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Google says it is testing a new toggle inside its Search Console with some UK domain owners, letting them decide whether their sites appear in AI search results — The company says opting out won't impact placement in regular searches. — More than three years after it began rolling … | Imran Rahman-Jones / BBC: |
The UK CMA says publishers in the country will be allowed to opt out of Google's AI Overviews search results, giving Google nine months to implement the changes — Online publishers can choose not to appear in the AI Overviews of Google search results n the UK, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has announced.| Echo Wang / Reuters: |
Source: SpaceX aims to raise $75B in its IPO, selling 555.6M shares at $135 each, an unusual move as companies typically set a price range before their roadshow — SpaceX plans to raise $75 billion in its initial public offering by selling 555.6 million shares at a target price of $135 per share … | Katherine Blunt / Wall Street Journal: |
The US data center build-out is falling behind schedule; JP Morgan says 60%+ of data center capacity planned for completion in 2027 isn't yet under construction — Google, which is raising a fresh $80 billion, has a strategy for getting around the biggest bottleneck| Mathieu Pollet / Politico: |
The EU Commission unveils its tech sovereignty package, including the EU's Cloud and AI Development Act, in a bid to reduce its reliance on US tech companies — The European Commission's so-called tech sovereignty plan aims to boost domestic champions rather than shut out American competitors.| Cade Metz / New York Times: |
University of Toronto researchers claim to have developed a “worm” powered by open-source AI that exploits known flaws and tailors its attacks for each computer — Researchers at the University of Toronto showed how hackers could use artificial intelligence to create a program … | The Verge: |
Mustafa Suleyman says Microsoft aims to become “one of the top four labs in the world”, and “the pivotal moment was renegotiating our contract with OpenAI” — At Microsoft's annual Build conference on Tuesday, the company announced a slew of new or expanded AI initiatives … | Jay Peters / The Verge: |
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Apple plans to open an Apple Developer Center in Berlin in 2026, its first center in Europe and fifth globally, offering in-person developer access and sessions — In an announcement that is characteristically well-timed before the upcoming Worldwide Developers Conference which kicks off on Monday … | Jason Koebler / 404 Media: |
Email: Google asked Google Play app developers to “join a confidential content offer pilot”, offering to pay for codebase access to train its AI coding tools — Google is trying to buy code from some Android developers as part of a “confidential” program.| Financial Times: |
How OpenAI, Anthropic, and other AI startups are pursuing recursive self-improvement, in a bid to build AI that can improve itself with little to no human input — Industry chiefs say technology within their grasp is the key to superintelligence. Safety experts say we're not ready.| Lauren Feiner / The Verge: |
Google unveils five AI data center water commitments, including becoming water positive by 2030, local infrastructure investments, and transparency about usage — The company promises to replenish more water than it uses by 2030. … In the face of widespread backlash … | Jyoti Mann / The Information: |
Internal memo: Meta is scaling back elements of its MCI employee tracking tool, launched in April to help train its AI models, after staff raised concerns — Meta Platforms is scaling back elements of its employee tracking tool after staff raised concerns about the tool, according to an internal memo reviewed by The Information.| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
Alibaba releases Qwen3.7-Plus, a multimodal proprietary model with a 1M-token context window, costing $2 per 1M tokens, 60% less than the text-only Qwen3.7-Max — However, like its immediate predecessor Qwen3.7-Plus is available only under a “closed” commercial license via proprietary … | Reuters: |
