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June 23, 2026, 8:40 AM
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Amrith Ramkumar / Wall Street Journal:
President Trump signs two executive orders aimed at speeding the development of advanced quantum computers and mitigating the security threats they present  —  Administration set an ambitious new 2028 target for a system that can conduct scientific research
Chloe Taylor / CNBC:
South Korea's tech-heavy Kospi index falls 10%, dragged down by SK Hynix and Samsung; STMicro and ASML fall ~7%, and US tech stocks fall in pre-market trading  —  Global stocks sold off on Tuesday, led by deep losses for tech stocks following a losing session for the sector on Wall Street.
Bloomberg:
Sources: Tencent is negotiating exits from minority investments in game studios in Japan, such as Tokyo-traded Marvelous, as it reassesses its global portfolio  —  Tencent Holdings Ltd. is negotiating exits from several game studio investments in Japan, including Tokyo-traded Marvelous Inc. …
Carl Franzen / VentureBeat:
Sakana AI launches Fugu, a multiagent orchestration system accessible via an OpenAI-compatible API, claiming Fugu Ultra matches Fable and Mythos on benchmarks  —  Last night, the increasingly enterprise-focused AI startup Sakana launched Fugu, a multi-agent orchestration system …
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Valve says the Steam Machine, its living room Linux PC, costs $1,049 for 512GB without a controller to $1,428 for 2TB with a controller, available from June 29  —  You can register your interest starting today, and the first emails letting people buy one will go out on June 29th.
Sean Hollister / The Verge:
Valve Steam Machine review: small and quiet, runs PC games well on a TV, but nearly twice the price of a PS5 for PS5 performance and needs manual configuration
Guinevere Grant / Bloomberg:
Google plans a 12-week incubator, picking 10 to 20 AI startups from its “Xoogler” alumni and providing up to $350K in cloud credits and $100K in direct funding  —  Alphabet Inc.'s Google is backing a new incubator for former employees building artificial intelligence startups …
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Don Clark / New York Times:
Top500: China's Arm-based LineShine passes the US' El Capitan by 20%+ as the world's fastest supercomputer, the first time China has taken the crown since 2017  —  A supercomputer in Shenzhen was declared the world's fastest.  It uses only standard microprocessors and not the special-purpose chips called graphics processing units.
Wired:
Meta says it is pausing its employee input tracking program after internal security issues exposed potentially sensitive data meant to train AI models  —  Employees had previously raised concerns about the initiative, which involves collecting workers' keystroke data to train AI models.
Wall Street Journal:
How Sam Altman's 80+ personal investments, many from his time at YC, benefit from ties to OpenAI; 10+ companies have discussed business deals with OpenAI  —  OpenAI CEO's holdings in Helion and other companies have seen significant upswings since the AI giant explored or sealed tie-ups with Altman-linked startups
Ben Weiss / Fortune:
New York-based crypto analytics startup Allium raised a $40M Series B led by Amplify Partners, with participation from Kleiner Perkins and others  —  Blockchains are public databases, but that doesn't mean they're legible.  Even experts struggle to read their complicated strings of letters, numbers, and transactions.
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Toby Sterling / Reuters:
The Netherlands joins the US-led Pax Silica initiative alongside South Korea and Japan to coordinate AI supply chains; Taiwan endorses it as a non-signatory  —  The Netherlands will join the Pax Silica group of U.S.-allied countries coordinating AI supply chains, the foreign ministry said on Tuesday …
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Juro Osawa / The Information:
ByteDance unveils Seedance 2.5 in Beijing, saying the AI video model can generate 30-second clips from up to 50 reference materials, up from 12 for Seedance 2.0  —  ByteDance on Tuesday unveiled Seedance 2.5, its new AI video generation model, at a conference in Beijing.
Cristina Criddle / Financial Times:
An interview with Nvidia VP of Healthcare Kimberly Powell on how AI can ease doctors' workloads, help address trained medical staff shortages, and more  —  The chipmaker's head of healthcare argues AI can ease many of the sector's ills, including reducing medics' workload and tackling the shortage of trained staff
Brody Ford / Bloomberg:
Filing: Oracle's global workforce fell by 21,000 employees in the past 12 months to 141,000 as of May 31; the company says AI adoption has led to reductions  —  Oracle Corp. reduced its workforce by 21,000 employees in the past 12 months, a wider scale than previously known …
Samantha Subin / CNBC:
SpaceX announces an offering of senior unsecured notes and discloses it has ~$100.8B in cash; SPCX closed down 16.43% in its third consecutive losing session  —  SpaceX on Monday announced a senior unsecured notes offering and disclosed about $100.8 billion in cash.
Deirdre Bosa / CNBC:
SpaceX signs a computing deal worth up to $6.3B with Reflection AI for access to Nvidia GB300s at Colossus 2; Reflection will pay $150M per month through 2029

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Perry Stein / Washington Post:
Source: the US DOJ sought to force WaPo and WSJ reporters to testify before a grand jury but withdrew the subpoenas this month after the outlets challenged them

Jake Kanter / Deadline:
UK ministers are advancing a bill requiring YouTube and TikTok to promote BBC and ITV content, as well as forcing streamers to show big sports events for free

Deadline:
Piers Morgan's Uncensored raised $27M led by Raine Ventures and Antenna Group, with Elisabeth Murdoch participating, sources say at a $145M valuation

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Lily Hay Newman / Wired:
OpenAI unveils an updated GPT-5.5-Cyber model, launches the Patch the Planet initiative in partnership with Trail of Bits to fix open source bugs, and more
Bloomberg:
Alphabet shares close down 5% on Monday following the departure of Google DeepMind VP John Jumper, the company's second top AI executive to leave in a week
Kerry Flynn / Axios:
Sources: marketing tech startup AppsFlyer raised a $1B Series E at a $2.7B post-money valuation; Moloco, Google, Meta, and Unity acquire minority stakes
Katie Kilkenny / The Hollywood Reporter:
Instagram is testing horizontal video on Instagram for TV, plans to experiment with longer-form storytelling and episodic series, and launches on Samsung TV
Ben Fritz / Wall Street Journal:
Google invests in independent movie studio A24 as part of a new AI partnership; sources say Google is investing ~$75M, roughly equal to Thrive's 2024 investment
Kevin Crowley / Bloomberg:
Chevron signs a 20-year deal with Microsoft to provide natural-gas power for a proposed West Texas data center, which could be one of the biggest in the US
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