| 12:45 PM • | Meir Orbach / CTech: Israeli data security startup Cyera raised $300M at a $12B valuation, after raising $400M at a $9B valuation in January |
| 12:41 PM • | Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: Microsoft unveils Microsoft Execution Containers for Windows, an OS-level sandbox for AI agents, with OpenAI, Nvidia, Manus, and Nous Research as partners |
| 12:35 PM • | Tom Warren / The Verge: Microsoft announces the new Surface RTX Spark Dev Box for local AI development, powered by Nvidia's new Arm-based RTX Spark chips and 128GB of unified memory |
| 12:30 PM • | YouTube: A livestream of Microsoft Build 2026 |
| 12:26 PM • | Engadget: A live blog of Microsoft Build 2026, where the company is set to unveil a Copilot “super app”, a new reasoning model, and Windows improvements for developers |
| 12:25 PM • | Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: Board, which makes a 24" touchscreen device that blends board games with video games' interactivity, raised a $20M Series A, and says it sold tens of thousands |
| 12:10 PM • | Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: OpenAI unveils new Codex plugins for tasks related to public equity investment, banking and sales, and other roles, and plans to integrate Codex into ChatGPT |
| 12:05 PM • | New York Times: An analysis of 600+ Elon Musk claims over 15 years finds he met deadlines 19% of the time; he achieved 75% of his 2015 goals on time, but under 50% of 2020 ones |
| 11:50 AM • | Sophia Cai / Politico: President Trump signs a scaled-back AI EO that seeks to address AI's cybersecurity threats; sources say it imposes less scrutiny on AI than the scrapped version |
| 11:25 AM • | Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: Internal post: Guy Rosen, Meta's chief information security officer who previously oversaw Meta's election integrity work, is departing in the coming months |
| 11:15 AM • | Tanaya Macheel / CNBC: CFTC chair Michael Selig says Gemini was the victim of Biden-era political targeting, a week after the CFTC motioned to vacate a 2025 order against the exchange |
| 11:10 AM • | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: X launches a React with Video feature on iOS that targets creators and is being pitched as a multimedia alternative to the Repost and Quote Post functions |
| 10:55 AM • | Tim Culpan / Culpium: Sources: Intel faces a supply shortage of its Panther Lake and Wildcat Lake laptop chips built on its 18A process node; Intel says there are “some” shortages |
| 10:40 AM • | Cassell Bryan-Low / Reuters: Sources: the UK has begun using SpaceX's militarized satellite network Starshield, making it among the first countries outside the US to adopt the tech |
| 10:01 AM • | Siobhan Roberts / New York Times: Sixteen mathematicians publish the Leiden Declaration on AI and Mathematics to warn of potential threats to the field, such as around accuracy and reliability |
| 9:11 AM • | Financial Times: Anthropic says it will extend Project Glasswing to organizations in 15+ countries, sources say giving Mythos access to Five Eyes, NATO, Samsung, SK, and others |
| 8:55 AM • | Andrew Martin / Bloomberg: Analysis: Palo Alto Networks' shareholders have voted to reject pay packages for its top executives seven times since 2015, more than any other S&P 500 company |
| 7:15 AM • | Eli Tan / New York Times: Meta expands Teen Accounts safety features to limit harmful content on Instagram, Facebook, and Messenger, including about nutrition, weightlifting, and anxiety |
| 7:10 AM • | Luz Ding / Bloomberg: Didi reports Q1 revenue up 10% YoY to ~$8.7B and a ~$177M net loss, several times larger than its Q4 loss, as it expands globally in markets like Latin America |
| 6:50 AM • | Bloomberg: Russia's Federal Security Service claims it uncovered a large-scale spyware operation by “foreign intelligence operatives” on senior officials' mobile phones |
| 6:35 AM • | Wired: Sources: after Trump nixed an AI EO on May 21, US officials navigated internal strife and chaotic talks; early AI model access was the most contentious issue |
| 6:20 AM • | Arriana McLymore / Reuters: Amazon schedules Prime Day for June 23 to June 26, shifting the four-day sales event from July to avoid the end of the FIFA World Cup and US Independence Day |
