| 1:25 PM • | Sean Hollister / The Verge: Valve Steam Machine review: much smaller than PS5, surprisingly smooth, and navigable with any modern gamepad but very expensive and needs manual configuration |
| 1:20 PM • | Jay Peters / The Verge: Valve says Steam Machine, its new living room-friendly PC, will start at $1,049 for the 512GB base model, and go on sale starting June 29 |
| 1:16 PM • | 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 |
| 12:30 PM • | Bloomberg: Alphabet stock fell as much as 7.2%, the most intraday since February, after Google DeepMind VP John Jumper became its second top AI exec to leave in a week |
| 11:45 AM • | 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 |
| 11:30 AM • | Samantha Subin / CNBC: SpaceX announces a senior unsecured notes offering and discloses that it has about $100.8B in cash; SPCX drops 8%+ |
| 11:08 AM • | 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 |
| 10:40 AM • | Zsana Hoskins / Bloomberg: Groq raised $650M led by Disruptive and Infinitum after its Nvidia deal, aiming to hit 200 MW in capacity by the end of 2027, following a $750M raise in 2025 |
| 10:25 AM • | 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 |
| 10:15 AM • | Ben Weiss / Fortune: Crypto trading app Fomo raised a $75M Series B led by Index at a $550M valuation, taking its total funding to ~$94M, and claims to add 3,500 new users per day |
| 10:10 AM • | 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 |
| 9:55 AM • | Lily Mae Lazarus / Fortune: Upscale, which is building AI networking infrastructure to rival Cisco, raised a $190M Series A-1 at a $2B valuation, up from $1B after raising $200M in January |
| 9:40 AM • | Ian King / Bloomberg: Nvidia unveils Halos, a safety-focused OS developed from autonomous vehicle tech and designed to run on IGX Thor hardware for humanoid robots, and opens a lab |
| 9:25 AM • | Sarah Basford Canales / The Guardian: In a rare joint statement, Five Eyes leaders warn AI models capable of taking down governments and businesses are mere months away, urging leaders to “act now” |
| 9:11 AM • | Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: Meta invests $900M into Indian fintech Cred for a ~20% stake, and plans to appoint Cred founder Kunal Shah as the leader of WhatsApp, replacing Will Cathcart |
| 8:15 AM • | Suzi Ring / Financial Times: UK-based AI law firm Garfield, which received regulatory approval in 2025, wins a case in the English courts for the first time; the case focused on unpaid fees |
| 8:00 AM • | Brock E.W. Turner / Axios: NYC-based Prosper AI, whose healthcare AI tool is designed to answer patient phone calls, raised a $30M Series A led by a16z, taking its total funding to $35M |
| 7:45 AM • | Jordan Fitzgerald / Bloomberg: Electric bike rental company Lime is seeking to raise up to $180.9M in its US IPO, offering 6.7M shares at $24 to $26 each, giving it an up to $1.7B valuation |
| 7:30 AM • | 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 |
| 7:05 AM • | Stephen Nellis / Reuters: Netherlands-based Nearfield Instruments, which makes atomic force microscopes to measure chip features, raised $380M led by Fidelity at a $1.6B valuation |
| 6:40 AM • | Financial Times: JD.com founder Richard Liu says robots will replace the company's 700K delivery workers “sooner or later”, and it will help retrain them in robot maintenance |
| 6:30 AM • | Bloomberg: Analysis: Taiwanese car display chip maker Himax, which makes driver integrated circuits for Ferrari, VW, and others, nets its founders a $1B combined net worth |
| 6:10 AM • | Kimberley Kao / Wall Street Journal: SK Hynix overtakes Samsung to become South Korea's most valuable company, closing up 5.6% for a ~$1.4T market cap; South Korea's Kospi index is up 117% YTD |
| 6:00 AM • | Bloomberg: Getty Images signs a licensing deal with OpenAI, letting its image library appear in ChatGPT's search and discovery tools; GETY jumps 90%+ and is down 10%+ YTD |
| 5:45 AM • | Ryan McMorrow / Financial Times: Bain says it uses AI coding tools to recreate pieces of target companies' software, making hundreds of rough prototypes in recent years as part of due diligence |
