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Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: Meta is alerting Instagram users whose accounts were taken over using Meta AI chatbot; some hackers claim to still be able to exploit Meta AI chatbot — The

Cory Weinberg / The Information: Nearly 40% of Alphabet's planned ~85B in equity offerings for AI will go toward covering tax obligations tied to employee equity awards, amid the AI talent war — Alpha

The Information: Nvidia acquired Kumo, which sells predictive AI software to enterprises, a source says for 400M+; PitchBook: Kumo raised 37M at a 250M valuation in 2022 — Nvidia has bought Kumo AI, a

Brendan Bordelon / Politico: OpenAI diverges from Trump's AI EO in a new policy paper, proposing cyber risk evaluations for advanced AI systems be mandatory and led by CAISI, not the NSA — OpenAI's ne

The Hacker News: Security firm Calif says it used OpenAI's Codex to discover HTTP/2 Bomb, a remote DoS exploit affecting web servers like Nginx, Apache HTTPD, and Microsoft IIS — Cybersecurity researc

Kate Clark / Wall Street Journal: Sources: Benchmark raised 2B across two new funds, including a 1.25B fund for late-stage bets, its first growth fund after decades focusing on new startups — After a

Reuters: Sources: DeepSeek is set to raise ~7.4B in its first funding round from investors including Tencent and CATL at a valuation of between ~52B and ~59B — Chinese AI startup DeepSeek is set to ra

Bloomberg: Sources: Lila Sciences, which uses AI tools to speed up the rate of scientific discovery, is in talks to raise a 2B Series B at an expected valuation of ~8.5B — Artificial intelligence rese

Richard Milne / Financial Times: Supercell, King, and Sybo warn that EU's Digital Fairness Act, requiring pop-ups showing real-world values of virtual currencies, could make games “unplayable” — Maker

Greg Miller / Washington Post: The US and other Five Eyes nations warn that China is flooding online job platforms with fake profiles and offers targeting government and military personnel — Nations i

Katherine Blunt / Wall Street Journal: The US data center build-out is falling behind schedule; JP Morgan says 60%+ of data center capacity planned for completion in 2027 isn't yet under construction

Engadget: A live blog of Microsoft Build 2026, where the company is set to unveil a Copilot “super app”, a new reasoning model, and Windows improvements for developers — We're expecting the presentati

YouTube: A livestream of Microsoft Build 2026 — Join the Microsoft Build 2026 opening keynote, streamed live from Seattle. Follow along as Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and other top Microsoft leaders e

Bloomberg: A profile of Valve, which PrivCo estimates generated 5.2B in revenue and 1.5B in net income in 2025, as lawsuits allege its Steam store abuses market power — Lawsuits in the US and the UK a

Stephen Foley / Financial Times: AI will significantly disrupt IT consultancies as AI labs build their own advisory arms and execs expect more outcome-based pricing over hourly billing models — Accent

Arriana McLymore / Reuters: Amazon schedules Prime Day for June 23 to June 26, shifting the four-day sales event from July to avoid the end of the FIFA World Cup and US Independence Day — Amazon.com (

Reed Albergotti / Semafor: An interview with Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman about its models catching up to the state of the art from months ago, refusing to distill models, and more — THE SCENE —

CNBC: An interview with Sam Altman on OpenAI's massive Stargate data center project in Saline, Michigan, coding models being the biggest driver of AI demand, and more — Following is the unofficial tra

Pew Research Center: Analysis: 22 of 24 US executive agencies saw a YoY increase in their average X account engagement during the first year of Trump's second term; @DOGE dominated — Federal agencies

Bloomberg: Bitcoin fell as much as 7% over 24 hours to below 67K on Tuesday for the first time since April, following Strategy's first BTC sale since 2022; MSTR fell 9% — Souring Bitcoin sentiment has

Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: Board, which makes a 24' touchscreen device that blends board games with video games' interactivity, raised a $20M Series A, and says it sold tens of thousands — Board, the

Nectar Gan / Bloomberg: China adds data and algorithms to its trade secret rules, as part of Beijing's efforts to prevent tech leaks amid intensifying strategic competition with the US — China expande

Max Cherney / Reuters: Computex 2026: ARM CEO Rene Haas says Oracle and ByteDance are among the customers of the company's new AGI CPU data center chips — Chinese tech company ByteDance and U.S. data

