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Sources: the CFTC began an extensive investigation of Polymarket earlier this year; the agency's former acting head killed a separate investigation in July 2025 (New York Times)

New York Times: Sources: the CFTC began an extensive investigation of Polymarket earlier this year; the agency's former acting head killed a separate investigation in July 2025 — Last year, the Commod

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Sources: Zuckerberg urged execs to explore Polymarket and Kalshi partnerships, as the Arena prediction app targets 100M monthly active 'predictors' aged 18-34 (Mike Isaac/New York Times)

Mike Isaac / New York Times: Sources: Zuckerberg urged execs to explore Polymarket and Kalshi partnerships, as the Arena prediction app targets 100M monthly active “predictors” aged 18-34 — Mr. Zucker

South Korea plans to train entire military as 'drone warriors'

South Korea's Defense Ministry announced it will train 500,000 'drone warriors' in a major shift toward drone-centric warfare . The plan aims to train personnel across all military branches so that 'a

SpaceX plans to launch Starlink mobile service in the US

SpaceX is planning to launch a direct-to-consumer Starlink mobile service in the US , as SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell discussed during a recent investor roadshow . A standalone mobile service woul

Streaming services’ obnoxiously loud ads become illegal on July 1 in California

California's State Bill 576, signed by Governor Gavin Newsom, prohibits streaming services from airing commercials louder than the programs they accompany, taking effect July 1, 2026. The law requires

Swiss watchmaker Swatch seeks $170M from Samsung in a London trial over 26 digital watch face apps that allegedly cloned luxury brand designs, including Omega (Alistair Gray/Financial Times)

Alistair Gray / Financial Times: Swiss watchmaker Swatch seeks $170M from Samsung in a London trial over 26 digital watch face apps that allegedly cloned luxury brand designs, including Omega — Swiss

The FTC fast-tracks approval for SpaceX to acquire Mesh, which raised a $50M Series A in February to make high-efficiency optical transceivers for data centers (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: The FTC fast-tracks approval for SpaceX to acquire Mesh, which raised a $50M Series A in February to make high-efficiency optical transceivers for data centers — Elon Musk received a regula

Uber expands the list of criminal convictions that disqualify US drivers and expands the background-check timeline, possibly removing ~0.5% of active US drivers (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)

Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: Uber expands the list of criminal convictions that disqualify US drivers and expands the background-check timeline, possibly removing ~0.5% of active US drivers — Uber Techno

VW may close four factories to adapt to the future, report says

Volkswagen CEO Oliver Blume is reportedly preparing a major overhaul that could eliminate up to 100,000 jobs worldwide and eventually close four factories in Germany. The plants targeted for closure a

Anthropic hires French telecom group Orange's Chief AI Officer Steve Jarrett to help Anthropic 'better understand and adapt' its products to Europe and Africa (Gianluca Lo Nostro/Reuters)

Gianluca Lo Nostro / Reuters: Anthropic hires French telecom group Orange's Chief AI Officer Steve Jarrett to help Anthropic “better understand and adapt” its products to Europe and Africa — The artif

Apple ratchets up prices, blames the cost of memory

Apple announced price hikes on MacBooks and iPads, citing increased memory and storage costs that CEO Tim Cook said had become unavoidable. The rapid expansion of AI data centers has created extraordi

Apple says it removed VK's apps from the App Store to comply with sanctions; VK says they were removed without warning and it has never been under US sanctions (Reuters)

Reuters: Apple says it removed VK's apps from the App Store to comply with sanctions; VK says they were removed without warning and it has never been under US sanctions — The Kremlin demanded an expla

Apple says 'the rapid expansion of AI data centers has created an extraordinary surge in demand for memory and storage'; the MacBook Neo rises from 599 to 699 (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Apple says “the rapid expansion of AI data centers has created an extraordinary surge in demand for memory and storage”; the MacBook Neo rises from 599 to 699 — Apple Raises P

Apple stock closed down 6.15% on Thursday after the company raised some product prices, its worst fall since April 2025 (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC)

MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC: Apple stock closed down 6.15% on Thursday after the company raised some product prices, its worst fall since April 2025 — Apple on Thursday announced price hikes on MacBooks

Apple’s Macs and iPads and Microsoft’s Xbox consoles are getting more expensive — blame AI

The surging cost of memory chips has translated into a bonanza for companies like Micron Technologies Inc., but for almost everyone else there’s going to be a steep price to pay, with both Apple Inc.

