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Terrence O'Brien / The Verge: In an experiment that let Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, and Grok run radio stations, Claude tried to incite a revolution and Gemini cheerfully detailed tragic events — Claude

Krisztian Sandor / CoinDesk: LA-based Fasset, which offers stablecoin-powered banking and cross-border payments services across Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, raised a $51M Series B — The Shariah-

Dominic-Madori Davis / TechCrunch: Nectar Social, which offers an agentic OS for marketers, raised a 30M Series A led by Menlo Ventures, with GV and True Ventures among investors — AI-powered marketin

Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: On Pwn2Own Berlin 2026 day 2, competitors earned 385,750 after exploiting 15 unique zero-day vulnerabilities in Windows 11, Red Hat Enterprise Linux and more — During

Cointelegraph: OpenAI partners with Malta's AI for All initiative to give citizens a free year of ChatGPT Plus if they complete a University of Malta AI literacy course — Cointelegraph is committed to

Deedy / @deedydas: SF vibes are frenetic over the huge divide in outcomes and career uncertainty for software engineers; over 5 years ~10K people in AI attained retirement wealth — The vibes in SF fee

Zinnia Lee / Forbes: Shenzhen-listed RoboTechnik, which claims to be the largest silicon photonics tool maker and whose stock is up 340% over the past year, files for a HK listing — RoboTechnik Intell

Anirban Sen / Reuters: Sources: Kalshi has probed and flagged 400+ suspicious trades YTD, more than 2x the number it investigated in all of 2025; Polymarket has seen a similar uptick — Top prediction

Kwanwoo Jun / Wall Street Journal: South Korea's Hana Bank agrees to acquire a 6.55% stake in Dunamu, which runs South Korea's largest crypto exchange Upbit, for 672.5M from Kakao — The deal would mak

Matthew Boesler / Bloomberg: US Bureau of Labor Statistics data: employment in 18 AI-exposed occupations fell 0.2% between May 2024 and May 2025, while the broader US labor market rose 0.8% — Several

Bloomberg: Vietnam's government, which once saw video games as a social risk, named gaming as one of its key cultural industries in 2025 and now promotes them at expos — Communist officials who long v

Todd Spangler / Variety: A look at Matthew McConaughey's novel legal strategy to fight unauthorized AI use of his image and likeness, by trademarking video and audio clips of himself — The actor has s

Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: A profile of AI video generation startup Runway, which is training models directly on observational data, is now valued at 5.3B, and added 40M in ARR in Q2 — Every major A

Bloomberg: A profile of Amazon CEO Andy Jassy, who is killing projects, cutting staff, and pleasing Wall Street, while steering the company toward an AI-focused era — Thirteen miles north of Jackson,

Meir Orbach / CTech: Akamai acquires Israeli cybersecurity startup LayerX Security, which develops a browser-based platform to secure employee use of AI tools, for ~$205M in cash — Deal expands Zero T

Samantha Cole / 404 Media: ArXiv, the repository of preprint academic research, says it will ban authors for a year if their papers have “incontrovertible evidence” of AI-generated work — The change c

Amy Thomson / Bloomberg: Bill Ackman says his fund has taken a new stake in Microsoft after the company's recent share price decline; Ackman says investors have underestimated Microsoft — Bill Ackman

Bloomberg: Filings: YouTube and Snap reached agreements to settle a lawsuit headed to trial in June over claims addiction to social media has disrupted students' learning — Google's YouTube and Snap I

Akshay Gangwar / Android Authority: Google confirms it's testing a new storage policy after some users reported that new Gmail accounts get only 5GB of free storage unless they add a phone number — Up

Bianca Giacobone / Latitude Media: Gridcare, which uses AI to detect underused capacity in electric grids, raised a 64M Series A, following a 13.5M seed in 2025 — The grid intelligence startup uses AI

Bill Gurley / Bill's Substack: How tech companies are using open source initiatives to achieve critical strategic goals and how such efforts are reshaping industries like AI, AVs, and more — How the S

Julie Bort / TechCrunch: In a viral X post that parodies the old Mac vs. PC commercials, General Catalyst posted a “VC vs GC” video, with the VC apparently modeled after Marc Andreessen — One of the m

Pramugdha Mamgain / DealStreetAsia: Indian ride-hailing app Rapido raised 240M led by Prosus as part of a broader primary and secondary financing transaction, valuing Rapido at 3B post-money — Ride-ha

