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Ramsay Hodgson / Financial Times: Paris-listed Teleperformance, the world's largest customer service company, has become one of Europe's most shorted stocks, as hedge funds bet on AI disruption — Outs

Financial Times: Raspberry Pi closed up 27%+ on June 5 after saying it expects adjusted EBITDA of at least 38M in H1, putting it on track to beat 42M est. for the full year — UK maker of tiny low-cost

Caleb Mutua / Bloomberg: Report: in May, supply of unsecured bonds from hyperscalers passed $155B, up over 45% from 2025's total issuance; some AI-infra bond sales are 4x oversubscribed — Credit heavy

Robert Wright / Financial Times: Several UK police forces have been told to stop using AI to prepare court statements, citing concerns that inaccurate outputs could contaminate legal procedures — Safe

Mayumi Negishi / Bloomberg: SoftBank's PayPay, Japan's dominant payments app, says it will take a 70.2% stake in T&D Financial Life Insurance for 840M, expected to close in October 2027 — SoftBank Gro

Abhirup Roy / Reuters: Sources: Uber has committed nearly $500M to self-driving startup Nuro, providing a crucial runway as Nuro works to prove its technology at commercial scale — Uber (UBER.N) has c

Leo Schwartz / The Information: White House AI advisor Sriram Krishnan says he will leave his role at the end of June; sources: Krishnan plans to start a pro-Trump AI policy institution — Sriram Krish

Coco Feng / South China Morning Post: A research team that includes Huawei says it successfully used Huawei's Ascend 910C chips for DeepSeek V4 Pro model's post-training, amid increased US sanctions —

Dan Primack / Axios: Allen Control Systems, which makes AI-powered gun turrets for shooting down drones, raised a 200M Series B led by Smash Capital at a 2.2B post-money valuation — Years before he he

Ryan Christoffel / 9to5Mac: Apple-funded study: the App Store had $1.4T in billings and sales globally in 2025; apps with consumer AI features saw 4x more billings growth than other apps — Apple share

CNBC: Bitcoin falls below $60K, its lowest level since October 2024, amid a record streak of bitcoin ETF outflows following Strategy's bitcoin sale — Bitcoin extended its losses on Friday, dropping to

Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: Blackstone-backed data center operator AirTrunk commits to investing 30B in India by 2030, with plans to develop 5GW of new data center capacity in the country — Blackstone

Reuters: China's securities regulator tightened oversight of the country's ~3.4T private fund industry, and said it would encourage tech-focused VC investments — China on Friday tightened oversight of

Finya Swai / The Hill: FCC Chair Brendan Carr says the agency will review E-Rate, a 3B annual program subsidizing school and library internet access, amid kids' screen time concerns — The Federal Comm

Bloomberg: Filing: Google has agreed to pay SpaceX 920M per month for access to Nvidia chips as part of a cloud-services deal that runs through mid-2029 — Alphabet Inc.'s Google has agreed to pay Elon

Todd Bishop / GeekWire: Filing: Reid Hoffman, who has served on Microsoft's board since 2017, will not stand for re-election at the company's 2026 annual meeting — Reid Hoffman, the LinkedIn co-founde

Kate Conger / New York Times: Google Cloud says its SpaceX compute deal is a “short-term” agreement “to ensure we have bridge capacity to meet surging customer demand” for Gemini Enterprise — Elon Mus

Natasha Korecki / NBC News: Illinois Governor JB Pritzker plans to temporarily halt tax breaks for data centers from July 1, calling on state lawmakers to create a development framework — Pritzker, wh

Aaron Holmes / The Information: In an internal message, Satya Nadella rebuked an internal memo that said Microsoft needs to “make people addicted” to its new AI agent product called Scout — Microsoft

The Economic Times: India-based Innefu Labs, which builds AI-powered software for national defense and enterprise security infrastructure, raised a $30M Series B led by Panthera — The capital infusion

Kif Leswing / CNBC: Marvell and Flex, a contract manufacturer for electronics, will join the S&P 500; MRVL jumps 6%+ after hours after closing down 16.74% amid a broader sell-off — - Marvell Technolog

Michael Considine / CNBC: OpenAI confirms it will comply with President Trump's EO that asks AI companies to allow the US government to assess their models' capabilities before release — OpenAI has co

