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SK Telecom invested $100 million in Anthropic in August 2023 and planned a multilingual telco model. Nearly three years later, sources said the White House ordered Anthropic to revoke the carrier’s access over alleged China ties, then moved to restrict Mythos 5.
In an interview, Tim Cook says Apple price hikes are “unavoidable” to offset surging memory and storage chip costs, and “the situation has become unsustainable”
The CEO tells the Journal in an exclusive interview that soaring costs make price increases ‘unavoidable’
Sources: the White House's move to restrict Mythos 5 came after it ordered Anthropic to revoke South Korea-based SK Telecom's access over alleged ties to China
Days before Anthropic took its most advanced AI models offline, the White House ordered the company to revoke SK Telecom's access …
Epic says Unreal Engine 6, planned for early access in late 2027, will unify UE5 and Unreal Editor for Fortnite, add Claude and Gemini integrations, and more
Epic has detailed Unreal Engine 6, which it says will prominently integrate generative AI models to allow developers to …
Sources: Amodei, Altman, and Hassabis called for US-led collaboration on AI rules at the G7 summit; Macron and Modi raised concerns over the US' block of Mythos
Dario Amodei is supported by rival Sam Altman in call for international co-operation — Anthropic chief executive Dario …
Midjourney unveils its first hardware product, the Midjourney Scanner, an ultrasound-based full-body scanner; it is unclear how AI fits into the medical effort
The AI image generator says this side project will be ‘in many ways superior to even MRI machines.’
Noam Shazeer leaves Google to join OpenAI as lead for architecture research; he rejoined Google as a Gemini co-lead in 2024 during the $2.7B Character.AI deal
Noam Shazeer, the Google DeepMind researcher whose work underpinned the generative AI boom, is joining OpenAI, the AI firm told staff on Wednesday.
Sources: Apple is testing a second-generation iPhone Air, planned for spring 2027, with a second rear camera for ultrawide-angle photos and better battery life
Apple Inc. is preparing a second-generation iPhone Air for spring 2027, aiming to boost the appeal of the slimmed-down device …
A newly discovered data leak has exposed what appears to be a collection of Fortinet and FortiGate VPN credentials for 73,932 firewall URLs across 194 countries
A newly discovered data leak dubbed “FortiBleed” has exposed what appears to be a collection of Fortinet and FortiGate VPN credentials …
Google confirms it has ended production of the Nest Mini and Nest Audio, but they “will continue to be fully supported” with updates, patches, and customer care
But it's not all bad news — We had a feeling it was coming, but we now have confirmation from Google …
Apple opens iOS to alternative app marketplaces in Brazil and changes App Store commission structure following a settlement with competition watchdog CADE
Starting today, app developers will be able to distribute apps through alternative app marketplaces in Brazil, as part of a broader set …
Sources: the White House and Anthropic are working on a framework that would assess the severity of AI security flaws, a sign that negotiations are progressing
The attempt to create a standardized method to evaluate this and future such incidents underscores how the administration is racing …
SpaceX's all-stock Cursor deal illustrates the power of the public markets, which could help SpaceX catch up to Anthropic's and OpenAI's models via acquisitions
Shares in Elon Musk's SpaceX have been on a tear, giving the rockets and artificial intelligence company financial resources to box out competitors.
Rockstar Games announces that pre-orders for Grand Theft Auto VI will go live on June 25; TTWO closed up 4.93%
If you were worried about another delay, you can probably stop worrying … Some of you might roll your eyes at the seeming certainty of that statement, and understandably so.
Nvidia researchers unveil ENPIRE, an agent harness framework that develops robotic self-improvement strategies for physical tasks with minimal human supervision
What happens when you give AI coding agents a lab full of robotic arms, some compute resources, and a “generous token budget” for teaching the robots various tasks?
AWS Summit: Amazon unveiled AWS Continuum, which uses AI to find and fix code vulnerabilities, AWS Context, which organizes company data for AI agents, and more
Amazon Web Services is announcing a new set of AI agents for businesses, developers, and individual users …
New book: Trump mocked Zuckerberg and Bezos by showing associates their fawning texts, saying they were “kissing my ass”; Musk called it “First-class groveling”
“You would not believe the texts I got from these tech guys,” NYT reporters Maggie Haberman …
A survey of US adults: 49% reported using chatbots in 2026, up from 33% in 2024, 24% said that they use chatbots on a daily basis, and 44% said they use ChatGPT
More Americans are using chatbots, and some are adopting AI summaries and smart speakers. But views about AI …
Businesses have started using Kalshi to hedge their business risks; Kalshi says institutional trading volume on its platform has grown 800% since November 2025
Platforms like Kalshi let millions wager on sports and pop culture. They're now hoping institutions will use them for big-ticket trading like hedging.
