| 11:20 PM • | Simon Lock / TBIJ: Wise confirms it is under investigation by Belgian prosecutors over suspicions its accounts were used 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 GitHub users noted sticker shock, with some saying a few hours of AI usage ate big chunks of 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: Startups from the pre-ChatGPT era face a reckoning in private markets; PitchBook: half of US unicorns haven't raised in three years, 220+ are “fallen unicorns” |
| 5:10 PM • | Bloomberg: Alphabet is raising $80B in 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%, forecasts revenue for FY26 and FY27 above est.; HPE jumps 30%+ pre-market |
| 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 |
| 11:55 PM • | Ian Carlos Campbell / Engadget: Microsoft overhauled Copilot's design in Microsoft 365 with a minimalist black-and-white, text-focused interface aimed at creating a more consistent experience |
| 11:30 PM • | Rashi Shrivastava / Forbes: Pittsburgh-based Gray Swan, which stress-tests AI models for top frontier AI labs, raised a $40M Series A at a $200M valuation co-led by Wing VC and Madrona |
| 11:15 PM • | Russell Brandom / TechCrunch: Asana acquires StackAI, a no-code platform for building AI agents, for $75M as part of Asana's broader AI pivot; PitchBook: StackAI raised ~$20M |
| 10:40 PM • | Elizabeth Howcroft / Reuters: France's market regulator warns crypto companies they could face blacklisting and lawsuits if they don't have MiCA licenses by the EU's June 30 deadline |
| 9:50 PM • | Bloomberg: Sources: TikTok is cutting music label-facing jobs to focus on its music distribution arm SoundOn and other projects that connect it more directly with artists |
| 9:35 PM • | Jake Angelo / Fortune: AI researchers ran 15-day simulations of worlds governed by different AI models: Claude Sonnet 4.6 recorded no crimes, while Gemini 3 Flash had the most at 683 |
| 9:05 PM • | Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: Dell reports Q1 AI server revenue up 757% YoY to $16.1B and raises its FY 2027 AI server revenue forecast to $60B, up from its prior projection of $50B |
| 7:40 PM • | Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: Triomics, which is building an AI-powered platform to help oncologists automate data-heavy tasks, raised a $22M Series B, following a $15M Series A in 2024 |
| 7:15 PM • | Bloomberg: Sources: Apollo Global and Blackstone are working to bring additional investors into a ~$36B debt financing deal to purchase Google TPUs for Anthropic to lease |
| 6:35 PM • | Jaimie Ding / Associated Press: California AG Rob Bonta sues 23andMe, alleging it failed to protect sensitive user data in a 2023 breach that affected ~7M people across the US |
| 6:25 PM • | Samantha Subin / CNBC: Okta reports Q1 revenue up 11% YoY to $765M, vs. $752M est., says the agentic AI build-out is spiking demand for its identity tools; OKTA jumps 19%+ |
| 5:35 PM • | Rafe Rosner-Uddin / Financial Times: Sources: Amazon has shut down an internal leaderboard that tracked employees' use of AI tools after workers tried to boost their scores with needless tasks |
| 5:15 PM • | Axios: Sources: Airwallex raised new funding led by Lee Fixel's Addition at a ~$12B valuation, up from $8B late last year, and hit $1.5B in ARR, up from $1B in October |
| 5:00 PM • | Barbara Moens / Financial Times: Doc: the EU is preparing emergency powers to intervene in Europe's chip supply chains during shortages, including by forcing chipmakers to override contracts |
| 4:30 PM • | Jordan Novet / CNBC: Dell reports Q1 revenue up 88% YoY to $43.84B, vs. $35.43B est., and forecasts FY 2027 revenue above estimates; DELL jumps 33%+ |
| 4:25 PM • | Brody Ford / Bloomberg: Autodesk agrees to buy MaintainX, a company focused on maintenance tools, in an all-cash deal that values MaintainX at $3.6B |
| 4:20 PM • | Samantha Subin / CNBC: Snowflake stock closed up 36% on Thursday, its best day ever, after the company boosted guidance and announced an AI compute deal with Amazon |
| 4:15 PM • | Ryan Lawler / Axios: Fonoa, which helps enterprises manage indirect tax compliance, raised a $110M Series C led by Headline and acquired PwC's Indirect Tax Edge platform |
