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Hartley Charlton / MacRumors: Apple announces new features for the Home app, including AI-generated descriptions of HomeKit Secure Video camera clips and smarter grouping of notifications — Apple toda

Daniel Cooper / Engadget: Apple announces new parental controls, letting kids ask to browse specific websites or contact specific people, adding automatic image filtering, and more — Kids can now ask

Two years after first revealing its plans for Apple Intelligence and a smarter Siri that never fully materialized, at WWDC, Apple just revealed a new set of AI features and a smarter, more personalize

Matt Bolton / TechRadar: Apple announces that AirPods will gain a custom EQ feature as part of iOS 27 — We've only been waiting 10 years — Apple just announced that one of the longest-requested featur

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

Apple is trying to solve one of Safari's biggest weaknesses with AI. Safari has long lacked the robust library of extensions that its rivals have, mainly due to the stringent development requirements

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

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

Apple announced iOS 27 at WWDC 2026 with a focus on faster performance, enhanced polish, and new Apple Intelligence features including redesigned Siri AI. macOS 27 Golden Gate emphasizes performance i

OpenAI is preparing its biggest ChatGPT overhaul yet, aiming to transform it into a superapp that combines AI agents, coding tools, and third-party services. The change affects all 900 million weekly

Monaco's lack of battery management during qualifying allowed drivers to experience a more 'natural' driving style without energy constraints , contrasting with other 2026 races where the current powe

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

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

iOS 27 maintains compatibility with all iPhones supported by iOS 26, starting from the iPhone 11 and extending to the iPhone 17 Pro, with no devices dropped from support. iPadOS 27 discontinues suppor

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

A San Diego man spent one month in jail for a crime he didn't commit after San Diego Police misinterpreted a Flock license plate reader hit. The man was five miles away from the crime scene at the tim

Meta has asked a federal judge to hold Israeli spyware maker NSO Group in contempt of court after claiming it caught the surveillance vendor targeting WhatsApp users again despite a permanent injuncti

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

Michigan lawmakers Elissa Slotkin and Haley Stevens announced a joint effort to ban all entry of Chinese nameplate vehicles from Canada and Mexico into the United States, even for temporary visits to

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

Today I’m talking with Mustafa Suleyman, the CEO of Microsoft AI. And I’m actually going to keep today’s intro short — I’m working from my wife’s family farm this week, as you’ll see in the video, but

Artificial intelligence companies are competing for dominance over the emerging AI stack, and it’s anyone’s game. The AI market is maturing. SpaceX Corp. wants to raise $75 billion to go public, and A

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

OpenAI on Monday checked off a preliminary step in the IPO race that it and rival Anthropic have been competing in for the better part of a year: The company announced it has confidentially submitted

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

Apple unveiled Siri AI at WWDC 2026, a completely rebuilt digital assistant designed to move beyond traditional voice commands and become a more conversational assistant capable of understanding perso

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

Researchers from the University of Texas at Austin and Stanford University identified Russian early-warning satellites in Molniya orbit as the source of GPS interference affecting Europe, Canada, and

NASA's Artemis II crew are the fastest people alive and now have the patch to prove it. The Mach 39 patch updates the 40-year-old original Mach 25 patch, an honor given to astronauts who achieve extre

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

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

This article explores how Databricks' Genie product and AI agents can automate and improve the processing of maintenance reports for renewable energy installations, specifically solar and wind facilit

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

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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

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