Filings: Waymo pulls its ~4K robotaxis from highways after finding 13+ instances of the cars driving into highway sections under construction
Waymo has recalled its fleet of nearly 4,000 robotaxis to restrict them from driving on highways while it figures out how to make the vehicles behave around construction zones.
Intel's stock jumps 10%+ after Trump said “Apple has agreed to work with Intel to design and build its Chips in America”; INTC is up 500%+ in the past year
The boost continues Intel's recent rally as the chipmaker bounces back from years of headwinds.
Apple's plan of moving Hide My Email aliases to private.icloud.com will let services easily distinguish them from normal iCloud email addresses and block them
A PwC study suggests that AI is rewarding companies that use it to enhance human skills, while leaving those that use it merely to cut costs further behind
Artificial intelligence is pulling the global labor market in two opposite directions, rewarding companies that use AI to enhance human skills …
GLM-5.2 is the leading open weights model on Artificial Analysis' Intelligence Index, scoring 51, only behind Fable 5's 60, Opus 4.8's 56, and GPT-5.5's 55
Z ai's GLM-5.2 is the new leading open weights model on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index scoring 51 and it sits on the Pareto frontier of Intelligence vs Cost per Task
Bernie Sanders proposes legislation to create a sovereign wealth fund financed via a one-time 50% stock tax on AI companies that reach $200M in annual AI sales
As artificial intelligence companies reshape the economy and race toward trillion-dollar valuations, Sen. Bernie Sanders …
An in-depth look at Meta's AI-fueled rampage through its engineering organization, 30% to 50% of engineers on core teams reassigned to data labeling, and more
Leadership at the social media giant has been on an AI-fueled rampage through its engineering org. We report what's happened
Joshua Baer, the founder and CEO of Texas accelerator-turned-venture firm Capital Factory, died on Tuesday night in a business jet crash in Laredo, Texas
A look at 764, an online group the FBI labeled a domestic terrorist organization for manipulating teen girls into sharing sexual material and cutting themselves
764 is a global group of online sadists pushing kids to harm themselves, their pets and their families. The FBI calls it a new wave of terrorism.LinkedIn:Anthony C.,Robert Friedman, andAllizandra Her...
Nation-state hackers are increasingly using preinstalled software on low-cost home devices to create residential proxy networks for masking cyberattack traffic
Nation-state cyberattackers are increasingly using residential proxy networks to mask their traffic, turning everyday electronics into a massive global threat
Snap plans to spin off an internal generative AI video team into Dotmo, a new company focused on AI models for interactive gaming experiences, citing high costs
Snap will be spinning off an internal generative AI video team into a separate company. The new company — dubbed Dotmo …
A Blackstone-led consortium agrees to take control of software company Medallia from Thoma Bravo, which will lose the entire $5B it invested in Medallia in 2021
Blackstone-led consortium to take over software company and inject $150mn to help cut its debt load — A Blackstone-led consortium …
Google's $99 Google Home Speaker, which is built for Gemini for Home and works as a Matter controller, will ship on June 29, nine months after it was announced
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A look at the chaos at Anthropic after it disabled Fable 5 and Mythos 5 with less than 90 minutes of notice, as some staff wonder if Trump is bullying Anthropic
and that's exactly what I did...My position remains consistent: We are on a shot clock until Mythos-level capabilities diffuse widely, including to non-U.S. / Chinese models. We need defenders to fin...
The Bank of Korea warns rising bonuses at some South Korean chipmakers could fuel broader wage growth and consumer spending, complicating the inflation outlook
South Korea's artificial intelligence-driven semiconductor boom may wind up complicating the inflation outlook …
Seattle-based Gradial, which makes AI agents that automate enterprise marketing workflows, raised a $65M Series C led by Insight Partners at a $675M valuation
Gradial, a Seattle-based startup that deploys AI agents to automate enterprise marketing workflows, has raised $65 million in Series C funding …
Sources: APEC, a derivatives exchange founded by the 22-year-old son of pro-crypto Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, raised $30M led by Lux at a $300M valuation
The 22-year-old son of a crypto-friendly senator plans to launch his own exchange for a type of derivative popularized by digital asset traders.
