Sources: Microsoft sidelines its native Xbox handheld to focus on Windows 11 gaming performance for third-party OEM devices, like an Asus model debuting in 2025
Xbox's handheld ambitions continue unabated, but the focus is shifting towards improving Windows 11 for third-party handhelds — for now.
Sources: Elon Musk engaged in intense drug use during the 2024 presidential campaign, as he juggled the messy consequences of efforts to produce more babies
As Mr. Musk entered President Trump's orbit, his private life grew increasingly tumultuous and his drug use was more intense than previously known.
The US Treasury sanctions Philippines-based Funnull Technology for allegedly facilitating “pig butchering” crypto scams that stole over $200M from US victims
The U.S. government imposed sanctions on FUNNULL, a company accused of providing infrastructure for cybercriminals running so-called …
Filing: the US SEC voluntarily dismissed its 2023 lawsuit against Binance and CZ that accused them of diverting customer funds, misleading investors, and more
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission voluntarily dismissed its lawsuit against Binance, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange, a Thursday court filing shows.
Meta and Anduril partner to build EagleEye, a line of XR products like helmets that enhance soldiers' hearing and vision and enable control of AI weapon systems
An AI-Powered Combat Headset That Can Detect Drones Vaughn Cockayne / Washington Times : Meta, Anduril team up to bring high-tech perception to U.S. warfighters Bloomberg : Meta Teams Up With Anduril ...
Meta's Anduril deal shows how much has changed in the past couple of years in Silicon Valley, where developing war tech was once considered a hard red line
Meta is crossing a former hard red line in Silicon Valley to develop tech for military uses. — I can't think of any other deal …
A federal appeals court grants the Trump administration's request to temporarily pause a lower court ruling that struck down most of President Trump's tariffs
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Meta says it has cut US content removal mistakes by half since its January policy changes, without broadly exposing users to more offensive content than before
Meta says loosening its enforcement policies earlier this year led to fewer erroneous takedowns on Facebook and Instagram …
Black Forest Labs releases Flux.1 Kontext, a suite of AI models that let users generate and edit images using both text and images as inputs
Black Forest Labs, the AI startup whose models once powered the image generation features of X's Grok chatbot, on Thursday released a new suite …
Hugging Face unveils two open-source humanoid robots, the $3,000 full-sized HopeJR and a $250-$300 Reachy Mini desktop unit, expected to ship by the end of 2025
AI dev platform Hugging Face continued its push into robotics on Thursday with the release of two new humanoid robots.
Sources: Palantir's Foundry is now deployed in at least four federal agencies, after Trump signed an EO calling for the government to share data across agencies
Alex Karp, a co-founder and the chief executive of Palantir, at a forum in Washington in April.
Letter: Synopsys tells staff to stop sales, services, and new orders in China to comply with new US export curbs, and pulls its annual and quarterly forecasts
Semiconductor design software firm Synopsys (SNPS.O) has told staff in China to halt services and sales in the country and stop taking …
Sources say Alibaba, Tencent, Baidu, and other Chinese companies are testing domestic alternatives as they deal with a dwindling stockpile of Nvidia processors
Tougher US export restrictions on advanced chips give added urgency to testing of domestic alternatives
Thailand files charges against, and orders the blocking of crypto exchanges Bybit, CoinEx, OKX, 1000X, and XT.com from June 28 for operating without a license
OKX, Bybit, 1000x, and XT are among the exchanges that will be blocked in Thailand by the end of June. — What to know:
Two rival Amazon influencers seek to dismiss their 2024 copyright case, where one accused the other of posting similar promotional content for the same products
www.theverge.com/news/676357/ ... Uma Karmarkar / @umakarma : Whew. This is a damning sentence: — “Influencers becoming mirror images of each other is a feature, not a bug, of algorithmic tastemaki...
GreyNoise researchers detail a novel botnet infecting 9K+ routers from Asus and others with a persistent SSH backdoor, enabling access after reboots and updates
What You Need To Know Shweta Sharma / CSO : New botnet hijacks AI-powered security tool on Asus routers Bruno Ferreira / HotHardware : ASUS Routers Hit By Stealthy Backdoor Botnet Attack That Evades F...
YouTube plans to roll out Google Lens integration to Shorts in the coming weeks, allowing users to search for elements within Shorts
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch :
Adam Mosseri says Instagram now supports photos with a 3:4 aspect ratio, ensuring that photos appear as they were originally shot, without cropping
Jay Peters / The Verge :
Perplexity launches Perplexity Labs, letting users craft reports, spreadsheets, dashboards, and more, available on the web, iOS, and Android for its Pro users
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Elon Musk departs the Trump administration as a “special government employee”, defending DOGE's mission to reduce wasteful government spending
Now the job falls to the insidious fossil-fuel-funded creep Russell Vought, their henchman at OMB. E.W. Niedermeyer / @niedermeyer.online : “Say what you will about Elon Musk, the man thinks ahead.” ...
The US Department of Energy says its Doudna supercomputer, due in 2026, will use Nvidia's latest Vera Rubin chips built into liquid-cooled servers by Dell
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Dell reports Q1 revenue up 5% YoY to $23.38B, vs. $23.14B est., forecasts Q2 revenue above est., and raises its FY 2026 profit forecast on demand for AI systems
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An Apple-funded study says the US App Store drove $406B in 2024 billings and sales, up from $142B in 2019, with developers paying no commission on 90% of sales
Andrew Orr / AppleInsider :
Source: Chime's IPO is expected to price at ~$11B, down from its $25B private valuation in 2021; every VC-backed IPO in the past 12 months has been a down round
When banking app Chime goes public next month, it will mark the eighth straight venture capital-backed initial public offering …
Snorkel AI, which pivoted from data labeling to building AI evaluation tools, raised a $100M Series D led by Addition at a $1.3B valuation, up from $1B in 2021
As it faces off against larger players, the data labelling startup is doubling down on using human experts to judge the accuracy of AI systems.
Job postings: Amazon has a new ZeroOne team focused on inventing “breakthrough” consumer products, and led by former Microsoft executive J Allard
also, what does that leave for Panos to do? [embedded post] Annie Palmer / @anniepalmer : scooplet - Amazon has formed a new team in its devices unit that's tasked with developing “breakthrough” consu...
Marvell reports Q1 revenue up 63% YoY to $1.9B, vs. $1.88B est., data center revenue up 76% YoY to $1.44B, and forecasts Q2 revenue above est. on AI chip demand
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Cerby, which provides an identity security automation service to help secure “unmanageable” and nonstandard enterprise apps, raised a $40M Series B led by DTCP
and What's Next for Cerby PYMNTS.com : Cerby Raises $40 Million to Expand Identity Security Automation Platform
Sources: the Trump administration is looking to change the AI Safety Institute's name to the Center for AI Safety and Leadership in the coming days
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