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June 11, 2025, 11:00 PM
 

June 11, 2025

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 deal was motivated by Mark Zuckerberg's desire to find new leadership for Meta's AI efforts, relationship with Alexandr Wang, and more
8:50 PM  •
Sri Muppidi / The Information:  Sources: OpenAI talked with Saudi Arabia's PIF, India's 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:  Some domains of Nvidia, Stanford, NPR, and the CDC were exploited to host AI spam blogs redirecting users to a spam marketing site
7:35 PM  •
MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC:  Chime priced its US IPO at $27 a share, above the expected range, raising ~$700M and another $165M from shares sold by investors, valuing the company 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:  A majority of six of the 11 judges on Brazil's Supreme Court have voted to hold social media companies liable for some types of users' content seen as illegal
5:15 PM  •
Ryan Whitwam / Ars Technica:  Android 16 review: live updates and Advanced Protection are nice, but features like desktop mode and Material 3 Expressive design won't come until 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 Q4: revenue up 11% YoY to $15.9B, vs. $15.59B est., cloud revenue up 27% YoY, signals strong cloud infrastructure revenue growth; ORCL up 6%+ after hours
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 has agreed 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 Prime Video ad load has increased to 4-6 minutes per hour, up from 2-3.5 minutes when ads were first introduced in January 2024
1:55 PM  •
Bloomberg:  Sources: Jack Rae, a principal researcher at Google DeepMind, is expected to join Meta's “superintelligence” team, as well as an ML lead from 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 to create gen AI ads and 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

June 10, 2025

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

June 9, 2025

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

June 8, 2025

8:30 PM  •
Gary Marcus / Marcus on AI:  Apple researchers detail the limitations of top LLMs and large reasoning models, including on classic problems like the Tower of Hanoi, which AI solved in 1957
6:40 PM  •
Los Angeles Times:  CB Insights: VCs and private equity firms poured $3.1B to fund 144 deals in the LA area in Q1 2025, vs. $2.7B in Q1 2024, $1.4B in Q1 2023, and $5.7B in Q1 2022
4:40 PM  •
Sarah Scire / Nieman Lab:  Interviews with The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, and Yahoo News executives about how AI-powered summaries can help busy readers, reliability issues, and more
2:15 PM  •
Tom Warren / The Verge:  Microsoft showcases a full-screen, Windows-based Xbox experience optimized for handheld gaming on the Asus ROG Xbox Ally, rolling out to other handhelds in 2026
1:50 PM  •
Stephen Totilo / Game File:  Microsoft and Asus unveil the ROG Xbox Ally and ROG Xbox Ally X, two PC gaming handhelds that will run Windows games from multiple storefronts, including Steam
12:40 PM  •
Lyndie Chiou / Scientific American:  At a clandestine math conclave in Berkeley in May, a chatbot powered by o4-mini answered some of the hardest solvable problems much faster than a mathematician
10:55 AM  •
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:  Thoughts on Apple's OSes getting redesigned UI elements called “Liquid Glass”, which will launch at WWDC 2025 and set the stage for fresh hardware products
10:40 AM  •
Cate Lawrence / Tech.eu:  Treefera, which uses satellite imagery, drone imagery, and AI to provide real-time insights into supply chains, raised a $30M Series B led by Notion Capital
8:50 AM  •
Divsha Bhat / Rest of World:  A look at the intensifying race for super apps in the Gulf, as Careem, Talabat, Amazon, Botim, and Noon consolidate various services into single platforms
6:20 AM  •
Lucy Adams / Tech.eu:  Skyral, a London-based modeling and simulation startup developing AI-based digital twin tech for defense, healthcare, and other sectors, raised a $20M Series A
3:50 AM  •
Bloomberg:  Sources: Meta is in talks to make a $10B+ investment in Scale AI, which would be its largest AI investment yet; Scale AI had a ~$13.8B valuation in May 2024
2:00 AM  •
Liam Vaughan / Bloomberg:  An in-depth look at the US SEC's EDGAR system breach that was disclosed in 2017, as one of the key hackers, Olga Kuprina, says EDGAR remains a soft target
1:35 AM  •
Colin Campbell / Axios:  Voxel, whose AI-powered logistics safety software integrates into existing security cameras to detect and predict workplace hazards, raised a $44M Series B
1:20 AM  •
Financial Times:  Sources: Mistral AI has closed or is closing a handful of commercial contracts, each worth $100M+ over three to five years, as it expands its own infrastructure
1:10 AM  •
Sean O'Kane / TechCrunch:  Obvio, which uses AI-powered stop sign cameras to detect infractions, raised a $22M Series A led by Bain to expand beyond its first five cities in Maryland
1:00 AM  •
Michael Acton / Financial Times:  Former Apple employees say integrating LLMs with Siri has led to bugs, an issue not faced by companies that have built GenAI-based voice assistants from scratch
12:20 AM  •
Sam Phillips / South China Morning Post:  Singapore-based investment app Syfe raised a $53M Series C extension, taking the round to $80M and total funding to $132M, and plans to expand into Hong Kong

