President Trump plans to sign an executive order this week to grant TikTok a 90-day extension in enforcement of the sale-or-ban law, marking his third extension
New York CNN — — TikTok just got another lifeline from the White House, with President Donald Trump set to delay enforcement …
A cyberattack claimed by pro-Israel hacktivist group Predatory Sparrow has reportedly disrupted services at Iran's state-owned Bank Sepah, including its website
The attack introduces a clear cyber element with immediate consequences for the country's critical infrastructure amid a growing conflict between Israel and Iran.
The US Senate passes the GENIUS Act, which establishes the first federal regulatory framework for dollar-pegged stablecoins; the bill now heads to the House
The Senate on Tuesday passed the GENIUS Act, a landmark bill that for the first time establishes federal guardrails …
On a podcast, Sam Altman said Meta made “giant offers to a lot of people on our team ... like, $100M signing bonuses”, and “none of our best people” accepted
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been on something of a hiring spree lately, trying to staff up Meta's …
The Iranian government says it has restricted internet access in response to Israeli cyberattacks; some Western communication apps have reportedly been blocked
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Hands-on with Apple's new Speech framework components in the macOS Tahoe beta: the APIs deliver transcription speeds significantly faster than OpenAI's Whisper
Late last Tuesday night, after watching F1: The Movie at the Steve Jobs Theater, I was driving back from dropping Federico off at his hotel when I got a text:
Sources: lobbyists for Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Meta back a campaign for a 10-year US state AI regulation ban, a move dividing the AI industry and the GOP
Call by Amazon, Google and Microsoft lobbyists for a ‘moratorium’ has split industry and the Republican party
A look at California's 52-page California Report on Frontier Policy, which proposes an AI regulatory framework based on transparency, risk assessments, and more
A long-awaited report says companies are “simply inadequate at fully understanding” risks and harms.
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy says the company expects that “in the next few years” AI use “will reduce our total corporate workforce as we get efficiency gains”
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy says the retail and tech giant “will need fewer people doing some of the jobs that are being done today.”
Sources: xAI is burning through $1B per month, expects to burn through ~$13B in 2025, and projects its revenue to be just $500M in 2025, rising to $2B+ in 2026
Elon Musk's artificial intelligence startup xAI is burning through $1 billion a month as the cost of building …
A look at the Catholic Church's decadelong dialogue with Silicon Valley on AI, as Pope Leo prepares to make AI's potential threat to humanity a signature issue
The new pope is making the potential threat of artificial intelligence to humanity a signature issue—but Silicon Valley is trying to win him over
The NAACP plans to sue xAI over a lack of permits for its Memphis data center's gas turbines, which it claims pollute nearby predominantly Black neighborhoods
Hiroko Tabuchi / New York Times :
At Cannes, YouTube CEO Neal Mohan says YouTube will integrate Veo 3 into Shorts later this summer and that AI tech “will push the limits of human creativity”
The Veo 3 video generator is capable of creating both videos and sound based on text prompts, with YouTube CEO Neal Mohan saying the …
Netflix signs a landmark deal with France's TF1 to show linear TV for the first time; TF1 will broadcast all five of its channels, showing live sports and more
Deal will be closely watched by broadcasters, who are losing millions of viewers to streaming giants — Daniel Thomas and Hannah Murphy in Cannes
An interview with Samsung SVP Dr. Hon Pak on the Galaxy Watch getting a first-ever blood analysis feature, AI health tools, and a potential monthly subscription
With a first-ever blood analysis feature and four new AI-powered health tools, the Galaxy Watch is shaping up to be a smarter ally …
Cannes Lions: YouTube CEO Neal Mohan says YouTube Shorts now averages 200B daily views, up 186% from the 70B average daily views YouTube reported in March 2024
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AWS says Anthropic's Claude Opus 4 launched on its Trainium2 GPUs, and Project Rainier, AWS' supercomputer built for Anthropic, uses 500K+ Trainium2 chips
Amazon Web Services is set to announce an update to its Graviton4 chip that includes 600 gigabits per second of network bandwidth …
UBS confirms data was stolen in a cyberattack on supplier Chain IQ, which said it and 19 other companies were targeted; Swiss media says it impacts 130K+ staff
UBS Group AG said that information about the company had been stolen in a cyber attack on one of its suppliers …
Google starts rolling out video upload and analysis via Gemini for Android and iOS across both free and paid accounts; the feature is not yet live on the web
Besides the new navigation drawer and 2.5 Pro going stable, the Gemini app is rolling out video upload and analysis.
A look at embedded and immersion chip-cooling tech; industry sources indicate Nvidia is mulling 6,000W to 9,000W TDP for its next-gen GPUs, up from ~1,200W now
It is going to get hot. — The power consumption of AI GPUs has steadily increased in recent years and is expected …
Observability and site reliability engineering startup Traversal emerges from stealth with $48M in seed and Series A funding led by Sequoia and Kleiner Perkins
Left to right: Traversal's Raaz Dwivedi, Anish Agarwal, Ahmed Lone, and Raj Agrawal. — Traversal
Intel names new engineering leadership, appointing Srinivasan Iyengar, Jean-Didier Allegrucci, and Shailendra Desai, as part of CEO Lip-Bu Tan's turnaround plan
Intel Corp. named new engineering leadership as part of a turnaround effort under Chief Executive Officer Lip-Bu Tan …
Microsoft and AMD announce “a strategic, multi-year partnership” to “co-engineer silicon across a portfolio of devices”, including next-generation Xbox consoles
www.windowscentral.com/gaming/xbox/ ... X: Destin / @destinlegarie : The next Xbox will keep your existing library. Run on Windows. Xbox just announced a partnership with AMD, and proved my theory cor...
