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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Illustrations based on sources detail Apple's Siri overhaul, like a new UI and chatbot-style app, and major iOS 27 changes, ahead of the WWDC keynote on June 8 — The iPhone maker looks to stage a comeback in digital assistants and artificial intelligence.
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| Aaron Tilley / The Information: |
Sources: at WWDC, Apple is likely to showcase how 15 years of designing chips gives it an advantage in running AI locally, and will use a distilled Gemini model — At Apple's annual developer conference next month, the star of the show will be a series of long-delayed artificial intelligence upgrades to the iPhone.| Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
The European Commission fines Temu €200M under the DSA for allegedly failing to adequately stop the sale of illegal products; further penalties could follow — Chinese online retailer Temu has been fined €200 million ($232 million) on Thursday for not doing enough to stop the sale …
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| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
YouTube launches new Premium podcast features, including an AI-powered recommendation tool, an “Auto speed” setting, and a new on-the-go listening mode — YouTube announced on Thursday it's introducing new podcast features for Premium users, including an AI-powered recommendation tool … | Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog: |
Anthropic and OpenAI seem to have finally found product-market fit with coding agents, which are quickly becoming daily drivers for very well-paid professionals — Anthropic are strongly rumored to be about to have their first profitable quarter. Stories are circulating of companies surprised …
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| Jyoti Mann / The Information: |
Memo: Meta plans to embed engineers and product managers inside large corporate customers as part of a new Enterprise Solutions unit to help deploy its AI tools — Meta Platforms plans to place engineers and product managers inside large corporate customers as part of a new unit …
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| Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: |
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| ABC News: |
US prosecutors charge Google engineer Michele Spagnuolo with using inside information to make ~$1.2M via Polymarket bets on Google's Year in Search 2025 results — Michele Spagnuolo allegedly placed bets on what users were searching for. — In this Dec. 19, 2023, file photo …
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| Raphael Satter / Reuters: |
Letter: US Central Command says it received “threat reports concerning adversary exploitation of commercial location data” to target US personnel in war zones — U.S. forces deployed to war zones have been targeted using commercially available location data …
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| Bloomberg: |
Oura unveils the Oura Ring 5, with a 40% smaller form factor, improved sensing, and repositioned LEDs, shipping from June 4 for $399, up from the Ring 4's $349 — Oura Health Oy, the popular smart ring maker seeking to go public this year, unveiled a significantly thinner and lighter new model along with new wellness features.
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| Mariella Moon / Engadget: |
Last.fm says it is now an independent company again, 19 years after being acquired by CBS, and plans to keep its current team and continue the service as normal — Don't worry: It will keep your profiles and scrobbles. — Last.fm is an independent company again, it has announced on its forum …
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| Edward Ludlow / Bloomberg: |
Waymo unveils Ojai, a vehicle designed in partnership with Zeekr for robotaxi use, initially for select riders in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Phoenix — Alphabet Inc.'s Waymo unit will deploy a new autonomous vehicle designed specifically for robotaxi use, offering public rides in California and Arizona without human supervision.| Casey Newton / Platformer: |
Meta's Oversight Board says Meta agreed to increase its funding by $13M, ensuring that it will be funded through 2028, reversing a planned decrease in funding — Meta has agreed to increase funding to its external Oversight Board by $13 million, Platformer has learned …
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| Zac Bowden / Windows Central: |
Qualcomm unveils the Snapdragon C, an entry-level ARM-based SoC for Windows 11 devices starting from $300 and shipping in 2026, taking aim at the MacBook Neo — Qualcomm has unveiled its new entry-level ARM-based SoC for Windows 11 devices that will begin shipping later this year on devices that cost as low as $300.
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| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
The Steam Deck's huge price hike, from $399 in 2022 to $789 today, is the end of an era for gaming handhelds, coming amid RAMageddon, tariffs, and the Iran war — The Steam Deck's huge price hike is the end of an era for gaming handhelds. … For a few glorious years …
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| Jesse Hamilton / CoinDesk: |
The US CFTC files alongside Gemini to nullify Gemini's $5M January 2025 settlement, arguing that the agency's current management wouldn't have pursued the case — The regulator went back to analyze the 2022 case and decided that it wouldn't have been pursued under current management and practices.
