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Sources: Airwallex raised new funding led by Lee Fixel's Addition at a ~12B valuation, up from 8B late last year, and hit 1.5B in ARR, up from 1B in October (Axios)

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Axios: Sources: Airwallex raised new funding led by Lee Fixel's Addition at a ~12B valuation, up from 8B late last year, and hit 1.5B in ARR, up from 1B in October — Payments firm Airwallex has raised

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Sources: Amazon has shut down an internal leaderboard that tracked employees' use of AI tools after workers tried to boost their scores with needless tasks (Rafe Rosner-Uddin/Financial Times)

Rafe Rosner-Uddin / Financial Times: Sources: Amazon has shut down an internal leaderboard that tracked employees' use of AI tools after workers tried to boost their scores with needless tasks — Senio

Sources: Apollo Global and Blackstone are working to bring additional investors into a ~$36B debt financing deal to purchase Google TPUs for Anthropic to lease (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: Sources: Apollo Global and Blackstone are working to bring additional investors into a ~36B debt financing deal to purchase Google TPUs for Anthropic to lease — Apollo Global Management Inc

Sources: TikTok is cutting music label-facing jobs to focus on its music distribution arm SoundOn and other projects that connect it more directly with artists (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: Sources: TikTok is cutting music label-facing jobs to focus on its music distribution arm SoundOn and other projects that connect it more directly with artists — Music has been core to TikT

The CFTC moves to vacate a $5M settlement with Gemini, reversing a Biden-era enforcement action, following a lobbying campaign by the Winklevoss twins (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal: The CFTC moves to vacate a 5M settlement with Gemini, reversing a Biden-era enforcement action, following a lobbying campaign by the Winklevoss twins — A 5 million settlement at t

The European Commission fines Temu €200M under the DSA for allegedly failing to adequately stop the sale of illegal products; further penalties could follow (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)

Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: The European Commission fines Temu €200M under the DSA for allegedly failing to adequately stop the sale of illegal products; further penalties could follow — Chinese online re

The European Commission launches a full review of JD.com's €2.2B acquisition of German electronics retailer Ceconomy under its Foreign Subsidies Regulation (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: The European Commission launches a full review of JD.com's €2.2B acquisition of German electronics retailer Ceconomy under its Foreign Subsidies Regulation — Chinese e-commerce firm JD.com

The Steam Deck's huge price hike, from 399 in 2022 to 789 today, is the end of an era for gaming handhelds, coming amid RAMageddon, tariffs, and the Iran war (Sean Hollister/The Verge)

Sean Hollister / The Verge: The Steam Deck's huge price hike, from 399 in 2022 to 789 today, is the end of an era for gaming handhelds, coming amid RAMageddon, tariffs, and the Iran war — The Steam De

Triomics, which is building an AI-powered platform to help oncologists automate data-heavy tasks, raised a 22M Series B, following a 15M Series A in 2024 (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)

Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: Triomics, which is building an AI-powered platform to help oncologists automate data-heavy tasks, raised a 22M Series B, following a 15M Series A in 2024 — Triomics, a star

UK researchers win access to Google's Willow quantum chip, which it says completes a calculation in five minutes that takes supercomputers 10 septillion years (Chris Vallance/BBC)

Chris Vallance / BBC: UK researchers win access to Google's Willow quantum chip, which it says completes a calculation in five minutes that takes supercomputers 10 septillion years — Scientists from K

A deep dive into how Anthropic's Claude Code and Peter Steinberger's OpenClaw unleashed the AI agent revolution that is rapidly transforming modern computing (Steven Levy/Wired)

Steven Levy / Wired: A deep dive into how Anthropic's Claude Code and Peter Steinberger's OpenClaw unleashed the AI agent revolution that is rapidly transforming modern computing — The definitive stor

Amazon MGM Studios announces the GenAI Creators' Fund, greenlights three AI animated series for Prime Video, and launches an AI production platform with AWS (Todd Spangler/Variety)

Todd Spangler / Variety: Amazon MGM Studios announces the GenAI Creators' Fund, greenlights three AI animated series for Prime Video, and launches an AI production platform with AWS — Amazon MGM Studi

Amazon says it invested £15B in the UK in 2025, including new sites and expanded studio facilities, keeping it on track to invest £40B over three years by 2027 (Reuters)

