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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 …
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 …
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.
Bloomberg:
SK Hynix tops $1T in market value after its stock jumped 9% on May 27, becoming the third Asian company to hit the milestone, and is up 1,000%+ in the past year
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 …
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.
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.
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) …
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 …
Casey Newton / Platformer:
Q&A with Claude Code creator and head Boris Cherny on how the title “software engineer” could disappear, why AI may create more jobs than it destroys, and more
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.
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.
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.
Scott Stein / CNET:
Xreal launches a new sub-brand, X by Xreal, and $299 a01 display glasses with micro OLED displays, a 50° FOV, and a 62g weight, set for a July release in the US  —  X by Xreal is arriving in July for $299, and they look to compete with TCL's budget glasses.
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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