Sources: DeepSeek is set to raise ~$7.4B in its first funding round from investors, including Tencent and CATL, at a valuation of between ~$52B and ~$59B — DeepSeek, China's best-known AI startup, is set to raise about 50 billion yuan ($7.4 billion) in its first funding round … | Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Meta launches Meta Business Agent globally on WhatsApp and Instagram DMs, after a two-year pilot of the customer support AI bot in India, Mexico, and others — For years, WhatsApp has been a communication layer for businesses of all sizes around the world.| Helene Braun / CoinDesk: |
Mastercard says it plans to offer on-chain settlement using several regulated USD stablecoins, initially supporting USDC, PYUSD, USDG, USDP, RLUSD, and SoFiUSD — The company plans to offer stablecoin, weekend and holiday settlement as demand grows for real-time movement of money. … What to know:| Belle Lin / Wall Street Journal: |
Anthropic unveils a Services Track for its Claude Partner Network, a ranking based on what companies built with Claude, and releases a Claude Partner Hub portal — AI giant is solidifying its Claude Partner Network to help demonstrate ‘durability of revenue’ as it nears going public| Katherine Blunt / Wall Street Journal: |
Google sold $35B in stock in its equity raise this week, up from its planned $30B and taking its total funding to $85B; a source says it contacted 75 investors — $35 billion — That's how much stock Google parent Alphabet ended up selling this week in underwritten public offerings … | Aditya Kalra / Reuters: |
Doc: Apple agreed in May to submit the financials of its India business to the country's antitrust body as part of an investigation over alleged market abuses — Apple has agreed to submit the financials of its India business to the country's antitrust body as part of an investigation … | Casey Newton / Platformer: |
Q&A with labor economist Kathryn Anne Edwards on why much of the AI jobs panic is overblown, why the US should start to plan for AI job loss scenarios, and more — Labor economist Kathryn Anne Edwards isn't worried AI will create a new class of permanently idle Americans … | Bloomberg: |
Bitcoin fell as much as 7% over 24 hours to below $67K on June 2 for the first time since April, following Strategy's first BTC sale since 2022; MSTR fell 9.15% — Souring Bitcoin sentiment has triggered almost $1.5 billion in crypto liquidations over the past 24 hours, as the largest digital asset sank back to a two-month low.| Ben Glickman / Wall Street Journal: |
AI market research platform AlphaSense raised $350M from Vitruvian, Accenture, and others at a $7.5B valuation, up from $4B in 2024, ahead of a possible IPO — Firm raises $350 million from investors including Accenture and JPMorgan's asset-management unit.| Richard Milne / Financial Times: |
Supercell, King, and Sybo say the EU's Digital Fairness Act, which requires pop-ups to show virtual currencies' real-world values, could make games “unplayable” — Makers of ‘Clash of Clans’, ‘Candy Crush Saga’ and ‘Subway Surfers’ warn EU proposals could throttle rare tech success| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
Google adds a scam-detection feature, built on RCS, to Android 12 and later that verifies whether a call is coming from the caller's actual Android smartphone — Available for Android 12 and later, the anti-scam feature is baked into Google Dialer, which sends a silent “confirmation signal” … | Victoria Song / The Verge: |
Meta is spinning off Supernatural into an independent company, Supernatural Health, after earlier saying the VR fitness game would stop getting new content — The game is being spun out into an independent company called Supernatural Health. … A few months ago, Meta effectively handed Supernatural … | Aisha S Gani / Bloomberg: |
How Revolut founder Nikolay Storonsky's Elon Musk-style pay packages pushed his fortune to ~$20.4B, making him the UK's richest person, ahead of a planned IPO — CEO Nik Storonsky turned a scrappy startup into a fintech juggernaut — now he has to convince the world that his company is as safe as a bank| Gavin Finch / Reuters: |
The US sanctions Nobitex, Iran's largest crypto exchange, accusing it of helping Iran's government and blacklisted state institutions evade Western sanctions — The United States announced sanctions on Iran's biggest cryptocurrency exchange on Tuesday, accusing it of enabling the Iranian government … | Sawdah Bhaimiya / CNBC: |
Marvell's stock closed up 32.52% on June 2, its biggest one-day gain, after Jensen Huang called the US data center chipmaker the “next trillion-dollar company” — Nvidia's CEO Jensen Huang hailed Marvell Technology as the next trillion-dollar firm, sending its shares up 32% on Tuesday.
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