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Written by: Chad Reams, Tufail Ahmed, Keith Knapp, Ashley Frazer, Tyler McLellan Introduction From January through May 2026, Mandiant identified a financially motivated data theft extortion campaign e

Home to cutting-edge sovereign AI infrastructure and robotics innovators, as well as one of the world’s most passionate gaming communities, South Korea is one of the world’s centers of AI. NVIDIA foun

Antares Nuclear completed a zero-power criticality test for its Mark-0 demonstrator reactor at Idaho National Laboratory on June 4, 2026, becoming the first company in the Energy Department's Reactor

As AI adoption accelerates, open data architectures are becoming essential to help organizations access and share data across platforms. Apache Iceberg interoperability and other open standards are in

CNBC: Source: OpenAI and White House are discussing a government stake in the company, to seed something like the “Public Wealth Fund” that OpenAI outlined earlier — OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and the Whit

Rashi Shrivastava / Forbes: Sources: AI coding startup Lovable is in talks to raise funding at a 12B valuation, up from 6.6B in December 2025 — The less than two-year old startup crossed $400 million

David Jeans / Reuters: Sources and docs detail defense tech startup Shield AI's struggles to overcome years of technical hitches and safety concerns with its V-BAT autonomous drone — A year ago, Ryan

Bloomberg: Sources: Apollo and Blackstone finalized a 35B package for Anthropic to lease TPUs; Broadcom is backstopping payments on the debt's largest senior portions — Apollo Global Management Inc. a

The Information: Sources: data center developer Switch is in talks to raise billions of dollars from PE firms including Brookfield and KKR at a 50B+ valuation — Data center developer Switch is in talk

Financial Times: Sources: Meta explores a stock offering to raise tens of billions to fund AI capital expenditures, following Google's record $85B share deal; META drops 5%+ — Facebook parent could se

Bloomberg: Sources: Revolut is looking to run a secondary share sale that would value it at 115B, after receiving a UK bank license and applying for a charter in the US — Revolut Ltd. is looking to ru

Reuters: Sources say a months-long dispute between the White House and Anthropic is showing signs of easing across the US government as the company prepares for its IPO — A months-long dispute between

Grace Kay / The Information: Sources say xAI used Claude models for distillation and training, including using personal accounts and the intermediary service Blackbox AI after being cut off — SpaceX's

Financial Times: Sources: SpaceX prepares the largest retail allocation ever attempted in a megacap IPO, seeking to reserve as much as 25% of its 75B float for retail investors — Up to a quarter of th

Wall Street Journal: Sources: US officials discussed the US taking stakes in major AI companies after Sam Altman pitched the idea in 2025; Altman met Bernie Sanders on Wednesday — The talks have been

S&P Dow Jones Indices decided against changes to S&P 500 eligibility requirements, meaning SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic must wait 12 months and become profitable before inclusion. S&P said it will no

@starlink: Starlink says that it has 12M+ “active customers” across 160+ countries, territories, and other markets, up from 9M in December 2025 — Starlink is connecting more than 12M active customers

Postgres database startup Supabase Inc. has closed on a 500 million late-stage investment that brings its valuation to a cool 10.5 billion, it revealed today. The company, which provides ready-to-use

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. The Meta hack shows there’s more to AI security than Mythos On

The Fitbit Air is a screenless health tracker with sensors that connect to Google's new Health app , offering hardware for just 100, compared to Whoop's subscription models costing 200-$360 annually .

Wall Street Journal: The largest US banks plan to launch a tokenized deposit network in 2027 to connect traditional payment rails with the infrastructure that digital assets run on — The new network c

Google's May 2026 AI updates center on the new 'agentic' era, featuring the Gemini 3.5 model and Gemini Omni for advanced reasoning and creation. Gemini Omni is a new model that can create anything fr

On June 5, 404 Media reported that attackers had been using Meta’s AI customer support agent to steal Instagram accounts. Their approach was simple: They asked the agent to link the accounts to email

Lauren Feiner / The Verge: The NY State legislature passes a one-year moratorium on new large data centers, the first statewide ban of its kind if Governor Kathy Hochul signs it into law — It could b

A worsening air leak aboard the International Space Station prompted five astronauts to temporarily take shelter and prepare for evacuation on Friday as Russia attempted to fix a crack on its portion

Vercel has released the skills.sh API, expanding its platform capabilities for developers. This API likely enables programmatic access to skill-based features or integrations within the Vercel ecosyst

When Quilty hit the industry trades earlier this year, the AI startup promised that its tool could accurately predict a film's success just by reading the script. When people actually got a chance to

We're now deep into developer conference season, and one of the themes so far is the relentless conviction from Big Tech companies that AI is going to change everything about how we do everything. Nvi

Thousand Token Wood is a multi-agent economy simulation built on a 3 billion parameter language model, demonstrating how small models can power complex interactive systems with multiple agents. The pr

The Trump administration announced $700 million in funding for coal plants and a new export terminal , utilizing Cold War-era authority to support existing facilities and build new coal plants. This i

Reuters: Trump signs a national security memorandum seeking to “accelerate the use of AI across intelligence and warfighting domains in line with American values” — The White House said on Friday it w

James Gallagher / BBC: University of Cambridge researchers say they have developed the first vaccine with a key component entirely designed by AI and subsequently trialed it in humans — Artificial int

Google's RAG Engine securely connects private enterprise data to LLMs to improve answer accuracy and reduce hallucinations , making it a key component of the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform for build

Noel Randewich / Reuters: US-traded chipmakers plunged on Friday, after Broadcom missed expectations; Nvidia fell 6.19%, Micron fell 13.25%, AMD fell 10.86%, and Broadcom 7.92% — U.S.-traded chipmaker

A proposed Utah data center backed by Kevin O'Leary was drastically scaled back after pressure from lawmakers. The original project would have consumed 9 gigawatts of power—more than double what Utah

The Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) is a computationally efficient algorithm that converts time-domain signals into their frequency-domain representation, reducing computational complexity from O(n²) to

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: What to expect at WWDC 2026: an overhauled Siri, a Siri app, a slew of new AI capabilities, OS updates focused on reliability and responsiveness, and more — The iPhone maker w

AI Gateway now features real-time spend limits to prevent runaway token bills across multiple AI providers. By integrating with Cloudflare Access, companies can use identity-driven budgets and policie

Databricks presents Instructed-Retriever-1, a system that achieves 3x faster search performance through parallel test-time scaling techniques. The approach optimizes retrieval operations by executing

Why edge AI development is still hard AI is no longer confined to cloud experiments. Developers are increasingly expected to deliver AI inside apps, devices, and edge systems where responsiveness, pri

NASA's MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution) spacecraft has ended after more than 11 years in orbit at Mars, far exceeding its original one-year mission. The spacecraft was last heard from on

The rise of agentic commerce is forcing retailers to rethink their entire data strategy — not as a future concern, but as the immediate prerequisite for competing in a world where AI agents make purch

AI enthusiasts are in a race against time, AI skeptics are in a race against entropy Charity Majors neatly captures the dynamic between AI enthusiasts and AI skeptics, both of whom are trying to build

Some of the AI industry's biggest rivals have put their many, many grievances aside for a common cause: making it harder for people to use their technology to develop biological weapons. In an open le

Flourish Inc., a startup developing artificial intelligence models inspired by the human brain, has raised 500 million in funding at a 2.5 billion valuation. Wired reported today that about a fifth of

This AI News summary covers recent developments in image generation models, specifically discussing Reve 2 and Ideogram 4's layout capabilities for creating structured visual designs. The piece likely