| 11:40 PM • | Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE: Texas-based Securonix acquires ThreatQuotient, which helps companies analyze threat intelligence more efficiently; ThreatQuotient had raised about $170M |
| 11:20 PM • | Jeremy Fuster / The Wrap: SAG-AFTRA's Interactive Media Agreement with game companies requires performers' informed consent for all planned AI use on their voice, likeness, and movements |
| 10:50 PM • | Natasha Mascarenhas / The Information: Current and former employees of OpenAI have sold nearly $3B worth of shares in tender offers since 2021, with $1.5B+ going to SoftBank alone |
| 10:00 PM • | Max A. Cherney / Reuters: Cloud computing startup Crusoe plans to buy ~$400M worth of AI chips from AMD to rent to customers for its US data center that will come online by fall |
| 9:15 PM • | Bloomberg: Meta announces a $14.3B investment in Scale AI and hires CEO Alexandr Wang to help oversee its AI efforts; source: Scale AI's post-money valuation is $29B |
| 8:45 PM • | Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: The public feed of the Meta AI app is filled with private and sensitive information, suggesting users might not be aware they are sharing their chats publicly |
| 7:40 PM • | Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: Google Cloud suffered an outage on Thursday, affecting many of its customers; Cloudflare, Spotify, Discord, Snapchat, and others experienced service disruptions |
| 7:20 PM • | Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: Instagram plans to let users rearrange their grid, a first, and is testing a way for users to quietly post to their profile without it appearing in users' feeds |
| 6:10 PM • | Brody Ford / Bloomberg: Adobe reports Q2 revenue up 11% YoY to $5.87B, vs. $5.8B est., Digital Media revenue up 11% to $4.35B, and forecasts Q3 revenue above estimates |
| 4:59 PM • | Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: Apple has set an internal release target of spring 2026 for its delayed upgrade of Siri, as part of an iOS 26.4 software update |
| 4:50 PM • | New York Times: Internal docs: Fidelity, TPG, Sequoia, and others are buying ~$250M worth of shares in xAI under a tender offer valuing it at $113B; Fidelity is purchasing $20M |
| 4:30 PM • | CoinDesk: Shopify partners with Coinbase to enable USDC payments for its merchants through Coinbase's Base layer-2 network, starting with a limited group of merchants |
| 3:55 PM • | Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: Alexandr Wang says he is departing Scale AI as CEO to join Meta and names Chief Strategy Officer Jason Droege as interim CEO; Wang will remain a board director |
| 3:25 PM • | Tanaya Macheel / CNBC: Coinbase announces its first branded credit card, in partnership with American Express, for Coinbase One US users, and creates a lower-cost Basic subscription |
| 3:05 PM • | Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: It's not just you, Google and many other web services were hit with a partial outage |
| 3:00 PM • | CNN: Jensen Huang says Nvidia will exclude the Chinese market from its revenue and profit forecasts going forward, amid US restrictions on chip sales to China |
| 2:50 PM • | Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware: AMD unveils its new MI350X and MI355X GPUs for AI workloads, claiming up to 4x AI compute performance and 35x inference gains over the prior-gen MI300X |
| 2:15 PM • | MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC: Chime shares jumped 37% in their Nasdaq debut on Thursday, closing at $37.11 and giving the company a market cap of $13.5B |
| 1:25 PM • | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: A Citizen Lab report finds that two European journalists had their iPhones hacked with Paragon spyware; Apple fixed the zero-day used in the spyware in February |
| 1:00 PM • | New York Times: Sources: FTC is discussing a consent decree on the Omnicom-Interpublic merger, prohibiting the combined company from boycotting platforms over political content |
| 12:35 PM • | Kerry Flynn / Axios: Lyft ramps up its ad business with three new ad formats; CEO David Risher said Lyft is on track to reach a $100M annualized ad revenue run rate by 2025's end |
| 12:10 PM • | Savyata Mishra / Reuters: Mattel partners with OpenAI to create AI-powered toys and games, with the first product expected in 2025, and integrates ChatGPT Enterprise in its business |
| 11:20 AM • | Justine Calma / The Verge: Google is working with the US National Hurricane Center to test an AI model that forecasts cyclones, and launches Weather Lab to share its AI weather models |
