Nintendo launches the Switch 2 globally, with midnight store openings and long queues; analysts expect it to sell 15M to 20M units, in line with its FY guidance
Mario fans queue at midnight store openings after games company apologises for failing to meet pre-order demand
Source: Amazon is developing software for package delivery humanoid robots and is almost done building an indoor “humanoid park” in San Francisco to test them
Amazon is developing software for humanoid robots that could eventually take the jobs of delivery workers …
Hollywood insiders report widespread off-the-books AI experimentation in studios, often hidden to avoid backlash, despite union contracts limiting AI use
“We can say, ‘Do it in anime, make it PG-13.’ Three hours later, I'll have the movie." — One recent evening on the Eastside of Los Angeles …
Court filing: OpenAI seeks to block a May 13 order requiring it to save all ChatGPT user logs, including deleted chats, “to protect its users' data and privacy”
OpenAI is now fighting a court order to preserve all ChatGPT user logs—including deleted chats and sensitive chats logged through …
Epic v. Apple: a US appeals court rejects Apple's request to pause key parts of a federal judge's order requiring it to open the App Store to more competition
Apple (AAPL.O) has failed to persuade a U.S. appeals court to pause key parts of a federal judge's order requiring the iPhone maker …
Apple's July 2022 to June 2024 transparency report shows it gave governments data tied to thousands of push notifications, which can include unencrypted content
Apple provided governments around the world with data related to thousands of push notifications sent to its devices …
Circle priced its IPO at $31 per share, above its marketed range of $27 to $28, raising nearly $1.1B and valuing the company at ~$6.9B, or ~$8.1B fully diluted
The firm and backers including co-founder and Chief Executive Officer Jeremy Allaire sold 34 million shares Wednesday for $31 each …
Wise says it plans to shift its main listing from London to NYC, the latest loss for London's stock market, but will maintain a secondary listing on the LSE
Wise Plc is planning to list its shares in the US, the latest blow to London's stock market. — While the fintech will maintain …
A look at Nintendo's US marketing, from targeting young boys in the 1980s to avant-garde GameCube ads in 2001, as its Switch 2 ads push playing together online
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Some creatives and academics are rejecting generative AI at work and at home on environmental and ethical grounds, but realize they may end up using it anyway
www.theguardian.com/technology/ 2... Joel S. / @joelhs : “The algorithms say ‘More of the same’, because it's all they can do."" www.theguardian.com/technology/ 2... Margot Finn / @eicathomefinn : 'Th...
The US DOJ seized crypto and ~145 domains linked to BidenCash, a dark web market that made $17M+ in revenue since 2022 from selling stolen credit cards and more
Earlier today, law enforcement seized multiple domains of BidenCash, the infamous dark web market for stolen credit cards, personal information, and SSH access.
CISA, the ACSC, and the FBI say that the Play ransomware gang, active since June 2022, had breached ~900 organizations as of May 2025, up 3x since October 2023
In an update to a joint advisory with CISA and the Australian Cyber Security Centre, the FBI said that the Play ransomware gang …
Cellebrite acquires Florida-based Corellium, which makes phone virtualization tools, for $170M; founder Chris Wade, who Trump pardoned in 2020, will stay as CTO
Corellium founder and CEO Chris Wade is selling his startup to Cellebrite, law enforcement's favorite cellphone forensics business.
Meta details its Aria Gen 2 smart glasses for research, including an improved eye-tracking system, four computer vision cameras, sensors, and on-device compute
Aria Gen 2 is designed to help ‘shape the next computing platform’ with advanced eye- and hand-tracking capabilities.
OpenAI says it disrupted 10 malicious operations in the past three months, four of which likely originated in China and targeted multiple countries and topics
Chinese propagandists are using ChatGPT to write posts and comments on social media sites — and also to create performance reviews detailing …
OnePlus unveils the $700+ OnePlus Pad 3, a 13.2-inch Android tablet less than 6mm thick, with a Snapdragon 8 Elite chip, 17+ hours of battery life, and an LCD
Three generations into its Pad lineup, OnePlus is still trying to stand out in a market dominated by a few players.
An Apple-funded study says developers using the App Store generated $1.3T globally in billings and sales in 2024, 90% on which developers paid no commission
Ahead of its Worldwide Developer Conference on June 9, Apple on Thursday offered a new update on its global App Store business …
OpenAI says it has 3M “paying business users”, up from 2M in February; ChatGPT Team users can now use a “record mode” for taking notes during meetings
ChatGPT now has 3 million “paying business users” and is adding new features like meeting notes.
OpenAI rolls out connectors for services like Dropbox and OneDrive for ChatGPT Team, Enterprise, and Edu; MCP support is coming to Pro, Team, and Enterprise
Bring your tools and data into ChatGPT so you can search, reference … Ashley Capoot / CNBC : OpenAI tops 3 million paying business users, launches new features for workplace Mike Moore / TechRadar : C...
Source: X is piloting a program to use Community Notes to highlight posts on which people of typically differing opinions agree
Elon Musk's X is piloting a new program to use its Community Notes feature to highlight posts where people of typically differing opinions actually agree with each other, Axios has learned.
Counterpoint revises its 2025 global smartphone shipment growth forecast to 1.9% YoY, down from 4.2%, citing “renewed uncertainties surrounding US tariffs”
Forecasts for Apple and Samsung shipment growth this year were sharply slashed by Counterpoint Research on Wednesday amid uncertainty over U.S. tariff policy.
