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Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: AI creative tools startup Krea, which has raised $83M and claims to have 30M users, releases the open weights for its image model Krea 2 under a custom license — While many

Sankalp Phartiyal / Bloomberg: Amazon plans to expand Amazon Now to 300+ Indian cities and towns, up from 100 at present, as CEO Andy Jassy visits India; a source says he is set to meet Modi — Amazon.

Spencer Soper / Bloomberg: An Amazon seller reveals how middlemen on chat apps offer access to Amazon employees who allegedly grant favors, like reinstating suspended accounts, for a fee — Middlemen l

Kevin Schaul / Washington Post: An analysis of GPT-5.5, Gemini 3.1 Pro, Grok 4.3, Gab's Arya, and other AI models: most chatbots frequently provide left-leaning responses to political prompts — Excerp

Daniel Thomas / Financial Times: An interview with Bob Iger on stepping down as Disney's CEO, his legacy, new CEO Josh D'Amaro, Bob Chapek, Apple, Disney+, purchasing Pixar, AI, and more — For two dec

Reuters: Binance says it will make a fresh push for permission to operate in the EU after its MiCA license application in Greece failed ahead of the June 30 deadline — Crypto platform Binance intends

Eduardo Baptista / Reuters: Chinese cybersecurity company 360 unveils new AI tools: Tulongfeng, which it claims is “China's version of Mythos”, and Yitianzhen, to automate cyber defense — Chinese cybe

Thomas Claburn / The Register: Cloudflare partners with Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla on PACT, a protocol to distinguish legitimate human or bot traffic from undesirable network requests — Makers of

Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: Customer engagement service MoEngage acquires Aampe, whose AI agents help brands personalize messaging, for “tens of millions”, per a source; Aampe raised ~$28M — Indian cu

Bloomberg: Digital advocacy firms like CiviClick and Influent appear to use AI to generate mass public comments on local energy projects, mostly favoring fossil fuel use — From California to North Car

Bobby Allyn / NPR: Documents: Meta's planned prediction markets app will use Meta AI models to generate questions from trending topics, make recommendations, and resolve markets — Meta is planning to

Chris Welch / Bloomberg: Google Home Speaker review: the $100 speaker, the company's first such device in six years, works for Gemini power users but has underwhelming music playback — The Google Home

Mateo Quiros / The Keyword: Google says computer use is now a built-in tool supported in Gemini 3.5 Flash, available via the Gemini API and Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform — Computer use is now a bui

Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: Hang Ten Systems, led by former Infosys CEO Vishal Sikka, launches with a $32M seed led by Mayfield to help enterprises use AI to run software at a lower cost — For decades

Jeanne Whalen / Wall Street Journal: How Chicago is betting on quantum computing, including turning the site of the former US Steel mill into a campus, after largely missing the digital revolution — I

New York Times: How Taiwan's Hsinchu Science Park, home to TSMC, became its wealthiest hub; one neighborhood reported 2023 average household incomes of $146K, 5x the average — Fortunes, luxury buildin

Lauren Thomas / Wall Street Journal: Humanoid robot maker Agility plans to go public via a merger with Michael Klein's SPAC, in a deal valuing it at ~$2.5B and listing under ticker symbol AGLT — Agili

David Cendon Garcia / EU-Startups: London-based Isometric, which develops AI agents that work with human verifiers to automate industrial certification, raised a €34M Series A led by AVP — Isometric h

Kif Leswing / CNBC: Micron reports Q3 revenue up 346% YoY to 41.46B, vs. 35.84B est., gross margin above estimates, and forecasts Q4 revenue above est.; MU jumps 14%+ after hours — Micron's revenue mo

Lorelei Smillie / Bloomberg: Microsoft's Digital Crimes Unit says AI helped it link two separate hacking tools, Amadey and StealC, and file a single civil lawsuit to help take them down — Investigator

Thomas Claburn / The Register: Nature publishes a peer-reviewed paper alleging that Microsoft's 2025 quantum breakthrough claims were based on “basic Python errors” and data cherry-picking — Nature pa

Lily Mae Lazarus / Fortune: New York-based Probook, which is building an AI operating system for home service businesses, raised a 34M Series A led by a16z and a 6M seed led by Sequoia — George Eliadi

Camila Grigera Naón / Fortune: NYC-based Taktile, which helps fintechs build automated decision-making workflows, raised a $110M Series C led by Goldman Sachs, and plans a São Paulo office — Banks and

