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New York Times: Q&A with Sundar Pichai on the future of Google Search, Google's place in the AI race, public skepticism toward AI, AI agents, AI safety, TPUs, and more — After a busy Google I/O, the c

Brody Ford / Bloomberg: Salesforce's promotional videos showcased Agentforce mock-ups and features that are not widely available, as CEO Marc Benioff defends forward-looking marketing — Patients at th

Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg: Samsung's bonus deal is fueling employee resentment over a 100x payout gap between memory division staff and those making smartphones, TVs, and home appliances — Samsung Electr

Reuters: Sources: the ECB warned EU finance ministers that proposals to issue more euro stablecoins could reduce bank lending and make controlling interest rates harder — The European Central Bank war

Tom Hals / Reuters: Activision shareholders reach a 250M settlement over allegations that Microsoft and Activision underpaid them during Microsoft's 2023 acquisition of Activision — Shareholders of Ac

Cheng Ting-Fang / Nikkei Asia: AMD CEO Lisa Su projects the CPU market will grow over 35% annually through 2031, up from 3% to 4% historically, driven by AI inference and agentic AI demand — TAIPEI —

Anthropic: Anthropic says Claude Mythos Preview has been used to find more than 10,000 high- or critical-severity vulnerabilities since the launch of Project Glasswing — Last month, we launched Projec

Reuters: China's Wingtech files a lawsuit against Nexperia, saying its control over the Dutch chipmaker remained restricted, and seeks ~$1.2B for economic losses — China's Wingtech Technology (600745.

Cate Lawrence / Tech.eu: Driverless car startup Bliq.ai says it has received approval for fully driverless road operations in Estonia, the first authorization of its kind in the EU — The authorisation

Ryan Lawler / Axios: Farther Finance, which is building an AI-enabled wealth management platform for financial advisors, raised a 150M Series D at a 1B+ post-money valuation — Farther Finance, which i

Brody Ford / Bloomberg: Filing: Zoom's stake in Anthropic is worth ~1.27B based on a February round which valued Anthropic at 380B; Zoom invested an additional 46M in recent months — Zoom Communicatio

Dominic-Madori Davis / TechCrunch: Fresha, a London-based beauty and wellness booking marketplace, raised 80M from KKR's growth equity arm at a 1B+ valuation, bringing its total raised to 285M — Beaut

Lauren Feiner / The Verge: Google files its appeal of the US federal ruling deeming it an illegal search monopolist, arguing it “prevailed in the marketplace fair and square” — It wants to throw out t

Abner Li / 9to5Google: Google rolls out a Google Wallet redesign, including “dynamic quick access” for favorites, a “View more” floating action button, and more — At I/O 2026, Google Wallet quietly an

Jay Peters / The Verge: Google's AI Overviews are failing to provide search summaries for specific command-style terms including “disregard”, “ignore”, and “skip” — With certain terms, AI Overviews a

Nikkei Asia: How the global memory chip crunch, driven by AI demand, is hurting China's car industry, squeezing automakers already hit by a price war and razor-thin margins — HONG KONG — The global me

Wall Street Journal: Internal Binance reports and sources reveal Iran moved billions through Binance to fund entities like the IRGC, with some transactions as recent as this month — Transactions on wo

Reuters: Lenovo reports Q4 revenue up 27% YoY to 21.6B, above 18.7B est., net profit up 479% to 521M, above 271M est., as the PC maker pushes into AI server markets — Lenovo Group (0992.HK) reported a

Todd Bishop / GeekWire: Memo: Yusuf Mehdi, a 35-year Microsoft veteran who has been its consumer chief marketing officer since 2023, will leave the company after the next fiscal year — Yusuf Mehdi, on

CJ Haddad / CNBC: Meta, Broadcom, Applied Materials, GlobalFoundries, and Synopsys launch a 125M “Semiconductor Hub” at UCLA to advance AI chip research and more — Broadcom, Meta, Applied Materials, G

Mariella Moon / Engadget: Meta releases Forum, a Reddit-like standalone app for Facebook Groups, with a feed showing Group conversations and an AI-powered “Ask” feature, on iOS — It's a new dedicated

France 24: President Emmanuel Macron says France will invest an additional €1B for quantum computing research and a further €550M in state funding for semiconductors — Bruyères-le-Châtel (France) (AFP

Katie Tarasov / CNBC: Qualcomm stock closed up 11.6% on Friday and is now up 75% in the past month, as the company increasingly becomes a key player in AI devices — Qualcomm shares surged 12% on Frida

Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: Reddit stock fell 5%+ on Friday after Meta launched a standalone app for online forums, called Forum; Reddit's stock is now down almost 40% this year — Reddit shares fell about

Justin Papp / CNBC: Republican House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer says he requested information from Kalshi and Polymarket on their efforts to prevent insider trading — Rep. James Comer, R

Ashley Stewart / Business Insider: Sources and documents detail Satya Nadella's effort to revamp Microsoft's senior leadership, creating a startup-style operating model to compete in the AI race — CEO

Politico: Sources: David Sacks told President Trump that federal reviews of AI models before release would slow down innovation and hurt the US in its AI race with China — But during a conversation wi

Washington Post: Sources: last-minute calls with Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, David Sacks, and others helped persuade President Trump not to sign the highly anticipated AI EO — Industry leaders warned

Takashi Mochizuki / Bloomberg: Sources: Nintendo asked partners and suppliers to assemble ~20M Switch 2 consoles by March 2027, ~20% above the 16.5M public sales outlook issued in early May — Nintendo

Scott Patterson / Bloomberg: Sources: the SEC has delayed the release of a plan for an “innovation exemption” that would allow crypto firms to trade tokenized versions of US stocks — The Securities an

New York Times: Sources: WH approved a $9B request to acquire advanced AI chips for spy agencies; Anthropic is finalizing a classified contract for NSA to keep using its tools — The C.I.A. and N.S.A.

Peter Wells / Financial Times: The Trump administration plans to require most green card applicants to return to their home countries to apply, which could adversely impact tech workers — Move to tigh

Paul Vieira / Wall Street Journal: The US Ambassador to Canada accuses Canada of imposing trade barriers by requiring that US streamers contribute 15% of Canadian revenue to local programming — Remark

Jeremy Hsu / Ars Technica: The US NTSB suspends access to its database of civil transportation accidents after people re-created voices of pilots killed in a 2025 UPS plane crash using AI — Pilots' vo

Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: US and Canadian authorities arrest 23-year-old Jacob Butler, known online as “Dort”, for allegedly operating the Kimwolf DDoS botnet, which infected ~2M devices — U.S

Tech Xplore: A study conducted in the Phoenix metro area finds that waste heat from data centers can raise air temperatures in downwind neighborhoods by as much as 4°F — Waste heat from data centers c

James Peckham / PCMag: Adobe, Canva, and CapCut announce Gemini integrations to let users access the companies' image and video editing tools within the Gemini app — Adobe, Canva, and CapCut all plan

Sherry Qin / Wall Street Journal: AMD pledges to invest $10B+ in Taiwan's chip industry to make advanced chip packaging for AI, and says TSMC will ramp up production of its next-gen Venice chips — The

Bloomberg: Analysis: Samsung is set to distribute ~26.6B to its 78,000 chip employees, or a ~340K bonus to each, in early 2027 as part of a last-minute labor union deal — Samsung Electronics Co. could

Preeti Singh / Bloomberg: Anthropic, Blackstone, and Hellman & Friedman's unnamed enterprise services JV buys Fractional AI, its first deal; sources say Fractional ends its OpenAI deal — The new artif

Todd Spangler / Variety: Apple plans to broadcast an MLS game on Saturday shot entirely on 15 iPhone 17 Pros, the first major live sports event to be captured using only smartphones — Apple has freque

Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: Bengaluru-based Scapia, which offers travel-focused co-branded credit cards and an app, raised 63M led by GC, a source says at a 500M+ post-money valuation — Scapia, an Ind

Steven Lee Myers / New York Times: Bluesky and Clemson researchers detail a novel Russian influence campaign that hijacked legitimate, influential accounts to spread pro-Kremlin propaganda — The compa

Logan Hitchcock / Decrypt: Crypto exchange Blockchain.com confidentially files for a US IPO; the UK-based company founded in 2011 was once valued at $14B — Long-running crypto exchange Blockchain.com

Ashley Carman / Bloomberg: ElevenLabs, which aims to build an all-in-one AI voice app, licensed 200K human-voiced audiobooks from major publishers, available in ElevenReader for $11/mo. — ElevenLabs i

Reuters: Federal records: Grok was utilized in only 3 of 400+ publicly identified federal AI use cases in 2025, behind 234 for ChatGPT, 33 for Gemini, 26 for Claude — SpaceX's initial public offering