| 6:05 AM • | OpenAI: OpenAI releases a new knowledge work report: Codex now has 5M+ weekly active users, up 6x+ since February, and knowledge workers represent ~20% of Codex users |
| 5:50 AM • | Pew Research Center: Analysis: 22 of 24 US executive agencies saw a YoY increase in their average X account engagement during the first year of Trump's second term; @DOGE dominated |
| 5:35 AM • | Debby Wu / Bloomberg: SK Hynix Chair Chey Tae-won says the company plans to double its memory chip capacity over five years, responding to a global shortage that could last till 2030 |
| 4:35 AM • | Nectar Gan / Bloomberg: China adds data and algorithms to its trade secret rules, as part of Beijing's efforts to prevent tech leaks amid intensifying strategic competition with the US |
| 4:10 AM • | Max Cherney / Reuters: Computex 2026: ARM CEO Rene Haas says Oracle and ByteDance are among the customers of Arm's new AGI CPUs for data centers |
| 3:55 AM • | Reuters: Zhipu AI says it plans to apply for a listing in Shanghai; Zhipu's Hong Kong-listed shares are up 10x+ since its January IPO, giving it an ~$83B market cap |
| 2:00 AM • | Bloomberg: A profile of Valve, which PrivCo estimates generated $5.2B in revenue and $1.5B in net income in 2025, as lawsuits allege its Steam store abuses market power |
| 1:45 AM • | The Economist: SpaceX's, Anthropic's, and OpenAI's IPOs could add up to $4T in US stock market value within months, fueling concerns they could herald more capital raising |
| 1:20 AM • | Stephen Foley / Financial Times: AI will significantly disrupt IT consultancies as AI labs build advisory arms and executives expect more projects priced based on outcome instead of by the hour |
| 1:15 AM • | CNBC: Q&A with Sam Altman on OpenAI's Stargate data center project in Saline, Michigan, coding models as the biggest AI demand driver, falling token prices, and more |
| 1:05 AM • | OpenAI: OpenAI says it has not donated to any super PACs and does not have an employee-funded PAC, and that Greg Brockman's support for Leading the Future is “personal” |
| 1:00 AM • | Bloomberg: Chinese procurement records: at least seven Chinese universities that support China's military and defense industry are seeking access to Nvidia's H200 chips |
| 12:55 AM • | Cristina Criddle / Financial Times: Sources: Google, Anthropic, and Meta have hired experts in psychology, ethics, and philosophy in recent months as they expand machine consciousness research |
| 12:00 AM • | Yuliya Chernova / Wall Street Journal: Crunchbase: San Francisco startups hit a record 1,404 seed deals in 2025; the number of NYC seed deals has declined over the past three years, to 666 in 2025 |
| 11:20 PM • | Simon Lock / TBIJ: Wise confirms it is under investigation by Belgian prosecutors over suspicions criminals used its accounts for money laundering involving ~€500M in transactions |
| 11:10 PM • | Zijing Wu / Financial Times: Sources: Tencent, which has fallen behind domestic rivals in AI models, plans to test an AI agent for WeChat with a small group of users before a phased rollout |
| 9:15 PM • | Kyle Orland / Ars Technica: GitHub Copilot's new pricing model takes effect; many users report sticker shock, with some saying a few hours of AI usage eats big chunks of their monthly caps |
| 8:45 PM • | Maximilian Schreiner / The Decoder: Nvidia launches Nemotron 3 Ultra, a 550B-parameter MoE open model; Artificial Analysis says it is the smartest open US model, but trails Chinese model Kimi K2.6 |
| 8:33 PM • | The Information: Salesforce is acquiring CMS provider Contentful; a source says Salesforce paid between $1B and $1.5B, a steep discount from Contentful's $3B valuation in 2021 |
| 6:45 PM • | Hugh Son / CNBC: Pre-ChatGPT era startups face a reckoning in private markets; PitchBook: nearly half of US unicorns haven't raised in three years and 220+ are “fallen unicorns” |
| 5:10 PM • | Bloomberg: Alphabet is raising $80B through equity offerings, including a $10B investment deal with Berkshire, to fund AI spending, in one of the largest equity deals ever |
| 4:50 PM • | Brody Ford / Bloomberg: HPE reports Q2 revenue up 40% YoY to $10.7B, above $9.74B est., Server revenue up 33% YoY, and forecasts revenue for FY26 and FY27 above est.; HPE jumps 30%+ |
| 4:10 PM • | Michelle Ma / Bloomberg: Gigascale Capital, a climate tech VC firm co-founded by former Meta CTO Mike Schroepfer, closed a $250M fund to back early-stage startups supporting the AI boom |