Applied Materials unveils more advanced chipmaking gear for 3D stacking architectures

Chipmaking equipment giant Applied Materials Inc. is trying to make life easier for its chip fabrication plant customers, so they can build the extremely complex 3D architectures necessary for the nex

Capital One Software makes the case for AI-ready tokenization

AI tokenization has become essential for enterprises seeking to balance data security with innovation, enabling sensitive data to be used safely in AI workloads without compromising utility or complia

Chipmaker Onsemi agrees to buy Synaptics in a nearly $7B all-stock deal expected to close in the middle of 2027; ON drops 9%+ and SYNA jumps 11%+ after hours (Samantha Subin/CNBC)

Samantha Subin / CNBC: Chipmaker Onsemi agrees to buy Synaptics in a nearly 7B all-stock deal expected to close in the middle of 2027; ON drops 9%+ and SYNA jumps 11%+ after hours — ON Semiconductor h

Doc: the DOD has quietly revised its doctrine on how the US military picks its targets, envisioning 'systems where AI initiates actions with human monitoring' (Katrina Manson/Bloomberg)

Katrina Manson / Bloomberg: Doc: the DOD has quietly revised its doctrine on how the US military picks its targets, envisioning “systems where AI initiates actions with human monitoring” — The Pentago

Elastic announces a ~7% reduction in its workforce, and says 'advances in AI and automation are letting us operate with leaner teams'; ESTC closed down 8.70% (Richard Speed/The Register)

Richard Speed / The Register: Elastic announces a ~7% reduction in its workforce, and says “advances in AI and automation are letting us operate with leaner teams”; ESTC closed down 8.70% — CEO says a

Every Homo naledi we know of is female, and the implications are fascinating

Analysis of ancient proteins from 23 fossilized teeth belonging to at least 20 Homo naledi individuals revealed no male genetic markers, suggesting the assemblage may represent females only. The findi

Facebook brings back Facebook Creator Studio as a stand-alone app with built-in AI chatbot to help creators grow their audiences through personalized guidance (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)

Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: Facebook brings back Facebook Creator Studio as a stand-alone app with built-in AI chatbot to help creators grow their audiences through personalized guidance — Facebook anno

Feds deny Polestar authorization to sell cars in US from model year 2027

The U.S. has denied authorization for Polestar to sell 2027 model-year vehicles, effectively preventing new Polestar models from entering the U.S. market. The Connected Vehicle Rule restricts vehicles

From test bench to lakehouse: how AVL modernizes measurement data analytics with Impulse

AVL, a leading automotive testing company, modernized its measurement data analytics by adopting Databricks' Lakehouse architecture to replace traditional test bench data processing systems. The imple

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How the US AI build-out is pushing up prices for electricity, software, and more; in a survey, 81% of economists say it will add to inflation over the next year (Justin Lahart/Wall Street Journal)

Justin Lahart / Wall Street Journal: How the US AI build-out is pushing up prices for electricity, software, and more; in a survey, 81% of economists say it will add to inflation over the next year —

IBM claims world’s first sub-1 nanometer chip technology

IBM unveiled the world's first sub-1 nanometer chip technology at the 0.7 nm node, featuring a revolutionary 'nanostack' transistor architecture . The chip packs nearly 100 billion transistors onto a

IBM says new sub-one-nanometer architecture paves the way for the next decade of chip design

IBM Corp. today unveiled what it says is the world’s first sub-one-nanometer chip technology, a research breakthrough that it said will fuel the next 10 years of semiconductor development and pave the

Incode acquires Identiq, commits $100M to privacy-first identity tech

Identity verification company Incode Technologies Inc. today announced that it has acquired Identiq Protocol Ltd., an Israeli startup that builds cryptographic tools letting companies share fraud sign

Memo: Meta Superintelligence Labs is hiring three founders and other team members behind AI security startup Virtue AI; two founders report to Nat Friedman (Madison Mills/Axios)

Madison Mills / Axios: Memo: Meta Superintelligence Labs is hiring three founders and other team members behind AI security startup Virtue AI; two founders report to Nat Friedman — Meta Superintellige

Memory maker SK hynix files for $29B US IPO amid AI demand

SK hynix Inc., the world’s largest supplier of HBM memory, today filed to list its shares on the Nasdaq stock exchange. The South Korean company hopes to sell up to 17.79 million shares for 29.4 billi

Microsoft adds another year to Windows 10 extended update program

Microsoft has extended its free Windows 10 Extended Security Updates (ESU) program for consumers by an additional year, allowing enrolled devices to continue receiving security updates until October 1

Microsoft says the price of Xbox consoles will increase on August 1 by 100 for 512GB models and 150 for 1TB models, the third price increase since 2025 (Kenneth Shepard/Kotaku)

Kenneth Shepard / Kotaku: Microsoft says the price of Xbox consoles will increase on August 1 by 100 for 512GB models and 150 for 1TB models, the third price increase since 2025 — Microsoft is increas

NAND flash maker Kioxia, Japan's most valuable company since June 12, plans to offer US depositary shares in spring 2027 amid AI-driven demand for memory chips (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: NAND flash maker Kioxia, Japan's most valuable company since June 12, plans to offer US depositary shares in spring 2027 amid AI-driven demand for memory chips — Kioxia Holdings Corp. inten

