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AWS is rolling out Resilient Network Graphs, a 'quasi-random' networking architecture that uses a flat mesh design, and says it accelerates information flows (Lauren Goode/Wired)

Lauren Goode / Wired: AWS is rolling out Resilient Network Graphs, a “quasi-random” networking architecture that uses a flat mesh design, and says it accelerates information flows — The tech giant say

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California AG Rob Bonta sues 23andMe, alleging it failed to protect sensitive user data in a 2023 breach that affected ~7M people across the US (Jaimie Ding/Associated Press)

Jaimie Ding / Associated Press: California AG Rob Bonta sues 23andMe, alleging it failed to protect sensitive user data in a 2023 breach that affected ~7M people across the US — California's attorney

Dealroom: London overtakes Paris to reclaim its position as Europe's leading tech hub, and now ranks fourth globally; London startups raised $17.7B in 2025 (Paul Sandle/Reuters)

Paul Sandle / Reuters: Dealroom: London overtakes Paris to reclaim its position as Europe's leading tech hub, and now ranks fourth globally; London startups raised $17.7B in 2025 — London has reclaime

Dell reports Q1 AI server revenue up 757% YoY to 16.1B and raises its FY 2027 AI server revenue forecast to 60B, up from its prior projection of $50B (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)

Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: Dell reports Q1 AI server revenue up 757% YoY to 16.1B and raises its FY 2027 AI server revenue forecast to 60B, up from its prior projection of $50B — Dell Technologies

Dell reports Q1 revenue up 88% YoY to 43.84B, vs. 35.43B est., and forecasts FY 2027 revenue above estimates; DELL jumps 38%+ after hours (Jordan Novet/CNBC)

Jordan Novet / CNBC: Dell reports Q1 revenue up 88% YoY to 43.84B, vs. 35.43B est., and forecasts FY 2027 revenue above estimates; DELL jumps 38%+ after hours — Dell reported its fastest pace of reven

Doc: the EU is preparing emergency powers to intervene in Europe's chip supply chains during shortages, including by forcing chipmakers to override contracts (Barbara Moens/Financial Times)

Barbara Moens / Financial Times: Doc: the EU is preparing emergency powers to intervene in Europe's chip supply chains during shortages, including by forcing chipmakers to override contracts — Chipmak

Fonoa, which helps enterprises manage indirect tax compliance, raised a $110M Series C led by Headline and acquired PwC's Indirect Tax Edge platform (Ryan Lawler/Axios)

Ryan Lawler / Axios: Fonoa, which helps enterprises manage indirect tax compliance, raised a 110M Series C led by Headline and acquired PwC's Indirect Tax Edge platform — Fonoa, which helps enterprise

Applications

France's market regulator warns crypto companies they could face blacklisting and lawsuits if they don't have MiCA licenses by the EU's June 30 deadline (Elizabeth Howcroft/Reuters)

Elizabeth Howcroft / Reuters: France's market regulator warns crypto companies they could face blacklisting and lawsuits if they don't have MiCA licenses by the EU's June 30 deadline — France's top ma

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IBM and Red Hat commit $5B to establish a new model for open-source software, dubbed Project Lightwell, and will deploy 20,000 engineers, supported by AI (Connor Hart/Wall Street Journal)

Connor Hart / Wall Street Journal: IBM and Red Hat commit $5B to establish a new model for open-source software, dubbed Project Lightwell, and will deploy 20,000 engineers, supported by AI — Project L

Internal speech: JD.com founder Liu Qiangdong vows to protect the company's 900,000 employees from AI and automation, saying it will 'do everything possible' (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: Internal speech: JD.com founder Liu Qiangdong vows to protect the company's 900,000 employees from AI and automation, saying it will “do everything possible” — JD.com Inc. founder Liu Qiang

Letter: US Central Command says it received 'threat reports concerning adversary exploitation of commercial location data' to target US personnel in war zones (Raphael Satter/Reuters)

Raphael Satter / Reuters: Letter: US Central Command says it received “threat reports concerning adversary exploitation of commercial location data” to target US personnel in war zones — U.S. forces d

London- and SF-based Orbital Industries, which uses its Orb model to design advanced materials and then sell them directly, raised a $50M Series B led by Plural (Jeremy Kahn/Fortune)

Jeremy Kahn / Fortune: London- and SF-based Orbital Industries, which uses its Orb model to design advanced materials and then sell them directly, raised a 50M Series B led by Plural — Orbital Industr

London-based Geordie AI, which builds a security and governance platform for AI agents, raised a 30M Series A led by Balderton at an estimated 180M valuation (Jeremy Kahn/Fortune)

Jeremy Kahn / Fortune: London-based Geordie AI, which builds a security and governance platform for AI agents, raised a 30M Series A led by Balderton at an estimated 180M valuation — Geordie AI, a Lon

Microsoft overhauled Copilot's design in Microsoft 365 with a minimalist black-and-white, text-focused interface aimed at creating a more consistent experience (Ian Carlos Campbell/Engadget)

Ian Carlos Campbell / Engadget: Microsoft overhauled Copilot's design in Microsoft 365 with a minimalist black-and-white, text-focused interface aimed at creating a more consistent experience — The AI

Mistral says it is accelerating superintelligence development to ensure Europe's independence from US tech giants, and signs deals to supply Airbus and BMW (Sam Schechner/Wall Street Journal)

Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal: Mistral says it is accelerating superintelligence development to ensure Europe's independence from US tech giants, and signs deals to supply Airbus and BMW — Frenc

Agents

Okta reports Q1 revenue up 11% YoY to 765M, vs. 752M est., says the agentic AI build-out is spiking demand for its identity tools; OKTA jumps 8%+ after hours (Samantha Subin/CNBC)

Samantha Subin / CNBC: Okta reports Q1 revenue up 11% YoY to 765M, vs. 752M est., says the agentic AI build-out is spiking demand for its identity tools; OKTA jumps 8%+ after hours — Okta beat Wall St

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Pittsburgh-based Gray Swan, which stress-tests AI models for top frontier AI labs, raised a 40M Series A at a 200M valuation co-led by Wing VC and Madrona (Rashi Shrivastava/Forbes)

Rashi Shrivastava / Forbes: Pittsburgh-based Gray Swan, which stress-tests AI models for top frontier AI labs, raised a 40M Series A at a 200M valuation co-led by Wing VC and Madrona — Gray Swan works

Samsung's Securities, SDS, and Card units jointly acquire a 4% stake in Dunamu, which runs South Korea's largest crypto exchange, in a ~$446M all-cash deal (Choi Yeon-jae/The Korea Herald)

Choi Yeon-jae / The Korea Herald: Samsung's Securities, SDS, and Card units jointly acquire a 4% stake in Dunamu, which runs South Korea's largest crypto exchange, in a ~$446M all-cash deal — Samsung

Snowflake stock closed up 36% on Thursday, its best day ever, after the company boosted guidance and announced an AI compute deal with Amazon (Samantha Subin/CNBC)

Samantha Subin / CNBC: Snowflake stock closed up 36% on Thursday, its best day ever, after the company boosted guidance and announced an AI compute deal with Amazon — Software stocks popped on Thursda

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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 (Reuters)

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

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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)

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

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