| 2:30 PM • | Rohan Prabhu / Step Security Blog: Researchers find packages in the @redhat-cloud-services npm namespace shipped malware that harvests credentials for GitHub Actions, AWS, GCP, Azure, and others |
| 1:35 PM • | Jason Koebler / 404 Media: Hackers say they used Meta's AI support chatbot to change emails tied to Instagram accounts, amid a wave of high-profile account takeovers; Meta fixed the issue |
| 12:40 PM • | Brody Ford / Bloomberg: Source: Salesforce has a stake in Anthropic worth ~$5B; Salesforce first invested about $50M in an early 2023 round and has continually invested in rounds since |
| 12:30 PM • | Matthew Griffin / Bloomberg: IBM shares jump 7.6% after a nearly six-month old video of President Trump praising CEO Arvind Krishna recirculated on X; IBM was already up ~40% over two weeks |
| 12:20 PM • | Lucinda Shen / Axios: Stockholm-based Endra, which automates the design of plumbing and electrical wiring in new buildings, raised $50M led by a16z |
| 12:10 PM • | Mike Isaac / New York Times: Anthropic says it has confidentially filed for an IPO, which could happen as soon as this fall, joining OpenAI and SpaceX in preparing to go public in 2026 |
| 12:05 PM • | Anthropic: Anthropic confidentially submits draft S-1 to the SEC |
| 11:50 AM • | Ben Weiss / Fortune: New York City-based Mecka AI, which trains robots with human data sourced from body sensors and iPhones, raised $60M, including a $25M Series A |
| 11:30 AM • | Kerry Flynn / Axios: Sekai, which lets users create mini apps through text prompts, raised a $20M Series A co-led by Khosla Ventures and Connect Ventures, after a $6M seed in 2025 |
| 11:25 AM • | Kalley Huang / New York Times: Box has created 13 AI-focused roles, like AI architect and AI solutions manager, and plans to grow from 2,900 staff at the start of 2026 to 3,000+ by early 2027 |
| 11:20 AM • | Bernie Sanders / New York Times: Bernie Sanders says the wealth AI creates “must benefit humanity”, calling for a sovereign wealth fund that would hold ownership stakes in top US AI companies |
| 10:50 AM • | Tom Warren / The Verge: Sources: at Build, Microsoft plans to unveil a Copilot “super app”, a new reasoning model developed by Microsoft AI, and Windows improvements for developers |
| 10:45 AM • | NBC News: Florida AG James Uthmeier sues OpenAI and Sam Altman, seeking to hold Altman personally liable for deceptive trade practices, negligence, and public nuisance |
| 10:35 AM • | Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Strava is adding an $11.99 monthly fee for developer API access and moving public profiles and fitness club listings behind authentication to combat AI scraping |
| 10:00 AM • | Julian E. Barnes / New York Times: Internal documents: Chinese company Geedge is working to build AI tools to predict those who could pose a political risk, but US chip controls hampered its work |
| 9:25 AM • | Aaron Holmes / The Information: Palo Alto Networks says Mythos found 24+ critical bugs using $1M+ in tokens; Anthropic subsidizes Mythos but some companies plan to boost their Mythos budgets |
| 9:10 AM • | Liana Baker / Bloomberg: SEC filing: quantum computing startup Quantinuum boosts its IPO, aiming to sell 26.5M shares for $53-$55 each, raising up to $1.46B at an up to $14.3B valuation |
| 9:00 AM • | Loni Prinsloo / Bloomberg: African e-mobility startup Spiro, which owns 100K+ electric motorcycles, raised $215M at a near-$1B valuation, after raising $100M in 2025 and $50M debt in 2026 |
| 8:40 AM • | Charles Capel / Bloomberg: SEC filing: SpaceX will reserve up to 5% of its Class A shares for select employees and executives' friends and family; 60%+ of shares have an extended lock-up |
| 8:15 AM • | CoinDesk: SEC filing: Strategy sold 32 bitcoin between May 26 and May 31 for ~$2.5M, at an average net price of $77,135 per coin, its first disclosed bitcoin disposal |
| 8:00 AM • | Damien Wilde / 9to5Google: Google plans to open its first physical Google Store outside of the US “this summer”, in Tokyo's Omotesando district, marking Google's 11th physical store |
| 7:45 AM • | Financial Times: French private equity firm Ardian partners with data center group Verne to build an up to €5B AI “gigafactory” outside Paris, targeting up to 500MW in capacity |
