Anthropic Becomes a Planning Assumption
John Jumper is leaving Google DeepMind after nearly nine years to join Anthropic, while Google funds a New York TPU site serving the lab and the White House negotiates an AI-security framework with it.
Take-Two's Rockstar Games announces that pre-orders for Grand Theft Auto VI will go live on June 25 for PS5 and Xbox Series consoles; 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.
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 …
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
Intel's stock jumps 10.64% after Trump said “Apple has agreed to work with Intel to design and build its Chips in America”; INTC is up 520%+ in the past year
Intel's stock rose 10% on Thursday, after President Donald Trump said the semiconductor company had agreed to a deal …
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 …
Amazon MGM Studios drops Luca Guadagnino's mostly finished movie on Sam Altman; Amazon struck a major deal with OpenAI in February, including a $50B investment
The film, starring Andrew Garfield as the controversial OpenAI CEO, will be shopped to other studios.
The CFTC permanently bans Celsius founder Alex Mashinsky from trading in markets it oversees as part of a settlement resolving its 2023 lawsuit against him
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Nothing won't launch a new phone this year in its budget-focused CMF Phone series due to RAM prices
Nothing's CMF Phone series has released two models thus far and, at least for now, won't be getting a third, as the rising cost of materials has essentially left the series dead in the water.
Appfigures: daily downloads of major VPN apps in India rose 49% on June 16 after India announced its Telegram ban; Proton and Turbo recorded largest increases
As India cut off access to messaging app Telegram for a week over concerns about exam-related fraud, users turned to virtual private networks …
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.
Sources: England and Wales' attorney general tells his office to stop posting on X, a first for the UK government, amid worries about X inciting violence
Exclusive: Richard Hermer's office understood to be first in government to restrict use after recent riots
Sources: Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick questioned ASML leaders on concerns China acquired one of its EUV machines, violating US-led export restrictions
Dutch chip-equipment giant ASML Holding NV is contending with its biggest challenge yet under the Trump administration …
Doc: SpaceX says the EU's plan to reserve satellite spectrum for European operators risks disrupting connectivity, including for emergency services in Ukraine
Elon Musk's group hits out at proposal by bloc to reserve part of spectrum band for European operators
Trump says he saw Anthropic last week as a national security threat, but signals relations have since improved because Dario Amodei was “nice” and “smart” at G7
President Trump reached the point last week of viewing Anthropic as a national security threat …
John Edwards, UK Information Commissioner and chair of the ICO, the country's data and AI regulator, resigned following a workplace investigation
John Edwards, the UK's information commissioner, has resigned following a workplace investigation. — “I have accepted that there have been occasions …
Sources: SpaceX plans to raise $20B in a bond sale as soon as next week; the funds would be used to pay back a $20B bridge loan taken out after the xAI merger
AI and rocket group is tapping debt markets after raising $86bn in stock market debut — SpaceX is planning to raise $20bn …
DOJ says two brothers pleaded guilty to robbing a Minnesota family of $8M+ in cryptocurrency after holding them at gunpoint for over eight hours in 2025
Quick Take — Two brothers pleaded guilty to robbing a Minnesota family of more than $8 million in cryptocurrency after holding …
The US FERC approves new orders to fast-track data center power requests, aiming to handle them in 90 days, while bringing new requirements for AI hyperscalers
US regulators have taken their biggest step yet to speed the connection of data centers to the country's grids while simultaneously attempting …
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 …
A US circuit court overturned an injunction against Ohio, allowing the state to implement a law forcing platforms to seek parental consent if a user is under 16
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.
Turkey approves Uber's $335M deal to buy Getir's delivery business, tied to a $500M investment pledge in Turkey; Uber is also paying $100M for a 15% Getir stake
The regulator's approval, tied to a $500m investment pledge, lets Uber fold Getir into its Turkish operation.
Norway imposes a near ban on gen AI use by elementary school children and restricts its use in older kids' education, to prevent a negative impact on learning
Norway is imposing a near ban on the use of generative AI tools by elementary school pupils while also restricting their use …
Filing: Jio Platforms, India's largest wireless operator with 526M+ subscribers, files for an IPO; the deal is expected to be one of India's biggest IPOs ever
Billionaire Mukesh Ambani's Jio Platforms, India's largest wireless operator and digital service provider, filed draft papers for an initial public offering on Friday.