New effort will get genome sequences for entire Endangered Species list

A comprehensive effort is underway to sequence the genomes of endangered species, with Google providing funding and AI tools to the Vertebrate Genomes Project and the Earth BioGenome Project. Google.o

NHTSA proposes eliminating the mandate for manual brake pedals in 'vehicles designed to be driven exclusively by automated driving systems' (Sean O'Kane/TechCrunch)

Sean O'Kane / TechCrunch: NHTSA proposes eliminating the mandate for manual brake pedals in “vehicles designed to be driven exclusively by automated driving systems” — The Trump administration's Depar

Notion killing Skiff-influenced email app since most users use AI agents instead

Notion is shutting down Notion Mail, its AI-enhanced email client launched in April 2025 based on the Skiff acquisition, on September 22. More than 50% of Notion Mail users now manage their email usin

Notion plans to shut down its Gmail client Notion Mail on September 22 and go 'all in' on AI agents to run inboxes, saying 50%+ of users do not open the inbox (Zac Hall/9to5Mac)

Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: Notion plans to shut down its Gmail client Notion Mail on September 22 and go “all in” on AI agents to run inboxes, saying 50%+ of users do not open the inbox — Last year, Notion e

Om Malik, a longtime technology writer, founder of Gigaom, and a partner at True Ventures, died on Wednesday at 59 (Om Malik/On my Om)

Om Malik / On my Om: Om Malik, a longtime technology writer, founder of Gigaom, and a partner at True Ventures, died on Wednesday at 59 — Om Malik passed away on June 24, 2026, at Stanford Hospital af

Ornn raises $33M to help companies buy and sell AI compute as a commodity like oil

Artificial intelligence startup Ornn AI Inc. made a big splash today as it raised 33 million in seed funding from Andreessen Horowitz’s crypto-focused fund and others to build out a marketplace for co

Paris-based Tsuga, whose observability software runs in customers' own clouds to help them skip per-byte ingestion costs, raised a $35M Series A led by Singular (Ana Maria Constantin/The Next Web)

Ana Maria Constantin / The Next Web: Paris-based Tsuga, whose observability software runs in customers' own clouds to help them skip per-byte ingestion costs, raised a 35M Series A led by Singular — T

Patronus AI, which builds simulated digital environments for evaluating AI agents, raised a 50M Series B led by Greenfield, bringing its total funding to 70M (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)

Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: Patronus AI, which builds simulated digital environments for evaluating AI agents, raised a 50M Series B led by Greenfield, bringing its total funding to 70M — AI agents ar

Run Codex in the cloud – DigitalOcean for Codex is now available

DigitalOcean has launched a cloud-based service enabling users to run OpenAI's Codex, an AI code generation model, on DigitalOcean's infrastructure. This offering allows developers to access Codex cap

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Runpod raises $100M to build the leading cloud platform for AI developers

Artificial intelligence developer-centric cloud provider Runpod Inc. announced Tuesday it has raised 100 million in early-stage funding, pushing the valuation of the company to 1 billion. The Series A

Scaled Cognition nabs $100M to automate high stakes customer interactions

Artificial intelligence startup Scaled Cognition Inc. today announced that it has raised 100 million in funding. Khosla Ventures led the Series A deal with participation from Genesys Telecommunication

SoftBank shares fell 12% after reports that OpenAI may delay its IPO until 2027; expectations of a windfall from OpenAI's debut helped support Softbank's stock (Aya Wagatsuma/Bloomberg)

Aya Wagatsuma / Bloomberg: SoftBank shares fell 12% after reports that OpenAI may delay its IPO until 2027; expectations of a windfall from OpenAI's debut helped support Softbank's stock — SoftBank Gr

Sony's Bungie says it is laying off a 'significant number of employees', including 'most of the Destiny team'; Bungie has an estimated headcount of 800 (Ethan Gach/Kotaku)

Ethan Gach / Kotaku: Sony's Bungie says it is laying off a “significant number of employees”, including “most of the Destiny team”; Bungie has an estimated headcount of 800 — The studio said the sci-f

Source: Google is asking publishers that test new AI features in Google News to grant it broad rights to their content, including to potentially train AI models (Ann Gehan/The Information)

Ann Gehan / The Information: Source: Google is asking publishers that test new AI features in Google News to grant it broad rights to their content, including to potentially train AI models — Google i

Source: Muon Space, which operates satellite networks for climate and national security monitoring, is raising 250M; it has raised ~181M since its 2021 launch (Alan Neuhauser/Axios)

Alan Neuhauser / Axios: Source: Muon Space, which operates satellite networks for climate and national security monitoring, is raising 250M; it has raised ~181M since its 2021 launch — Muon Space, whi