| 7:30 AM • | Meir Orbach / CTech: Israeli networking company DriveNets raised a $410M Series D led by Bessemer and Atreides at an $8.5B valuation, taking its total funding to ~$1B |
| 7:20 AM • | New York Times: Wirescreen analysis of 3,800 Chinese military procurement records finds 500+ instances since 2019 where the PLA sought Nvidia chips, including the A100 and A800 |
| 7:10 AM • | Gian Volpicelli / Bloomberg: Sources: Anthropic plans to let the EU's cyber agency ENISA join Project Glasswing and access Mythos; EU officials went to the US last week to ask for access |
| 6:55 AM • | Juro Osawa / The Information: Chinese AI developer MiniMax debuts M3, a new coding model that it says rivals Claude Opus 4.7, costing $0.12 per 1M input tokens, compared with $5 for Opus 4.7 |
| 6:50 AM • | Jeff John Roberts / Fortune: Binance launches trading for 7,000+ US stocks and ETFs for non-US users, with zero commissions and fractional share purchases, as part of its “super app” push |
| 6:35 AM • | New York Times: A look at the Seckinger school cluster in Georgia, including the US' “first AI-themed educational institution”, where parents say AI integration is often sparse |
| 6:25 AM • | Bloomberg: Nasdaq, FTSE, and other index providers are shortening their entry timelines to accommodate SpaceX's record $75B IPO, as Elon Musk targets retail investors |
| 6:15 AM • | @theallinpod: Q&A with Bill Gurley on Anthropic employees believing “they can create God, and that by creating God, they are like this Prometheus kind of species”, and more |
| 6:05 AM • | Jordyn Holman / New York Times: Q&A with Brian Chesky on running Airbnb in “founder mode”, how “founder mode and hustle culture” are different, AI customer service, adding hotels, and more |
| 5:55 AM • | Tracy Qu / Wall Street Journal: Meituan reports Q1 revenue up 5.6% YoY to ~$13.5B, above ~$13.4B est., and a ~$1B net loss, its third straight quarter of losses amid a food delivery price war |
| 5:50 AM • | Ian King / Bloomberg: Jensen Huang says Anthropic, OpenAI, and SpaceX are among the first big users of Nvidia's new Vera CPUs, which are 1.8x faster at AI workloads than x86 chips |
| 5:45 AM • | Financial Times: SoftBank becomes Japan's biggest company by market value after hitting an all-time high, overtaking Toyota, which has been the country's largest for 20+ years |
| 5:40 AM • | Omkar Godbole / CoinDesk: Coinbase launches direct Indian rupee deposit and withdrawal rails via the Immediate Payment Service, aiming to remove its reliance on P2P and intermediaries |
| 4:20 AM • | Tamara Djurickovic / Tech.eu: Netherlands-based Invisix, which is developing advanced chipmaking measurement tools, raised a €20M seed, with the participation of a “tier-one” chipmaker |
| 4:10 AM • | Kentaro Takeda / Nikkei Asia: Grab says it commits to “Taiwan's data security and public trust”, after reports of Grab's collaborations with China-based Huawei and Alibaba sparked concerns |
| 4:00 AM • | Demetri Sevastopulo / Financial Times: A look at Operation Jailbreak, a US Army-led hackathon where nine defense firms use AI to integrate weapons systems, drawing on Ukraine interoperability lessons |
| 3:50 AM • | Matteo Wong / The Atlantic: A look at Pangram, considered the gold standard for detecting AI writing, and the dangers of its claimed one in 10,000 false-positive rate when used at scale |
| 3:15 AM • | Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: Nvidia unveils DGX Station for Windows, a desktop PC powered by a GB300 Grace Blackwell chip with up to 748GB of memory, capable of running 1T-parameter models |
| 2:40 AM • | Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: Nvidia says its Vera Rubin computing platform is “ramping into full production”, with the first systems expected to ship in the fall, after a March announcement |
| 2:35 AM • | Ina Fried / Axios: Nvidia unveils Cosmos 3, an open physical AI foundation model that helps robots and autonomous cars better understand the real world with limited training data |
| 2:25 AM • | Stephen Nellis / Reuters: Nvidia unveils an open humanoid reference design built on Isaac GR00T and its Jetson Thor chip, combining a Unitree H2 Plus robot and Sharpa five-fingered hands |
| 2:05 AM • | Sangmi Cha / Bloomberg: LG's shares are up 300%+ in 2026, after largely sitting out of South Korea's chip rally in 2025, as LG seeks to expand into physical AI businesses, like robots |
