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Eddie Makuch / GameSpot : Xbox EVP Matt Booty clarifies Microsoft's new exclusivity strategy, saying new games will be…
The Guardian : Microsoft says it will tighten human rights controls when working with national security agencies after…
Tim De Chant / TechCrunch : Fusion energy startup Helion raised a $465M Series G led by Thrive Capital at a $15.5B…
Heekyong Yang / Reuters : Nvidia says South Korea's Naver will use its technology to build AI factories at “gigawatt…
Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg : Nvidia and SK Hynix signed a multi-year pact to develop next-gen memory tailored for Nvidia's…
Isabella Kwai / New York Times : How LinkedIn is transforming into a “post-cringe” social network as it courts…
Caleb Mutua / Bloomberg : Report: in May, supply of unsecured bonds from hyperscalers passed $155B, up over 45% from…
Leo Schwartz / The Information : White House AI advisor Sriram Krishnan says he will leave his role at the end of…
Financial Times : Raspberry Pi closed up 27%+ on June 5 after saying it expects adjusted EBITDA of at least $38M in…
Max Tani / Semafor : Kalshi and Polymarket sponsored X posts promoting viral LA mayoral election fraud conspiracy…
Ramsay Hodgson / Financial Times : Paris-listed Teleperformance, the world's largest customer service company, has…
Elizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post : Inside the Trump admin's push to integrate AI into the healthcare system,…
Mayumi Negishi / Bloomberg : SoftBank's PayPay, Japan's dominant payments app, says it will take a 70.2% stake in T&D…
Ami Yamada / Nikkei Asia : Kepple: seed-stage startup funding in Japan fell 42% YoY in 2025 to a 10-year low of $124M,…
Abhirup Roy / Reuters : Sources: Uber has committed nearly $500M to self-driving startup Nuro, providing a crucial…
David Jeans / Reuters : Sources and docs detail defense tech startup Shield AI's struggles to overcome years of…
CNBC : Source: OpenAI and White House are discussing a government stake in the company, to seed something like the…
Bloomberg : Sources: Apollo and Blackstone finalized a $35B package for Anthropic to lease TPUs; Broadcom is…
Aaron Holmes / The Information : In an internal message, Satya Nadella rebuked an internal memo that said Microsoft…
Dan Primack / Axios : Allen Control Systems, which makes AI-powered gun turrets for shooting down drones, raised a…
@starlink : Starlink says that it has 12M+ “active customers” across 160+ countries, territories, and other markets,…
Mark Tyson / Tom's Hardware : Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince says agentic traffic is “growing so fast that bots have…
Wall Street Journal : Anthropic calls for top AI labs to weigh slowing or temporarily pausing development, suggesting…
Bloomberg : Corporate spending management platform Ramp raised $750M at a $44B valuation led by Iconiq, Singapore's…
Sarah White / Financial Times : France secured €110B+ of proposed AI and data center investments this week, amounting…
Robert Hart / The Verge : Amazon unveils its next-gen Proteus warehouse robot, adding AI-powered language capabilities…
Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times : A profile of Anthropic as it prepares to go public and broaden access to Mythos,…
Mike Masnick / Liberalism.org : Centralized control over the user experience not only leads to enshittification, but…
Byron Kaye / Reuters : Meta says Australia's proposed tax on domestic revenue for tech giants that don't sign news…
Emily Mullin / Wired : Sam Altman and Dario Amodei are among signatories on an open letter urging improved tracking of…
Natalia Kniazhevich / Bloomberg : Liftoff Mobile raised $437M in its US IPO, selling 19M shares for $23 each, above…
Juli Clover / MacRumors : Apple says users in Texas must confirm they are 18 years or older or obtain parental consent…
Greg Miller / Washington Post : The US and other Five Eyes nations warn that China is flooding online job platforms…
The Hacker News : Security firm Calif says it used OpenAI's Codex to discover HTTP/2 Bomb, a remote DoS exploit…
Bloomberg : In a report, UK lawmakers call on the government to end a £330M NHS deal with Palantir and disclose more…
Brendan Bordelon / Politico : OpenAI diverges from Trump's AI EO in a new policy paper, proposing cyber risk…
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch : Meta is alerting Instagram users whose accounts were taken over using…
Cory Weinberg / The Information : Nearly 40% of Alphabet's planned ~$85B in equity offerings for AI will go toward…
Amy Feldman / Forbes : Collate, whose AI tools automate paperwork for life sciences companies, raised $95M led by…
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch : Amazon announces new visual search features, including displaying AI-generated images of…
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