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Engadget:
A live blog of WWDC 2026, where Apple is expected to announce an overhauled Siri, a Siri app, new AI capabilities, OS updates focused on reliability, and more  —  We're covering the news live from the company's “All systems glow” event.  —  It's WWDC day, and this year, it's falling on a Monday.
Apple on YouTube:
A livestream of Apple's WWDC 2026 keynote  —  All systems glow for WWDC26.  This year's week of technology, community, and creativity with developers across the world kicks off June 8 at 10 a.m. PT. Click “Notify me” and we'll send you a reminder before showtime.
Choi Eun-Kyung / The Chosun Daily:
Nvidia and LG expand their partnership in AI, robotics, and mobility tech, including building an AI factory and co-designing future data center architectures  —  Jensen Huang, CEO of NVIDIA, visited the LG Group headquarters and shouted “Fighting LG,” emphasizing, “We are collaborating with LG …
Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg:
Nvidia and SK Hynix sign a multiyear chip deal to develop next-gen memory; SK Hynix will diversify into infrastructure, physical AI, and memory for Vera Rubin
Heekyong Yang / Reuters:
Nvidia says South Korea-based Naver will use Nvidia's DSX tech to build AI factories at “gigawatt scale” to meet global demand for AI services and physical AI
Jaspreet Singh / Reuters:
Meta says it's filing a federal court contempt order against NSO for violating a permanent injunction that barred NSO from ever targeting WhatsApp and its users  —  Meta (META.O) said on Monday it is filing a federal court contempt order against Israeli spyware firm NSO Group for violating …
Zack Whittaker / ~this week in security~:
In a notice to Maine's AG, Meta says 20,225+ Instagram accounts may have been hacked during the months-long abuse of its Meta AI chatbot, starting on April 17  —  Meta fixed the bug that let anyone trick its Meta AI chatbot into resetting the password on Instagram accounts that didn't have two-factor authentication.
Reuters:
UK PM Keir Starmer says tech companies must introduce “device controls” that stop kids from sending and receiving nude images or face laws forcing them to do so  —  Big tech firms operating in Britain must introduce safety measures on children's phones to prevent …
Katie Tarasov / CNBC:
Amazon announces a multiyear, multibillion-dollar deal with Corning to produce optical fiber for its US data centers; Corning shares jump 8%+  —  Amazon is paying Corning billions of dollars for optical fiber to power and connect its rapidly expanding U.S. data centers …
Joseph Cox / 404 Media:
Microsoft has shut down 70+ of its own repositories on GitHub after hackers pushed malware that would steal credentials from users of AI coding agents  —  Microsoft took the highly unusual step of shutting down more than 70 of its own GitHub repositories after hackers pushed malware …
Bloomberg:
FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried formally applies for a presidential pardon; he was sentenced to 25 years in prison in 2024, following the FTX collapse  —  FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried formally applied for a presidential pardon, more than two years after he was convicted …
Arasu Kannagi Basil / Reuters:
Bending Spoons files for a US IPO, reporting a net income of $27.5M on revenue of $601M in Q1, vs. a net loss of $112.2M on revenue of $259M a year earlier  —  Vimeo parent Bending Spoons filed for a U.S. initial public offering on Monday, as a busy summer IPO window takes shape.
Julie Bort / TechCrunch:
Travis Kalanick, Mark Pincus, and other founders share their horror stories of pitching to VCs; Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince publicly calls out Vinod Khosla  —  Asking venture capitalists for investment is a rite of passage for tech founders.  This has led to another universal experience: the VC pitching horror story.
Sabrina Tavernise / New York Times:
A study estimates the iPhone's diffusion explains 33%-52% of the decline in US births from 2007 to 2011, with the most pronounced effects among women aged 15-24  —  Modern smartphones rolled out in 2007, the year that fertility rates began falling.  Two studies say that is not a coincidence.

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Lulu Garcia-Navarro / New York Times:
Q&A with Scott Pelley on his last days at 60 Minutes, CBS News' Bari Weiss era, “Black Thursday massacre” firings, confronting Nick Bilton publicly, and more

Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg:
Sources: Paramount Skydance is open to selling some children's TV network assets to help win EU approval of its $110B bid for WBD ahead of a July 7 deadline

Anthony D'Alessandro / Deadline:
Backrooms, which has a budget of ~$10M, becomes A24's highest grossing movie ever with $212.6M in global box office in ten days, beating Marty Supreme's $191.2M

More News

Qianer Liu / The Information:
Sources: Google recently placed an order with Intel to manufacture 3M+ TPUs in 2028; Nvidia is testing Intel's tech for a new processor and running 18A trials

Earlier Picks

Mark Bergen / Bloomberg:
London-based PhysicsX, which uses AI to design industrial parts like jet engines and semiconductors, raised a $300M Series C led by Temasek at a $2.4B valuation
Eddie Makuch / GameSpot:
Xbox EVP Matt Booty clarifies Microsoft's new exclusivity strategy, saying new games will be reviewed case-by-case and multiplayer games will stay multiplatform
Wall Street Journal:
KPMG survey: only 26% of companies have a comprehensive view of their AI costs, while 50% have some visibility and 22% have none or only see costs after billing
More: The Decoder, Implicator.ai, and Digit
X: @eglyman.  LinkedIn: Ritesh Patel.  Bluesky: @whocouldsay, @oisinmcgann, and @edzitron.com
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