| 5:35 PM • | Paige Smith / Bloomberg: Online trading platform Webull will now allow 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 states and DC 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 the 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 staff across 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 debuts features, including more AI-editing in Google Photos, in a broader update |
| 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: Interview with Craig Federighi and Greg Joswiak on Apple's struggles to ship AI features, demoed in 2024, with the “V1 Siri architecture” and work on a V2 model |
| 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 ship lightweight, consumer AR glasses called Specs in 2026, lighter than its Spectacles 5 glasses for devs, but with many of the same capabilities |
| 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 • | Roman Anin / 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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