June 7, 2025

10:20 PM  •
Rest of World:  Filipino workers in Taiwan's chip industry report struggling with overwork and discrimination, citing overnight shifts of up to 16 hours and abusive treatment
8:20 PM  •
Chris Stokel-Walker / Fast Company:  Some WordPress veterans and the Linux Foundation start FAIR, a federated update network to decentralize WordPress infrastructure and boost supply chain security
7:45 PM  •
Francisco Rodrigues / CoinDesk:  Justin Sun-linked BiT Global dismisses with prejudice its lawsuit against Coinbase for delisting wBTC; the delisting followed Coinbase launching rival cbBTC
7:20 PM  •
Julie Bort / TechCrunch:  Enterprise vibe coding startup Superblocks raised a $23M Series A, bringing its total funding to $60M, and launched an enterprise coding AI agent called Clark
5:20 PM  •
John Gruber / Daring Fireball:  Bill Atkinson, a pioneering Apple engineer and key member of the original Macintosh team, died on June 5 at age 74 from pancreatic cancer
3:55 PM  •
Natasha Singer / New York Times:  An interview with Leah Belsky, OpenAI's VP of Education, as the startup competes with Google and others to offer premium AI tools to universities and students
3:01 PM  •
The Guardian:  Sources: the UK has delayed proposals to regulate AI, with plans to introduce an AI bill in 2026 to address concerns about issues like safety and copyright
1:55 PM  •
Joseph Menn / Washington Post:  Sources: before installing Starlink at the White House in February, DOGE ignored security concerns that the service bypasses traditional WH security controls
12:55 PM  •
Lizzie Dearden / New York Times:  The UK High Court warns lawyers of possible criminal charges for using AI-generated fake legal material, citing two recent cases with hallucinated content
11:45 AM  •
Bloomberg:  Sources: ByteDance replaced some TikTok Shop's US staff in Seattle with China-based managers after 2024 US revenue hit $9B, far short of its $17.5B goal
10:35 AM  •
Financial Times:  Microsoft plans to add a “safety” category to its AI leaderboard on Azure Foundry, with a safety metric based on its ToxiGen and CAIS's WMD Proxy benchmarks
9:40 AM  •
Dan Whateley / Business Insider:  YouTube rolls out a tool to let some creators upload different thumbnails for each video dubbed into a different language, to help expand their global audience
6:40 AM  •
Sebastian Herrera / Wall Street Journal:  A profile of Panos Panay, head of devices and services at Amazon, who has scaled back new releases to focus on perfecting products like Alexa+ before rollout
2:35 AM  •
Rest of World:  New apps are helping immigrants navigate Trump's deportation crackdown, including by alerting users to locations of ICE raids and informing them of their rights
2:20 AM  •
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:  AI research nonprofit EleutherAI releases the Common Pile v0.1, an 8TB dataset of licensed and open-domain text for AI models that it says is one of the largest
2:10 AM  •
Bloomberg:  Simetrik, which uses AI to automate account reconciliation, raised a $30M Series B extension led by a Goldman Sachs Alternatives unit, taking the round to $85M
2:00 AM  •
Maria Armental / Wall Street Journal:  CapVest-owned Datasite, which offers workflow automation tech for dealmaking, acquires Grata, which helps users with all aspects of the deal process, for $200M+
1:30 AM  •
Stephen Nellis / Reuters:  Boulder, CO-based quantum computing startup Infleqtion raised a $100M Series C and partnered with US government services contractor SAIC to pursue defense deals
12:50 AM  •
Bloomberg:  Beijing-based Kuaishou's stock climbs after the company said it expects its video-generation service Kling AI to hit $100M in annual revenue by February 2026
12:20 AM  •
Ashwin Manikandan / Reuters:  Walmart's Flipkart secures a lending license from the RBI, letting the e-commerce company offer loans directly to Indian customers and sellers on its platform

June 6, 2025

11:45 PM  •
Eric Geller / Cybersecurity Dive:  President Trump signs an EO scrapping or revising several Biden- and Obama-era cybersecurity programs, including for AI security and post-quantum cryptography

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