Reuters: Amazon says it invested £15B in the UK in 2025, including new sites and expanded studio facilities, keeping it on track to invest £40B over three years by 2027 — Amazon (AMZN.O) invested over

Datacurve releases the DeepSWE coding benchmark, a 113-task test across 91 open-source repositories and five languages, and says GPT-5.5 is the leader at 70% (Michael Nuñez/VentureBeat)

Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: Datacurve releases the DeepSWE coding benchmark, a 113-task test across 91 open-source repositories and five languages, and says GPT-5.5 is the leader at 70% — For months,

Agents

Demis Hassabis says he still broadly expects AGI around 2030, though he now sees 2029 as a possibility, and 2026's 'agentic era' is a 'bit like a practice run' (Ina Fried/Axios)

Ina Fried / Axios: Demis Hassabis says he still broadly expects AGI around 2030, though he now sees 2029 as a possibility, and 2026's “agentic era” is a “bit like a practice run” — Google DeepMind CEO

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How AI is starting to dismantle the hegemony of the Big Four consultancies and other large firms, as AI agents help smaller consultancies handle big workloads (Financial Times)

Financial Times: How AI is starting to dismantle the hegemony of the Big Four consultancies and other large firms, as AI agents help smaller consultancies handle big workloads — The technology opens t

HP reports Q2 revenue up 9% YoY to 14.4B, vs. 14B est., Personal Systems revenue up 13% to $10.2B, and forecasts Q3 adjusted EPS above estimates (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)

Dina Bass / Bloomberg: HP reports Q2 revenue up 9% YoY to 14.4B, vs. 14B est., Personal Systems revenue up 13% to $10.2B, and forecasts Q3 adjusted EPS above estimates — HP Inc. gave a profit forecast

Safety

Illinois Legislature passes SB 315, a bill requiring annual independent third-party safety audits of leading AI companies; the bill heads to the governor's desk (Jared Perlo/NBC News)

Jared Perlo / NBC News: Illinois Legislature passes SB 315, a bill requiring annual independent third-party safety audits of leading AI companies; the bill heads to the governor's desk — The measure,

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Hardware

Jensen Huang says Nvidia is spending 100B-150B annually on its Taiwan supply chain, up from 10B-15B four years ago, and will boost its Taiwan staff to 4,000 (Nikkei Asia)

Nikkei Asia: Jensen Huang says Nvidia is spending 100B-150B annually on its Taiwan supply chain, up from 10B-15B four years ago, and will boost its Taiwan staff to 4,000 — TAIPEI — Nvidia is now spend

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Mark Zuckerberg tells shareholders that a Meta cloud computing business is 'definitely on the table' if it overspends on data centers and has excess capacity (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC)

Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: Mark Zuckerberg tells shareholders that a Meta cloud computing business is “definitely on the table” if it overspends on data centers and has excess capacity — Meta CEO Mark Zu

Meta rolls out Plus plans for Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp globally, will test 7.99/mo. and 19.99/mo. Meta AI plans, a $49.99/mo. creator plan, and more (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Meta rolls out Plus plans for Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp globally, will test 7.99/mo. and 19.99/mo. Meta AI plans, a $49.99/mo. creator plan, and more — Meta is doubli

Milan-based social travel startup WeRoad raised a 58M Series C led by Airbnb, taking its total funding to ~100M, to expand into the US, starting in Austin (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch)

Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch: Milan-based social travel startup WeRoad raised a 58M Series C led by Airbnb, taking its total funding to ~100M, to expand into the US, starting in Austin — WeRoad, the

Safety

OpenAI announces partnerships to combat election misinformation, offering cybersecurity products to state officials and backing legislation to curb deepfakes (Maria Curi/Axios)

Maria Curi / Axios: OpenAI announces partnerships to combat election misinformation, offering cybersecurity products to state officials and backing legislation to curb deepfakes — OpenAI is announcing

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OpenAI Foundation says it is committing an initial $250M for grants, partnerships, and direct work aimed at helping workers and economies navigate AI disruption (Reuters)

Reuters: OpenAI Foundation says it is committing an initial 250M for grants, partnerships, and direct work aimed at helping workers and economies navigate AI disruption — The non-profit that controls

