OpenAI memo: Greg Brockman says he will lead product strategy as part of a reorg, folding ChatGPT, Codex, and developer-facing API into one core product team
OpenAI is once again reorganizing its executive ranks as part of its effort to unify ChatGPT and Codex into one core product experience.
ArXiv, the repository of preprint academic research, says it will ban authors for a year if their papers have “incontrovertible evidence” of AI-generated work
The change comes as arXiv and others struggle to manage an influx of AI-generated materials masquerading as rigorous science.
OpenAI debuts personal finance tools for US ChatGPT Pro users, partnering with Plaid to give access to 12K+ financial institutions to analyze spending and more
On Friday, OpenAI launched a new set of personal finance tools in preview for ChatGPT Pro subscribers in the U.S. …
In an experiment that let Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, and Grok run radio stations, Claude tried to incite a revolution and Gemini cheerfully detailed tragic events
Claude tried to incite a revolution, Gemini cheerfully detailed horrific tragedies, and poor Grok was just confused.
South Korea's Hana Bank agrees to acquire a 6.55% stake in Dunamu, which runs South Korea's largest crypto exchange Upbit, for $672.5M from Kakao
The deal would make Hana Bank the fourth largest shareholder in Dunamu — Hana Bank will buy a roughly $670 million stake …
Sources: SpaceX aims to make its IPO prospectus public by next week, targeting a June 12 listing on Nasdaq, driven by a faster-than-expected SEC review
Elon Musk's rocket and satellite maker SpaceX is planning to price its blockbuster initial public offering as early as June 11 …
Semiconductor stocks fell globally on Friday after the Trump-Xi summit concluded without major chip deals; Nvidia closed down 4.42% and AMD closed down 5.69%
Beijing hasn't formally approved Nvidia shipments of its H200 chips to China — Global semiconductor stocks skidded …
On Pwn2Own Berlin 2026 day 2, competitors earned $385,750 after exploiting 15 unique zero-day vulnerabilities in Windows 11, Red Hat Enterprise Linux and more
During the second day of Pwn2Own Berlin 2026, competitors collected $385,750 in cash awards after exploiting 15 unique zero …
Filings: YouTube, Snap, and TikTok reach agreements to settle a lawsuit, set for trial in June, over claims social media addiction disrupted kids' learning
Snap Inc., Google's YouTube and ByteDance Ltd.'s TikTok reached agreements to settle the first lawsuit headed to trial over claims …
Hill County, which faced eight new data centers, passed what may be Texas' first county-wide ban on them, for one year; the state trails only VA in data centers
Opposition to data centers is spreading in regions led by both Democrats and Republicans, as politicians try to balance economic development …
SF vibes are frenetic over the huge divide in outcomes and career uncertainty for software engineers; over 5 years ~10K people in AI attained retirement wealth
The vibes in SF feel pretty frenetic right now. The divide in outcomes is the worst I've ever seen. Over the last 5yrs, a group of ~10k people - employees at Anthropic, OpenAI, xAI, Nvidia, Meta TBD, ...
Vietnam's government, which once saw video games as a social risk, named gaming as one of its key cultural industries in 2025 and now promotes them at expos
Communist officials who long viewed video games as a social risk now see them as key to a knowledge-driven economy.
How tech companies are using open source initiatives to achieve critical strategic goals and how such efforts are reshaping industries like AI, AVs, and more
How the Smartest Executives Are Using Open Source Techniques to Optimize Corporate Strategy — Nearly 27 years ago, on July 12 …
Power prices on the largest electric grid in the US, operated by PJM, jumped 76% YoY to an average of $136.53/MWh in Q1 due to rampant demand from data centers
Power prices on the largest electric grid in the US jumped 76% in the first quarter due to rampant demand from data centers …
LA-based Fasset, which offers stablecoin-powered banking and cross-border payments services across Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, raised a $51M Series B
The Shariah-compliant digital bank is part of a growing wave of fintech startups building banking and payments services on top of blockchain and stablecoin rails.
