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Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: Apple announces tvOS 27, with performance enhancements, smart downloads, an updated Podcasts app, and more — Apple today announced tvOS 27, the next major software version for

Andrew Orr / AppleInsider: Apple overhauls the App Store with subscription options for groups, businesses, and schools, retention messaging to reduce churn, bundled IAP reviews, and more — Apple is ov

Aamir Siddiqui / Android Authority: Apple says iOS 27 will support iPhone 11, in contrast with 2019 Android flagships like Pixel 4 and Galaxy S10, which got only three years of platform updates — Whil

James Pero / Gizmodo: Apple unveils an Apple Intelligence feature to automatically change compromised passwords, using agentic AI, and save them to the Passwords app — Agentic AI and security are norm

Jay Peters / The Verge: Apple unveils iOS 27, highlighting performance and design improvements, including smoother system animations, says iPhone 11 and newer phones will be supported — Your iPhone is

Todd Spangler / Variety: Apple's Craig Federighi says some companies “appear to be racing forward” to develop “AI for the sake of AI” without regard for the humans using the technology — Apple said it

Kif Leswing / CNBC: Google and Nvidia are helping Apple with Apple Foundation Model Cloud Pro, which Apple says is comparable to Gemini frontier models and runs on Nvidia GPUs — - Apple showed off Sir

Abner Li / 9to5Google: Google lowers the price of its Google AI Plus plan to 4.99 per month, down from 7.99, and doubles the included storage to 400GB — Google announced today that its AI Plus subscri

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Google upgrades NotebookLM, which now runs on Gemini 3.5 and Antigravity, to deliver new agentic capabilities and more advanced reasoning for AI Ultra users — Google on Monday

Zack Whittaker / ~this week in security~: In a notice to Maine's AG, Meta says ~20K Instagram accounts may have been hacked during the months-long abuse of its Meta AI chatbot, starting April 17 — Met

Lucinda Shen / Axios: Infinity Constellation, which builds AI tools and software businesses for the professional services market, raised a 24M Series A; it previously raised 17M — Infinity Constellati

Alvise Armellini / Reuters: Italy's competition authority says it has dropped its 2025 probe into Meta over allegations Meta abused its dominant position by installing Meta AI on WhatsApp — Italy's co

Mark Bergen / Bloomberg: London-based PhysicsX, which uses AI to design industrial parts like jet engines and semiconductors, raised a 300M Series C led by Temasek at a 2.4B valuation — PhysicsX, a Br

Wall Street Journal: Meta puts $115M toward a “workforce academy”, a free 5-week program to train Americans to build data centers, offering job guarantees at Meta construction sites — Five-week progra

Eduard Kovacs / SecurityWeek: Meta Says 20,000 Instagram Accounts Hacked Via AI Tool Abuse — The social media giant has informed authorities about the impact of the recent attack involving an account

Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: Microsoft disabled 70+ of its repos on GitHub, including Azure-related tools like azure-functions-host, after hackers added credential-stealing malware to them — Microsoft

Choi Eun-Kyung / The Chosun Daily: Nvidia and LG expand their partnership in AI, robotics, and mobility tech, including building an AI factory and co-designing future data center architectures — Jense

Ashley Capoot / CNBC: OpenAI confidentially files for an IPO, says it has “not decided on timing yet”, as “there are things we want to do that are likely easier as a private company” — OpenAI has conf

Reuters: Report: UK PM Keir Starmer is set to announce a ban on “harmful” online platforms for children under 16 while maintaining access to some “safer” social media — British Prime Minister Keir Sta

OpenAI: Sam Altman and Jakub Pachocki claim OpenAI is “entering the third phase”, aiming to automate AI research, boost the economy, and give everyone a personal AGI — Every few generations, a new tec

Richard Nieva / Forbes: Source: Cursor, which is prepping for an expected acquisition by SpaceX, passed 4B in annualized revenue in the last week, up from 3B in April and $2B in Feb. — Elon Musk's roc

Peter Rudegeair / Wall Street Journal: Sources: former OpenAI researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner's AI-focused hedge fund, Situational Awareness, has $20B+ AUM, after launching less than two years ago —

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: The first developer beta of iOS 27 offers the clearest signs yet of Apple's upcoming foldable iPhone, with references to folding hardware and flexible displays — Apple Inc.'s

Axios: The Trump administration relaunches efforts to block state AI laws; Sen. Blackburn is leading negotiations and pushing KOSA as part of an AI preemption package — The White House is negotiating

