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Lily Mae Lazarus / Fortune: Super.com, which offers a savings app for lower-income consumers, raised a 65M Series D led by TPG at a 1.2B valuation and says it is profitable — In 2022, Hussein Fazal fl

Gao Yuan / Bloomberg: Survey: Chinese companies plan to allocate 46% of their AI accelerator budget to domestic products in the next 12 months, up from 30% today, a shift from Nvidia — Chinese compani

Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: Tangos, which uses AI to conduct financial crime investigations at scale, raised a 20M seed led by Red Dot — Tangos AI Inc., a startup that uses artificial intelligence t

Mauro Orru / Wall Street Journal: UK-based AI infrastructure startup Nscale secures a 900M line of credit to expand its data center buildout across Europe, the US, and the Asia Pacific — Nscale raised

Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal: UN Secretary-General António Guterres calls for autonomous “killer robots” to be “banned by international law”, a central issue in the US DOD-Anthropic clash — Ant

Tim Fernholz / TechCrunch: US autonomous military vehicle startup Forterra says it deployed 100+ Lancer UGVs, based on Polaris ATVs, in Ukraine since 2025, completing 1,100+ missions — Forterra, a US

Emily Shugerman / The San Francisco Standard: A profile of Rachel Whetstone, who has led comms for Google, Meta, Uber, Netflix, and now Sierra, as her husband Steve Hilton runs for California governor

Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg: A profile of Samsung union leader Choi Seung-ho, who helped win a ~$26B bonus package for chip employees, as he tries to resolve the rift over bonus gaps — Avoiding old-school

Olivia Fletcher / Bloomberg: AI-driven drops in labor income and gains in capital income could hit Ireland's tax base, with 6%+ of its workforce in tech and heavy exposure to US companies — The countr

Armin Ronacher / Armin Ronacher's Thoughts and Writings: Claude Opus 4.8 and Sonnet 5 seem worse at tool calls than older models, likely due to post-training that assumes Claude Code-like harnesses as

Eric Katz / NOTUS: Document: a draft US Treasury Department report is set to warn about the AI market's risks, likening some key aspects to the dotcom crash in the early 2000s — Publicly, the Trump ad

Ryan Vlastelica / Bloomberg: Filing: Brookfield-backed data center company Csquare seeks to raise up to 1.35B in an IPO, selling 50M shares at 23 to 27 each for an up to 4.18B valuation — Csquare Inc.

David Keohane / Financial Times: How Masayoshi Son is remaking SoftBank in his own image, betting on AI; SoftBank trades at a ~50% discount to its net asset value, as some question the strategy — The

Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: Q&A with Agility Robotics CEO Peggy Johnson on why the startup is going public via SPAC, the physical layer as its proprietary advantage, safety, and more — The humanoid ro

Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: Researchers document JadePuffer, the first known “agentic ransomware”, which adapts in real time and retries steps to execute an end-to-end extortion operation — Resear

Brian Danga / The Block: Ripple secures CASP authorization from Luxembourg's financial regulator, making it fully MiCA-compliant to offer crypto services across 30 EEA countries — Quick Take — Ripple

Anniek Bao / CNBC: SemiAnalysis: Nvidia delays its next-gen AI rack system Kyber NVL144 by 12+ months to 2028 due to PCB manufacturing issues, and cancels its NVL72x2 architecture — NVIDIA's next marq

Ann Cao / South China Morning Post: Shanghai-based AI chipmaker Biren raises ~892.5M in a new share sale to boost GPU production; Biren's stock is up 150%+ since its January Hong Kong IPO — Chinese ar

Kate Park / TechCrunch: Shenzhen-based Even Realities, a startup that makes smart glasses without cameras, raised a $150M pre-Series B led by Meituan and Tencent — Meta and Snap rolled out new smart g

Reuters: SK Hynix launches a US share sale on the Nasdaq to raise ~28B, selling 17.79M new shares; the final listing price is due Thursday before trading starts Friday — South Korean chipmaker SK Hyni

Jennifer Medina / New York Times: Some US voters are using AI tools as nonpartisan researchers, seeing them as a viable alternative to traditional news coverage, voter guides, and social media — It ta

Peter Vercoe / Bloomberg: WiseTech co-founder Richard White steps down as chair amid a police probe over claims he exploited a woman's immigration status for sex; WTC jumps 7%+ — Billionaire Richard W

Olivia Carville / Bloomberg: A profile of Kaley Glenn-Mills, the plaintiff in K.G.M. v. Meta et al., who was awarded $6M in damages in a landmark LA jury trial over social media addiction — Kaley Glen