| 4:10 PM • | Claude: Anthropic adds dynamic workflows to Claude Code, enabling hundreds of subagents to run in parallel for complex engineering tasks such as framework migrations |
| 3:35 PM • | Wall Street Journal: The CFTC moves to vacate a $5M settlement with Gemini, reversing a Biden-era enforcement action, following a lobbying campaign by the Winklevoss twins |
| 2:12 PM • | New York Times: Anthropic raised a $65B Series H at a $965B post-money valuation, overtaking OpenAI's $852B valuation, and says its revenue run rate crossed $47B this month |
| 2:10 PM • | Madison Mills / Axios: Anthropic says it expects Mythos-class models to be available to all customers “in the coming weeks” following the development of stronger safeguards |
| 1:25 PM • | Dominic-Madori Davis / TechCrunch: Corgi, which uses AI to provide insurance for startups, raised a $106M Series B1 at a $2.6B valuation, up from $1.3B on May 6, for a total funding of $378M |
| 1:13 PM • | Russell Brandom / TechCrunch: Anthropic launches Opus 4.8, saying it's “more likely to flag uncertainties about its work and less likely to make unsupported claims”, at the same price as 4.7 |
| 12:35 PM • | Russell Brandom / TechCrunch: 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” |
| 11:40 AM • | 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 |
| 11:30 AM • | 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 |
| 11:25 AM • | 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 |
| 11:20 AM • | 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 |
| 11:05 AM • | 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 |
| 10:40 AM • | 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 |
| 10:20 AM • | 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 |
| 10:15 AM • | Dan Primack / Axios: Source: Groq is raising up to $650M from existing investors; the AI chipmaker earlier signed a $20B Nvidia licensing deal that saw much of its senior team leave |
| 9:45 AM • | 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 |
| 9:25 AM • | Sean Hollister / The Verge: Intel unveils its first dedicated handheld gaming chips, the Arc G3 and Arc G3 Extreme, featuring Xe3 GPU cores, arriving first in the Acer Predator Atlas 8 |
| 9:20 AM • | 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 |
| 9:13 AM • | 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 |
| 8:50 AM • | 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 |
| 8:40 AM • | 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 |
| 8:22 AM • | 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 |
| 8:10 AM • | 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 |
| 7:50 AM • | 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 |
| 7:40 AM • | Connor Hart / Wall Street Journal: IBM and Red Hat commit $5B to Project Lightwell, an AI-driven initiative to help enterprises secure open-source software, deploying 20,000 engineers globally |
| 7:30 AM • | Lauren Goode / Wired: AWS has used Resilient Network Graphs, a quasi-random networking architecture with a flat mesh design, since late 2025 and says it accelerates information flows |
| 7:22 AM • | Reuters: Source: the Shanghai Futures Exchange is in the early stages of designing futures contracts for AI tokens; US exchanges are set to launch GPU compute futures |
| 7:10 AM • | 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 |
| 7:05 AM • | 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 |
| 6:55 AM • | 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 |
| 6:45 AM • | Wall Street Journal: As Google plans to build a $15B AI data center hub in Visakhapatnam, India, locals and rights groups are raising concerns over “extremely high” water stress |
| 6:40 AM • | 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 |
| 6:35 AM • | Jeremy Kahn / Fortune: London- and SF-based Orbital Industries, which uses its Orb model to design advanced materials and then sell them directly, raised a $50M Series B led by Plural |
| 6:30 AM • | 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” |
| 6:25 AM • | Bloomberg: The European Commission opens a full review of JD.com's €2.2B acquisition of Germany-based electronics retailer Ceconomy under its Foreign Subsidies Regulation |
| 6:20 AM • | 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 |