| 10:25 PM • | Tiffany Ng / Wired: How GrapheneOS lead developer Daniel Micay's legal fights with his former partner James Donaldson over CopperheadOS led to the privacy-focused tool's creation |
| 9:25 PM • | Echo Wang / Reuters: Filing: SpaceX tells investors that orbital AI data centers use “unproven technologies” and may not achieve “commercial viability” due to space-related risks |
| 8:20 PM • | Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: A look at Apple's management changes and several key executives' futures; sources say Mike Rockwell has considered leaving or taking an advisory role next year |
| 8:00 PM • | Financial Times: Top law firm Sullivan & Cromwell told a US federal bankruptcy court that a major filing it made in a high-profile case contained multiple AI hallucinations |
| 7:40 PM • | Tyler Kingkade / NBC News: The Los Angeles Unified School District's board votes to require screen time limits, making it the first major American school system to do so |
| 7:35 PM • | Ed Zitron / Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At: After users reported Claude Code appeared to be removed from Anthropic's Pro plan, Anthropic says it's “running a small test on ~2% of new prosumer signups” |
| 7:30 PM • | Ashley Gold / Axios: Filing: Anthropic spent $1.6M and OpenAI $1M on lobbying in Q1, vs. $360K and $560K in Q1 2025, respectively; Meta topped Big Tech lobbying spending with $7.1M |
| 7:00 PM • | Brock E.W. Turner / Axios: AcuityMD, which provides AI tools that automate sales call recaps, CRM data entry, and more for medtech companies, raised an $80M Series C at a $955M valuation |
| 6:22 PM • | New York Times: SpaceX says it's working with Cursor to build “the world's most useful models” and it has the right to acquire Cursor for $60B or pay $10B for the partnership |
| 6:10 PM • | Todd Spangler / Variety: Trump Media & Technology Group names Kevin McGurn as interim CEO, succeeding Devin Nunes; McGurn previously worked as an executive at Hulu, Vevo, and T-Mobile |
| 6:00 PM • | Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: Source: a handful of unauthorized users in a private Discord channel have been accessing Anthropic's Mythos model since the day the company announced it |
| 5:40 PM • | The Keyword: Google now offers two research agents: Deep Research, replacing its December preview release, and Deep Research Max, both available via Gemini API paid tiers |
| 5:20 PM • | Cailley LaPara / Bloomberg: Reliable Robotics, which is developing autonomous aircraft systems for cargo flights, raised $160M led by Nimble Partners, pushing its valuation to ~$1B |
| 5:00 PM • | Zaheer Kachwala / Reuters: Adobe announces a $25B stock repurchase program through April 30, 2030; Adobe shares have fallen around 30% so far this year |
| 4:40 PM • | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: The US DOJ says a former ransomware negotiator pleaded guilty to helping cybercriminals extort companies in cyberattacks in five different incidents |
| 4:20 PM • | Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg: Roblox reaches settlements totaling $35.8M with the AGs of West Virginia, Alabama, and Nevada over child-safety protections |
| 4:15 PM • | Core Memory: An interview with Sam Altman and Greg Brockman on OpenAI's restructuring, cutting Sora, “personal AGI”, Anthropic's “fear-based marketing” for Mythos, and more |
| 3:50 PM • | Francisco Rodrigues / CoinDesk: Core Scientific plans to raise $3.3B via a junk bond sale to finance its shift from crypto mining to building AI data centers and leasing them to CoreWeave |
| 3:40 PM • | Washington Post: Sources: following Manus probe, Chinese authorities ordered at least one other prominent AI startup, MiroMind, not to send talent and research out of China |
| 3:35 PM • | Lily Hay Newman / Wired: Mozilla says its Firefox 150 release includes fixes for 271 vulnerabilities identified using early access to Anthropic's Mythos Preview |
| 3:30 PM • | Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: NeoCognition, which wants to build AI agents that self-learn like humans, emerges from stealth with a $40M seed co-led by Cambium Capital and Walden Catalyst |
| 3:25 PM • | Reece Rogers / Wired: ChatGPT Images 2.0 is available globally to ChatGPT and Codex users, with a more powerful version for paying subscribers; its knowledge cutoff is December 2025 |
| 3:20 PM • | Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: OpenAI says ChatGPT Images 2.0 comes in Instant and Thinking variants and can generate images of up to 2K resolution and in multiple aspect ratios |