| 10:15 AM • | Bloomberg: Arm CEO Rene Haas sides with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, saying US export controls on China threaten to slow overall tech advances and harm consumers and companies |
| 9:35 AM • | Julie Bort / TechCrunch: Landbase, whose GPT-4o-based AI tool automates outreach marketing, raised a $30M Series A co-led by Ashton Kutcher's Sound Ventures and Picus Capital |
| 9:25 AM • | Paayal Zaveri / Bloomberg: Nominal, which makes industrial design software for space, energy, and defense tech, raised a $75M Series B led by Sequoia, after raising $27.5M in April 2024 |
| 8:45 AM • | Zoe Kleinman / BBC: The UK passes the Data (Use and Access) Bill, criticized by creatives, without an amendment to force companies to declare using copyrighted material to train AI |
| 8:25 AM • | Michael J. de la Merced / New York Times: Meter, which sells and maintains packages of custom data center networking equipment, raised a $170M Series C led by General Catalyst at a $1B+ valuation |
| 8:15 AM • | Dana Hull / Bloomberg: Tesla sues ex-Optimus engineer Zhongjie Li, who worked at Tesla from 2022 to 2024, accusing him of stealing humanoid robot info and setting up a rival startup |
| 7:45 AM • | Julie Bort / TechCrunch: Spain-based Multiverse Computing, which uses quantum-inspired AI model compression tech to shrink LLMs by up to 95%, raised a €189M Series B and has 100 clients |
| 7:20 AM • | Emanuel Maiberg / 404 Media: Meta sues Joy Timeline, which makes nudify app CrushAI, in Hong Kong to prevent it from advertising on Meta apps; in January, 90% of its traffic came from Meta |
| 7:05 AM • | Ian Thomas / CNBC: Pittsburgh-based Gecko Robotics, which makes robots that inspect infrastructure, raised a $125M Series D at a $1.25B valuation, up from $633M in December 2023 |
| 6:50 AM • | Financial Times: Visa: stablecoin transaction volumes hit $752B in May, up from $409B in May 2024, and wallets that regularly send and receive payments hit a record 46M average |
| 6:35 AM • | Martin Young / Cointelegraph: Gemini and Glassnode research: centralized treasuries, including governments, ETFs, and public companies, hold and control 30.9% of bitcoin's circulating supply |
| 6:20 AM • | Marcus Mendes / 9to5Mac: Apple unveils updates to help parents protect kids and teens online, such as easier Child Accounts setup, stronger defaults, and granular App Store age ratings |
| 6:05 AM • | Nitasha Tiku / Washington Post: TollBit: traffic from RAG bots, which scrape information in real time, to 266 websites, half of which are from news outlets, grew 49% from Q4 2024 to Q1 2025 |
| 5:50 AM • | Erik Hayden / The Hollywood Reporter: SAG-AFTRA ends the 320+ day video game performers strike after reaching a tentative new Interactive Media Agreement contract with the major video game companies |
| 5:30 AM • | Pedro Nakamura / Rest of World: How an AI assistant developed by Brazilian nonprofit NoHarm is helping pharmacists in remote Amazon clinics process prescriptions more quickly and catch errors |
| 5:05 AM • | MIT Technology Review: How Amsterdam's experiment to create a fair welfare AI model, which considered 15 characteristics to evaluate welfare applicants for potential fraud, failed |
| 4:45 AM • | Chris Dolmetsch / Bloomberg: The US prosecution of quant trader Richard Ho could define how quant algorithms can become stolen property and have a major impact on Wall Street's talent war |
| 2:35 AM • | Cynthia Littleton / Variety: A look at Apple's vision for Apple TV+ and its film business, as Tim Cook says the company's $200M+ bet on “F1 the Movie” is about more than selling iPhones |
| 2:25 AM • | Emily Mason / Bloomberg: A profile of Airwallex co-founder Jack Zhang, who turned down Stripe's $1.2B offer seven years ago; the fintech is now valued at $6.2B and plans an IPO in 2026 |
| 2:15 AM • | Nikkei Asia: TSMC opens a joint research lab with the University of Tokyo, the company's first with a university outside Taiwan, expanding a relationship that began in 2019 |
| 2:05 AM • | Chris Metinko / Axios: Fermàt, which uses AI to analyze e-commerce store performance and audience behavior for personalized campaigns, raised a $45M Series B led by VMG Partners |
| 1:45 AM • | Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: An interview with Craig Federighi on iPadOS 26's multitasking UI, Stage Manager's interface limitations, and why the iPad's Mac-style multitasking took so long |
| 1:15 AM • | Cate Lawrence / Tech.eu: London-based Definely, whose AI tools help law firms draft and review legal contracts, raised a $30M Series B led by Revaia, with Clio and others participating |