OpenAI: OpenAI and Broadcom unveil Jalapeño, an LLM-optimized inference chip developed from design to manufacturing tape-out in nine months, aided by OpenAI's models — Loading... - Early testing shows

Katherine Doherty / Bloomberg: Ornn, which plans to launch a marketplace for GPU capacity designed to function like an exchange to trade oil contracts, raised a 33M seed led by a16z — Ornn raised 33 m

Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: Paris-based digital health insurance startup Alan raised €480M led by Prosus at a €5.5B valuation, and is set for €1B+ in annual recurring revenue by year's end — Paris

Casey Newton / Platformer: Q&A with AWS CEO Matt Garman on the parallels between early AWS and AI, Quick, AI coding, Amazon's $200B capex in 2026, hiring entry-level staff, and more — Matt Garman argu

Reuters: Qualcomm expects 15B in data center chip sales by 2029, raises its non-handset chip revenue forecast to 40B by 2029, up from 22B; QCOM jumps 13%+ after hours — Qualcomm (QCOM.O) said it expec

Lauren Goode / Wired: Qualcomm says it will acquire Modular, which builds a chip software platform and has a proprietary coding language, in a nearly $4B deal set to close in H2 2026 — Modular, one of

Kif Leswing / CNBC: Qualcomm unveils Dragonfly C1000, a new data center CPU built for agentic AI, and says Meta will use the chip when production starts in 2028 — Qualcomm shares jumped 15% in extende

Tom Phillips / IGN: Rockstar says physical copies of GTA 6 will contain a digital download code, not a disc; physical copies release on November 12, ahead of the November 19 launch — Keep it on the do

Stevie Bonifield / The Verge: Rockstar sets the release date for GTA VI for November 19 and says it will cost 79.99, or 99.99 for the Ultimate Edition; pre-orders start at midnight tonight — The game

Lily Mae Lazarus / Fortune: Runlayer, which provides an infrastructure and control layer for enterprise AI agents, raised a 30M Series A led by Felicis, bringing its total funding to 42M — When longti

Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information: RunPod, which rents access to non-Nvidia servers, raised 100M led by Summit Partners at a 1B valuation, a source says up from $100M after its seed in 2024 — By s

The Information: SambaNova Executive Chairman Lip-Bu Tan says the AI chip startup is set to raise 800M to 1B, sources say at a ~10B valuation, up from 2B in February — AI server chips that effectively

Jeremy Kahn / Fortune: Seltz, which is building a web search engine that can be used by AI agents, raised a $12.5M seed led by Speedinvest and B Capital — The rise of AI has rekindled the long-dormant

Reuters: SK Hynix overtaking Samsung to become South Korea's most valuable company is the culmination of 14 years of bets on HBM, which paid off as the AI boom took off — SK Hynix's (000660.KS) overta

Bloomberg: SK Hynix says it is seeking to raise ~29.4B in a US listing, expects trading to start on July 10, and intends to use the funds for building additional capacity — Memory Chip Frenzy Sends SK

Bloomberg: Sources: Google AI researchers Jonas Adler and Alexander Pritzel, both viewed internally as key contributors to Gemini, are planning to leave for Anthropic — Two leading artificial intellig

Maggie Eastland / Bloomberg: Sources: in a letter to US officials, Anthropic accused Alibaba of adversarial distillation, accessing Claude 28.8M times from April to June via ~25K accounts — Anthropic

Moneycontrol: Sources: India drives 50%+ of WhatsApp's revenue, generating $1B+ annually, largely via business messaging, likely helping Kunal Shah get WhatsApp's top job — A prolific angel investor k

Financial Times: Sources: Kalshi is in talks to raise a funding round at a ~40B valuation that may close as soon as Q3; Kalshi raised 1B at a $22B valuation in May — Rapidly growing company is increas

Reuters: Sources: Qualcomm is in talks to design custom chips for ByteDance, based partly on connectivity tech from Alphawave Semi, which Qualcomm acquired in 2025 — Qualcomm (QCOM.O) is in talks to p

Hugo Lowell / Wired: Sources: the Trump administration has been happier talking to Anthropic lately after Dario Amodei was replaced by cofounder Tom Brown in meetings about Fable 5 — At high-stakes me

Dong Cao / Bloomberg: Sources: Zhipu is considering a multibillion-dollar Hong Kong share sale after its stock surged 2,000% since its January IPO, pushing its market cap above $128B — Chinese artific

Samantha Kelly / Bloomberg: The US FDA drops an enforcement complaint against Whoop over its blood pressure tracking tool, reversing a July 2025 warning letter; Whoop is updating the tool — The US Foo