| 3:15 PM • | Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: OpenAI says that ChatGPT Images 2.0 has a stronger understanding of non-Latin text rendering in languages like Japanese, Korean, Hindi, and Bengali |
| 3:10 PM • | The Information: Draft IPO prospectus: SpaceX debt grew from $14B in 2024 to $23B in 2025, tied to a $4.5B lease deal with Valor Equity for AI equipment such as chips for xAI |
| 3:05 PM • | Emma Roth / The Verge: OpenAI releases ChatGPT Images 2.0 with new “thinking capabilities”, allowing it to search the web to help it create multiple images from a single prompt |
| 2:00 PM • | NPR: How opposition to data centers, over concerns like power demands, pollution, and water needs, has become a voting issue for many people in the 2026 US midterms |
| 1:55 PM • | Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: All-hands: Tim Cook said he's stepping down now to ensure the “best-ever transition,” citing strong financials, an “incredible” pipeline, and Ternus' readiness |
| 1:45 PM • | Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: New York Attorney General Letitia James sues Coinbase and Gemini, claiming their prediction markets violate state laws against illegal gambling |
| 1:25 PM • | Jody Godoy / Reuters: Clarifai says it has deleted 3M OkCupid user photos and facial-recognition models trained on them after the US FTC settled with OkCupid over privacy violations |
| 1:20 PM • | Sam Sabin / Axios: Sources: CISA doesn't have access to Mythos Preview, even as some other government agencies use it; Anthropic says it briefed CISA before Mythos' unveiling |
| 1:05 PM • | Reuters: Meta is installing tracking software on US staffers' computers to capture mouse movements, clicks, and keystrokes in work-related apps for use in AI training |
| 1:00 PM • | Julia Love / Bloomberg: Google's Chief AI Architect Koray Kavukcuoglu is working to unite its internal AI coding tools under the Antigravity platform, to counter Claude Code and Codex |
| 12:50 PM • | Yueqi Yang / The Information: Sources: Kalshi plans to offer crypto trading in the US, offering perpetual futures, putting it in competition with exchanges like Coinbase |
| 12:45 PM • | Alex Ebert / Bloomberg Law: Florida AG James Uthmeier issues criminal subpoenas to OpenAI to investigate if ChatGPT's role in planning a mass shooting constitutes criminal liability |
| 12:40 PM • | Maddy Varner / Wired: The nonprofit Consumer Federation of America sues Meta, accusing it of misleading consumers about its efforts to combat scam ads on Facebook and Instagram |
| 12:15 PM • | Tom Warren / The Verge: Microsoft cuts Xbox Game Pass Ultimate price from $29.99 to $22.99/month and PC Game Pass from $16.49 to $13.99, but both tiers won't get new Call of Duty games |
| 11:40 AM • | Bloomberg: Filings: crypto PACs amassed a ~$180M war chest for the 2026 midterms, including Fairshake's $166M, giving them the ability to outspend some GOP super PACs |
| 11:30 AM • | Juro Osawa / The Information: Anthropic started requiring government-issued photo IDs and selfies from some users to prevent access from US adversaries like China, Russia, and North Korea |
| 11:20 AM • | Digiday: OpenAI enables cost-per-click ads inside ChatGPT, setting bids at between $3 and $5 per click, in addition to CPMs |
| 10:35 AM • | Lily Mae Lazarus / Fortune: Humble unveils a fully electric cabless autonomous truck called the Humble Hauler and comes out of stealth with a $24M seed led by Eclipse |
| 10:10 AM • | The Information: Draft of SpaceX's confidential IPO prospectus: Elon Musk increased his stake in SpaceX last year by purchasing $1.4B of stock from current and former employees |
| 10:05 AM • | Stephen Nellis / Reuters: Australia-based Syenta, which aims to use electrochemical “stamping” to speed up chip manufacturing, raised $26M and says Pat Gelsinger will join its board |
| 9:40 AM • | Jack Kubinec / Fortune: Stripe and Paradigm-backed Tempo launches a “stablecoin advisory” for businesses and is working with DoorDash to let delivery workers get paid in stablecoins |
| 9:30 AM • | Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter: YouTube makes its deepfake detection tool available to anyone at high risk of having their likeness abused, expanding it from public officials and politicians |
| 9:20 AM • | Ashley Capoot / CNBC: Trump says his administration had “some very good talks” with Anthropic during a WH meeting last week and “it's possible” there will be a deal with DOD |
