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How LinkedIn is transforming into a 'post-cringe' social network as it courts high-profile influencers, who are building audiences on corporate-friendly topics (Isabella Kwai/New York Times)

Isabella Kwai / New York Times: How LinkedIn is transforming into a “post-cringe” social network as it courts high-profile influencers, who are building audiences on corporate-friendly topics — Celebr

Inside the Trump admin's push to integrate AI into the healthcare system, including an FDA regulatory fast track for digital health tech like AI chatbots (Elizabeth Dwoskin/Washington Post)

Elizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post: Inside the Trump admin's push to integrate AI into the healthcare system, including an FDA regulatory fast track for digital health tech like AI chatbots — The adm

Kalshi and Polymarket sponsored X posts promoting viral LA mayoral election fraud conspiracy theories; Kalshi says it asked its paid influencers to remove posts (Max Tani/Semafor)

Max Tani / Semafor: Kalshi and Polymarket sponsored X posts promoting viral LA mayoral election fraud conspiracy theories; Kalshi says it asked its paid influencers to remove posts — THE SCOOP — Kalsh

Kepple: seed-stage startup funding in Japan fell 42% YoY in 2025 to a 10-year low of $124M, as the Tokyo Stock Exchange moves to reduce small listings (Ami Yamada/Nikkei Asia)

Ami Yamada / Nikkei Asia: Kepple: seed-stage startup funding in Japan fell 42% YoY in 2025 to a 10-year low of 124M, as the Tokyo Stock Exchange moves to reduce small listings — TOKYO — Funding in Jap

Paris-listed Teleperformance, the world's largest customer service company, has become one of Europe's most shorted stocks, as hedge funds bet on AI disruption (Ramsay Hodgson/Financial Times)

Ramsay Hodgson / Financial Times: Paris-listed Teleperformance, the world's largest customer service company, has become one of Europe's most shorted stocks, as hedge funds bet on AI disruption — Outs

Raspberry Pi closed up 27%+ on June 5 after saying it expects adjusted EBITDA of at least 38M in H1, putting it on track to beat 42M est. for the full year (Financial Times)

Financial Times: Raspberry Pi closed up 27%+ on June 5 after saying it expects adjusted EBITDA of at least 38M in H1, putting it on track to beat 42M est. for the full year — UK maker of tiny low-cost

Report: in May, supply of unsecured bonds from hyperscalers passed $155B, up over 45% from 2025's total issuance; some AI-infra bond sales are 4x oversubscribed (Caleb Mutua/Bloomberg)

Caleb Mutua / Bloomberg: Report: in May, supply of unsecured bonds from hyperscalers passed $155B, up over 45% from 2025's total issuance; some AI-infra bond sales are 4x oversubscribed — Credit heavy

Several UK police forces have been told to stop using AI to prepare court statements, citing concerns that inaccurate outputs could contaminate legal procedures (Robert Wright/Financial Times)

Robert Wright / Financial Times: Several UK police forces have been told to stop using AI to prepare court statements, citing concerns that inaccurate outputs could contaminate legal procedures — Safe

SoftBank's PayPay, Japan's dominant payments app, says it will take a 70.2% stake in T&D Financial Life Insurance for $840M, expected to close in October 2027 (Mayumi Negishi/Bloomberg)

Mayumi Negishi / Bloomberg: SoftBank's PayPay, Japan's dominant payments app, says it will take a 70.2% stake in T&D Financial Life Insurance for 840M, expected to close in October 2027 — SoftBank Gro

Sources: Uber has committed nearly $500M to self-driving startup Nuro, providing a crucial runway as Nuro works to prove its technology at commercial scale (Abhirup Roy/Reuters)

Abhirup Roy / Reuters: Sources: Uber has committed nearly $500M to self-driving startup Nuro, providing a crucial runway as Nuro works to prove its technology at commercial scale — Uber (UBER.N) has c

Safety

White House AI advisor Sriram Krishnan says he will leave his role at the end of June; sources: Krishnan plans to start a pro-Trump AI policy institution (Leo Schwartz/The Information)