Yuliya Chernova / Wall Street Journal: Crunchbase: SF startups hit a record of 1,404 seed deals in 2025, while the number of NYC seed deals has dropped over the past three years, to 666 in 2025 — 'You

Luz Ding / Bloomberg: Didi reports Q1 revenue up 10% YoY to ~8.7B and a ~177M net loss, several times larger than its Q4 loss, as it expands globally in markets like Latin America — Didi Global Inc. r

Politico: Email: the EU Parliament plans to replace Google with the French search engine Qwant as the default search tool on its computers, seeking digital sovereignty — The switch lands as EU officia

Mario Rodriguez / The GitHub Blog: GitHub unveils a GitHub Copilot desktop app in technical preview, which introduces a new feature called canvases for bidirectional work between users and agents — At

Lily Hay Newman / Wired: Google adds a scam-detection feature, built on RCS, to Android 12 and later that verifies whether a call is coming from the caller's actual Android smartphone — Available for

Ben Thompson / Stratechery: Google selling $10B of equity to Berkshire is fascinating and functions as a signal that AI demand is high, in a world where the most cash buys the most compute — What does

Jyoti Mann / The Information: Internal memo: Meta is scaling back elements of its employee tracking tool, launched in April to help train its AI models, after staff raised concerns — Meta Platforms is

Meir Orbach / CTech: Israeli data security startup Cyera raised 300M at a 12B valuation, after raising 400M at a 9B valuation in January — The Israeli data security company raised 400 million at a 9 b

Sawdah Bhaimiya / CNBC: Marvell shares closed up 32.52% on Tuesday after Jensen Huang hailed the chipmaker as the “next trillion-dollar company” at Computex — Nvidia's CEO Jensen Huang hailed Marvell

Eli Tan / New York Times: Meta expands Teen Accounts safety features to limit harmful content on Instagram, Facebook, and Messenger, including on nutrition, weight lifting, and anxiety — The changes,

Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: Meta is testing a Series feature, letting select creators make episodic Reels that are placed in a dedicated hub on their profile, using both old and new Reels — Meta is test

Clare Duffy / CNN: Microsoft and Mayo Clinic partner for an AI model trained on Mayo's medical data, with plans to build an AI healthcare assistant and AI tools for clinicians — People have been seeki

Tom Warren / The Verge: Microsoft announces developer tools for Windows: a set of Linux-like command line utilities called Coreutils, WSL containers, Intelligent Terminal, and more — Microsoft is embr

Paul Thurrott / Thurrott: Microsoft announces new on-device AI updates for Edge: a dev preview of a new SLM called Aion-1.0-Instruct, Language Detector and Translator APIs, and more — Tied to the earl

Ram Iyer / TechCrunch: Microsoft announces the Agent Control Specification, an open-source standard that gives developers a granular, consistent way to control what AI agents can do — As AI agents gro

Tom Warren / The Verge: Microsoft announces the new Surface RTX Spark Dev Box for local AI development, powered by Nvidia's new Arm-based RTX Spark chips and 128GB of unified memory — The Surface RTX

Jay Peters / The Verge: Microsoft debuts MAI-Thinking-1, its first advanced reasoning AI model, trained “from the ground up on clean data, without distillation from third-party models” — MAI-Thinking-

Ram Iyer / TechCrunch: Microsoft releases ASSERT, an open-source framework that lets developers generate and run AI behavior tests using natural-language descriptions — AI researchers and labs have ad

Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land: Microsoft releases Web IQ, a search service for AI agents that is powered by Bing, currently used by Copilot, ChatGPT, and other platforms — Table of Contents — Mi

Stephen Nellis / Reuters: Microsoft unveils Majorana 2, a quantum chip that it developed using AI tools for materials science, and says it will have commercial quantum machines by 2029 — Microsoft (MS

Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: Microsoft unveils Microsoft Execution Containers for Windows, an OS-level sandbox for AI agents, with OpenAI, Nvidia, Manus, and Nous Research as partners — For the past t

Todd Bishop / GeekWire: Microsoft unveils Project Solara, an Android-based platform for agent-first devices, with concept hardware and pilots planned at Best Buy, Target, and others — [Editor's Note:

OpenAI: OpenAI releases a new report on knowledge work: Codex now has 5M+ weekly active users, up 6x+ since February, and knowledge workers are ~20% of Codex users — OpenAI today released a new report