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| David Shepardson / Reuters: |
The FCC is banning imports of new foreign-made consumer routers over security concerns; China is estimated to control 60%+ of the US market for home routers — The U.S. Federal Communications Commission said on Monday it was banning the import of all new foreign-made consumer routers …
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Forums: r/news, r/cybersecurity, r/technology, and r/hardware
| Blake Stimac / CNET: |
Anthropic rolls out a computer use feature for Claude Cowork and the Claude Code desktop app, in research preview on macOS for Pro and Max subscribers — The developer is boosting Claude's agentic capabilities in an apparent effort to compete with platforms like OpenClaw.
More: Claude, Claude on YouTube, XDA Developers, SiliconANGLE, Engadget, Blockchain.News, Android Authority, iPhone in Canada, The Mac Observer, and 9to5Mac
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| Nathan Bomey / Axios: |
Kalshi announces new guardrails to preemptively block politicians, athletes, and others from trading in their relevant markets — Prediction market Kalshi plans to block athletes, coaches and officials from betting on their sports and to block political candidates from trading on their campaigns, Axios has learned.
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| Krystal Hur / Wall Street Journal: |
Senators Adam Schiff and John Curtis introduce bipartisan legislation to ban sports betting on CFTC-regulated prediction markets, such as Kalshi and Polymarket — Sens. Schiff and Curtis seek to prevent CFTC-regulated entities, including Kalshi and Polymarket, from offering wagers on sports
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| Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg: |
Polymarket unveils insider trading rules: no bets on stolen confidential info, illegal tips, or events whose outcomes the user can influence as an insider — Polymarket has moved to squash some types of insider trading after the prediction markets platform came under scrutiny for suspected manipulation.| TechCrunch: |
A new version of iPhone exploit kit DarkSword has been posted on GitHub; iVerify co-founder Matthias Frielingsdorf says the exploits “will work out of the box” — Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai Zack Whittaker — Last week, cybersecurity researchers uncovered …
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Forums: r/technews and r/technology
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple is preparing to introduce ads in its Maps app, allowing retailers and brands to bid for ad slots against search queries — Apple Inc. is preparing to introduce advertising in its Maps app, part of a broader push to generate more money from services.
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Forums: r/apple, Slashdot, and MacRumors Forums
| Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: |
Meta hires the team behind Dreamer, which lets users create AI agents, including Hugo Barra, former Stripe CTO David Singleton, and designer Nicholas Jitkoff — Meta Platforms Inc. has hired the founders and team behind the artificial intelligence startup Dreamer, which launched earlier …
More: SiliconANGLE, PYMNTS.com, Bloomberg Law, Gizchina, Dreamer, and The Information
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| Lex Fridman: |
Q&A with Jensen Huang, who says “we've achieved AGI”, on running Nvidia, AI scaling laws, OpenClaw, future of coding, data centers in space, China, and more — - Watch the full YouTube version of the podcast — Table of Contents — Here are the loose “chapters” in the conversation.
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Forums: r/NVDA_Stock and r/lexfridman
| Reuters: |
Sources: OpenAI is offering private equity firms a guaranteed minimum return of 17.5% and early access to new models to secure JVs, beating Anthropic's terms — ChatGPT maker OpenAI is offering private-equity firms a sweeter deal than rival Anthropic as both artificial intelligence companies …
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| David Keohane / Financial Times: |
SoftBank says its loan-to-value ratio, a measure of net debt against the value of its holdings, could exceed its 25% limit as it commits another $30B to OpenAI — Masayoshi Son faces investor nerves with massive spending on AI investments — SoftBank is testing a key self-imposed borrowing limit …
| Morgan Lee / Associated Press: |
Jury deliberations begin in New Mexico's lawsuit against Meta over children's safety risks, after both sides delivered closing arguments — A jury began deliberations Monday in a landmark trial in New Mexico where social media conglomerate Meta is accused of misleading its users about how safe its platforms are for children.| Shannon K. Kingston / ABC News: |
The US State Department launches the Bureau of Emerging Threats to tackle current and future threats, including cyberattacks and AI weaponization by adversaries — Officials detailed the Bureau of Emerging Threats exclusively to ABC News. — Cyber attacks on the riseOne group of cyber experts … | Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
Crunchyroll is investigating a breach after hackers claimed they accessed a support agent's account and stole the personal information of ~6.8M users — Popular anime streaming platform Crunchyroll is investigating a breach after hackers claimed to have stolen personal information for approximately 6.8 million people.