| 1:01 AM • | Ryan Barwick / Axios: Tel Aviv-based Tastewise, which uses gen AI to automate sales and marketing for food and beverage companies, raised a $50M Series B led by Telus Global Ventures |
| 12:50 AM • | Jordan Novet / CNBC: Databricks says it expects to generate $3.7B in annualized revenue by July, up 50% YoY; in Q1, it had nearly 50 of its 15,000+ customers spending $10M+ annually |
| 10:55 PM • | Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: An Interpol-led law enforcement action in 26 countries disrupted infostealer operations, leading to takedowns of 20K+ malicious IPs and domains and 32 arrests |
| 10:15 PM • | The Information: Sources: Meta's Scale AI bet came from Mark Zuckerberg wanting new leadership for Meta's AI efforts, Meta executives' relationships with Alexandr Wang, and more |
| 8:50 PM • | Sri Muppidi / The Information: Sources: OpenAI talked to Saudi Arabia's PIF, India-based Reliance, and the UAE's MGX about investing in the next installment of its $40B round led by SoftBank |
| 8:30 PM • | Samantha Cole / 404 Media: A spam marketing operation exploited some domains owned by Nvidia, Stanford, NPR, and the US CDC to host AI slop articles redirecting users to an SEO spam site |
| 7:35 PM • | MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC: Chime priced its US IPO at $27 per share, above the expected range, raising ~$700M and another $165M from shares sold by investors, valuing it at $11.6B |
| 7:25 PM • | Reuters: Nvidia plans to build its first industrial AI cloud platform in Germany for European manufacturers, combining AI with robotics to assist carmakers like BMW |
| 6:10 PM • | Ricardo Brito / Reuters: Brazil's Supreme Court rules that social media companies are accountable for some types of user content seen as illegal, a decision that could result in fines |
| 5:15 PM • | Ryan Whitwam / Ars Technica: Android 16 review: live update notifications and Advanced Protection are neat, but features like desktop mode and Material 3 Expressive are coming later in 2025 |
| 4:55 PM • | Catherine McGrath / Fortune: London-based OneBalance, which lets developers integrate crypto features into their apps, raised a $20M Series A led by Cyber Fund and Blockchain Capital |
| 4:40 PM • | Jordan Novet / CNBC: Oracle reports Q4 revenue up 11% YoY to $15.9B, vs. $15.59B est., cloud revenue up 27% YoY, signals strong cloud infrastructure revenue growth; ORCL jumps 6%+ |
| 4:30 PM • | Reuters: Sources: CoreWeave will provide computing capacity to Google as part of Google's cloud deal with OpenAI; Google will also supply its own compute to OpenAI |
| 4:05 PM • | Daniel Kuhn / The Block: Polygon co-founder Sandeep Nailwal is named CEO of the Polygon Foundation after the departure of Mihailo Bjelic, and unveils changes to streamline the nonprofit |
| 3:40 PM • | Emma Roth / The Verge: Meta adds AI video editing tools to the Edits app and Meta AI, letting users edit up to 10 seconds of a video with 50+ preset prompts, free for a “limited time” |
| 3:05 PM • | Emily Mason / Bloomberg: Stripe agrees to acquire Privy, which helps companies build crypto wallets into their user experiences; Privy was last valued at $230M in March 2025 |
| 2:45 PM • | Stewart Clarke / Deadline: Amazon MGM Studios says it will have a $1B slate in 2026 and release 20 movies; 10 will have theatrical runs and will not be exclusive to Prime Video thereafter |
| 2:35 PM • | Mark Stenberg / Adweek: Sources and docs: Amazon has increased Prime Video's ad load to 4-6 minutes per hour, up from 2-3.5 minutes per hour when it introduced ads in January 2024 |
| 1:55 PM • | Bloomberg: Sources: Meta has poached Jack Rae, a principal researcher at Google DeepMind, for its “superintelligence” team, and an ML lead from AI voice startup Sesame AI |
| 1:50 PM • | Emanuel Maiberg / 404 Media: The Wikimedia Foundation pauses an experiment that showed Wikipedia users AI-generated summaries at the top of some articles, following an editor backlash |
| 1:25 PM • | Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: Amazon's Ad Video Generator, a free tool for creating GenAI ads to depict items as they would be used in the real world, is now available for sellers in the US |
| 1:03 PM • | Reed Albergotti / Semafor: Memo: Google appoints a new chief AI architect, DeepMind CTO Koray Kavukcuoglu, who will coordinate future AI-powered product development |
| 1:00 PM • | Sharon Goldman / Fortune: Researchers find the first known “zero-click” attack on an AI agent; the now-fixed flaw in Microsoft 365 Copilot would let a hacker attack a user via an email |