YouTube expands its AI likeness detection program to all users over the age of 18, after rolling it out to select creators, politicians, journalists, and others
Likeness detection, which scans YouTube for facial matches, will now be available to anyone 18 years or older with a YouTube account.
Sources: OpenAI acquired Weights.gg, which offered AI tools to create clones of people's voices, earlier this year; PitchBook: Weights.gg had raised roughly $4M
The acquisition, Weights.gg, was a sort of social network for creating and sharing artificial intelligence algorithms.
ASML will partner with Tata Electronics to help it bring an $11B 300mm chip factory online in Gujarat, expanding India's ability to produce chips domestically
ASML Holding NV entered into a partnership agreement with Tata Electronics Private Limited aimed at ramping up India's goal …
In a viral X post that parodies the old Mac vs. PC commercials, General Catalyst posted a “VC vs GC” video, with the VC apparently modeled after Marc Andreessen
Sources detail friction between Samsung's memory and logic chip businesses over higher bonuses for memory chip workers, leading many to leave or apply elsewhere
Google confirms a new storage policy test, after some users reported that new Gmail accounts get 5GB, not 15GB, of free storage if they don't add a phone number
OpenAI adds remote access to Codex in the ChatGPT mobile app, letting users control Codex sessions running on a computer directly via iOS, iPadOS, and Android
US Bureau of Labor Statistics data: employment in 18 AI-exposed occupations fell 0.2% between May 2024 and May 2025, while the broader US labor market rose 0.8%
Several US occupations expected to be impacted by artificial intelligence saw heavy job losses for a second year in 2025 …
Professional services firm EY has withdrawn a study on loyalty rewards programs after researchers at GPTZero found apparent AI hallucinations and fake footnotes
Sources: Kalshi has probed and flagged 400+ suspicious trades YTD, more than 2x the number it investigated in all of 2025; Polymarket has seen a similar uptick
Top prediction market platforms Kalshi and Polymarket have witnessed a surge in suspicious trades this year …
Sources: the US FTC is investigating whether Arm is trying to illegally monopolize parts of the semiconductor market
Arm Holdings Plc is facing an antitrust investigation by the US Federal Trade Commission over the UK company's licensing of its semiconductor technology …
Ofcom says X has committed to implementing stronger protections for UK users, including reviewing illegal hate and terror content within 24 hours, after a probe
Seoul-based WIRobotics, which develops wearable and humanoid robots and is collaborating with Nvidia and AWS, raised a ~$68M Series B led by JB Investment
Replit says it has “worked things out with Apple”, which has approved a Replit update after four months, following a reported dispute over vibe coding apps
Meta rolls out new features for its Ray-Ban Display glasses, including neural handwriting support for all users, and opens up support for third-party apps
xAI launches Grok Build, an agent and CLI for coding, building apps, and automating workflows, in early beta, available first for SuperGrok Heavy subscribers
Sources: Nord Quantique, a quantum computing startup that is pursuing a hardware-level quantum error correction approach, raised $30M at a $1.4B valuation
Shenzhen-listed RoboTechnik, which claims to be the largest silicon photonics tool maker and whose stock is up 340% over the past year, files for a HK listing
RoboTechnik Intelligent Technology's Shenzhen-listed shares soared 340% over the past year, propelling founder Dai Jun's net worth to $2.4 billion.
Bill Ackman says his fund has taken a new stake in Microsoft after the company's recent share price decline; Ackman says investors underestimate Microsoft 365
Source: Kraken cut ~150 staff after AI tools improved efficiency and its IPO may be delayed until late 2026 or early 2027 due to a drop in digital-asset prices
Nvidia's future in China remains unclear after the Trump-Xi Summit; Trump says China “chose not to” buy Nvidia chips as “they want to try to develop their own”
says country ‘chose not to’ sanction purchases, pushing homegrown chips insteadChina Money Network:Navigating Uncertainty: Nvidia's China Conundrum Amid Geopolitical TensionsCissy Zhou /Nikkei Asia:An...