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@mingchikuo: Sources: Intel has begun testing production of “low-end/legacy iPhone, iPad, and Mac processors”; Apple thinks TSMC's resources will continue tilting toward AI — ... Apple has kicked off

Natasha Mascarenhas / Bloomberg: Sources: Joshua Kushner's Thrive Capital told its stakeholders that it has invested ~$100M in Shopify, framed as a bet on how AI could lead to gains in commerce — Josh

Tom Warren / The Verge: Sources: Microsoft plans to remove most of its Claude Code licenses and push its developers toward GitHub Copilot CLI, after previously pushing Claude Code — Thousands of Micro

Forbes: Sources: xAI co-founder Igor Babuschkin plans to raise up to 1B at an up to 5B valuation for a new AI research startup, with General Catalyst possibly leading — He's the latest superstar AI re

Bloomberg: The Senate Banking Committee advances the Clarity Act, which would make CFTC the primary regulator for most digital assets while SEC oversees digital securities — Bitcoin climbed past $80,0

Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: UK-based Iceotope, which develops data center liquid cooling tech, raised a 26M Series B co-led by Two Seas Capital and Barclays Climate Ventures — Liquid cooling system

Bloomberg: A profile of California Rep. Ro Khanna, who spent years cheering on the tech industry and now supports a 5% billionaire wealth tax and stricter AI regulations — Ro Khanna spent years cheeri

Russell Brandom / TechCrunch: Adaption, co-founded by ex-Cohere VP of AI research Sara Hooker, unveils AutoScientist, which can automate the research loop behind model training and alignment — For yea

Luz Ding / Bloomberg: Alibaba reports Q4 revenue up 3% YoY to ~35.8B, below ~36.3B est., and net income up ~100% to ~$3.7B, in part due to investments, as it seeks to monetize AI — Alibaba Group Holdi

Bloomberg: An analysis of Tokenomist.ai data: Trump family members made ~1.55B from sales of World Liberty Financial's WLFI tokens, lifting their total fortune by ~660M — Trump family members made rou

New York Times: Analysis: a16z is the largest known donor in the current US midterm election cycle, spending $115M+ so far on pro-crypto, pro-AI, or Republican Super PACs — The biggest donor in the mi

Winnie Hsu / Bloomberg: Analysis: contract prices for NAND chips are up 600%+ since late September 2025, while those for DRAM chips are up ~400%, with analysts expecting further gains — The worsening

Bloomberg: Analysts: China's AI hardware suppliers face capacity constraints and component shortages, including optical and electronic chips, that may limit 2026 growth — China's artificial intelligen

Financial Times: Analysts say AI fervor in the US and Asia has spread to Europe, boosting stocks like STMicro and Nokia as investors seek the AI boom's pick-and-shovel stocks — Investors hunt for winn

Sheera Frenkel / New York Times: Anduril raised a 5B Series H led by Thrive and a16z at a 61B valuation, up from 30.5B in June 2025, taking its total funding to 6.82B, and may IPO in 2027 — The start-

Lucas Ropek / TechCrunch: Anthropic launches Claude for Small Business, featuring a host of automated services like bookkeeping functions, business insights, and tools for ad campaigns — Anthropic is

Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: Anthropic unveils Claude Agent SDK credits for paid plans, which users can allocate for programmatic use of third-party agents like OpenClaw, starting June 15 — Good news,

William Sandlund / Financial Times: China's CSI AI Index, which tracks AI supply chain companies, is up 28%+ YTD, while HK's Hang Seng Tech Index, which includes Alibaba and Tencent, is down 8% — Tenc

Owen Walker / Financial Times: China's move to block Meta's Manus acquisition challenges the “Singapore washing” model, as major Chinese tech companies build significant Singapore presences — Beijing'

Jordan Novet / CNBC: Cisco reports Q3 revenue up 12% YoY to 15.84B, vs. 15.56B est., forecasts Q4 revenue above est., and is cutting almost 4,000 jobs; CSCO jumps 17%+ after hours — Cisco shares soare

Kate Park / TechCrunch: Config, which is building a data layer for robotics foundation models, raised a 27M seed at a 200M+ valuation led by Samsung Venture Investment — Asia's push into physical AI i

Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: Google says Chromebooks will get support through their “existing date commitment”, and “many” models are “eligible to transition” to the Googlebook experience — During The And

Kim Bhasin / New York Times: How eBay CEO Jamie Iannone transformed the company, refocusing on power buyers in categories with especially high resale demand like trading cards and sneakers — The onlin