More: PCMag, Screen Rant, MobileSyrup, Mashable, and Reuters
| Jeremy Kahn / Fortune: |
Munich-based Interloom, which aims to capture tacit knowledge for AI agents from businesses' operational records, raised a $16.5M seed led by DN Capital — Michael Polyani, the British-Hungarian philosopher, economist, and scientist, is perhaps best known today for coining the term “tacit knowledge.”
More: Interloom, Unite.AI, and The Next Web
| Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: |
Drone delivery startup Zipline raised an additional $200M, including from Paradigm, bringing Zipline's Series H, originally announced in January, to $800M — U.S. autonomous drone delivery and logistics startup Zipline has raised another $200 million, adding to a recent funding round originally announced in January.| Ben Weiss / Fortune: |
Doc: Kalshi and Polymarket CEOs are investing in a VC fund, led by two early Kalshi employees, that is raising up to $35M to back prediction market startups — The CEOs of Kalshi and Polymarket are locked in a brutal fight to dominate the white-hot prediction market sector.
More: TechCrunch, The Crypto Times, The Block, Bloomberg, Crypto Briefing, crypto.news, and CoinDesk
X: @benhorney, @bdanweiss, and @alexh_johnson
| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Source: OpenAI is in talks to buy 5 GW of electricity by 2030 from Sam Altman-backed fusion startup Helion; Altman has stepped down as Helion's board chair — OpenAI is in advanced talks to buy electricity from Sam Altman-backed fusion startup Helion Energy, according to a person familiar with the situation.
More: The Information, GeekWire, The Deep View, Blockonomi, Reuters, Crypto Briefing, The Verge, and The Next Web
| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple announces WWDC 2026 for June 8-12, which will be an online event free for developers, with an in-person event at Apple Park on June 8 — Apple today said that its 37th annual Worldwide Developers Conference is set to begin on Monday, June 8 and end on Friday, June 12.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
How Nvidia became the AI industry's most powerful financier, investing billions in startups and supporting customers who couldn't otherwise afford its chips — ‘This is what it is like to be rich!’ CEO Jensen Huang told guests before a recent opera performance.
X: @berber_jin1
| New York Times: |
The US plans to create a voluntary consortium of countries to invest $4T to secure supply chains for chips, energy, and minerals; the US will contribute $250M — Trump officials said on Monday that the war in Iran had emphasized the need to reduce vulnerabilities for energy and technology.
More: Bloomberg
| Harry McCracken / Fast Company: |
Interviews with Sundar Pichai and other Google executives on being blindsided by ChatGPT's launch, Gemini, Pichai's vision of useful AI everywhere, and more — Sundar Pichai was blindsided by ChatGPT. Soon after being named Google CEO in 2015, he'd declared that the world was entering an AI-first era.| Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times: |
The Internet Watch Foundation says it identified 8,029 AI-generated images and videos of realistic child sexual abuse in 2025, up 14% from the previous year — Please use the sharing tools found via the share button at the top or side of articles. Copying articles to share with others is a breach of FT.com T&Cs and Copyright Policy.
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| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Microsoft hires a group of AI researchers from the Allen Institute for AI, including former CEO Ali Farhadi, who stepped down on March 12 — Microsoft is hiring a group of top AI researchers from the Seattle-based Allen Institute for AI and the University of Washington, including former Ai2 CEO Ali Farhadi, GeekWire has learned.| Suzanne Vranica / Wall Street Journal: |
OpenAI hires Dave Dugan, a former top ad executive at Meta, to lead ad sales, reporting to COO Brad Lightcap; Dugan stepped down as a Meta VP earlier in March — The AI company seeks stronger ties with brands to boost its nascent ad business — OpenAI has hired Dave Dugan …
More: MediaPost, Skift, Digital Trends, and eWeek
X: @ai_for_success, @daveshapi, @kimmonismus, @morqon, and @mediaevan. LinkedIn: David Dugan. Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to
| Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: |
Bengaluru-based Swish, which offers a 10-minute food delivery service, raised a $38M Series B at a $139M post-money valuation, bringing its total raised to $54M — Swish, a Bengaluru-based food delivery startup, has raised $38 million in a new funding round, as the 18-month-old company continues … Sponsor Posts
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