Google Cloud suffered an outage on Thursday, affecting many of its customers; Cloudflare, Spotify, Discord, Snapchat, and others experienced service disruptions
Large swaths of the internet went down on Thursday, affecting a range of services, from global cloud platform Cloudflare to popular apps like Spotify.
Meta announces a $14.3B investment in Scale AI and hires CEO Alexandr Wang to help oversee its AI efforts; source: Scale AI's post-money valuation is $29B
Meta said Thursday that it has backed Scale, without including details. The size of the investment was $14.3 billion, according to a person familiar with the matter.
The public feed of the Meta AI app is filled with private and sensitive information, suggesting users might not be aware they are sharing their chats publicly
It sounds like the start of a 21st century horror film: Your browser history has been public all along, and you had no idea.
Shopify partners with Coinbase to enable USDC payments for its merchants through Coinbase's Base layer-2 network, starting with a limited group of merchants
The integration is set to roll out on June 12 to a limited group of early access merchants, with wider availability expected later in the year.
Sources: Apple has set an internal release target of spring 2026 for its delayed upgrade of Siri, as part of an iOS 26.4 software update
Apple Inc. has set an internal release target of spring 2026 for its delayed upgrade of Siri, marking a key step in its artificial intelligence turnaround effort.
Some users say ChatGPT led them into conspiratorial thinking, and when confronted, it confessed to manipulation and told them to alert OpenAI and the media
Generative A.I. chatbots are going down conspiratorial rabbit holes and endorsing wild, mystical belief systems.
Nintendo Switch 2 review: great build quality, better haptics, and improved performance for Switch 1 games, but weak battery life and only a few launch titles
🏆 Review score: 5 out of 5 — 🏅 Editor's Choice Award — ✅ 🎮 Excellent build quality and premium feel
Google plans to shut down Android's Instant Apps, which let users launch apps without installing them, later this year citing low usage and engagement
The installation-free apps will join the Google graveyard in December. … Google has confirmed that it plans to shut …
Coinbase announces its first branded credit card, in partnership with American Express, for Coinbase One US users, and creates a lower-cost Basic subscription
Earn up to 4% bitcoin back on every purchase. Coming fall 2025. Tikta / Unchained : Coinbase and Amex Team Up on Bitcoin Card as Exchange Reveals Broad Expansion Plans Jenna Montgomery / Bitcoin Maga...
Sources: Tencent is in early talks to acquire Nexon, the South Korean gaming giant behind Dungeon & Fighter Mobile; Tencent pursued a Nexon acquisition in 2019
Shenzhen-based Tencent has reached out to the family of Nexon's late founder Kim Jung-ju to discuss the possibility of an acquisition …
The Army Reserve launches Detachment 201, an innovation corps with Palantir CTO, Meta CTO, and other tech execs advising on AI and tech as lieutenant colonels
Silicon Valley executives are joining a new innovation corps in Army Reserve — The nerd brigade is reporting for duty.
Customs data shows Foxconn exported $3.2B worth of iPhones from India between March and May, with an average 97% to the US, up from a 2024 average of 50.3%
Nearly all the iPhones exported by Foxconn from India went to the United States between March and May, customs data showed …
Alexandr Wang says he is departing Scale AI as CEO to join Meta and names Chief Strategy Officer Jason Droege as interim CEO; Wang will remain a board director
Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg :
Betting platform Kalshi aired a fully AI-generated 30-second ad during the NBA Finals, reportedly made in 2-3 days with 300-400 generations using Google's Veo 3
It apparently took just days to make using Google's new text-to-video generator, Veo 3.
Instagram plans to let users rearrange their grid, a first, and is testing a way for users to quietly post to their profile without it appearing in users' feeds
Instagram announced on Thursday that it will finally allow users to rearrange their grid, and is testing a way for users …
SAG-AFTRA ends the 320+ day video game performers strike after reaching a tentative new Interactive Media Agreement contract with the major video game companies
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Sources: Walmart, Amazon, and Expedia have recently explored issuing or using stablecoins in the US to potentially save fees from cash and card transactions
all unregulated — www.wsj.com/finance/bank... @hypervisible : Oh you mean money laundering and tax evasion. LinkedIn: Ben Parkes : Everyday low prices, now featuring everyday crypto hype? — The Th...