Former Trump AI adviser Dean Ball is joining OpenAI to lead a new team called Strategic Futures, focused on frontier AI policy and internal governance
Dean Ball, who helped shape the Trump administration's early policies on AI, is heading to OpenAI, he told Axios exclusively.
Guardrails Alliance, a super PAC that has raised $5M, debuts to advocate for AI safety legislation and counter pro-industry lobbying, running ads for Alex Bores
The Guardrails Alliance, which has raised $5 million, is positioning itself as a populist effort that will take on the pro …
Intel names former SK Hynix CEO Seok-Hee Lee as EVP of Intel Foundry; Naga Chandrasekaran will lead front-end technology development and front-end manufacturing
Intel (INTC.O) on Thursday named Seok-Hee Lee executive vice president of its contract chip-manufacturing division as it sharpens focus on its advanced packaging business.
Google launches Android 17 and Wear OS 7, available first on Pixel devices, with support for the latest AI models, a bubble bar UI, and live updates on Wear OS
Snap's stock closed down 8.14% on Wednesday, after the company launched its $2,195 Specs AR glasses on Tuesday; SNAP is down ~41% YTD
Sources: JPMorgan Chase has stopped its staff in Hong Kong from accessing Anthropic's AI models internally, after a similar move by rival Goldman Sachs in April
Bank follows Goldman Sachs in preventing use of Claude in Asian financial hub — JPMorgan Chase has stopped its staff in Hong Kong …
Filing: Roelof Botha joins SpaceX's board as an independent director and will serve on the audit committee, seven months after stepping down as Sequoia steward
Prem AI, a Swiss startup that lets hedge funds and law firms run AI models on their own infrastructure, is raising a $100M Series A, targeting a $500M valuation
Prem AI, a Swiss startup that helps companies including hedge funds and law firms run artificial intelligence models …
Accenture says it will buy a majority stake in Dragos and fully acquire runZero and NetRise in a combined deal for the cybersecurity startups valued at $4.18B
Consultancy firm Accenture (ACN.N) said on Thursday it will buy a majority stake in Dragos and fully acquire runZero and NetRise in a combined deal valued at $4.18 billion.
Sources: Kalshi is generating $2B+ in annualized revenue, up about three times from November, and has held informal talks with banks about an eventual IPO
Prediction market Kalshi is generating more than $2 billion in annualized revenue, up about three times from November …
As tech giants rush to build AI infrastructure, some residents living near data centers say a constant infrasonic vibration is ruining their health and homes
As tech giants rush to build infrastructure, some residents who live near data centers say a constant low-frequency vibration is ruining their health and homes.Forums:r/politicsForums:r/politics:The C...
Hive's stock jumps 5%+ after the company announced a $220M, three-year GPU cloud contract with Bell Canada and Cohere, as it pivots away from bitcoin mining
HIVE Digital Technologies (HIVE) shares jumped 10% in pre-market trading on Thursday after the company announced a $220 million …
Mastodon adds email newsletters, letting writers send their posts to subscribers' inboxes, even to readers without a Mastodon account, as part of Mastodon 4.6
Trump administration officials say Anthropic must ensure Fable 5's guardrails can't be circumvented before rerelease; experts say that may not be possible
“I don't understand you people. You're supposed to be so smart but you spend so much time getting bugs out of your software. WhySharon Goldman /@sharongoldman:And one AI security researcher says it's ...
Sources: Meta is under contract to buy roughly 1.6 GW of computing capacity from Crusoe across two data centers in Texas and Missouri
Meta Platforms Inc. has secured new agreements to get AI computing power from data center developer Crusoe, bolstering the infrastructure it needs to support …
Frontier, a group including Stripe, Google, Salesforce, and newly joined Anthropic, commits $915M to buy carbon-removal credits, on top of $1B already pledged
Shoe company Allbirds rebrands to Smartbird as it pivots to an AI infrastructure company and names former AWS executive Nadia Carlsten as CEO; BIRD jumps 39%
Former Gojek CEO and Indonesian education minister Nadiem Makarim is charged with taking ~$46M in rewards tied to a Chromebook procurement contract for schools
The trial of one of Southeast Asia's most successful entrepreneurs is adding to concern about governance under President Prabowo Subianto.