| 5:10 AM • | Catherine Thorbecke / Bloomberg: S&P and IBM: 22.4% of global cyberattacks in 2024 hit Japan, the most targeted country, as it tries to improve its legacy IT systems against AI-powered threats |
| 4:36 AM • | Wall Street Journal: Satya Nadella says the public wouldn't tolerate a few AI labs “doing all of the learning for the world”, as Microsoft moves to provide low-cost models and tools |
| 4:15 AM • | Vivian Salama / The Atlantic: A look at JD Vance's “AI doctrine”, which combines pro-innovation VC principles, worker protections, and concerns about power concentration in dominant AI labs |
| 3:45 AM • | Eli Rosenberg / The Information: A profile of Sarah Polcz, the UC Davis law professor that Bernie Sanders' team consulted weekly while developing his AI company sovereign wealth fund proposal |
| 2:51 AM • | Clara Murray / Financial Times: Analysis: Anthropic may have talked its way into an export ban, as its 2026 statements and social media posts used 8x more AI risk-related terms than OpenAI |
| 1:35 AM • | Financial Times: PitchBook: defense tech companies making drones, battlefield AI, and more raised $12.3B across 175 deals in 2026 so far, up from a $9.95B from 158 deals in 2025 |
| 1:10 AM • | Luz Ding / Bloomberg: Tencent starts testing Xiaowei, its new AI assistant powered by WeLM and DeepSeek models, in its WeChat app in China, as part of its efforts to catch up in AI |
| 12:45 AM • | Dakin Campbell / The Information: Source: Morgan Stanley is pitching data center developers to use leveraged loans rather than bonds, and estimates that ~$15B in such loans will be sold in 2026 |
| 12:30 AM • | Sydney Morning Herald: WiseTech's shares fell 18%+ after Australian police probed co-founder Richard White over sex exploitation claims; WiseTech shares are down 70%+ in the past year |
| 11:30 PM • | Bloomberg: Sources: Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick questioned ASML leaders on concerns China acquired one of its EUV machines, violating US-led export restrictions |
| 11:05 PM • | Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: Source: Elastic has agreed to acquire the AI site reliability engineering startup Deductive AI for up to $85M; CRV led Deductive AI's $7.5M seed round in 2025 |
| 10:40 PM • | Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: Appfigures: daily downloads of major VPN apps in India rose 49% on June 16 after India announced its Telegram ban; Proton and Turbo recorded largest increases |
| 9:55 PM • | Financial Times: Sources: SpaceX plans to raise $20B in a bond sale as soon as next week; the funds would be used to pay back a $20B bridge loan taken out after the xAI merger |
| 9:30 PM • | Financial Times: Doc: SpaceX says the EU's plan to reserve satellite spectrum for European operators risks disrupting connectivity, including for emergency services in Ukraine |
| 8:50 PM • | Nate Raymond / Reuters: A US circuit court overturned an injunction against Ohio, allowing the state to implement a law forcing platforms to seek parental consent if a user is under 16 |
| 8:20 PM • | Financial Times: A profile of Meta President Dina Powell McCormick, who has become one of Silicon Valley's top power brokers as she helps oversee Meta's AI infrastructure push |
| 6:30 PM • | Juby Babu / Reuters: Intel names former SK Hynix CEO Seok-Hee Lee as EVP of Intel Foundry; Naga Chandrasekaran will lead front-end technology development and front-end manufacturing |
| 6:20 PM • | Yueqi Yang / The Information: Sources: Kalshi is generating $2B+ in annualized revenue, up about three times from November, and has held informal talks with banks about an eventual IPO |
| 5:25 PM • | Lucas Ropek / TechCrunch: Snap plans to spin off an internal generative AI video team into Dotmo, a new company focused on AI models for interactive gaming experiences, citing high costs |
| 4:55 PM • | Bloomberg: Sources: Meta is under contract to buy roughly 1.6 GW of computing capacity from Crusoe across two data centers in Texas and Missouri |