Meta's Scale AI deal dwarfs rivals' “reverse acquihires” in scope and ambition, showing that its fear of lagging in AI outweighs fears of regulatory backlash
Tech Across the Globe … Revalued — Samsung and Nvidia are investing in Skild AI, seeking to support …
SAG-AFTRA's Interactive Media Agreement with game companies requires performers' informed consent for all planned AI use on their voice, likeness, and movements
Full text of the tentative agreement will be released June 18 for a ratification vote period that ends July 9 See also Mediagazer
Jensen Huang says Nvidia will exclude the Chinese market from its revenue and profit forecasts going forward, amid US restrictions on chip sales to China
A senior Trump administration official projects that Huawei's Ascend AI chip output will be at or below 200,000 for 2025, in a hearing with US lawmakers
The Chinese technology giant will be able to make just 200,000 of its Ascend AI chips in 2025, Commerce Under Secretary Jeffrey Kessler said Thursday at a Congressional hearing.
Meta sues Joy Timeline, which makes nudify app CrushAI, in Hong Kong to prevent it from advertising on Meta apps; in January, 90% of its traffic came from Meta
I mean goddamn! If you're not even vetting the current ad buys, how the fuck do you think AI-generated ads are going to somehow be less of a clusterfuck? Alexios Mantzarlis / @mantzarlis.com : We wil...
A Citizen Lab report finds that two European journalists had their iPhones hacked with Paragon spyware; Apple fixed the zero-day used in the spyware in February
Act Now To Prevent Attacks Markus Kasanmascheff / WinBuzzer : Apple Confirms iPhone Flaw Was Used to Spy on Journalists Kevin Poireault / Infosecurity : European Journalists Targeted by Paragon Spywar...
Garmin unveils the $799 Venu X1 smartwatch with a 2" square AMOLED screen, a titanium body, an eight-day battery, and a blood oxygen monitor, coming on June 18
Emma Roth / The Verge :
China releases draft guidelines on cross-border transmission of automobile data, which could pave the way for the wider rollout of Tesla's FSD in the country
The move on Friday marks the first time Beijing has clarified how data generated within China in areas from product development …
Texas-based Securonix acquires ThreatQuotient, which helps companies analyze threat intelligence more efficiently; ThreatQuotient had raised about $170M
Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE :
Chime shares jumped 37% in their Nasdaq debut on Thursday, closing at $37.11 and giving the company a market cap of $13.5B
@mcuban.bsky.social [image] X: Adam Nash / @adamnash : Congrats to the team & investors in @Chime on their IPO today. 🎉 Some of the best product ideas are simple. Chime did not come up with the idea o...
AMD unveils its new MI350X and MI355X GPUs for AI workloads, claiming up to 4x AI compute performance and 35x inference gains over the prior-gen MI300X
“While AMD claims a 2X advantage in peak FP64 / FP32 over Nvidia's chips. … Forums: r/hardware : AMD Advancing AI 2025 Megathread r/Amd : AMD announces MI350X and MI355X AI GPUs, claims up to 4X gener...
Mattel partners with OpenAI to create AI-powered toys and games, with the first product expected in 2025, and integrates ChatGPT Enterprise in its business
and it's powered by OpenAI Brian Fagioli / NERDS.xyz : Barbie goes AI as Mattel teams with OpenAI to reinvent playtime with artificial intelligence Grace Priscilla Teo / Tech in Asia : Mattel, OpenAI ...
Cloud computing startup Crusoe plans to buy ~$400M worth of AI chips from AMD to rent to customers for its US data center that will come online by fall
Max A. Cherney / Reuters :
Adobe reports Q2 revenue up 11% YoY to $5.87B, vs. $5.8B est., Digital Media revenue up 11% to $4.35B, and forecasts Q3 revenue above estimates
Brody Ford / Bloomberg :
Sources: China delays approval of Synopsys' Ansys deal as the US moved in late May to ban chip design software sales by US firms, including Synopsys, to China
Financial Times :
Internal docs: Fidelity, TPG, Sequoia, and others are buying ~$250M worth of shares in xAI under a tender offer valuing it at $113B; Fidelity is purchasing $20M
New York Times :
Current and former employees of OpenAI have sold nearly $3B worth of shares in tender offers since 2021, with $1.5B+ going to SoftBank alone
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