Xreal One Pro review: the impressive $649 AR glasses resemble normal spectacles from a distance and excel as a virtual, HD external display for PCs and phones
Review: The company's latest augmented-reality glasses excel as an external display for phones, PCs and gaming devices.
Bitmain, Canaan, and MicroBT, which build 90%+ of crypto mining rigs, are setting up US manufacturing footholds as Trump's tariff war reshapes the supply chain
The world's three best-selling makers of bitcoin mining machines - all of Chinese origin - are setting up manufacturing footholds …
Ten current and former Samsung semiconductor engineers say many are leaving for SK Hynix and other rivals due to long hours, heavy workloads, and lower bonuses
Scarred by long hours, low pay, and a hostile work culture, many chip workers are leaving for competitors, including American companies.
The US Senate confirms Olivia Trusty to the FCC, giving Republicans a 2-1 majority after Democrat Geoffrey Starks and Republican Nathan Simington departed
Olivia Trusty—on your confirmation today to serve as a Commissioner on the @FCC Look forward to you joining the agency and the great work ahead. [image] Anna M. Gomez / @agomezfcc : I look forward to ...
X sues New York, claiming a law requiring social media companies to disclose how they deal with hate speech and disinformation violates the US Constitution
Elon Musk's X sues New York over hate speech and disinformation law — https://www.theguardian.com/ ... X: @globalaffairs : Today, @X filed a First Amendment lawsuit against a New York law, NY S895B....
OpenAI says it's phasing out its work with Scale AI, into which Meta invested $14.3B, and that Scale AI accounted for a small fraction of its overall data needs
OpenAI is phasing out the work it does with data-labeling startup Scale AI, cutting ties with the company days …
The Midas Project and The Tech Oversight Project release The OpenAI Files, a 50+ page analysis of OpenAI's governance, leadership, and organizational culture
It has charts and data visualizations, including the authors' best guess at OpenAI's corporate structure.
The European Commission accuses Chinese marketplace AliExpress of failing to tackle the spread of illegal products on its platform, in preliminary DSA findings
Gian Volpicelli / Bloomberg :
A US appeals court throws out a $300M jury verdict that found Apple infringed on Optis' wireless tech patents, sending the case back to Texas for a new trial
Blake Brittain / Reuters :
Apple's Journal app is coming to the iPad and Mac from iPadOS 26 and macOS Tahoe and will get features like multiple journals, map view, inline images, and more
Ryan Christoffel / 9to5Mac :
Sources: Meta and EssilorLuxottica plan to release AI smart glasses aimed at athletes under the Oakley and Prada brands; the Oakley version could cost ~$360
www.cnbc.com/2025/06/17/m... with @jonathanvanian.bsky.social Instagram: Meta : The next evolution is coming on June 20. X: Robert Scoble / @scobleizer : Anyone remember Oakley's ski goggle with a co...
Temu signed a US data storage deal with Oracle last week; Temu offered few details, but says the deal is part of an effort to localize more of its US operations
Data-storage deal with Oracle follows several states' allegations bargain site could hand over user data to Beijing Bluesky: @quinnypig.com Bluesky: Corey Quinn / @quinnypig.com : Temu: “We need a clo...
Boston-based Maven, which builds autonomous AI agents for enterprises' customer support, raised a $50M Series B led by Dell, taking its total funding to $78M
Maven AGI, which builds enterprise AI agents for customer support, raised a $50 million Series B led by Dell Technologies Capital …
JD.com founder Richard Liu calls the past five years the company's “darkest period” and vows to speed up overseas expansion and challenge Meituan in new areas
Bloomberg :
Anduril partners with Germany-based Rheinmetall to build variants of Anduril's Barracuda and Fury drones, focused on enhancing Europe's sovereign capabilities
Sylvia Pfeifer / Financial Times :
Pano AI, which uses AI and computer vision to offer active wildfire detection, raised a $44M Series B led by Giant Ventures, bringing its total funding to $89M
While wildfire detection is certainly a growth industry, every application of computer vision technology (detection like this has been possible for a long time) is not in need of its own startup, esp....
Investigation: health care exchanges in Nevada, Maine, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island share sensitive data with Google, LinkedIn, and Snap via web trackers
But trackers we found logged details like one's operating system, browser, device, and times of visit. themarkup.org/pixel-hunt/2... Mastodon: Ashe Dryden / @Ashedryden@xoxo.zone : The data, including...
NYC-based Tennr, which uses AI document parsing and workflow automation to cut patient waiting times, raised a $101M Series C led by IVP at a $605M valuation
Leo Schwartz / Fortune :
A profile of LA-based Whatnot, a livestream marketplace valued at ~$5B, which has raised $700M+ since 2019 and expects its GMV to grow ~100% YoY to $6B+ in 2025
a $5 billion livestreaming shopping app that will sell $6 billion in goods this year...from sports cards to luxury bags. The app's eclectic group of sellers have a lot to do with it [image]
London- and Paris-based Animaj, a kids' media company that uses generative AI production tools to automate animation pipelines, raised $85M led by HarbourView
Elsa Keslassy / Variety :
Sources: Substack is pitching investors on a round between $50M and $100M that would value it above its prior ~$700M valuation, and is generating ~$45M in ARR
a company that has turned tools for sellers into a real platform — or even better a new social network like Reddit that took years to turn into the $25 [image] Simon Owens / @simonowens : It's pretty ...
How Walmart plans to leverage its $2.3B Vizio acquisition to push users to buy items while watching TV; Walmart's ad business had just $4.4B in FY 2025 revenue
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