| 11:15 PM • | Abner Li / 9to5Google: Google starts rolling out video upload and analysis via Gemini for Android and iOS across both free and paid accounts; the feature is not yet live on the web |
| 10:05 PM • | Hiroko Tabuchi / New York Times: The NAACP plans to sue xAI over a lack of permits for its Memphis data center's gas turbines, which it claims pollute nearby predominantly Black neighborhoods |
| 9:05 PM • | Jaewon Kang / Bloomberg: How Walmart plans to leverage its $2.3B Vizio acquisition to push users to buy items while watching TV; Walmart's ad business had just $4.4B in FY 2025 revenue |
| 7:55 PM • | Kevin Collier / NBC News: The Iranian government says it has restricted internet access in response to Israeli cyberattacks; some Western communication apps have reportedly been blocked |
| 7:20 PM • | Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: On a podcast, Sam Altman said Meta made “giant offers to a lot of people on our team ... like, $100M signing bonuses”, and “none of our best people” have accepted |
| 7:15 PM • | Matt Kapko / CyberScoop: A cyberattack claimed by pro-Israel hacktivist group Predatory Sparrow has reportedly disrupted services at Iran's state-owned Bank Sepah, including its website |
| 6:45 PM • | Eric Newcomer / Newcomer: Sources: Substack is pitching investors on a round between $50M and $100M that would value it above its prior ~$700M valuation, and is generating ~$45M in ARR |
| 6:25 PM • | CNN: President Trump plans to sign an executive order this week to grant TikTok a 90-day extension in enforcement of the sale-or-ban law, marking his third extension |
| 6:10 PM • | Ted Johnson / Deadline: The US Senate confirms Olivia Trusty to the FCC, giving Republicans a 2-1 majority after Democrat Geoffrey Starks and Republican Nathan Simington departed |
| 6:00 PM • | MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC: The US Senate passes the GENIUS Act, which establishes the first federal regulatory framework for dollar-pegged stablecoins; the bill now heads to the House |
| 5:55 PM • | Ryan Christoffel / 9to5Mac: Apple's Journal app is coming to the iPad and Mac from iPadOS 26 and macOS Tahoe and will get features like multiple journals, map view, inline images, and more |
| 5:15 PM • | Marc Vartabedian / Wall Street Journal: Pano AI, which uses AI and computer vision to offer active wildfire detection, raised a $44M Series B led by Giant Ventures, bringing its total funding to $89M |
| 4:40 PM • | Bloomberg: Sources: xAI is burning through $1B per month, expects to burn through ~$13B in 2025, and projects its revenue to be just $500M in 2025, rising to $2B+ in 2026 |
| 4:20 PM • | Bob Van Voris / Bloomberg: X sues New York, claiming a law requiring social media companies to disclose how they deal with hate speech and disinformation violates the US Constitution |
| 3:50 PM • | Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Mastodon updates its terms to prohibit AI model training |
| 3:45 PM • | Blake Brittain / Reuters: A US appeals court throws out a $300M jury verdict that found Apple infringed on Optis' wireless tech patents, sending the case back to Texas for a new trial |
| 3:25 PM • | Steve Kopack / NBC News: Amazon CEO Andy Jassy says the company expects that “in the next few years” AI use “will reduce our total corporate workforce as we get efficiency gains” |
| 2:55 PM • | Jez Corden / Windows Central: Microsoft and AMD announce “a strategic, multi-year partnership” to “co-engineer silicon across a portfolio of devices”, including next-generation Xbox consoles |
| 2:45 PM • | CNBC: Sources: Meta and EssilorLuxottica plan to release AI smart glasses aimed at athletes under the Oakley and Prada brands; the Oakley version could cost ~$360 |
| 2:15 PM • | Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: Meta renames Facebook's Videos tab as the Reels tab and says all videos on the platform will soon be shared as reels, regardless of their length or orientation |
| 2:10 PM • | Randall Williams / Bloomberg: Sports data company Teamworks raised a $235M Series F led by Dragoneer at a $1B+ valuation; its tech is used by 6.5K+ sports teams including all NFL teams |
| 1:35 PM • | Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News: Nabla, which offers an AI copilot for doctors and other medical staff, raised a $70M Series C led by HV Capital and says it now supports 85K+ clinicians |
| 1:20 PM • | Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: Anysphere debuts a $200/month Ultra plan for Cursor with 20x more usage on AI models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, and xAI vs. its $20/month Pro plan |