Igor Bonifacic / Engadget: OpenAI rolls out Lockdown Mode, an optional security setting designed to offer users advanced protection from prompt injection attacks by limiting some features — The compan

Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette: Over 20 EU news publishers file a claim seeking €640M+ from Google following an EU decision that lets anyone harmed by Google's ad market abuse seek damages — Small p

Bloomberg: President Trump says he is weighing proposals for US government to hold equity stakes in leading AI labs, and will soon discuss the idea with their executives — President Donald Trump expre

Akash Girimath / Decrypt: Privacy token Zcash plunges after the disclosure of a 2022 vulnerability in its Orchard shielded pool that could have allowed undetectable ZEC counterfeiting — Zcash plunged

CNBC: Source: OpenAI and White House are discussing a government stake in the company, to seed something like the “Public Wealth Fund” that OpenAI outlined earlier — OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and the Whit

Rashi Shrivastava / Forbes: Sources: AI coding startup Lovable is in talks to raise funding at a 12B valuation, up from 6.6B in December 2025 — The less than two-year old startup crossed $400 million

David Jeans / Reuters: Sources and docs detail defense tech startup Shield AI's struggles to overcome years of technical hitches and safety concerns with its V-BAT autonomous drone — A year ago, Ryan

Bloomberg: Sources: Apollo and Blackstone finalized a 35B package for Anthropic to lease TPUs; Broadcom is backstopping payments on the debt's largest senior portions — Apollo Global Management Inc. a

The Information: Sources: data center developer Switch is in talks to raise billions of dollars from PE firms including Brookfield and KKR at a 50B+ valuation — Data center developer Switch is in talk

Financial Times: Sources: Meta explores a stock offering to raise tens of billions to fund AI capital expenditures, following Google's record $85B share deal; META drops 5%+ — Facebook parent could se

Bloomberg: Sources: Revolut is looking to run a secondary share sale that would value it at 115B, after receiving a UK bank license and applying for a charter in the US — Revolut Ltd. is looking to ru

Reuters: Sources say a months-long dispute between the White House and Anthropic is showing signs of easing across the US government as the company prepares for its IPO — A months-long dispute between

Grace Kay / The Information: Sources say xAI used Claude models for distillation and training, including using personal accounts and the intermediary service Blackbox AI after being cut off — SpaceX's

Financial Times: Sources: SpaceX prepares the largest retail allocation ever attempted in a megacap IPO, seeking to reserve as much as 25% of its 75B float for retail investors — Up to a quarter of th

Wall Street Journal: Sources: US officials discussed the US taking stakes in major AI companies after Sam Altman pitched the idea in 2025; Altman met Bernie Sanders on Wednesday — The talks have been

@starlink: Starlink says that it has 12M+ “active customers” across 160+ countries, territories, and other markets, up from 9M in December 2025 — Starlink is connecting more than 12M active customers

Wall Street Journal: The largest US banks plan to launch a tokenized deposit network in 2027 to connect traditional payment rails with the infrastructure that digital assets run on — The new network c

Lauren Feiner / The Verge: The NY State legislature passes a one-year moratorium on new large data centers, the first statewide ban of its kind if Governor Kathy Hochul signs it into law — It could b

Reuters: Trump signs a national security memorandum seeking to “accelerate the use of AI across intelligence and warfighting domains in line with American values” — The White House said on Friday it w

James Gallagher / BBC: University of Cambridge researchers say they have developed the first vaccine with a key component entirely designed by AI and subsequently trialed it in humans — Artificial int

Noel Randewich / Reuters: US-traded chipmakers plunged on Friday, after Broadcom missed expectations; Nvidia fell 6.19%, Micron fell 13.25%, AMD fell 10.86%, and Broadcom 7.92% — U.S.-traded chipmaker

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: What to expect at WWDC 2026: an overhauled Siri, a Siri app, a slew of new AI capabilities, OS updates focused on reliability and responsiveness, and more — The iPhone maker w

Zoe Kleinman / BBC: An interview with Naomi Gleit, Meta's head of product who joined the company 20 years ago, on Zuckerberg's “unfair” reputation, AI agents' capabilities, more — When Naomi Gleit joi

Wired: Analysis: Meta discreetly added code for an unreleased “NameTag” face-recognition system for its AI glasses over multiple updates to the Meta AI app this year — Code reviewed by WIRED uncovered