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Last week, Midjourney, an AI startup best known for its image generator, made an unusual pivot: medical imaging. The company announced a futuristic ultrasound scanner that would dunk users into a vat

Sony released the first trailer for Taika Waititi's dystopian sci-fi film 'Klara and the Sun,' starring Jenna Ortega, Amy Adams, and Natasha Lyonne. The film is based on Kazuo Ishiguro's New York Time

When Sony announced the Xperia 1 VIII last month, it promoted the phone by sharing some of the worst photos taken on a Sony camera in years. These weren't just any photos, though: they were taken with

Dinesh Nair / Bloomberg: Sources: Abu Dhabi's MGX has raised close to 50B from regional sovereign wealth funds, global pension funds, and others to accelerate spending on AI deals — Abu Dhabi's MGX ha

Bloomberg: Sources: Hadrian, which is building AI-powered factories to produce space and defense parts, is in talks to raise ~1B at a ~7.5B post-money valuation — Company runs AI-powered factories tha

New York Times: Sources: Meta is building a standalone prediction markets app called Arena, which would probably rely on video game-like points instead of money wagers — The experimental app, internal

Bloomberg: Sources: Miami-based cybersecurity company Varonis is exploring options including a potential sale after receiving takeover interest; VRNS jumps 6%+ — Cybersecurity company Varonis Systems

Eleanor Olcott / Financial Times: Sources: prices for Nvidia's AI chips on China's black market have more than doubled amid a US export crackdown; its flagship DGX B300 server has risen to $1.1M — US

Bloomberg: Sources: SpaceX, which is seeking to raise between 20B and 25B in its debut US bond sale, has drawn about 89B of demand — SpaceX Loses 600 Billion in Value Over Three Days — Video Player is

Bloomberg: Sources: Tencent is negotiating exits from several game studio investments in Japan, including Tokyo-traded Marvelous, as it reassesses its global portfolio — Tencent Holdings Ltd. is negot

New York Times: Sources: the Trump administration is pressing Meta to submit its AI models for voluntary review; Meta is the only major US AI developer without an agreement — Federal officials are urg

Chloe Taylor / CNBC: South Korea's tech-heavy Kospi index falls 10%, dragged down by SK Hynix and Samsung; STMicro and ASML fall ~7%, and US tech stocks fall in pre-market trading — Global stocks sold

Right now, MIT alumni and friends are voicing their support for: America’s scientific and technological leadership Merit-based admissions and affordable education Advances that increase US health, sec

Financial Times: Stark, which has a deal to supply “kamikaze” drones to the German military, raised €500M from Founders Fund, Sequoia, others; it faced criticism over Thiel ties — US billionaire's fun

Here’s a problem you probably didn’t solve in school: You’re an ambitious young plumber from Brooklyn in a world inhabited by violent human-size mushrooms called Goombas. The love of your life has bee

Geoff Weiss / Business Insider: Superhuman acquires AI detection startup GPTZero, which has 19M+ registered users and 30M in annual recurring revenue; PitchBook: GPTZero is valued at 88M+ — As AI-gene

Evelyn Cheng / CNBC: Syntun: online sales during China's 618 shopping festival grew 4% YoY, a drop from 15.2% growth in 2025, amid China's persistent consumer spending slowdown — BEIJING — China's con

Jos Benschop is climbing a ladder to get to the top of his newest machine. It’s a bit of a schlep. The contraption is the size of a double-decker bus—more than 150 tons of gleaming precision-milled al

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. The $400 million machine powering the future of chipmaking It’

Margaux Nijkerk / CoinDesk: The Ethereum Foundation cuts ~20% of its workforce, or 54 staff, as part of a broad restructuring amid leadership turnover and growing Ethereum fragmentation — The Ethereum

Brendan Murray / Bloomberg: The EU is set to impose a €3 duty on non-EU items under €150 from July 1, as the bloc seeks to slow the flood of low-priced merchandise from retailers like Temu — Bargain-h

David Shepardson / Reuters: The FCC says an auction of wireless mid-band spectrum raised 3.5B+, which will largely be used to fund the replacement of Chinese telecom equipment in the US — The U.S. Fed