Salesforce reports Q1 revenue up 13% YoY to 11.13B, vs. 11.05B est., Agentforce annual recurring revenue up 205% to $1.2B, and forecasts Q2 revenue below est. (Jordan Novet/CNBC)

Jordan Novet / CNBC: Salesforce reports Q1 revenue up 13% YoY to 11.13B, vs. 11.05B est., Agentforce annual recurring revenue up 205% to $1.2B, and forecasts Q2 revenue below est. — Salesforce reporte

Snowflake reports Q1 revenue up 33% YoY to 1.39B, vs. 1.32B est., and commits to spending $6B on AWS over five years; SNOW jumps 35%+ after hours (CNBC)

CNBC: Snowflake reports Q1 revenue up 33% YoY to 1.39B, vs. 1.32B est., and commits to spending 6B on AWS over five years; SNOW jumps 35%+ after hours — Amazon said Wednesday that its cloud division h

Applications

Source: at a town hall, TSMC CEO C.C. Wei told staff they will see a 30%+ bump in their profit-sharing payouts in 2026 on average, after some staff had concerns (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: Source: at a town hall, TSMC CEO C.C. Wei told staff they will see a 30%+ bump in their profit-sharing payouts in 2026 on average, after some staff had concerns — Taiwan Semiconductor Manuf

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Sources: ByteDance is discussing capex of up to 70B in 2026 as it builds out data centers and AI infrastructure, underwriting it with its 50B profit from 2025 (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: Sources: ByteDance is discussing capex of up to 70B in 2026 as it builds out data centers and AI infrastructure, underwriting it with its 50B profit from 2025 — ByteDance Ltd., the develope

Sources: EU leaders are divided on curbing Big Tech as they weigh cloud tender rules and giving EU companies preferential access to mobile satellite spectrum (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)

Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: Sources: EU leaders are divided on curbing Big Tech as they weigh cloud tender rules and giving EU companies preferential access to mobile satellite spectrum — European leaders

Sources: Germany and Spain are leading opposition to EU plans to ban Chinese suppliers like Huawei from telecom networks as part of new cybersecurity rules (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: Sources: Germany and Spain are leading opposition to EU plans to ban Chinese suppliers like Huawei from telecom networks as part of new cybersecurity rules — Germany and Spain are leading o

Sources: software-specialist PE firm Hg agrees to acquire Rightsline, whose software helps Disney, the BBC, WBD, and others manage IP licensing, for $500M (Financial Times)

Financial Times: Sources: software-specialist PE firm Hg agrees to acquire Rightsline, whose software helps Disney, the BBC, WBD, and others manage IP licensing, for 500M — Acquisition of rights and r

Hardware

Sources: Taiwan suspects three people smuggled at least one Nvidia chip shipment to China after first exporting them to Japan; Taiwan detained them last week (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: Sources: Taiwan suspects three people smuggled at least one Nvidia chip shipment to China after first exporting them to Japan; Taiwan detained them last week — Taiwan prosecutors suspect th

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Sources: Uber has increased its stake in Delivery Hero to ~37% by acquiring Aspex Management's 14.6% share at a €12B valuation, after a takeover offer last week (Financial Times)

Financial Times: Sources: Uber has increased its stake in Delivery Hero to ~37% by acquiring Aspex Management's 14.6% share at a €12B valuation, after a takeover offer last week — Share purchase from

Starlette, an open-source Python framework underpinning FastAPI, has a vulnerability called BadHost that can allow hackers to bypass authorization (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)

Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: Starlette, an open-source Python framework underpinning FastAPI, has a vulnerability called BadHost that can allow hackers to bypass authorization — Millions of AI agents an

Temu owner PDD reports Q1 revenue up 11% YoY to ~15.7B, below ~16.2B est., net profit down 15% to ~1.85B, below ~3.4B est., amid fierce competition in China (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal: Temu owner PDD reports Q1 revenue up 11% YoY to ~15.7B, below ~16.2B est., net profit down 15% to ~1.85B, below ~3.4B est., amid fierce competition in China — The company is rolli

The Shanghai Stock Exchange says memory maker CXMT cleared a listing review for the exchange's Nasdaq-like STAR Board, in what could be China's top IPO in 2026 (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal: The Shanghai Stock Exchange says memory maker CXMT cleared a listing review for the exchange's Nasdaq-like STAR Board, in what could be China's top IPO in 2026 — The listing could

