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| Hannah Erin Lang / Wall Street Journal: |
Robinhood launches a feature to let users link AI agents, such as Claude or Cursor, to separate, dedicated investment accounts for trading stocks autonomously — New feature links artificial-intelligence tools to investment and credit-card accounts — AI agents were already dispensing advice …
More: Robinhood, The Verge, CoinDesk, The Block, PYMNTS, Decrypt, Reuters, TechCrunch, CNBC, Axios, ZeroHedge News, Blockonomi, Fortune, Bloomberg, Barron's Online, Forbes, and Crypto Briefing
X: @mikeisaac, @mikulaja, @bostonlooper, @conejocapital, @duderichy, @rasmic, and @jyarow
| Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg: |
Samsung's largest union approves a pay deal that would give chip workers an average bonus of ~$340K, with ~74% of members voting in favor, staving off a strike — Samsung Electronics Co. union members voted in favor of a compensation deal that will hand chip workers an average bonus of about $340,000 …
More: Reuters, The Guardian, ITPro, The Hans India, Tom's Hardware, GSMArena.com, AJU PRESS, Wall Street Journal, ZeroHedge News, The Independent, Seoul Economic Daily, The Next Web, SammyGuru, SamMobile, Korea Joongang Daily, New York Times, Gizmodo, Korea Joongang Daily, Financial Times, The Korea Times, and Neowin
| Bloomberg: |
Source: TSMC CEO C.C. Wei told staff that they will see a 30%+ bump in their profit-sharing payouts in 2026 on average, after some staff voiced concerns online — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. chief C.C. Wei told staff they'll see more than a 30% bump in their profit-sharing payouts …
More: Benzinga, Blockonomi, Culpium, Crypto Briefing, Focus Taiwan, DigiTimes, Seoul Economic Daily, and PC Gamer
| Paula Doenecke / Bloomberg: |
The EU proposes new satellite access rules to let non-European companies like SpaceX bid for the airwaves, while preserving 33%+ of licenses for local companies — The European Union proposed new rules for satellite access that will allow non-European firms, like Elon Musk's Starlink …
More: Reuters, European Commission, Reuters, Wall Street Journal, Politico, Crypto Briefing, and Euronews
| Samantha Subin / CNBC: |
Micron hit a $1T market value for the first time on May 26 after its stock closed up 19.29%, rising from $700B earlier in May, driven by high memory chip demand — Micron topped a $1 trillion market value for the first time on Tuesday as shares popped 19%, driven by insatiable artificial intelligence demand for its memory chips.
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X: @lisaabramowicz1, @kyleichan, @jonahlupton, @boringbiz_, @rdd147, @tradexwhisperer, @bearlyai, @morningbrew, @gunjanjs, @tiernanraytech, @neilksethi, and @boringbiz_. LinkedIn: Samantha Subin. Bluesky: @carlquintanilla
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X: @speculator_io, @garyblack00, @bamabonds, @wolf_financial, @bamabonds, @realnickmugalli, and @universeice. Forums: r/wallstreetbets
| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
YouTube makes its AI content labels more prominent on desktop and mobile, and will apply them automatically if it detects “significant photorealistic AI use” — Is that YouTube video clip you're watching real or was it made with AI? — YouTube wants to make it easier for viewers …
More: YouTube Official Blog, TechCrunch, How-To Geek, Thurrott, The Verge, The Hollywood Reporter, Android Authority, Deadline, Digit, The Next Web, IGN, Music Business Worldwide, GMA News Online, The Wrap, Digital Trends, Barrett Media, MobileSyrup, WeRSM, and Crypto Briefing
Forums: r/entertainment and r/technology
| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
ElevenLabs launches Music v2, which can switch genres mid-track and handle complex vocal compositions, built on licensed data and cleared for commercial use — Voice AI company ElevenLabs launched a new version of its music-generation model, called Music v2, that can switch genres mid-track.| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Demis Hassabis says he still broadly expects AGI around 2030, though he now sees 2029 as a possibility, and 2026's “agentic era” is a “bit like a practice run” — Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis said at Google's developer conference last week that humanity is standing in the …
More: The Rundown AI. X: @kimmonismus. Forums: r/IntelligenceSupernova, r/singularity, and r/accelerate
| Financial Times: |
How AI is starting to dismantle the hegemony of the Big Four consultancies and other large firms, as AI agents help smaller consultancies handle big workloads — The technology opens the door for smaller, well-funded challengers to take market share from the Big Four and others.
More: Financial Times, Fortune, and Telegraph
| Ashleigh Fields / The Hill: |
President Trump says it is “critically important” that the CFTC keep exclusive authority to oversee prediction markets, as some states attempt to regulate them — President Trump on Tuesday said it was “critically important” for the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) …
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| Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: |
Datacurve releases the DeepSWE coding benchmark, a 113-task test across 91 open-source repositories: GPT-5.5 leads at 70%, GPT-5.4 got 56%, and Opus 4.7 got 54% — For months, the leading AI coding benchmarks have told enterprise buyers a comforting but misleading story: the top models are all roughly the same.