| 4:10 PM • | Zoe Tillman / Bloomberg: Unsealed docs: Google lost a court fight against a 2023 US warrant in a Jan. 6 pipe bomb probe seeking info of 300+ users who searched for the RNC and DNC HQs |
| 3:50 PM • | Politico: Sources: the White House and Anthropic are working on a framework that would assess the severity of AI security flaws, a sign that negotiations are progressing |
| 3:25 PM • | Ben Weiss / Fortune: Sources: APEC, a derivatives exchange founded by the 22-year-old son of pro-crypto Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, raised $30M led by Lux at a $300M valuation |
| 2:55 PM • | Artificial Analysis: GLM-5.2 is the leading open weights model on Artificial Analysis' Intelligence Index, scoring 51, only behind Fable 5's 60, Opus 4.8's 56, and GPT-5.5's 55 |
| 2:30 PM • | Hugo Lowell / Wired: New book: Trump mocked Zuckerberg and Bezos by showing associates their fawning texts, saying they were “kissing my ass”; Musk called it “First-class groveling” |
| 1:35 PM • | Zack Zwiezen / Kotaku: Take-Two's Rockstar Games announces that pre-orders for Grand Theft Auto VI will go live on June 25 for PS5 and Xbox Series consoles; TTWO closed up 4.93% |
| 12:40 PM • | Marcus Mendes / 9to5Mac: Apple opens iOS to alternative app marketplaces in Brazil and changes App Store commission structure following a settlement with competition watchdog CADE |
| 11:55 AM • | Ashley Gold / Axios: Former Trump AI adviser Dean Ball is joining OpenAI to lead a new team called Strategic Futures, focused on frontier AI policy and internal governance |
| 11:35 AM • | Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: Sources: General Intuition, which trains AI agents in spatial reasoning, is in talks to raise $300M from Jeff Bezos and others at a $2B+ valuation |
| 11:20 AM • | Mark Bergen / Bloomberg: Amazon's AI chief Peter DeSantis says the company is in talks to sell its custom Trainium AI chips for use in third-party data centers |
| 11:15 AM • | Sean O'Kane / TechCrunch: Filings: Waymo pulls its ~4K robotaxis from highways after finding 13+ instances of the cars driving into highway sections under construction |
| 10:30 AM • | Kerry Flynn / Axios: Seattle-based Gradial, which makes AI agents that automate enterprise marketing workflows, raised a $65M Series C led by Insight Partners at a $675M valuation |
| 9:25 AM • | The Information: Sources: the early Chinese backers of Manus, including HSG, ZhenFund, and Tencent, plan to buy the AI startup back from Meta at the $2B price Meta paid |
| 9:20 AM • | Max A. Cherney / Reuters: Architect Labs, which aims to use AI to cheapen and speed up the process of designing custom chips, raised a $24M seed led by Kindred Ventures |
| 9:15 AM • | Bloomberg: Sources: as early as next week, the EU is set to unveil its preliminary findings that AWS and Azure seem to meet the criteria for regulation under the DMA |
| 9:01 AM • | Maria Curi / Axios: As David Sacks steps back and Sriram Krishnan prepares to leave, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and others are leading AI policy in the Trump administration |
| 8:10 AM • | James Van Straten / CoinDesk: Hive's stock jumps 7.3% after the company announced a $220M, three-year GPU cloud contract with Bell Canada and Cohere, as it pivots away from bitcoin mining |
| 7:50 AM • | Bloomberg: Former Gojek CEO and Indonesian education minister Nadiem Makarim is charged with taking ~$46M in rewards tied to a Chromebook procurement contract for schools |
| 7:20 AM • | Gergely Orosz / The Pragmatic Engineer: An in-depth look at Meta's AI-fueled rampage through its engineering organization, 30% to 50% of engineers on core teams reassigned to data labeling, and more |
| 7:15 AM • | Natalia Kniazhevich / Bloomberg: Prem AI, a Swiss startup that lets hedge funds and law firms run AI models on their own infrastructure, is raising a $100M Series A, targeting a $500M valuation |
| 7:05 AM • | Anhata Rooprai / Reuters: Accenture says it will buy a majority stake in Dragos and fully acquire runZero and NetRise in a combined deal for the cybersecurity startups valued at $4.18B |