Amazon's AI chief Peter DeSantis says the company is in talks to sell its custom Trainium AI chips for use in third-party data centers
Amazon.com Inc. is in talks to sell its custom-made artificial intelligence chips for use in other companies' data centers, a key expansion of its efforts to cut into Nvidia Corp.'s dominance.
South Korean and Taiwanese tech companies that helped build China's hardware sector during the smartphone boom now reap the AI boom as US curbs sideline China
They make much of the gear that goes into giant data centers. Demand for their products is shifting the balance of tech power.LinkedIn:Paul MozurLinkedIn:Paul Mozur:Twenty years ago the smartphone bo...
Anthropic updates Claude Design with design system imports, bidirectional integration with Claude Code, lower token consumption, and more export destinations
Sources: as early as next week, the EU is set to unveil its preliminary findings that AWS and Azure seem to meet the criteria for regulation under the DMA
Microsoft Corp.'s Azure and Amazon Web Services are on a collision course with the European Union's tough digital competition rulebook …
AI inference startup Baseten is raising $1.5B in a dual-tiered deal, with some investors putting in money at an $11B valuation and others at a $13B valuation
Baseten, part of a growing Silicon Valley ecosystem offering services to enable low-cost AI models, is raising $1.5 billion in a new round
Verse Enterprises, which wants to provide energy-management software for 100 data centers by 2027, raised a $54M Series B from Nvidia and others
Verse Enterprises Inc. is betting batteries and solar can help data centers skip the line. — Long queues to get connected to the strained energy grid …
Sources: the early Chinese backers of Manus, including HSG, ZhenFund, and Tencent, plan to buy the AI startup back from Meta at the $2B price Meta paid
The early Chinese backers of AI firm Manus are planning to buy the firm back from Meta Platforms at the $2 billion price Meta paid …
Sources: ByteDance has been Microsoft's biggest AI customer in recent years, largely using OpenAI models, and is on track to spend $1B+ a year on Azure services
NeuralTrust, which offers tech that lets enterprises discover, monitor, govern, and secure AI agents, raised a $20M seed led by Alstin Capital
Architect Labs, which aims to use AI to cheapen and speed up the process of designing custom chips, raised a $24M seed led by Kindred Ventures
Architect Labs said on Thursday it had raised $24 million in seed funding to build a company that will use artificial intelligence to speed and ease the design of custom chips.
The UK CMA orders Google to provide greater transparency on how its search rankings work and to let users transfer their search data to authorized third parties
Report: DeepSeek's first external funding round has a non-negotiable term for investors to not poach its staff or encourage them to start their own companies
China's DeepSeek has a precondition for its $7.4 billion maiden fundraise: no poaching the AI lab's talents.
Uber says it will expand its premium robotaxi service from San Francisco to Houston by mid-2027, in partnership with EV maker Lucid and AV startup Nuro
Unsealed docs: Google lost a court fight against a 2023 US warrant in a Jan. 6 pipe bomb probe seeking info of 300+ users who searched for the RNC and DNC HQs
Google waged a secret court fight against a US warrant demanding identities of hundreds of internet users who searched …
Trump, who entered office opposing AI regulation, is shaping the industry through case-by-case interventions without clear rules, creating major uncertainty
The Trump administration entered office promising to get government out of the AI industry's way. It hasn't worked out that way.
Sources: General Intuition, which trains AI agents in spatial reasoning, is in talks to raise $300M from Jeff Bezos and others at a $2B+ valuation
General Intuition, the New York-based startup building a foundation model that trains AI agents how to move through space and time …
Paris-based Comand AI, which is developing AI-based command-and-control software for military operations, raised a €32M Series A led by Blossom Capital
Studies: Mira, an AI medical tool developed by researchers in Germany, and Google's Amie matched or surpassed doctors on diagnostic and treatment decisions
Dream, co-founded by ex-NSO Group CEO Shalev Hulio with a focus on protecting critical infrastructure, raised $260M at a $3B valuation, up from $1B in 2025
Convey, which is building AI “teammates” to automate workflows for clients like NBCUniversal, Samsara, and TelevisaUnivision, raised a $38M Series A led by a16z
XDOF, which is building data pipelines, collection tools, and annotation systems for robot training data, emerges from stealth with $70M
As David Sacks steps back and Sriram Krishnan prepares to leave, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and others are leading AI policy in the Trump administration
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