| 12:50 PM • | Wall Street Journal: Sources: Chinese diplomats agree to a six-month ease of rare-earth export licenses, with the earliest application approval within a week of the deal's signing |
| 10:50 AM • | Sara Fischer / Axios: Filing: Disney and NBCUniversal sue Midjourney in California, accusing it of direct and secondary copyright infringement; they say talks with Midjourney failed |
| 10:35 AM • | Ryan Browne / CNBC: Meta launches V-JEPA 2, an open-source AI “world model” to understand and predict 3D environments and object movements, to help robotics and self-driving cars |
| 10:15 AM • | David Pierce / The Verge: The Browser Company launches Dia, a macOS browser in beta for Arc users based around an AI chat sidebar that can access tabs, history, and logged-in sites |
| 10:00 AM • | Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal: Mistral AI CEO Arthur Mensch says European companies and governments increasingly want non-US AI tools, and Mistral is on track to pass $100M in annual revenue |
| 9:30 AM • | Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: DoorDash acquires adtech company Symbiosys for $175M, announced as part of a major update on its ad business, which crossed a $1B+ annualized run rate in 2024 |
| 9:10 AM • | Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: Coco Robotics, which operates a fleet of cooler-sized delivery robots on wheels, raised $80M from Sam Altman and others, taking its total funding to $110M+ |
| 9:00 AM • | Bloomberg: President Trump says a trade framework with China “is done, subject to final approval with President Xi and me”, and the US' tariff rate would be 55% “total” |
| 8:10 AM • | Emma Roth / The Verge: HP unveils the HP Dimension, the first hardware built with Google's 3D video conferencing tech, featuring a 65" light field display, launching in 2025 for $25K |
| 7:55 AM • | Steven Scheer / Reuters: Israeli data security startup Cyera raised $540M led by Georgian, Greenoaks, and Lightspeed at a $6B valuation, up from $3B in November 2024 after raising $300M |
| 7:45 AM • | Zoe Kleinman / BBC: Will Cathcart says WhatsApp plans to support Apple's legal case against the UK Home Office over an encryption backdoor, which “could set a dangerous precedent” |
| 7:30 AM • | Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: Meta and TikTok challenge the EU's DSA supervisory fee, set at 0.05% of annual global net income, in the EU's General Court, arguing it is disproportionate |
| 7:20 AM • | Anna Heim / TechCrunch: Amsterdam-based Tebi, which offers a SaaS operations platform to hospitality companies, raised €30M led by CapitalG, after a €20M Series A in October 2024 |
| 6:50 AM • | Dexter Thomas / Wired: A profile of Twitch streamer and YouTuber Ross Minor, blind since age 8, who is an advocate and consultant for blind-accessible video games like Sea of Thieves |
| 6:35 AM • | Bloomberg: Nvidia unveils projects to bolster AI infrastructure across Europe, including expanding its Mistral partnership to use local AI computing, at VivaTech in Paris |
| 6:20 AM • | Daniel Thomas / Financial Times: How ad agency WPP is embracing AI tools, despite the threat to its creative business; its stock is down 50% in seven years and its AI platform has 50K+ users |
| 6:01 AM • | Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge: macOS Tahoe 26 hands-on: Liquid Glass ranges from slick to slightly overwrought, and Spotlight's new search features are nifty and useful, but Raycast is better |
| 5:40 AM • | Bloomberg: Whole Foods supplier United Natural Foods says it is working to restore its systems by June 15 after a cyberattack left some shelves empty and stalled forklifts |
| 4:25 AM • | New York Times: Elon Musk says “I regret some of my posts about President Trump last week. They went too far”; last week, Trump said he had no desire to repair the relationship |
| 4:10 AM • | Alan Wong / Bloomberg: Hong Kong invokes its national security laws to ban Taiwanese-made mobile game Reversed Front: Bonfire, marking the first known use of the laws to block a game |
| 3:55 AM • | Molly Taft / Wired: President Trump's Big Beautiful Bill could restrict state-level legislation over data centers, including water use, raising bipartisan objections across the US |
| 2:35 AM • | Ben Hylak / Latent.Space: OpenAI's o3-pro is much smarter than o3 and amazing at using tools, but the model requires a lot of context to run well and without enough it tends to overthink |
| 2:10 AM • | Wall Street Journal: Sources: X used threats of lawsuits and pressure tactics to push companies like Amazon, Ralph Lauren, and Verizon to resume buying ads on the site; it worked |