Google Health Coach seems to think I'm on the verge of physical collapse. My sleep is not where it needs to be, hence my unimpressive readiness score. My heart rate variability, a measure of how recov

New York Times: The NSA was red-teaming Mythos 5 before losing access amid the Anthropic dispute; the tests showed Mythos identified cybersecurity flaws in classified systems — A recent episode unders

Enterprises are increasingly evaluating alternative cloud providers beyond the major hyperscalers (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) due to cost, performance, and vendor lock-in concerns. This shift reflects

This article from Databricks outlines ten artificial intelligence solutions that businesses can implement to accelerate growth and improve operational efficiency. The piece likely covers practical AI

Don Clark / New York Times: Top500: China's Arm-based LineShine surpasses the US' El Capitan by 20% to be the world's fastest supercomputer, the first time China takes the crown since 2017 — A superco

U.S. President Donald Trump is pushing for the acceleration of the nascent quantum computing industry, signing a pair of executive orders today aimed at speeding up the technology’s development and si

Our hands are the nimblest parts of our bodies, coordinating 34 muscles, 27 joints, and over 100 tendons and ligaments to perform countless nuanced movements and gestures. So far, robots have been not

The Trump administration shut down the major federal climate website climate.gov , but former climate.gov staff members launched climate.us, a nonprofit organization working to archive the resources p

Protecting sensitive data used with AI is a critical part of our commitment to providing advanced and secure cloud infrastructure. Confidential Computing cryptographically protects data in use in hard

Artificial intelligence security startup Virtue AI Inc. is expanding its capabilities with the launch of Shadow AI, a new addition to its AgentSuite platform that gives enterprises clear visibility in

Brian Steinberg / Variety: Walmart acquires Paris-based Vibe.co, which lets businesses create and run targeted ads on streaming services; Vibe.co's co-founders will join Walmart Connect — Walmart is o

Sarah Nassauer / Wall Street Journal: Walmart acquires Vibe.co, which lets businesses create and buy ads on CTVs, sources say for 1.4B cash; top executives get 180M to stay for four years — Retail gia

Vector search is a retrieval method that converts unstructured data (text, images, audio) into numerical vector representations and finds similar items by comparing vectors in high-dimensional space,

President Trump signed an executive order on June 22, 2026, mandating a complete migration to post-quantum cryptography by the end of 2031, four years earlier than originally planned. The order direct

Hello and welcome to Regulator, the newsletter for Verge subscribers chronicling the misadventures of their favorite tech overlords and Washington swamp creatures. ('Favorite' is, of course, subjectiv

Starfall is a proposed reentry vehicle designed by SpaceX to provide uncrewed, point-to-point cargo delivery from orbit by safely returning payloads to Earth. The design focuses on precision delivery

The Information: xLight, a startup developing advanced lasers for EUV machines, told investors that it is in talks to raise 350M led by Boardman Bay and Bain Capital — XLight, a startup developing adv

Hillel Aron / Courthouse News Service: YouTube settles a lawsuit ahead of a second California trial over social media harms to minors; Meta, TikTok, and Snap remain defendants — The case will now pit

ZenBusiness Inc., a company that offers an all-in-one-platform to help entrepreneurs launch and grow their businesses, today announced it’s expanding its Velo artificial intelligence guide, featuring

Chevrolet's Corvette ZR1X, powered by a hybrid all-wheel drive system with 1,250 horsepower, set a new Pikes Peak production car record at the 104th running of the hill climb. Driven by IndyCar vetera

Josh Eidelson / Bloomberg: A US NLRB judge ruled that Amazon violated federal law by not recognizing the Teamsters union at a SF warehouse and must collectively bargain with the workers — A US labor b

Joyce, a native New Yorker, didn't think finding her first solo apartment in the city would be easy. But she also didn't think it'd be 'hell.' After looking at a lot of tiny, overpriced places she des

Data center networking startup Upscale AI Inc. today announced that it has raised 190 million in fresh funding. The capital was provided as an extension to a 200 million Series A round that the compan

Allyson Versprille / Bloomberg: Air Space Intelligence won an $875M, 12-year FAA contract to develop AI tools that map flight trajectories and identify areas of congestion to reduce delays — Air Space