Kate O'Keeffe / Bloomberg: The US DOD designates some of China's biggest companies, including Alibaba, BYD, and Baidu, as entities that support the Chinese military — The Pentagon identified some of C

Reuters: UK PM Keir Starmer says tech companies must introduce “device controls” that stop kids from sending and receiving nude images or face laws forcing them to do so — Big tech firms operating in

Hartley Charlton / MacRumors: watchOS 27 Drops Support for Apple Watch Series 9, Ultra 1, SE 2, and Older — Apple today confirmed that watchOS 27 will not support the Apple Watch Series 9, Apple Watch

Eddie Makuch / GameSpot: Xbox EVP Matt Booty clarifies Microsoft's new exclusivity strategy, saying new games will be reviewed case-by-case and multiplayer games will stay multiplatform — Today's Xbox

Jose Antonio Lanz / Decrypt: Xiaomi claims MiMo-V2.5-Pro-UltraSpeed tops 1K tokens/second, a first at the 1T-parameter scale, using a standard 8-GPU commodity node; API trial starts June 9 — Most peop

Bloomberg: As wealth managers confront an AI reckoning, the tech is, for now, easing their workloads by picking up routine tasks, freeing up more time to advise clients — Wealth managers, who can make

Toby Sterling / Reuters: ASML CEO Christophe Fouquet applauds the EU's tech sovereignty plans but says substantial EU involvement in steering “strategic projects” is a cause for concern — The CEO of t

Reuters: French carriers Bouygues Telecom, Orange, and Free-iliad sign an MOU with Altice France to acquire SFR for €20.35B, including debt, expected to close in H2 2027 — Bouygues Telecom (BOUY.PA),

Tim De Chant / TechCrunch: Fusion energy startup Helion raised a 465M Series G led by Thrive Capital at a 15.5B valuation, nearly tripling the valuation from its January 2025 round — Helion, the fusio

Tanya Pandey / The Economic Times: Industry data: India's six largest IT companies grew combined revenue from 95.9B in FY23 to 103.1B in FY26, while headcount remained broadly steady at ~1.9M — India'

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Inside the early 2025 senior exec meeting where Apple admitted its AI failures; Tim Cook became intimately involved in Apple's AI roadmap around the same time — Also: What to

Wall Street Journal: KPMG survey: only 26% of companies have a comprehensive view of their AI costs, while 50% have some visibility and 22% have none or only see costs after billing — Only 26% of comp

Hassan Mujtaba / Wccftech: Memory chip vendors say CXMT's DDR5 prices match Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron, and it has a supply advantage in client markets as it is not prioritizing HBM — CXMT's DDR5 m

The Guardian: Microsoft says it will tighten human rights controls when working with national security agencies after an inquiry found Israel's Unit 8200 violated its ToS — Announcement seeks to close

Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg: Nvidia and SK Hynix sign a multiyear chip deal to develop next-gen memory; SK Hynix will diversify into infrastructure, physical AI, and memory for Vera Rubin — Nvidia Corp. an

Heekyong Yang / Reuters: Nvidia says South Korea-based Naver will use Nvidia's DSX tech to build AI factories at “gigawatt scale” to meet global demand for AI services and physical AI — Nvidia (NVDA.O

Cristina Criddle / Financial Times: OpenAI plans to overhaul ChatGPT in the coming weeks, turning it into a superapp with coding tools and AI agents to serve as a gateway to higher-margin products — $

Dwarkesh Patel / Dwarkesh Podcast: Q&A with Google DeepMind's Director of AGI Economics Alex Imas and Epoch AI's Phil Trammell on what remains scarce after AGI, redistributing AI wealth, and more — “O

Bloomberg: Sources: Beijing-based Moonshot, which makes the Kimi chatbot, is in talks to raise up to 2B at a 30B valuation, up from a 20B+ valuation in a May round — Moonshot AI is seeking as much as

Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: Sources: Spotify has approached concert promoters about licensing music festival livestreams, aiming to add more video to become a one-stop shop for music fans — Spotify is loo

Mike Butcher / Pathfounders: UK-based Creator Fund closes a 56M fund to back European PhD founders, reaching them in universities before they're pulled into academia, Big Tech, or US labs — Creator Fu

Josh Eidelson / Bloomberg: FOIA docs reveal Amazon's extensive control over delivery drivers it insists are not employees, in a case the NLRB sought to settle on terms favorable to Amazon — The feds w