| 1:05 PM • | David Pierce / The Verge: Threads launches a fediverse feed and a way to search for fediverse users, with support for Mastodon and others, for users who turned on fediverse sharing |
| 12:45 PM • | Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: Waymo expands its coverage area in San Francisco and Los Angeles by 80 square miles each, bringing its total coverage area in California to 250 square miles |
| 12:06 PM • | Tulsee Doshi / The Keyword: Google makes Gemini 2.5 Flash and Pro generally available and introduces 2.5 Flash-Lite, which it says is its most cost-efficient and fastest 2.5 model yet |
| 11:30 AM • | Brody Ford / Bloomberg: Salesforce says it will increase prices on many products in August, including Slack; major product lines will see a 6% increase on average |
| 11:25 AM • | Liam Wright / Forbes: Eigen Labs raised $70M via a token purchase by a16z and launched EigenCloud, which helps developers cryptographically prove what happens in off-chain apps |
| 10:55 AM • | Erik Hayden / The Hollywood Reporter: Disney and Amazon partner to let media buyers using Amazon's DSP have better tools to target consumers on ad-tier programming across Disney+, Hulu, and ESPN+ |
| 10:15 AM • | Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: AI-powered virtual physical therapy startup Sword Health raised $40M led by General Catalyst at a $4B valuation, up from its $3B valuation from June 2024 |
| 9:50 AM • | Bloomberg: Sources: xAI is in talks to raise $4.3B via an equity investment on top of the $5B in debt it is trying to borrow; of the $14B it has raised, just $4B is left |
| 9:15 AM • | Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: Adobe debuts Firefly for iOS and Android, letting mobile users generate images and videos using text prompts and experiment with popular AI photo editing tools |
| 8:45 AM • | Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: Israeli observability startup Coralogix raised a $115M Series E led by NewView Capital at a $1B+ valuation, and plans to invest ~$100M in India over five years |
| 8:15 AM • | Katie Roof / Bloomberg: Self-driving simulation software maker Applied Intuition raised $600M co-led by BlackRock and Kleiner Perkins at a $15B valuation, up from $6B in March 2024 |
| 8:05 AM • | John Koblin / New York Times: Nielsen: in May, Americans watched more TV on streaming than on cable and broadcast networks combined, the first time streaming was king of TV over a full month |
| 7:15 AM • | Bloomberg: Shanghai-based MiniMax open sources MiniMax-M1, a model for complicated productivity tasks that supports 1M input tokens and it says beats DeepSeek's R1-0528 |
| 7:05 AM • | Kieran Press-Reynolds / New York Times: Grow a Garden, a simplistic farming simulator game within Roblox, hit 16.4M active players on June 14, beating Fortnite and other games' peak concurrent users |
| 6:45 AM • | Mark Mwachiro / Adweek: At Cannes, Meta adds AI tools to its Advantage+ suite for advertisers and agencies, including turning images into videos, video highlights, and Virtual Try-On |
| 6:25 AM • | Mark Sweney / The Guardian: Sky, ITV, and Channel 4 plan to offer their streaming ad spaces in one marketplace, letting advertisers run campaigns across services, to combat Google and Meta |
| 6:05 AM • | Rohan Paul / @rohanpaul_ai: [Thread] A US paper shows the best frontier LLM models solve 0% of hard coding problems from Codeforces, ICPC, and IOI, domains where expert humans still excel |
| 5:55 AM • | Isabel Berwick / Financial Times: Studies: women are 25% less likely than men to have basic digital skills, more likely to have automation-threatened jobs, and less likely to use ChatGPT at work |
| 5:35 AM • | Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: Tinder reintroduces Double Date, bringing the double dating feature back to the US after shelving it in 2017 over privacy concerns, rolling out globally in July |
| 3:55 AM • | Ryan Pendell / Gallup: Survey: US employees using AI at work at least a few times/year grows from 21% in 2023 to 40% in 2025, and those using AI a few times/week is up from 11% to 19% |
| 2:35 AM • | Financial Times: German defense tech startup Helsing raised €600M led by Daniel Ek's Prima Materia, sources say at a ~€12B valuation, bringing its total funding to €1.37B |
| 1:35 AM • | Cameron Faulkner / The Verge: Amazon plans to hold Prime Day 2025 from July 8 at 12:01am PT through July 11, lasting four days instead of the usual two and exclusive to Prime subscribers |
| 12:15 AM • | Brayden Lindrea / Cointelegraph: TheMinerMag: the median cost of mining bitcoin is set to rise 9.4% QoQ in Q2 2025 to $70K, up from $52K in Q4 2024, shrinking margins for less efficient miners |
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