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Reuters: Source: the Shanghai Futures Exchange is in the early stages of designing futures contracts for AI tokens; US exchanges are set to launch GPU compute futures — China is designing a futures ma

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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,

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

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

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

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,

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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