| 8:15 AM • | Ben Thompson / Stratechery: Tim Cook had an extraordinary run and impeccable timing in stepping down, with Apple in a better place than it has ever been as AI becomes its next big test |
| 7:31 AM • | Financial Times: Sources: Revolut is aiming for a valuation of $150B to $200B in an IPO; founder Nik Storonsky said this week that Revolut would IPO in 2028 at the earliest |
| 7:10 AM • | Muvija M / Reuters: UK's Ofcom launches an investigation into Telegram over concerns of CSAM being shared on the platform and its use by predators to groom children |
| 6:40 AM • | Sally Weale / The Guardian: The UK proposes an amendment to the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill to ban smartphones in all schools in England; a ban was previously just advisory |
| 6:10 AM • | Vlad Savov / Bloomberg: Tim Cook's 15-year legacy by the numbers: Apple's market cap grew from $350B in 2011 to $4T+ now, net income rose ~700% to $112B for FY 2025, and more |
| 5:35 AM • | Rolfe Winkler / Wall Street Journal: A profile of John Ternus, a mechanical engineer by background, who joined Apple in 2001 and whose biggest success was helping Mac's transition to Apple Silicon |
| 5:05 AM • | Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Longtime colleagues say John Ternus will bring back Jobs-era decisiveness, shifting from Cook's era when decisions were made collectively by top executives |
| 2:30 AM • | Politico: A look at EU efforts to cut reliance on US tech; study: Amazon, Microsoft, and Google hold ~70% of EU cloud and US vendors get 80% of enterprise software spend |
| 12:55 AM • | John Gruber / Daring Fireball: Tim Cook reshaped Apple in his own image and exits as CEO on his own terms, seemingly picking the right successor in John Ternus, much like Jobs did with Cook |
| 12:10 AM • | Wall Street Journal: A look at transnational scam syndicates in Cambodia, running hundreds of online scam operations and call centers and infiltrating Cambodia's ruling class |
| 10:10 PM • | Eunice Xu / South China Morning Post: Chinese PCB maker Victory Giant surges ~57% in its Hong Kong trading debut after raising ~$2.6B in its IPO, the largest in the city so far this year |
| 9:25 PM • | Financial Times: Sources: Jeff Bezos' Project Prometheus is close to a $10B fundraising deal, which includes an initial $6.2B raise in November, at a $38B post-money valuation |
| 9:01 PM • | Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: In an email to employees, Johny Srouji details newly combined hardware engineering and hardware technologies division, organized across five key areas |
| 8:45 PM • | Marcus Mendes / 9to5Mac: Apple says Tim Cook, as executive chairman, “will assist with certain aspects of the company, including engaging with policymakers around the world” |
| 7:35 PM • | Anthony Capaccio / Bloomberg: The US Air Force cancels RTX's ground-control network for the US' next generation of GPS satellites after years of delays and cost overruns |
| 7:10 PM • | Nilay Patel / The Verge: Q&A with Canva CEO Melanie Perkins on the company's growth in enterprise, competing with AI labs, token pricing, investing in its own models, and more |
| 6:15 PM • | Emily Steel / New York Times: A US jury finds Uber liable for a sexual assault by a driver in 2019, handing Uber a second consecutive defeat in its first trials of 3,000+ pending lawsuits |
| 5:20 PM • | CNBC: John Ternus, senior VP of Hardware Engineering, will become Apple's next CEO on September 1; Tim Cook will become executive chairman of Apple's board |
| 5:20 PM • | Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: OpenAI rolls out Chronicle, which builds memories from screen captures to make Codex more aware of context, as a research preview for Pro subscribers on macOS |
| 4:50 PM • | Apple: Apple says Johny Srouji, who most recently served as senior VP of Hardware Technologies, will assume an expanded role leading Hardware Engineering |
| 4:40 PM • | Ashley Capoot / CNBC: Amazon agrees to invest up to $25B in Anthropic, on top of the $8B that it has already invested; Anthropic commits to spend $100B+ on AWS over the next 10 years |
| 4:37 PM • | Apple: John Ternus, senior VP of Hardware Engineering, will become Apple's next CEO on September 1; Tim Cook will become executive chairman of Apple's board |
| 4:30 PM • | The GitHub Blog: Microsoft pauses new GitHub Copilot signups for Pro, Pro+, and Student tiers, tightens usage limits, removes Opus models from Pro, and limits Opus 4.7 to Pro+ |