Leo Schwartz / The Information: White House AI advisor Sriram Krishnan says he will leave his role at the end of June; sources: Krishnan plans to start a pro-Trump AI policy institution — Sriram Krish

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Model Releases

A research team that includes Huawei says it successfully used Huawei's Ascend 910C chips for DeepSeek V4 Pro model's post-training, amid increased US sanctions (Coco Feng/South China Morning Post)

Coco Feng / South China Morning Post: A research team that includes Huawei says it successfully used Huawei's Ascend 910C chips for DeepSeek V4 Pro model's post-training, amid increased US sanctions —

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Allen Control Systems, which makes AI-powered gun turrets for shooting down drones, raised a 200M Series B led by Smash Capital at a 2.2B post-money valuation (Dan Primack/Axios)

Dan Primack / Axios: Allen Control Systems, which makes AI-powered gun turrets for shooting down drones, raised a 200M Series B led by Smash Capital at a 2.2B post-money valuation — Years before he he

Apple-funded study: the App Store had $1.4T in billings and sales globally in 2025; apps with consumer AI features saw 4x more billings growth than other apps (Ryan Christoffel/9to5Mac)

Ryan Christoffel / 9to5Mac: Apple-funded study: the App Store had $1.4T in billings and sales globally in 2025; apps with consumer AI features saw 4x more billings growth than other apps — Apple share

Bitcoin falls below $60K, its lowest level since October 2024, amid a record streak of bitcoin ETF outflows following Strategy's bitcoin sale (CNBC)

CNBC: Bitcoin falls below $60K, its lowest level since October 2024, amid a record streak of bitcoin ETF outflows following Strategy's bitcoin sale — Bitcoin extended its losses on Friday, dropping to

Blackstone-backed data center operator AirTrunk commits to investing $30B in India by 2030, with plans to develop 5GW of new data center capacity in the country (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)

Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: Blackstone-backed data center operator AirTrunk commits to investing 30B in India by 2030, with plans to develop 5GW of new data center capacity in the country — Blackstone

China's securities regulator tightened oversight of the country's ~$3.4T private fund industry, and said it would encourage tech-focused VC investments (Reuters)

Reuters: China's securities regulator tightened oversight of the country's ~3.4T private fund industry, and said it would encourage tech-focused VC investments — China on Friday tightened oversight of

FCC Chair Brendan Carr says the agency will review E-Rate, a $3B annual program subsidizing school and library internet access, amid kids' screen time concerns (Finya Swai/The Hill)

Finya Swai / The Hill: FCC Chair Brendan Carr says the agency will review E-Rate, a 3B annual program subsidizing school and library internet access, amid kids' screen time concerns — The Federal Comm

Hardware

Filing: Google has agreed to pay SpaceX $920M per month for access to Nvidia chips as part of a cloud-services deal that runs through mid-2029 (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: Filing: Google has agreed to pay SpaceX 920M per month for access to Nvidia chips as part of a cloud-services deal that runs through mid-2029 — Alphabet Inc.'s Google has agreed to pay Elon

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Filing: Reid Hoffman, who has served on Microsoft's board since 2017, will not stand for re-election at the company's 2026 annual meeting (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)

Todd Bishop / GeekWire: Filing: Reid Hoffman, who has served on Microsoft's board since 2017, will not stand for re-election at the company's 2026 annual meeting — Reid Hoffman, the LinkedIn co-founde

Model Releases

Google Cloud says its SpaceX compute deal is a 'short-term' agreement 'to ensure we have bridge capacity to meet surging customer demand' for Gemini Enterprise (Kate Conger/New York Times)

Kate Conger / New York Times: Google Cloud says its SpaceX compute deal is a “short-term” agreement “to ensure we have bridge capacity to meet surging customer demand” for Gemini Enterprise — Elon Mus

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Illinois Governor JB Pritzker plans to temporarily halt tax breaks for data centers from July 1, calling on state lawmakers to create a development framework (Natasha Korecki/NBC News)