| 1:35 AM • | Kai Nicol-Schwarz / CNBC: AI startup Runway, most recently valued at $5.3B, plans to make London its European headquarters and invest $200M+ into the UK's AI ecosystem by the end of 2028 |
| 1:25 AM • | Katie Tarasov / CNBC: Jensen Huang says Microsoft and Nvidia will “reinvent the PC”, starting with 30+ laptops and 10 desktops coming in the fall from Dell, HP, ASUS, Lenovo, and MSI |
| 1:10 AM • | Jeffrey Kampman / Tom's Hardware: Nvidia says RTX Spark offers up to 20 CPU cores and a Blackwell GPU with 6,144 CUDA cores, capable of “100 FPS 1440p gaming” or running 120B-parameter AI models |
| 12:53 AM • | Sean Hollister / The Verge: Microsoft unveils the Surface Laptop Ultra, featuring an Nvidia RTX Spark SoC, a 15" mini-LED touchscreen, and up to 128GB of unified memory, coming this fall |
| 12:40 AM • | Sean Hollister / The Verge: Nvidia announces the RTX Spark, an Arm-based consumer chip family it calls “the most efficient PC chip ever built”, made on TSMC 3 in partnership with MediaTek |
| 12:30 AM • | Jeffrey Kampman / Tom's Hardware: Intel details its Crescent Island data center GPUs, built on its Xe3P architecture and using LPDDR5X memory instead of HBM, calling them “built for agentic AI” |
| 12:12 AM • | Jake Roach / Tom's Hardware: Intel teases its Xeon 7 Diamond Rapids CPUs, built on its 18A-P node, with PCIe 6.0 and 50% more cores and 2x the memory bandwidth vs. Xeon 6, coming in 2027 |
| 10:25 PM • | Chris Metinko / Axios: Miami-based Canals, which uses AI to help distributors automate workflows across sales, customer service, and more, raised a $35M Series A led by Base10 |
| 9:50 PM • | Bloomberg: Massive bonuses for Samsung's memory division employees have sparked a debate in Korea over how companies and governments should share profits from the AI boom |
| 8:20 PM • | Diana Novak Jones / Reuters: Filing: a Kentucky school district secured ~$27M in settlements from Meta, Snap, TikTok, and YouTube in a social media harms lawsuit; Meta paid the most, at $9M |
| 8:00 PM • | Jyoti Mann / The Information: Internal memo: Meta plans to start testing an AI pendant in 2027, release new AI glasses next month, start a “Wearables for Work” unit for enterprises, and more |
| 7:15 PM • | Barratt Dewey / Tectonic Defense: Picogrid, which is building a hardware and software integration layer for military systems, raised a $45M Series A led by Bessemer |
| 6:55 PM • | Pritam Biswas / Reuters: Coinbase and Kalshi introduce perpetual crypto futures, marking the first time the contracts will be available to US investors via domestic, regulated exchanges |
| 6:45 PM • | Samantha Subin / CNBC: SentinelOne's stock closes down 8% after the company announced plans to lay off 8% of its workforce and forecasted Q2 and FY revenue guidance below estimates |
| 4:50 PM • | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: Microsoft faces backlash after a blog post implied criminal referral and legal action against security researcher Nightmare Eclipse over public bug disclosures |
| 4:15 PM • | CJ Haddad / CNBC: Dell stock closed up 32.81%, its best day ever, after reporting its fastest pace of revenue growth for any period since returning to the public market in 2018 |
| 3:50 PM • | Reece Rogers / Wired: Hands-on with Gemini Spark beta rolling out to AI Ultra subs: planned a birthday party from emails and calendar, but called a live-in boyfriend a “close friend” |
| 3:20 PM • | Sana Pashankar / Bloomberg: US Space Force says SpaceX won a $4.16B contract to build a space-based tracking network as part of President Trump's Golden Dome defensive shield |
| 2:40 PM • | PCMag: What to expect at Computex 2026: AI chips, budget PCs competing with the MacBook Neo, Nvidia entering laptop SoC market with the rumored N1X chip, and more |
| 1:55 PM • | Sebastian Herrera / Fortune: Sources: Microsoft is working on an app that will include GitHub Copilot, Copilot chat, Copilot Cowork, and a new agentic workflow tool called Autopilot |
| 1:20 PM • | ElevenLabs: ElevenLabs launches Dubbing v2, which it says preserves the original speaker's emotion, tone, and pacing across 90+ languages while staying synced to content |
| 12:45 PM • | Meir Orbach / CTech: Sports Illustrated rights holder Minute Media lays off 12% of staff and reverses its ~$200M deal to buy VideoVerse, an AI platform to extract sports highlights |