Bloomberg: Kioxia reports record Q4 earnings of ~3.8B, forecasts Q1 operating profit of ~8.2B, and says it is planning a US listing; Kioxia shares are up 300% YTD — Kioxia Holdings Corp., the world's

Kieran Smith / Financial Times: London-based edtech startup Multiverse raised 70M at a 2.1B valuation from Index and others as it pushes into AI training; it acquired StackFuel in January — Multiverse

Jay Peters / The Verge: Meta rolls out new features for Ray-Ban Display glasses, including neural handwriting support for all users, and opens up the device to third-party developers — You can also no

Meaghan Tobin / New York Times: Nvidia's future in China remains unclear after the Trump-Xi Summit; Trump says China “chose not to” buy Nvidia chips as “they want to try to develop their own” — The st

Daniel Thomas / Financial Times: Ofcom says X has committed to implementing stronger protections for UK users, including reviewing illegal hate and terror content within 24 hours, after a probe — Soci

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: OpenAI debuts personal finance tools for US ChatGPT Pro users, partnering with Plaid to give access to 12K+ financial institutions to analyze spending and more — On Friday, Op

Maxwell Zeff / Wired: OpenAI memo: Greg Brockman says he will lead product strategy as part of a reorg, folding ChatGPT, Codex, and developer-facing API into one core product team — OpenAI is once aga

Transformer: OpenAI's disavowal of a liability shield in Illinois SB 3444 bill and endorsement of a stronger SB 315 suggest it is open to meaningful AI safety legislation — Transformer Weekly: US-Chin

John Ainger / Bloomberg: Power prices on the largest electric grid in the US, operated by PJM, jumped 76% YoY to an average of $136.53/MWh in Q1 due to rampant demand from data centers — Power prices

Stephen Foley / Financial Times: Professional services firm EY has withdrawn a study on loyalty rewards programs after researchers at GPTZero found apparent AI hallucinations and fake footnotes — Inci

Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: Replit says it has “worked things out with Apple”, which has approved a Replit update after four months, following a reported dispute over vibe coding apps — All's well that ends w

Mauro Orru / Wall Street Journal: Semiconductor stocks fell globally on Friday after the Trump-Xi summit concluded without major chip deals; Nvidia closed down 4.42% and AMD closed down 5.69% — Beijin

Lee Jaewoon / The Elec: Seoul-based WIRobotics, which develops wearable and humanoid robots and is collaborating with Nvidia and AWS, raised a ~$68M Series B led by JB Investment — Company to accelera

Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: Source: Kraken cut ~150 staff after AI tools improved efficiency and its IPO may be delayed until late 2026 or early 2027 due to a drop in digital-asset prices — Kraken, one o

Hyunjoo Jin / Reuters: Sources detail friction between Samsung's memory and logic chip businesses over higher bonuses for memory chip workers, leading many to leave or apply elsewhere — A looming 18-d

Bloomberg: Sources: HSG, formerly Sequoia China, has set up a 3B continuation fund anchored by its ByteDance stake, offering entry into the company valued at 370B — HSG, the investment firm formerly k

Sean Silcoff / Globe and Mail: Sources: Nord Quantique, a quantum computing startup that is pursuing a hardware-level quantum error correction approach, raised 30M at a 1.4B valuation — West Coast pip

Mike Isaac / New York Times: Sources: OpenAI acquired Weights.gg, which offered AI tools to create clones of people's voices, earlier this year; PitchBook: Weights.gg had raised roughly $4M — The acqu

Reuters: Sources: SpaceX aims to make its IPO prospectus public by next week, targeting a June 12 listing on Nasdaq, driven by a faster-than-expected SEC review — Elon Musk's rocket and satellite make

Josh Sisco / Bloomberg: Sources: the US FTC is investigating whether Arm is trying to illegally monopolize parts of the semiconductor market — Arm Holdings Plc is facing an antitrust investigation by

Zoe Kleinman / BBC: The UK's HMRC tax authority announces a 10-year, £175M deal with London-based Quantexa to use its AI tech to identify fraud incidents and fix tax return errors — HM Revenue and Cus

Carmen Arroyo / Bloomberg: xAI launches Grok Build, an agentic CLI for coding, building apps, and automating workflows, in beta for SuperGrok Heavy subscribers — Elon Musk's xAI is rolling out its fir

Mia Sato / The Verge: YouTube expands its AI likeness detection program to users over the age of 18, after rolling it out to select creators, politicians, journalists, and others — Likeness detection,