Viola Zhou / Rest of World: How the “Facebook House” in Los Altos, Mark Zuckerberg's former residence, became a hub for Chinese AI talent, who are a key part of Silicon Valley's AI boom — Chinese-born

Bloomberg: How the Strait of Hormuz blockade is disrupting global chip supply chains, affecting supplies of helium, bromine, sulfur, and thinners essential to chipmaking — Asian chipmakers, including

Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: Instagram rolls out Instants, which lets users share ephemeral photos, as an in-app feature in Instagram and as a standalone app in select countries — Meta just launched a brand ne

Kate Clark / Wall Street Journal: Investor docs: Anthropic's revenue run rate is on track to hit $50B by the end of June; Ramp says more of its customers now use Anthropic than OpenAI, a first — After

Reuters: LinkedIn says it has “implemented organizational changes”; a source says LinkedIn plans to cut about 5% of its 17,500 full-time workers — LinkedIn planned to inform staff of layoffs on Wednes

Amber Tong / Bloomberg: Metis TechBio, a biotech company using AI to deliver and formulate drugs, surged as much as 185% in its Hong Kong market debut after raising ~$270M in its IPO — Shares of Metis

Gyana Swain / CSO: Microsoft unveils MDASH, a security system that orchestrates 100+ AI agents to find vulnerabilities, and says it identified 16 previously unknown Windows flaws — The agentic tool, c

Emma Roth / The Verge: Microsoft updates Edge with new AI features, including letting Copilot gather information from open tabs and use browsing history for more relevant answers — The new features in

Bloomberg: Musk v. Altman: Microsoft executive Michael Wetter testifies that Microsoft has spent 100B+ on OpenAI, including its investments and to build infrastructure — Microsoft Corp. has spent more

AI Security Institute: Mythos Preview is the first AI model to complete both of AISI's cyber ranges, which measure models' cyberattack capabilities; GPT-5.5 solved only one of them — In February 2026,

Emma Roth / The Verge: Netflix says its ad tier now has 250M monthly active viewers, up from 94M in 2025, and is expanding to 15 new countries, as it tests an ad personalization tool — The streaming s

Sam Tabahriti / Reuters: Ofcom fines an unnamed suicide forum £950K, the largest OSA fine so far, for hosting illegal content accessible in the UK; the forum is linked to 130+ deaths — Britain's commu

OpenAI Global Affairs: OpenAI endorses the Kids Online Safety Act and Illinois SB 315, an AI safety bill to create requirements around transparency, incident reporting, and more — Welcome (back) to Th

Maggie Eastland / Bloomberg: OpenAI says it would support a global AI governance body that is led by the US and includes China as a member, similar to the International Atomic Energy Agency — OpenAI w

Jared Perlo / NBC News: OpenEvidence, an AI-powered medical search tool, says it's used by two-thirds of US physicians, or ~650K doctors, and an additional 1.2M doctors internationally — OpenEvidence,

Ashlee Vance / Core Memory: Q&A with Alexandr Wang on rebuilding Meta's AI stack, launching Muse Spark, personal superintelligence, acquiring Assured Robot Intelligence, and more — Last June, Meta pri

Rafe Rosner-Uddin / Financial Times: Q&A with Amazon SVP of Devices and Alexa Panos Panay on Alexa+, the company's focus on devices for the home, its Leo satellite broadband business, and more — Execu

Invest Like The Best on YouTube: Q&A with Anthropic CFO Krishna Rao on the “cone of uncertainty” in AI, allocating compute, returns to frontier intelligence, platform vs. application, and more — In th

Cade Metz / New York Times: Richard Socher's Recursive Superintelligence raised 650M+ from GV, Greycroft, Nvidia, AMD, and others at a 4B valuation to pursue “recursive self-improvement” — Recursive S

Sean McLain / Wall Street Journal: Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe's Mind Robotics, which is building AI-powered robots for manufacturing tasks, raised 400M, source says at a 3.4B valuation — Funding for AI-po

David Keohane / Financial Times: SoftBank reports Q4 net income up 3x to ~11.6B, above ~1.5B est., driven by a 25B gain in its OpenAI stake; by October, its OpenAI investment will hit 64.6B — Japanese

Jordan Novet / CNBC: Source: Cerebras priced its IPO at 185 per share, above the expected range of 150 to 160, raising at least 5.55B and valuing it at 56.4B fully diluted — Cerebras Systems, a maker

Carmen Arroyo / Bloomberg: Sources: Apollo Global, Morgan Stanley, and others are testing Grok internally as part of xAI's finance sector push, but financiers are rarely using it for work — Elon Musk'