| 1:40 AM • | Fabrice Deprez / Financial Times: Ukraine's security service says AI allowed its drones to keep flying “along a pre-planned route” even after losing signal in Russia during “Operation Spiderweb” |
| 1:10 AM • | Nikkei Asia: Analysis: Nvidia's $500B US spending plan has accelerated the US AI server ecosystem development, with at least eight suppliers unveiling new investment plans |
| 12:35 AM • | The Information: Salesforce is restricting third-party companies from long-term indexing and storing of Slack messages, which would hamper rival enterprise AI firms like Glean |
| 12:25 AM • | Allie Garfinkle / Fortune: Laurel, which uses AI to map how workers spend time by integrating with tools like Slack and Outlook, raised a $100M Series C led by IVP at a $510M valuation |
| 11:35 PM • | Financial Times: Sources: Peter Thiel-backed crypto exchange Bullish confidentially files for a US IPO, as demand for digital assets surges under the Trump administration |
| 11:05 PM • | Takashi Mochizuki / Bloomberg: Nintendo says it sold 3.5M+ Switch 2s globally in the console's first four days, a record for any of its hardware; Nintendo aims to sell 15M units by March 2026 |
| 10:10 PM • | Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: GitLab reports Q1 revenue up 27% YoY to $214.5M, vs. $213.2M est., net loss of $36.3M, vs. $55.5M last year, raises earnings outlook; GTLB down 12%+ |
| 9:05 PM • | Ari Levy / CNBC: Elon Musk says Tesla's robotaxi service will tentatively begin on June 22 in Austin, with the first autonomous delivery of a car to a customer's home on June 28 |
| 8:05 PM • | Gavin Blackburn / Euronews: President Emmanuel Macron says France will ban social media access for children under 15 within “a few months” if it is not done at the European Union level |
| 6:55 PM • | Jay Peters / The Verge: Sam Altman claims an “average” ChatGPT query uses ~0.34 watt-hours, or 1+ second of oven use, and ~0.000085 gallons of water, or “one fifteenth of a teaspoon” |
| 6:35 PM • | Sam Altman: Sam Altman says “intelligence and energy”, the “limiters on human progress”, will be abundant in the 2030s, and superintelligence should be widely distributed |
| 6:00 PM • | Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge: Amazon says over 1M people now have access to Alexa+, up from “hundreds of thousands” in May, and plans to “make it even more broadly available over the summer” |
| 5:35 PM • | Paige Smith / Bloomberg: Online trading platform Webull now allows US retail investors to bet on the future prices of bitcoin and ethereum through a partnership with Kalshi |
| 5:30 PM • | Chris Metinko / Axios: London-based Maze, which uses AI agents to stop cloud security breaches, launches with $31M in total funding, including a $25M Series A led by Theory Ventures |
| 4:45 PM • | Rylee Kirk / New York Times: Twenty-seven US states and the District of Columbia sue 23andMe to oppose the sale of DNA data from its customers without their direct consent |
| 4:40 PM • | Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: OpenAI debuts o3-pro for ChatGPT Pro and Team users and in its API, costing $20/1M input and $80/1M output tokens; Enterprise and Edu will get access next week |
| 3:53 PM • | The Information: Google offers voluntary buyouts to US employees in several businesses and units, including the one housing its core search team and much of the ads organization |
| 3:40 PM • | Nelson Aguilar / CNET: Google rolls out Android 16 to Pixels with live lock screen notifications, and a broader update to add more AI to Google Photos, custom group chats, and more |
| 2:45 PM • | Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: OpenAI announces an 80% price drop for its o3 model and a “flex” mode for synchronous processing that charges $5 for input and $20 for output per million tokens |
| 2:10 PM • | Lance Ulanoff / TechRadar: An interview with Craig Federighi and Greg Joswiak on Apple's struggles to ship AI features demoed in 2024 using Siri's “V1 architecture” and its work on a V2 |
| 2:10 PM • | Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Google rolls out Android 16 to Pixel phones, unveils AI-powered edit suggestion for Google Photos |
| 1:28 PM • | Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: Snap aims to sell Specs, its AR glasses that are lighter than its developer Spectacles 5 but with many of the same AR and AI features, to consumers in 2026 |
| 1:15 PM • | Ben Thompson / Stratechery: Apple's WWDC 2025 marked a strategic retreat from its overambitious AI promises; SVP Craig Federighi openly admitted Siri's AI features need more time |