Natasha Korecki / NBC News: Illinois Governor JB Pritzker plans to temporarily halt tax breaks for data centers from July 1, calling on state lawmakers to create a development framework — Pritzker, wh

Agents

In an internal message, Satya Nadella rebuked an internal memo that said Microsoft needs to 'make people addicted' to its new AI agent product called Scout (Aaron Holmes/The Information)

Aaron Holmes / The Information: In an internal message, Satya Nadella rebuked an internal memo that said Microsoft needs to “make people addicted” to its new AI agent product called Scout — Microsoft

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India-based Innefu Labs, which builds AI-powered software for national defense and enterprise security infrastructure, raised a $30M Series B led by Panthera (The Economic Times)

The Economic Times: India-based Innefu Labs, which builds AI-powered software for national defense and enterprise security infrastructure, raised a $30M Series B led by Panthera — The capital infusion

Marvell and Flex, a contract manufacturer for electronics, will join the S&P 500; MRVL jumps 6%+ after hours after closing down 16.74% amid a broader sell-off (Kif Leswing/CNBC)

Kif Leswing / CNBC: Marvell and Flex, a contract manufacturer for electronics, will join the S&P 500; MRVL jumps 6%+ after hours after closing down 16.74% amid a broader sell-off — - Marvell Technolog

OpenAI confirms it will comply with President Trump's EO that asks AI companies to allow the US government to assess their models' capabilities before release (Michael Considine/CNBC)

Michael Considine / CNBC: OpenAI confirms it will comply with President Trump's EO that asks AI companies to allow the US government to assess their models' capabilities before release — OpenAI has co

OpenAI rolls out Lockdown Mode, an optional security setting designed to offer users advanced protection from prompt injection attacks by limiting some features (Igor Bonifacic/Engadget)

Igor Bonifacic / Engadget: OpenAI rolls out Lockdown Mode, an optional security setting designed to offer users advanced protection from prompt injection attacks by limiting some features — The compan

Over 20 EU news publishers file a claim seeking €640M+ from Google following an EU decision that lets anyone harmed by Google's ad market abuse seek damages (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)

Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette: Over 20 EU news publishers file a claim seeking €640M+ from Google following an EU decision that lets anyone harmed by Google's ad market abuse seek damages — Small p

President Trump says he is weighing proposals for US government to hold equity stakes in leading AI labs, and will soon discuss the idea with their executives (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: President Trump says he is weighing proposals for US government to hold equity stakes in leading AI labs, and will soon discuss the idea with their executives — President Donald Trump expre

Privacy token Zcash plunges after the disclosure of a 2022 vulnerability in its Orchard shielded pool that could have allowed undetectable ZEC counterfeiting (Akash Girimath/Decrypt)

Akash Girimath / Decrypt: Privacy token Zcash plunges after the disclosure of a 2022 vulnerability in its Orchard shielded pool that could have allowed undetectable ZEC counterfeiting — Zcash plunged

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 (CNBC)

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

Sources: AI coding startup Lovable is in talks to raise funding at a 12B valuation, up from 6.6B in December 2025 (Rashi Shrivastava/Forbes)

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

Safety

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 (David Jeans/Reuters)

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

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Sources: Apollo and Blackstone finalized a $35B package for Anthropic to lease TPUs; Broadcom is backstopping payments on the debt's largest senior portions (Bloomberg)

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

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

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

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%+ (Financial Times)

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

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 (Bloomberg)

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

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 (Reuters)

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

Model Releases

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

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

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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 (Financial Times)

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

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 (Wall Street Journal)

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

Starlink says that it has 12M+ 'active customers' across 160+ countries, territories, and other markets, up from 9M in December 2025 (@starlink)

@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

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 (Wall Street Journal)

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

Safety

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 (Lauren Feiner/The Verge)

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

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Trump signs a national security memorandum seeking to 'accelerate the use of AI across intelligence and warfighting domains in line with American values' (Reuters)

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

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 (James Gallagher/BBC)

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

Hardware

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% (Noel Randewich/Reuters)

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

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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 (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

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