South Korean media: Hyundai plans to buy SoftBank's remaining 9.65% stake in Boston Dynamics for $325M to make the US robotics company a wholly owned subsidiary
Hyundai Motor Group plans to buy SoftBank Group's (9984.T) remaining 9.65% stake in Boston Dynamics for $325 million …
John Jumper, who won the Nobel Prize “for protein structure prediction”, says he is leaving Google DeepMind after nearly nine years to join Anthropic
A bit of news: After nearly 9 years, I have decided to leave Google DeepMind and join Anthropic (after taking some time to recharge). I am incredibly grateful for my time at GDM. @demishassabis took a...
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
How hacker group TeamPCP exploited the open source trust model and distribution method to compromise and inject malware into over 1,000 software packages
The threat group's remarkable success targeting open-source software was inevitable and fueled by the industry's decision to prioritize code shipping over security.LinkedIn:Gregory L. OttoLinkedIn:Gre...
Sources detail how Google is using Nvidia's playbook to build an AI chip business, including providing $3.2B to fund a NY data center renting TPUs to Anthropic
Wielding its war chest to win data-center customers for its silicon, the world's second-biggest company is taking a page from No. 1
Oura Ring 5 review: impressive thinness, live activity tracking, and conversational AI, but not very durable, LEDs are distracting, and the app is confusing
People who already own one of the company's older models have less of a reason to upgrade to the $399 device. — The Oura Ring 5 is the best smart ring yet.
Sources: Chinese autonomous driving company Momenta has reached a ~$9B valuation as it gears up to raise ~$1B in an upcoming Hong Kong IPO
The company has also been backed by Toyota and SAIC Motor — Chinese autonomous-driving company Momenta's valuation has reached around $9 billion …
Filings: Waymo pulls its ~4K robotaxis from highways after finding 13+ instances of the cars driving into highway sections under construction
Sources: about 200 companies accessing Mythos Preview through Project Glasswing have preserved their access despite a recent US government shutdown order
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 …
Docs: OpenAI burned through $3.7B in Q1, on revenue of $5.7B, and ended the quarter with $73B+ in cash and marketable securities vs. $40B at the end of December
OpenAI burned through $3.7 billion in the first quarter, more than half its $5.7 billion in revenue, according to documents the company shared with shareholders.
Sources: Meta is under contract to buy roughly 1.6 GW of computing capacity from Crusoe across two data centers in Texas and Missouri
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
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
Sources: Abu Dhabi's MGX is exploring buying Singapore-based data center operator DayOne; last month, sources said DayOne planned a US IPO at a $20B valuation
Abu Dhabi-backed artificial intelligence investor MGX has been exploring buying Singapore-based data centre operator DayOne …
Barret Zoph leaves OpenAI again five months after rejoining in January; Zoph initially left OpenAI in 2024 to serve as Thinking Machines Lab co-founder and CTO
Five months after returning to OpenAI, Barret Zoph — the company's head of enterprise AI sales — has departed, The Verge has learned.
Source: Elastic has agreed to acquire the AI site reliability engineering startup Deductive AI for up to $85M; CRV led Deductive AI's $7.5M seed round in 2025
DeductiveAI, a startup that uses AI to catch and resolve bugs in software, has agreed to be sold to enterprise software company Elastic …
Siemens expects Xcelerator revenue to more than double in 2026, aiming to make the platform an industrial app store integrating software and hardware offerings
Siemens AG expects revenue from its online store to more than double this year, though the maker of industrial software and trains …
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
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
A profile of Meta President Dina Powell McCormick, who has become one of Silicon Valley's top power brokers as she helps oversee Meta's AI infrastructure push
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
Hive's stock jumps 7.3% after the company announced a $220M, three-year GPU cloud contract with Bell Canada and Cohere, as it pivots away from bitcoin mining
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
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
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
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
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
ASML says claims that one of its EUV lithography systems has ended up in China are inaccurate, after a report on Howard Lutnick's questions to ASML's leadership
ASML denies it has ever shipped an EUV scanner to China. … It follows a report that Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick …
The departure of John Jumper, a key member of Google's AI coding development team, further strains Google's efforts to compete with Anthropic and OpenAI
Google DeepMind Vice President John Jumper, who won the 2024 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his work on artificial intelligence, is leaving the company to join Anthropic PBC.
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
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