| 12:01 PM • | Bradley Olson / Wall Street Journal: After hitting their annual AI budget in months or seeing their AI bills double or triple due to “tokenmaxxing”, some companies are rationing or tracking AI use |
| 11:25 AM • | Nathan Bomey / Axios: Kalshi to offer perpetual futures contracts in prediction market expansion |
| 10:45 AM • | Holly Bishop / The Independent: A BBC Question Time episode featured a panel with AI-generated historical figures like Churchill, intended to show AI images' “hyper-real and persuasive” nature |
| 9:50 AM • | The Information: Sources: ByteDance has partnered with chipmaker InnoStar to develop an AI inference chip modeled after Groq's LPUs, which are built to run AI models at low cost |
| 9:20 AM • | Robert Hart / The Verge: AI startup Shift launches a free home cleaning service in NYC to record first-person video with a camera-equipped cap and use it to train robots |
| 8:35 AM • | Kate Park / TechCrunch: Xcena, whose MX1 chip performs data orchestration and KV cache management directly within memory modules, raised a $135M Series B at a $570M valuation |
| 8:10 AM • | Reuters: Former Tesla data labelers say FSD relies on laborious mapping for hazards; crash data analysis shows Tesla exaggerates FSD's safety via flawed methodology |
| 7:35 AM • | Evan Halper / Washington Post: Allegations that China is behind US data center protests draw criticism from allies of the AI industry, who say the industry and politicians are in denial |
| 6:50 AM • | Cheng Ting-Fang / Nikkei Asia: MediaTek says it has started to use Intel Foundry's advanced chip packaging in addition to TSMC's, as the mobile chip designer bets on AI demand for growth |
| 6:25 AM • | Maria Curi / Axios: OpenAI says it has briefed the White House on its new biodefense program, which uses GPT-Rosalind to help develop biodefense and pandemic preparedness tools |
| 6:05 AM • | Martin Coulter / Sifted: London-based Inherent, which aims to combine human scientific research with AI to produce innovations, emerges from stealth with $50M led by Index Ventures |
| 5:55 AM • | Danny Park / The Block: Paxos says the US SEC has approved its registration as a clearing agency, allowing it to provide clearing and settlement services for eligible transactions |
| 4:50 AM • | Bloomberg: Lenovo's stock is up 105% in May, marking its biggest monthly gain since 1999, after earnings showed AI-related revenue helped offset rising memory costs |
| 3:25 AM • | Financial Times: Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket, which exploded during testing on Thursday, was set to ferry 48 Amazon Leo satellites on Monday; Amazon paid Blue Origin $2.7B |
| 2:30 AM • | Jo Constantz / Bloomberg: A look at Anthropic's hiring process, which prohibits AI use in interviews and features a culture interview that candidates describe as highly intense |
| 2:15 AM • | Katrina Bianca Cuaresma / DealStreetAsia: EY-Parthenon: VC funding for Singapore startups fell 34% YoY to $4.6B in 2025, with AI startups accounting for 42.8% of the 472 deals, raising $1.4B, up 28% YoY |
| 2:05 AM • | Financial Times: A look at strains in the UK's fintech sector, as former industry darlings are forced to overhaul their operations or merge under pressure to reach profitability |
| 1:40 AM • | Bloomberg: Sources: SpaceX is currently targeting an IPO valuation of at least $1.8T, down from a previous $2T+ target, after consultations with advisers and investors |
| 1:35 AM • | Cissy Zhou / Nikkei Asia: Tencent bets on smaller AI models in the race with Chinese rivals, as EVP Dowson Tong says AI now contributes 20%+ of its revenue and 95%+ of new internal code |
| 1:20 AM • | Bloomberg: BYD announces the Xuanji A3 chip, which it calls China's most powerful chip for ADAS and the centerpiece of its new laptop-sized central computing platform |
| 1:15 AM • | Financial Times: UK Chief Secretary to the Treasury Lucy Rigby warns that rejecting AI in public services means choosing “decline”, vowing to prioritize its Whitehall rollout |
| 1:00 AM • | Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg: Samsung says it has started shipping its first 12-layer HBM4E samples to major clients; SK Hynix said in April that it aimed to ship HBM4E samples in H2 2026 |