| 4:15 PM • | Edward Zitron / Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At: Docs: Microsoft plans to eventually move GitHub Copilot from request- to token-based billing, as the week-over-week cost to run it has nearly doubled since Jan. |
| 4:00 PM • | André Beganski / Decrypt: RaveDAO's RAVE has lost $6.6B+ in market cap and its price has sunk ~98% since Saturday, after ZachXBT called on exchanges to probe if it was being manipulated |
| 3:00 PM • | Washington Post: A profile of far-right influencer Nick Fuentes, who has been kicked off most mainstream social media but made ~$900K from “fanatical” donors since early 2025 |
| 2:00 PM • | David McCabe / New York Times: Filing in California's antitrust lawsuit: CA accuses Amazon of price-fixing by pressuring brands to ask competing retailers to increase prices on some products |
| 1:05 PM • | a16z: A new media company called MTS launches for “monitoring the situation” across tech, business, politics, and culture, with backing from a16z and others |
| 12:25 PM • | Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: WhatsApp says it is testing a new subscription called WhatsApp Plus, which includes features like expanded pinned chats, custom lists, and new chat themes |
| 12:15 PM • | Kimi AI: Moonshot introduces Kimi K2.6, an open-weight model that it says shows strong improvements in long-horizon coding tasks, available under a modified MIT License |
| 11:25 AM • | Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: Deezer says AI-generated tracks now account for 44% of daily uploads, totaling ~75K tracks per day and 2M+ per month, but account for just 1%-3% of consumption |
| 11:05 AM • | Yazhou Sun / Bloomberg: Sources: UK-based CuspAI, which aims to use AI for discovering new materials, is in discussions to raise at least $200M, taking its valuation to over $1B |
| 10:30 AM • | Bloomberg: China's iQiyi plans to overhaul its streaming service into an AI content hub, with an app redesign and Nadou Pro AI tool handling “every aspect of film-making” |
| 9:55 AM • | Nitasha Tiku / Washington Post: A look at creators and organizations warning of AI's existential threats to humanity; some organizations sponsor social media posts and partner with influencers |
| 9:40 AM • | Belle Lin / Wall Street Journal: Adobe introduces CX Enterprise, an AI agent-based platform that aims to help corporate customers automate digital marketing and other functions |
| 9:25 AM • | Matt Haldane / Bloomberg: Filing: Michael Saylor's Strategy bought $2.54B in bitcoin over the past seven days, its largest acquisition since November 2024; Strategy owns ~$61B in bitcoin |
| 9:20 AM • | Erin Woo / The Information: Sources say Google has created a strike team to improve its coding models; Sergey Brin told DeepMind staffers they must aggressively pivot to catch up on agents |
| 8:55 AM • | Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: Huawei launches the Pura X Max, a passport-style foldable with a 5.4-inch cover display and a 7.7-inch internal display, in China, starting at ~$1,613 |
| 7:50 AM • | Jake Rudnitsky / Bloomberg: A Blue Origin rocket failed to correctly place a BlueBird satellite from satellite networking company AST into its intended orbit; ASTS falls 7%+ |
| 6:40 AM • | Nduka Orjinmo / Bloomberg: Nigeria-based Terra, which makes pilotless drones and defense systems, raised $34M from Joe Lonsdale, Lux Capital, and others, as jihadist groups drive demand |
| 6:25 AM • | Aditya Kalra / Reuters: Order: India's CCI sets May hearing on penalties after Apple failed to submit info on alleged app market abuse; Apple said it fears it could be fined up to $38B |
| 6:05 AM • | Danny Park / The Block: LayerZero says North Korea's Lazarus is likely behind the $292M Kelp DAO exploit on April 18, which triggered $10B in outflows from Aave over bad debt concerns |
| 4:05 AM • | Sebastian Herrera / Wall Street Journal: Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff dismisses the idea of vibe coded CRM replacing SaaS companies, saying data security and compliance make Salesforce indispensable |
| 1:35 AM • | The Korea Herald: SK hynix says it has begun mass production of the 192GB SOCAMM2, a next-gen LPDDR5X low-power DRAM module designed particularly for Nvidia's Vera Rubin |
| 12:45 AM • | Andreas Rinke / Reuters: German Chancellor Friedrich Merz says he will push to ease the EU's “regulatory burden” on AI and possibly exempt industrial AI to boost productivity |
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