| 7:00 AM • | Summer Maxwell / Bloomberg: Verse Enterprises, which wants to provide energy-management software for 100 data centers by 2027, raised a $54M Series B from Nvidia and others |
| 6:50 AM • | Axios: Trump, who entered office opposing AI regulation, is shaping the industry through case-by-case interventions without clear rules, creating major uncertainty |
| 6:40 AM • | Angel Au-Yeung / Wall Street Journal: AI inference startup Baseten is raising $1.5B in a dual-tiered deal, with some investors putting in money at an $11B valuation and others at a $13B valuation |
| 6:35 AM • | CNBC: Report: DeepSeek's first external funding round has a non-negotiable term for investors to not poach its staff or encourage them to start their own companies |
| 6:30 AM • | New York Times: Guardrails Alliance, a super PAC that has raised $5M, debuts to advocate for AI safety legislation and counter pro-industry lobbying, running ads for Alex Bores |
| 6:10 AM • | Galit Altstein / Bloomberg: Dream, co-founded by ex-NSO Group CEO Shalev Hulio with a focus on protecting critical infrastructure, raised $260M at a $3B valuation, up from $1B in 2025 |
| 5:01 AM • | Kai Nicol-Schwarz / CNBC: Intel's stock jumps 10.64% after Trump said “Apple has agreed to work with Intel to design and build its Chips in America”; INTC is up 520%+ in the past year |
| 2:35 AM • | Margi Murphy / Bloomberg: A look at 764, an online group the FBI labeled a domestic terrorist organization for manipulating teen girls into sharing sexual material and cutting themselves |
| 2:25 AM • | Adeel Hassan / New York Times: As tech giants rush to build AI infrastructure, some residents living near data centers say a constant infrasonic vibration is ruining their health and homes |
| 2:20 AM • | Saritha Rai / Bloomberg: A PwC study suggests that AI is rewarding companies that use it to enhance human skills, while leaving those that use it merely to cut costs further behind |
| 2:15 AM • | Michael J. de la Merced / New York Times: Businesses have started using Kalshi to hedge their business risks; Kalshi says institutional trading volume on its platform has grown 800% since November 2025 |
| 2:10 AM • | Heesu Lee / Bloomberg: The Bank of Korea warns rising bonuses at some South Korean chipmakers could fuel broader wage growth and consumer spending, complicating the inflation outlook |
| 1:55 AM • | New York Times: SpaceX's all-stock Cursor deal illustrates the power of the public markets, which could help SpaceX catch up to Anthropic's and OpenAI's models via acquisitions |
| 1:50 AM • | Robert McMillan / Wall Street Journal: Nation-state hackers are increasingly using preinstalled software on low-cost home devices to create residential proxy networks for masking cyberattack traffic |
| 1:40 AM • | New York Times: South Korean and Taiwanese tech companies that helped build China's hardware sector during the smartphone boom now reap the AI boom as US curbs sideline China |
| 1:25 AM • | Financial Times: A Blackstone-led consortium agrees to take control of software company Medallia from Thoma Bravo, which will lose the entire $5B it invested in Medallia in 2021 |
| 1:20 AM • | Tamara Djurickovic / Tech.eu: NeuralTrust, which offers tech that lets enterprises discover, monitor, govern, and secure AI agents, raised a $20M seed led by Alstin Capital |
| 12:50 AM • | Financial Times: Sources: JPMorgan Chase has stopped its staff in Hong Kong from accessing Anthropic's AI models internally, after a similar move by rival Goldman Sachs in April |
| 12:45 AM • | Bloomberg: Sources: ByteDance has been Microsoft's biggest AI customer in recent years, largely using OpenAI models, and is on track to spend $1B+ a year on Azure services |
| 12:05 AM • | Richard Lawler / The Verge: Midjourney unveils its first hardware product, the Midjourney Scanner, an ultrasound-based full-body scanner; it is unclear how AI fits into the medical effort |
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