paton / Financial Times: How AI tools from Harvey, Legora, and Anthropic are challenging legal tech incumbents like Thomson Reuters and LexisNexis, which are upgrading their products |
| 2:05 AM • | Paige Smith / Bloomberg: Sources: OnePay, a fintech app backed by Walmart and valued at $4B+, now has 6M MAUs and $50B in annualized payments, both double its figures from 2025 |
| 1:50 AM • | Krishn Kaushik / Financial Times: Taiwan's and South Korea's stock market capitalizations overtake India's, as investors favor markets with companies positioned to benefit from the AI boom |
| 1:30 AM • | Bloomberg: Current and former employees detail Amazon's e-commerce struggles in India, where local rivals have challenged the company more than anywhere outside of China |
| 1:25 AM • | Financial Times: Kirkland & Ellis, the world's highest-grossing law firm, agrees to a multiyear deal with Palantir to develop an AI tool to help advise PE firms on raising funds |
| 12:45 AM • | Kunal Manchanada / Entrackr: US SEC filing: Vanguard marks down Ola Consumer's valuation to ~$70.3M; Ola, which faces intense competition from Uber and Rapido, was valued at $7.3B in 2021 |