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Milana Vinn / Reuters: Sources: Bumble explores a sale amid slowing growth in the online dating sector; its shares fell 48% over the past 12 months, giving it a market cap of $388M — Dating app Bumble

Erin Woo / The Information: Sources: Google expands the scope of its months-old AI coding strike team to “midtraining” to try to catch up with Anthropic, after major executive departures — Google is r

Financial Times: Sources: Meta is accelerating plans to use LLMs to review content and ads, replacing ~50% of human review requests in 2026 and aiming for 90% by year-end — Facebook parent is accelera

New York Times: Sources: OpenAI leans toward holding off its IPO until 2027 after warnings that Sam Altman's desired $1T valuation may not be met in current market conditions — The A.I. company's advi

The Information: Sources: Sam Altman told staff the US government asked OpenAI to stagger the release of GPT 5.6 over security concerns, approving “access customer by customer” — For AI companies on t

Olivier Acuna / CoinDesk: Story Protocol, a blockchain-based IP ownership network that raised $140M, rebrands as Data Foundation to build an on-chain registry for AI training data — Palo Alto-based bl

Bloomberg: The Netherlands is lobbying the US not to expand chip equipment export controls that would constrain ASML's ability to sell immersion DUV machines to China — The Netherlands is lobbying the

Europe experienced severe heatwaves beginning in late May 2026, with the first starting May 24 bringing temperatures 10-15°C higher than normal and causing several deaths. A second, more intense heat

David Politis / Utah Money Watch: Utah-based ecommerce tech company Redo raised an 81M Series B at a 1.25B valuation led by Smash Capital, with participation from Pelion and Cervin — The Utah eCommerc

Lucinda Shen / Axios: Warp, a startup using AI to automate payroll compliance and employee management, raised a 60M Series B led by Battery, bringing its total funding to 85M — Warp, a startup using A

Employee management startup Warp today said it has raised 60 million in new funding to expand a platform that uses artificial intelligence to run payroll and other back-office work with little staff i

Serverless PostgreSQL is a managed database service that abstracts away infrastructure management, allowing users to run PostgreSQL databases without provisioning or managing servers. This approach en

A serverless database for AI applications should prioritize scalability, low latency, and seamless integration with machine learning workflows, eliminating the need for infrastructure management. Key

Lucas Ropek / TechCrunch: YouTube rolls out changes to Shorts, including adding a setting to double playback speed, eliminating the “dislike” button, and more — YouTube is rolling out a series of chan

NASA cancelled the Exploration Upper Stage (EUS) after spending more than $3.5 billion with no operational flights, opting instead to shift toward commercial hardware like Centaur V. On February 26, 2

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

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

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

Data protection provider Commvault Systems Inc. today said it has signed a multiyear partnership with Microsoft Corp. that will see its data security and cyber recovery technology offered as a native

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

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

A Tesla Model 3 crashed into a residential home in Katy, Texas, killing a 76-year-old grandmother, with the driver claiming Autopilot was active at the time. Elon Musk disputed the claim, and Tesla's

To maintain business continuity, you need a robust data-backup strategy. While multi-region backups offer the highest availability, many organizations want a more cost-effective way to protect their d

French researchers designed experimental glass tubes mimicking wine bottle necks and used fluorescent sensors to track oxygen movement through corks over 18 months without opening them. By varying cor

The FCC is considering new rules that would require phone companies to collect government IDs and physical addresses from customers to combat scam calls and robocalls. Privacy advocates warn the propo

Figma has revealed some new design and coding product updates at its annual Config conference that aim to help creatives 'push their ideas further' and automate tedious tasks with AI. Part of this is

Formula E announced its first calendar for the 2026-27 GEN4 era featuring a record 21 races across 13 cities, with three new permanent circuit venues including COTA in Austin, Brands Hatch in London,

Google LLC-owned YouTube today reached a settlement with a Florida-based minor in a social media addiction case, one of many trials that will take place as social media platforms face growing scrutiny

Google announced changes to its Play Store model to settle its years-long legal fight with Epic Games, including lowering the commission fee to 20 percent on in-app purchases and creating a new progra

Superhuman Inc., the company formerly known as Grammarly, said today it has agreed to acquire GPTZero Inc., the startup whose detection tools tell teachers, editors and hiring managers when a piece of

Take-Two Interactive will sell the standard version of Grand Theft Auto VI at 80, a more traditional price after speculation the company would raise costs . The 80 price exceeds that of most other PS5

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

Mobile application operations startup Kinoa Labs Ltd. said today it has raked in 10 million in funding to help app developers unlock more revenue from their users with its artificial intelligence-nati

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

Law enforcement from the Netherlands, Canada, United States, and Germany disrupted TA569 (SocGholish) operations on June 18, 2026, taking down over 100 servers and domains worldwide and remediating 14

OpenAI has just revealed a new 'intelligence processor' chip for AI servers made in partnership with Broadcom. The chip, called Jalapeño, is designed to power current and future large language models,

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