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| Connor Hart / Wall Street Journal: |
IBM and Red Hat commit $5B to establish a new open-source software model, dubbed Project Lightwell, and will deploy 20,000 engineers globally, supported by AI — Project Lightwell will deploy a global force of 20,000 engineers, supported by advanced artificial intelligence| CJ Haddad / CNBC: |
Tel Aviv-based web development company Wix cuts ~20% of its workforce, citing the “fast evolution of AI capabilities” and currency exchange rate difficulties — Israel-based web development company Wix is slashing roughly 20% of its workforce, CEO Avishai Abrahami announced …
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| Reuters: |
IBM plans to invest more than $10B in quantum computing over five years as it aims to build the first large-scale, error-free quantum computer by 2029 — IBM (IBM.N) said on Thursday it plans to invest more than $10 billion in quantum computing over five years as it aims to build by 2029 …
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| Bloomberg: |
Internal speech: JD.com founder Liu Qiangdong vows to protect the company's 900,000 employees from AI and automation, saying it will “do everything possible” — JD.com Inc. founder Liu Qiangdong vowed to prevent the e-commerce firm's 900,000-strong workforce from losing their jobs to automation …
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| Jeremy Kahn / Fortune: |
London-based Geordie AI, which builds a security and governance platform for AI agents, raised a $30M Series A led by Balderton at an estimated $180M valuation — Geordie AI, a London-based startup which provides a security and governance platform for AI agents, has raised a $30 million Series A round led by Balderton Capital.| Brian Stelter / CNN: |
Filing: CNN sues Perplexity in New York for allegedly unlawfully copying and distributing CNN content, after failing to agree on terms with Perplexity in 2025 — CNN is suing Perplexity, accusing the AI company of unlawfully copying and distributing CNN's content.
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Reactor, which says its AI platform can generate video in real-time with near-zero latency, emerges from stealth with a $59M Series A led by Lightspeed — Existing generative AI models are built on batch processing: You give the system instructions; it runs computations; then spits back the results.| Ryan Lawler / Axios: |
Saris, which builds AI agents to automate back-office work for banks and credit unions, raised a $28.8M Series A led by 8VC — Saris, which builds AI agents to automate back-office work for banks and credit unions, raised $28.8 million in Series A funding, CEO Danial Jameel tells Axios Pro exclusively.
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| Russell Brandom / TechCrunch:NEW |
Elon Musk says Anthropic's Colossus deal is “a 180 day lease with 90 day notice”; SpaceX's S-1 said Anthropic “agreed to pay a monthly fee through May 2029” — Earlier this month, xAI signed a major compute deal with Anthropic, pledging billions of dollars a month … | Andrew Romero / 9to5Google: |
YouTube adds a “custom feed” to its home page that lets users prompt it to create a constantly refreshing feed, available to signed-in US users with history on — YouTube isn't exactly replacing the traditional search bar, but it is supplementing it with a way to watch a … | Choi Yeon-jae / The Korea Herald: |
Samsung's Securities, SDS, and Card units say they will acquire a 4% stake in Dunamu, which operates South Korea's largest crypto exchange, for ~$446M in cash — Samsung Securities, Samsung SDS and Samsung Card said Thursday they will jointly acquire a 4 percent stake in Dunamu …
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| Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal: |
Mistral says it is accelerating superintelligence development to ensure Europe's independence from US tech giants, and signs deals to supply Airbus and BMW — French company's CEO says its—and Europe's—biggest obstacle to tech independence is the scale of investment necessary| Chris Vallance / BBC: |
UK researchers gain access to Google's Willow quantum chip, which it says solves a problem in five minutes that would take supercomputers 10 septillion years — Scientists from King's College London have become the first UK academic research team to gain access to Google's cutting-edge …
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| Financial Times: |
Kirkland & Ellis, the world's highest-grossing law firm, is setting aside $500M to build its own AI platform rather than rely on tools available to its rivals — World's highest-grossing law firm plans to put the ‘collective intelligence’ of its lawyers into a tech platform
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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Visa makes an undisclosed investment in Replit; the two will explore how developers on Replit can use Visa Intelligent Commerce and the Trusted Agent Protocol — Visa has announced an undisclosed investment in AI coding platform Replit. The two companies are also exploring …
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| Brian Danga / The Block: |
SoFi makes SoFiUSD, its US dollar-pegged stablecoin on Ethereum and Solana, available for its 14.7M members to buy, sell, hold, and convert within the SoFi app — Quick Take — SoFi said its U.S. dollar-pegged stablecoin is now available for members to buy, sell, hold, and convert within the SoFi app.
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| Garrett Downs / CNBC: |
The US DOD announces a ~$9.7B, five-year deal with Dell to provide Microsoft 365, advanced cloud subscriptions, and on-premises licensing to the US military — The Department of Defense on Wednesday announced a five-year, roughly $9.7 billion deal with Dell to provide a suite of software to the U.S. military.
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