| 12:10 PM • | Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: Mark Zuckerberg says Threads users will soon be able to send DMs to each other without having to leave the platform, first in Hong Kong, Argentina, and Thailand |
| 12:05 PM • | Ryan Lawler / Axios: Israel-based Hypernative, which offers real-time threat prevention for crypto companies, raised a $40M Series B, taking its total funding to $67M |
| 11:35 AM • | Cory Weinberg / The Information: Sources: Meta agrees to take a 49% stake in Scale AI for $14.8B, in a deal that gives cash to Scale's shareholders and makes Alexandr Wang a top Meta executive |
| 11:25 AM • | Afshan Musani / CNBC: Generative AI enterprise search startup Glean raised a $150M Series F led by Wellington, taking its valuation to $7.2B, up from $4.6B in September 2024 |
| 11:20 AM • | Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Mistral launches its first reasoning models: Magistral Small, on Hugging Face under an Apache 2.0 license, and Magistral Medium, in preview on Mistral's Le Chat |
| 10:20 AM • | Anna Tong / Reuters: Linear, which makes software development and project planning tools that rival Atlassian's Jira, raised an $82M Series C led by Accel, valuing it at $1.25B |
| 9:56 AM • | Reuters: Sources: OpenAI plans to add Google Cloud to meet its growing needs for computing capacity, a surprising collaboration; source: the deal was finalized in May |
| 9:30 AM • | Dina Bass / Bloomberg: Cisco unveils updated networking and security products, including a new generation of switches with 10x performance, to boost AI networks and cut bottlenecks |
| 9:05 AM • | OCCRP: Investigation: Russian network engineer Viktor Vedeneev controls thousands of Telegram IP addresses and maintains its servers; his companies have FSB links |
| 8:52 AM • | Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: OpenAI says it is “working on implementing a mitigation” to a ChatGPT, Sora, and API issue causing “elevated error rates and latency”, starting at around 3am ET |
| 7:50 AM • | Wall Street Journal: Similarweb: Google's AI tools are significantly cutting organic search traffic to news publishers; traffic to BI, HuffPost, and WaPo is down ~50% in three years |
| 7:20 AM • | Sam Tabahriti / Reuters: Ofcom launches nine Online Safety Act investigations, including into 4chan over alleged illegal content and into seven file-sharing services over possible CSAM |
| 7:10 AM • | Bloomberg: Tencent Music agrees to buy podcasting startup Ximalaya for $1.3B in cash, plus some stock, in a bid to become China's Spotify; Ximalaya had 303M MAUs in 2023 |
| 7:00 AM • | Doug Black / InsideHPC: Top500: the US retains the top three supercomputers with El Capitan, Frontier, and Aurora; the US has 173 of the top 500 to Europe's 163 and China's 46 |
| 6:45 AM • | Wall Street Journal: IBM plans to build IBM Quantum Starling, a “fault-tolerant” quantum computer with 20,000x the compute of today's quantum computers, in New York state by 2029 |
| 6:35 AM • | Financial Times: The UK plans to launch an autonomous taxi trial in London in spring 2026, a year earlier than planned; Uber and Wayve will partner to operate the service |
| 6:20 AM • | Variety: SAG-AFTRA reaches a tentative deal with Activision, EA, Epic, Take-Two, and other game companies on the Interactive Media Contract, after months of strikes |
| 6:05 AM • | Isabelle Bousquette / Wall Street Journal: LVMH says AI and AI agents will be key to navigating a broad slowdown and waning demand in luxury goods, and is using AI in supply chains, pricing, and more |
| 5:50 AM • | Laura Onita / Financial Times: UK retailer M&S begins accepting online orders again, seven weeks after disclosing a sustained cyberattack that cost it up to £300M in this financial year |
| 4:40 AM • | Michael Savage / The Guardian: WPP Media expects ad revenue from user-generated content and platforms like YouTube and TikTok to surpass that from traditional media for the first time in 2025 |
| 4:10 AM • | Bloomberg: Sources: Mark Zuckerberg, frustrated with Meta's shortfalls in AI, is personally assembling a team of AI experts and met engineers at his homes in recent weeks |
| 4:02 AM • | New York Times: Sources: Meta plans to build an AI lab dedicated to pursuing “superintelligence”, led by Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang, with seven- to nine-figure compensations |
| 2:00 AM • | Stephen Katte / Cointelegraph: US SEC Chair Paul Atkins says the agency is working on an “innovation exemption” to boost onchain product creation and fulfill Trump's vision of a US crypto hub |
| 11:45 PM • | Reuters: Chinese state media: Huawei CEO Ren Zhengfei says the company's chips lag one generation behind US peers, and claims the US “exaggerated Huawei's achievements” |
