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 |
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 |