The UK's GCHQ head says the UK and allies have a 'narrowing window' to counter cyber threats from China and Russia, as Russia intensifies 'daily' hybrid warfare (Chloe Taylor/CNBC)

Chloe Taylor / CNBC: The UK's GCHQ head says the UK and allies have a “narrowing window” to counter cyber threats from China and Russia, as Russia intensifies “daily” hybrid warfare — Choose CNBC as y

The US DOD announces a $9.7B five-year deal with Dell to provide Microsoft 365, advanced cloud subscriptions, and on-premises licensing to the US military (Garrett Downs/CNBC)

Garrett Downs / CNBC: The US DOD announces a 9.7B five-year deal with Dell to provide Microsoft 365, advanced cloud subscriptions, and on-premises licensing to the US military — The Department of Defe

Trump says it is 'critically important' that the CFTC has exclusive authority to oversee prediction markets, as some US states attempt to regulate them (Ashleigh Fields/The Hill)

Ashleigh Fields / The Hill: Trump says it is “critically important” that the CFTC has exclusive authority to oversee prediction markets, as some US states attempt to regulate them — President Trump on

US prosecutors charge Google engineer Michele Spagnuolo with using inside information to make $1.2M on Polymarket bets about Google's Year in Search results (ABC News)

ABC News: US prosecutors charge Google engineer Michele Spagnuolo with using inside information to make $1.2M on Polymarket bets about Google's Year in Search results — Michele Spagnuolo allegedly pla

Valve raises Steam Deck OLED prices due to 'rising memory and storage costs'; the 512GB model is now 789, up from 549, and the 1TB model is 949, up from 649 (Jay Peters/The Verge)

Jay Peters / The Verge: Valve raises Steam Deck OLED prices due to “rising memory and storage costs”; the 512GB model is now 789, up from 549, and the 1TB model is 949, up from 649 — The 1TB OLED mode

Xreal launches a new sub-brand, X by Xreal, and the $299 a01 display glasses with micro OLED displays, 50° FOV, and 62g weight, set for July release in the US (Scott Stein/CNET)

Scott Stein / CNET: Xreal launches a new sub-brand, X by Xreal, and the 299 a01 display glasses with micro OLED displays, 50° FOV, and 62g weight, set for July release in the US — X by Xreal is arrivi

A Samsung union representing its consumer electronics division says it asked a South Korean court to block a pay deal vote that mainly benefits chip workers (Reuters)

Reuters: A Samsung union representing its consumer electronics division says it asked a South Korean court to block a pay deal vote that mainly benefits chip workers — A Samsung Electronics' (005930.K

American Airlines picks SpaceX's Starlink for in-flight Wi-Fi on more than 500 planes; SpaceX already has contracts with United Airlines, Southwest, and others (Leslie Josephs/CNBC)

Leslie Josephs / CNBC: American Airlines picks SpaceX's Starlink for in-flight Wi-Fi on more than 500 planes; SpaceX already has contracts with United Airlines, Southwest, and others — American Airlin

Atlanta-based e-commerce logistics company Stord raised a 250M Series F led by Strike at a 3B valuation, up from 1.5B after a 200M Series E in May 2025 (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)

Julie Bort / TechCrunch: Atlanta-based e-commerce logistics company Stord raised a 250M Series F led by Strike at a 3B valuation, up from 1.5B after a 200M Series E in May 2025 — E-commerce logistics

Charter confirms a data breach after ShinyHunters claimed to steal 40M customer records from Charter's Salesforce instance and threatened to leak the data (Lawrence Abrams/BleepingComputer)

Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: Charter confirms a data breach after ShinyHunters claimed to steal 40M customer records from Charter's Salesforce instance and threatened to leak the data — U.S. te

China executes a man called Xu Yao for killing Yoozoo Games founder Lin Qi in 2020; Lin reportedly sidelined Xu, who helped land the 3 Body Problem Netflix deal (Koh Ewe/BBC)

Koh Ewe / BBC: China executes a man called Xu Yao for killing Yoozoo Games founder Lin Qi in 2020; Lin reportedly sidelined Xu, who helped land the 3 Body Problem Netflix deal — Shanghai First Interme