| 10:25 PM • | Matthew Green / Cryptographic Engineering: An analysis of X's new XChat features shows that X can probably decrypt any user's messages, as the company stores its users' private keys on its own servers |
| 9:40 PM • | Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg: Roblox hires Paramount's Naveen Chopra as its new CFO, effective June 30; Chopra previously held senior roles at Amazon and served as CFO at Pandora and TiVo |
| 9:10 PM • | Ben Weiss / Fortune: Turnkey, which builds low-level infrastructure for digital wallets used to store and manage crypto, raised a $30M Series B led by Bain Capital Crypto |
| 7:55 PM • | Caroline Petrow-Cohen / Los Angeles Times: Waymo suspends downtown Los Angeles operations after at least five vehicles were destroyed during protests, but continues to operate in other parts of the city |
| 7:25 PM • | Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter: Disney closes its deal with Comcast to buy out NBCUniversal's 33% stake in Hulu, paying an additional $439M, after agreeing in 2023 to pay a floor of $8.61B |
| 6:25 PM • | Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: Apple unveils several CarPlay changes as part of iOS 26, including a Liquid Glass redesign, Live Activities in the Dashboard, and broad support for widgets |
| 5:40 PM • | Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: Apple says macOS 26 Tahoe will be the last macOS release that supports Intel-based Macs, with macOS versions from 2026 only available for Apple Silicon models |
| 4:50 PM • | MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC: US prosecutors charge Iurii Gugnin, founder of US-based crypto payments service Evita Pay, with laundering $500M+, including to sanctioned Russian entities |
| 4:35 PM • | Arsheeya Bajwa / Reuters: Amazon plans to invest $20B+ in Pennsylvania to expand data center infrastructure, less than a week after announcing it would invest $10B in North Carolina |
| 2:47 PM • | Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Apple unveils Xcode 26, integrating ChatGPT for coding, documentation generation, and more, and says developers can use API keys to add other providers' models |
| 2:35 PM • | David Pierce / The Verge: Apple updates Spotlight in macOS Tahoe, letting users take actions in apps, from playing music to taking notes or adding to files, similar to Raycast and Alfred |
| 2:07 PM • | Jay Peters / The Verge: Apple plans to release iOS 26, iPadOS 26, tvOS 26, and macOS Tahoe 26 in fall 2025; developer betas will be available on June 9, with public betas in July |
| 2:05 PM • | Tim Hardwick / MacRumors: Apple announces Workout Buddy, bringing Apple Intelligence to Apple Watch fitness workouts by providing personalized insights during exercise sessions |
| 2:00 PM • | Hartley Charlton / MacRumors: Apple says ChatGPT image generation is now available in Image Playground with new ChatGPT styles, releases an API, adds Genmoji text descriptions, and more |
| 1:55 PM • | Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: Apple announces a new live translation feature across Messages, FaceTime, and Phone apps, but has not yet said how many languages will be supported |
| 1:50 PM • | Tim Hardwick / MacRumors: Apple says Visual Intelligence will soon be able to search on-screen iPhone content, in addition to analyzing real-world objects, expanding on camera search |
| 1:43 PM • | Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: Apple unveils a Games app, offering games from the App Store, a dedicated Apple Arcade section, and Game Center social features like leaderboards and challenges |
| 1:40 PM • | Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge: Apple announces macOS 26 Tahoe, featuring an overhauled design using Liquid Glass, a Phone app, a new game launcher, Live Activities, new AI features, and more |
| 1:36 PM • | Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: Apple is bringing polls to iMessage group chats and says Apple Intelligence will suggest polls based on a conversation's context |
| 1:35 PM • | Jay Peters / The Verge: Apple unveils iOS 26, featuring its Liquid Glass design language, an updated lockscreen, and new features in Camera, Safari, Phone, Messages, Music, and more |
| 1:31 PM • | Dominic Preston / The Verge: Apple renames its OSes, shifting to a year-based system; the next iOS is iOS 26, alongside macOS Tahoe 26, iPadOS 26, watchOS 26, tvOS 26, and visionOS 26 |
| 1:31 PM • | Ben Lovejoy / 9to5Mac: Apple announces “studio-quality” audio recording and camera control features for AirPods 4, AirPods 4 with ANC, and AirPods Pro 2 |