Anthropic unveils a new set of Claude Gov models tailored for US national security customers and designed to be applied to planning, analysis, and more
Anthropic says it has released a new set of AI models tailored for U.S. national security customers. — The new models, a custom set of …
23andMe plans to hold a second auction for its DNA data, opening with a $305M bid led by Anne Wojcicki, after the ex-CEO challenged Regeneron's winning May bid
Bankrupt genetic analysis company 23andMe will hold a second auction for its cache of DNA data with an opening bid of $305 million …
Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth says the “tides have turned” in Silicon Valley, making it more acceptable for the tech industry to support the US military's efforts
There's long existed a “silent majority” who wanted to pursue defense projects, Bosworth said during an interview …
Anthropic CEO says a 10-year moratorium on AI regulation is “far too blunt an instrument” and calls for US federal transparency standards for AI companies
Picture this: You give a bot notice that you'll shut it down soon, and replace it with a different artificial intelligence system.
Reddit sues Anthropic, alleging it accessed Reddit 100K+ times after saying it had stopped; Reddit has reached user data licensing deals with OpenAI and Google
For a while it looked like Reddit was going to build a big business selling access to user data to LLM companies but besides Google they didn't get many takers it seems. — So here come the lawyers. ...
iVerify says it found the first evidence of an active spyware campaign targeting iPhones in the US and the EU; Apple fixed a flaw, but says it wasn't exploited
Researchers published new findings that they fear could be the first evidence of an active spyware campaign targeting iPhones in the U.S. and the European Union.
Source: Apple expands its Tata partnership in India, giving Tata the iPhone and MacBook after-sales repair business from an Indian unit of Taiwan-based Wistron
Apple has brought in Tata Group to handle repairs for iPhones and MacBook devices in its fast-growing Indian market …
Sources: Apple may announce new features for AirPods at WWDC, including iPhone camera control, new head gestures, and sleep detection for pausing playback
5 huge upgrades we're likely to see at WWDC 2025 Harsh Shivam / Business Standard : WWDC25: Apple may announce new head gestures, camera controls for AirPods PCMag : Apple AirPods May Get Sleep Detect...
How AI-assisted “vibe hacking”, which often relies on jailbroken versions of mainstream AI models, is leading to a cybersecurity “arms race”
In the very near future, victory will belong to the savvy blackhat hacker who uses AI to generate code at scale.
Defense tech startup Anduril raised a $2.5B Series G led by Founders Fund, which invested $1B, at a $30.5B valuation, up from $14B in August 2024
The latest capital injection and increased valuation — up from $14 billion last year — underscores how quickly the company is establishing itself …
Singapore's Temasek cuts back on startup investments after the fund wrote down hundreds of millions of dollars on a spate of collapsed startups, including FTX
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MongoDB reports Q1 revenue up 22% YoY to $549M, vs. $527.5M est., net loss down 54% to $37.6M, and increases its full-year guidance; MDB up 14%+
Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE :
OatFi, whose APIs handle underwriting, origination, and capital deployment for B2B payment providers, raised a $24M Series A led by White Star Capital
Ryan Lawler / Axios :
Didi reports Q1 revenue up 8.5% YoY to ~$7.4B, a ~$334M net income, up from a ~$194M loss YoY, transactions up 10% YoY to 3.3B, and ~$418M international revenue
Pan-European consumer group BEUC files a complaint with the EC against Shein over its alleged use of “dark patterns”, after targeting Temu in 2024
Helen Reid / Reuters :
Amazon is creating an AI team within its Lab126 hardware R&D unit that will help develop an agentic AI framework for use in its robotics operations
Annie Palmer / CNBC :
Edinburgh-based Wordsmith, whose AI tools help legal teams automate contract and policy reviews, raised a $25M Series A led by Index Ventures
Kyt Dotson / SiliconANGLE :
A profile of Nigerian fintech PalmPay, which raised $140M+ from Transsion and other Chinese firms, says it has 35M+ registered users, and aims to be “super app”
Aanu Adeoye / Financial Times :
Filing: CrowdStrike says the DOJ and SEC have requested information about the July 2024 outage caused by an update and about its revenue recognition practices
Why intriguing? I mentioned last year - their financial position doesn't make sense. One to watch. — https://www.wsj.com/...
Lime and Uber sign a new multiyear deal to let Uber feature Lime's shared bikes and scooters on its ridehail app; the deal was set to expire in 2025
Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge :
DoorDash, Uber, and Grubhub agree to settle a 2021 lawsuit against New York City over its pandemic-era 15% cap to commissions and fees charged to restaurants
Malathi Nayak / Bloomberg :
Sensor Tower: Temu's US DAUs fell 52% in May compared to March, while Shein's dropped 25%, amid the US' China tariffs and the closure of “de minimis” loophole
Karen Gilchrist / CNBC :
A former Ola employee says under 10,000 people use Ola Krutrim's LLM chatbot, which supports 10 Indian languages, and that over 60% of them are random testers
Swathi Moorthy / The Economic Times : X: @ettech , @ettech , @ettech , and @ettech X: @ettech : 🚨🚨 In a setback to @bhash and the broader Indian #AI ambitions, several founders and investors told us ...
Document: Xiaohongshu, a TikTok alternative known in the US as Rednote, has surged to a $26B valuation based on recent market transactions via a GSR fund
Echo Wong / Bloomberg :
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