More: DeepSWE, Decrypt, and Datacurve on GitHub
X: @theo, @serenaa_ge, @scaling01, @andersonbcdefg, @mweinbach, @gabrielchua, @nickadobos, @garrytan, @chrisgpt, @scaling01, @jxnlco, @scaling01, @antirez, and @kimmonismus
Forums: Hacker News and r/LocalLLaMA
| Steven Levy / Wired: |
A deep dive into how Anthropic's Claude Code and Peter Steinberger's OpenClaw unleashed the AI agent revolution that is rapidly transforming modern computing — The definitive story of how Claude Code and OpenClaw kicked off computing's biggest transformation possibly ever.| Casey Newton / Platformer: |
| Eleanor Olcott / Financial Times: |
Sources and docs detail how China is modernizing its decade-old domestic surveillance network by investing in new generations of AI-enabled cameras and software — Local police forces are modernising the country's ageing infrastructure with more powerful tracking systems| Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter: |
Roku launches its first major homescreen overhaul in over a decade, including a large “marquee” ad spot to tout apps or shows, in a bid to drive more engagement — Don't worry, Roku City isn't going anywhere. In fact, it's going interactive. But there will be more personalization, and a more prominent ad unit too.| Maxwell Zeff / Wired: |
Trajectory, founded by ex-DeepMind, Apple, and OpenAI staff to train “continual learning” models on user interactions, raised a $15M seed at a $115M valuation — Trajectory is betting the rapid iteration cycle that supercharged vibe-coding can help all kinds of companies build AI products that learn continuously.
More: Crypto Briefing
| Michael Larabel / Phoronix: |
Initial benchmarks: Nvidia's Vera Rubin CPU, which features 88 Nvidia-designed Olympus cores, packs a heavy-hitting punch, beating Intel's and AMD's x86_64 CPUs — NVIDIA's Vera data center CPU isn't ramping up until later this year but I recently had the opportunity to try out this new ARM-based CPU designed for agentic AI workloads.
More: Tom's Hardware, TechPowerUp, Wccftech, NVIDIA, WinBuzzer, Barchart.com, and PC Gamer
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: ByteDance is discussing up to $70B of 2026 capex as it builds out data centers and other AI infrastructure, underwritten by its ~$50B profit in 2025 — ByteDance Ltd., the developer of TikTok and a leading force in artificial intelligence, is planning to sharply increase …
More: The Information and Crypto Briefing
| Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch: |
Milan-based social travel startup WeRoad raised a $58M Series C led by Airbnb, taking its total funding to ~$100M, to expand into the US, starting in Austin — WeRoad, the Milan-based group travel startup, has raised a $58 million Series C round led by Airbnb as it prepares for its first major expansion outside Europe.
More: FinSMEs, Tech.eu, Skift, Ventureburn, and The Next Web
| Rebecca Torrence / Bloomberg: |
AI coding startup Cognition AI raised more than $1B at a $26B valuation, and says its revenue run rate has increased to $492M from $37M in May 2025 — Cognition AI Inc. has raised more than $1 billion in a new funding round at a $26 billion valuation, the latest sign of strong demand … | Anna Tong / Forbes: |
NYC-based Pace, whose AI agents automate back-office operations for insurance companies, raised a $46M series B led by Thrive and Sequoia at a $375M valuation — The startup says its AI agents can handle the dull work insurers have long shipped to offshore operators.
More: FinTech Global, Business Wire, Coverager, and Pulse 2.0
| Anna Tong / Forbes: |
Opendoor Co-Founder Eric Wu's NavigateAI, which is building an expert AI coach for construction workers, raised a $25M seed led by Elad Gil at a $225M valuation — After pioneering automated home buying, the serial real estate tech entrepreneur is shifting focus from buying physical assets to empowering the workers who build them.
More: Investing.com, Ventureburn, FinSMEs, and Navigate AI
| Nikkei Asia: |
Jensen Huang says Nvidia spends $100B-$150B per year on its Taiwan supply chain, up from $10B-$15B in 2022-2023, and will boost its 1,000 staff there to 4,000 — TAIPEI — Nvidia is now spending up to $150 billion a year on its supply chain partners in Taiwan and plans to increase its headcount in the …
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| Hayden Field / The Verge: |
A look at the Pentagon's embrace of autonomous weapons before its fight over Anthropic's two “red lines”, and AI's creeping influence in military operations — The Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons, an international forum that focuses on lethal autonomous systems … | Ina Fried / Axios: |
Biohub, a Mark Zuckerberg- and Priscilla Chan-funded institute, releases “a world model of protein biology” to researchers for prediction, design, and discovery — Biohub, the Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan-funded institute, on Wednesday released what it says amounts to “a world model of protein biology.”Sponsor Posts
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