| 1:27 PM • | Ryan Christoffel / 9to5Mac: Apple announces visionOS 26 with spatial widgets, including Clock, Weather, Music, and Photos, all-new Personas, Spatial scenes powered by AI, and more |
| 1:25 PM • | David Pierce / The Verge: Apple unveils iPadOS 26 with features to “fluidly resize” app windows, move them, and open more app at once, a new Files app, a Mac-like Preview app, and more |
| 1:20 PM • | Tom Warren / The Verge: Apple introduces a Liquid Glass design language across its software platforms, adding transparency and glass shine effects to in-app operating system interfaces |
| 1:20 PM • | Tim Hardwick / MacRumors: Apple announces the Foundation Models framework, which for the first time gives developers direct access to its on-device AI model powering Apple Intelligence |
| 1:12 PM • | CNBC: OpenAI says it has hit $10B in annual recurring revenue; for all of 2024, the startup had ~$5.5B in ARR and lost ~$5B |
| 12:59 PM • | Apple on YouTube: A recording of Apple's WWDC 2025 keynote |
| 12:55 PM • | Allison Johnson / The Verge: A live blog of Apple's WWDC keynote |
| 12:00 PM • | Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: United Natural Foods, a grocery distributor to 30K+ stores in the US and Canada and Whole Foods' main distributor, hit by a cyberattack, halting some operations |
| 11:50 AM • | Nilay Patel / The Verge: Q&A with Taskrabbit CEO Ania Smith on the Ikea-owned platform's history, Taskers earning up to $50/hour, AI assistants, zero fees, high suburban use, and more |
| 10:45 AM • | Lingling Wei / Wall Street Journal: Sources: ahead of US-China talks in London, President Trump gives US negotiators room to lift export controls on a wide variety of tech and other products |
| 10:30 AM • | Joseph Cox / 404 Media: Researcher brutecat finds a vulnerability that could reveal the phone number linked to any Google account by brute forcing phone numbers; Google fixed the issue |
| 10:20 AM • | Andrew Webster / The Verge: Nintendo Switch 2 hands-on: after a few days, it is just a bigger, more powerful Switch, transferring games works smoothly, the new Joy-Cons are great, and more |
| 7:35 AM • | IGN: Xbox Ally X hands-on: an AMD Ryzen AI Z2 Extreme APU, 24GB of RAM, and a 1TB SSD, 1080p games run at 60 FPS with no issues, a super-slim Windows, and more |
| 7:20 AM • | Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang warns the UK lacks the digital infrastructure needed to capitalize on AI despite “incredible” research talent, as PM Starmer pledges £1B |
| 7:05 AM • | Reuters: Sources: Shein and Reliance plan to expand their Indian supplier base from 150 to 1,000 and sell India-made, Shein-branded clothes globally within 12 months |
| 6:50 AM • | New York Times: Docs: from mid-December, YouTube told moderators to prioritize “freedom of expression” over potential harm, including for political, social, and cultural issues |
| 6:35 AM • | Katharine Viner / The Guardian: The Guardian partners with Cambridge University to launch Secure Messaging in its app, protecting sources by making messages indistinguishable from other data |
| 6:20 AM • | Sam Tabahriti / Reuters: The UK Financial Conduct Authority partners with Nvidia to debut a Supercharged Sandbox in which financial companies can test AI tools, starting in October 2025 |
| 6:05 AM • | Los Angeles Times: Waymo vehicles set on fire in downtown L.A. as protesters, police clash |
| 5:45 AM • | Luz Ding / Bloomberg: Alibaba, Tencent, and other Chinese AI companies have temporarily disabled chatbot functions like image recognition during China's annual college entrance exams |
| 5:30 AM • | Sam Tobin / Reuters: Getty's copyright lawsuit against Stability AI begins at London's High Court, accusing it of unlawfully scraping millions of images; Stability denies the claims |
| 5:15 AM • | Oliver Barnes / Financial Times: Maryland-based quantum computing company IonQ agrees to acquire Oxford Ionics, which spun out of Oxford University, for $1.07B in stock, set to close in 2025 |
| 4:35 AM • | Amy Thomson / Bloomberg: Qualcomm agrees to acquire UK-listed Alphawave, which makes high-speed chip and connectivity tech for data centers, for $2.4B in cash, set to close in Q1 2026 |
| 4:00 AM • | Emma Jacobs / Financial Times: An interview with Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn on criticism after Duolingo went “AI-first”, personalized interactions with personality-based chatbots, and more |
| 1:05 AM • | Max Mitchell: Cloudflare open sourced an OAuth library mostly written by Claude, showing how AI handles mechanical implementation while humans guide with context and judgment |
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