Kate O'Keeffe / Bloomberg: A US federal judge orders the DOD to shield Alibaba from a law that led lobbyists to drop it as a client while she weighs the measure's constitutionality — A federal judge o

New York Times: Analysis: ~1M TRUMP retail buyers lost a combined 3.81B, while ~500K mostly-early wallets captured $4B in gains, a textbook memecoin wealth transfer — A report from a cryptocurrency an

Financial Times: Bending Spoons' Nasdaq IPO caps its 50+ deals across 10+ years that transformed the Italian startup into a highly leveraged internet company with ~$4.4B in debt — Nasdaq listing caps

Wency Chen / South China Morning Post: ByteDance's Doubao and Alibaba's Qwen will disable humanlike and user-created agents before July 15, as China's anthropomorphic AI interaction rules take effect

Patricia Kowsmann / Wall Street Journal: Chainalysis: addresses linked to Iran, Russia, North Korea, and other US-sanctioned entities received 100B+ in crypto last year, almost 8x the amount in 2024 —

Josh Zoffer / Financial Times: Data centers offer US a chance to get ahead in the next key technologies and to build domestic supply chains based on demand rather than subsidies and tariffs — America

Sejal Sharma / Hindustan Times: India issues a notice to Telegram, asking it to curb the spread of pirated films and other copyrighted content, and seeks an action-taken report within 15 days — The Mi

Ming-Chi Kuo: Kuo: suppliers plan to ship less than 1M iPhone fold units in 3Q26, which may push the start of device pre-orders and sales to Q4, with weeks of delivery delays — My latest industry surv

Sofia Chesnokova / Tech Funding News: NY-based LinqAlpha, which provides AI-powered market research tools for hedge funds, raised a 22M Series A co-led by AVP, Atinum Investment, and GFT Ventures — -

Kieran Smith / Financial Times: Sources: Uber halts plans to launch food delivery in five of the seven European countries it had targeted for expansion as it pursues a Delivery Hero takeover — Ride-ha

Grace Kay / The Information: Tesla rolls out its Robotaxi service without a safety monitor in Miami, its fifth city, as it aims to expand to a dozen US states by the end of 2026 — Tesla said it rolled

Financial Times: A look at the troubled rollout of the EU's automated biometric entry/exit border system, as airport operators warn of severe delays ahead of the summer holidays — Automated system fir

Robert P Baird / The Guardian: A profile of Google DeepMind philosopher Iason Gabriel, whose work has tracked, and in many cases predicted, the ethical challenges posed by the success of LLMs — Since

Simon Sharwood / The Register: AWS says Mechanical Turk will no longer accept new customers and that it is placing the crowdsourcing service in maintenance, signaling its future retirement — Workers w

Nilesh Christopher / Los Angeles Times: How ByteDance is making Hollywood inroads with its Seedance video generator, thanks to low pricing, striking realism, and features like timeline-based prompting

Katherine Bindley / Wall Street Journal: How some high-income families use AI-powered private schools and tutors, such as Alpha School, to teach their children life skills and tailor their curriculum

Marcel Thee / Nikkei Asia: Indonesia's enforcement of social media restrictions for under-16s has been patchy, with tech companies ignoring the rules and youth still accessing platforms — JAKARTA — An

Mari Kiyohara / Bloomberg: Micron breaks ground on its ~9.3B Hiroshima factory expansion, part of its global ramp-up to meet AI demand, and plans to start HBM shipments from summer 2028 — Micron Techn

Madison McLauchlan / BetaKit: Montreal-based Stathera, a maker of MEMS-based silicon timing components for chips, raised a 55M Series B led by Maverick Silicon, taking total funding to 75M — Stathera

Bloomberg: Official data shows Hong Kong accounted for 50%+ of China's 239B in chip imports in the first five months of 2026, a record share, up from ~33% a decade ago — Hong Kong has become a vital c

Anna Heim / TechCrunch: Prague-based EquiLibre, which offers AI for quant hedge funds and is founded by three ex-Google DeepMind researchers, raised a Series A at a $500M valuation — Three former Deep

Jason Hiner / The Deep View: Q&A with Doug Brooks, senior product manager of Apple silicon, about Mac minis becoming preferred AI agent machines, future of on-device AI, and more — W — alk into any of

Duc Dao / TNGlobal: Singapore-based dConstruct Robotics, which develops spatial tech to let autonomous robots operate in complex, GPS-denied environments, raised a 125M Series A — Singapore-based dCon