Donnerstag, 18. Juni 2026

06:40
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
Wall Street Journal
06:35
Report: DeepSeek's first external funding round has a non-negotiable term that investors should not poach its staff or encourage them to start own companies
CNBC
06:30
Guardrails Alliance, a super PAC that raised $5M, launches to advocate for AI safety legislation and counter pro-industry lobbying, running ads for Alex Bores
New York Times
06:10
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
Bloomberg
05:01
Intel stock jumps around 9% in premarket trading, after Trump said “Apple has agreed to work with Intel to design and build its Chips in America”
CNBC
02:35
A look at 764, an online group the FBI declared domestic terrorists due to members manipulating teen girls into sharing sexual pictures and cutting themselves
Bloomberg
02:25
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
New York Times
02:20
A PwC study suggests that AI is rewarding companies that use it to enhance human skills, while leaving further behind those that use it merely to cut costs
Bloomberg
02:15
Businesses have started using Kalshi to hedge business risks; Kalshi says institutional trading volume on its platform has grown 800% since November 2025
New York Times
02:10
The Bank of Korea warns rising bonuses at some South Korean chipmakers could fuel broader wage growth and consumer spending, complicating the inflation outlook
Bloomberg
01:55
SpaceX's all-stock Cursor deal illustrates the power of public markets, which could help SpaceX narrow the gap with Anthropic and OpenAI through acquisitions
New York Times
01:50
Nation-state hackers are increasingly using preinstalled software on low-cost home devices to create residential proxy networks and mask cyberattack traffic
Wall Street Journal
01:40
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
New York Times
01:25
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
Financial Times
01:20
NeuralTrust, which offers tech that lets enterprises discover, monitor, govern, and secure AI agents, raised a $20M seed led by Alstin Capital
Tech.eu
00:50
Sources: JPMorgan Chase has stopped its staff in Hong Kong from accessing Anthropic's AI models, following a similar move by rival Goldman Sachs
Financial Times
00:45
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
Bloomberg
00:05
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 Verge

Mittwoch, 17. Juni 2026

23:25
Nvidia researchers unveil ENPIRE, an agent harness framework that develops robotic self-improvement strategies for physical tasks with minimal human supervision
Ars Technica
22:40
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
Pew Research Center
22:05
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
Wired
21:20
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
Fortune
21:05
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
Tech Advisor
20:35
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
The Information
20:15
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
GeekWire
19:40
Frontier, a group including Stripe, Google, Salesforce, and newly joined Anthropic, commits $915M to buy carbon-removal credits, on top of $1B already pledged
Wall Street Journal
18:55
Trump administration officials say Anthropic must ensure Fable 5's guardrails can't be circumvented before rerelease; experts say that may not be possible
Wired
18:00
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
Arseniy Shestakov
17:30
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
TechCrunch
17:20
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”
Wall Street Journal
16:40
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
TechCrunch
16:35
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
Associated Press
16:15
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
Bloomberg
15:55
Anthropic updates Claude Design with design system imports, bidirectional integration with Claude Code, lower token consumption, and more export destinations
VentureBeat
15:25
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
Video Games Chronicle
14:15
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
Financial Times
13:50
CEOs of Anthropic and Google DeepMind call for U.S.-led AI coalition in meeting at G7
CNBC
13:25
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
BleepingComputer
12:55
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
RuntimeWire
12:45
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
Resilience Media
12:35
Studies: Mira, an AI medical tool developed by researchers in Germany, and Google's Amie matched or surpassed doctors on diagnostic and treatment decisions
Financial Times
12:25
Q&A with Luciana Lixandru, who co-leads Sequoia's global early-stage investment business, on why it is time for “act two” for Europe's tech sector, AI, and more
Financial Times
11:40
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
Reuters
11:25
Trace Finance, which provides stablecoin settlement infrastructure for cross-border payments across Latin America, raised a $32M Series A led by CoinFund
Cointelegraph
11:15
XDOF, which is building data pipelines, collection tools, and annotation systems for robot training data, emerges from stealth with $70M
TechCrunch
10:50
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
New York Times
10:40
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%
Reuters
10:35
Pramaana Labs, which uses the LEAN programming language to build a deterministic verification layer on top of LLMs, raised a $27M seed led by Khosla Ventures
TechCrunch
10:10
Convey, which is building AI “teammates” to automate workflows for clients like NBCUniversal, Samsara, and TelevisaUnivision, raised a $38M Series A led by a16z
Business Insider
09:55
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
The Verge
09:35
The UK says reports that Prime Minister Keir Starmer sought a carve-out to US export controls imposed on Anthropic's Claude Mythos 5 are “categorically untrue”
Politico
09:15
Andera, which uses AI to automate corporate audit and compliance testing, raised a $37M Series A led by Lightspeed
Axios
09:01
EigenQ, which makes cybersecurity systems to protect devices from future attacks by quantum computers, plans to go public via a SPAC merger at a ~$3B valuation
Reuters
08:35
Conduct, which uses AI to let companies maintain, change, and modernize their legacy IT systems, raised a $60M Series A, bringing its total funding to $72M
Axios
08:30
Estonia says it will assign personal ID numbers to AI agents to give them “limited, controllable, and auditable authorizations” as they take actions for humans
Bloomberg
08:10
Twenty, which uses AI to help US military hackers penetrate adversary computer networks, raised a $100M Series B led by Accel at a $1B valuation
Axios
08:05
Nasdaq Private Market sues Hiive, claiming Hiive stole trade secrets and infringed on its IP, poaching two employees in part to access confidential information
Bloomberg
07:45
OpenAI's Chief Strategy Officer messaged staff that OpenAI “strongly” told the US government that building AI “requires the best talent from around the world”
The Information
07:30
The US government awards $500M under the CHIPS Act to SandboxAQ to use AI models to develop new chemicals and materials for domestic semiconductor manufacturing
Reuters
07:20
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
TechCrunch
07:00
Nauk Nauk, which runs an AI video app that turns photos of toys into short animated videos, raised $20M and is coming out of beta; it claims to have 1M+ users
Axios
06:45
Sources: Trump officials discussed how to structure government equity stakes in AI companies, with Commerce Secretary Lutnick preferring a sovereign wealth fund
Semafor
06:35
Sources describe Huawei's efforts to rebuild its chip business seven years after the US cut Huawei off from advanced US chips, as it bets on logic-stacking tech
Financial Times
04:55
World models startup Odyssey raised $310M from Amazon and others at a $1.45B valuation and will use AWS as its preferred cloud partner, deploying Trainium chips
Financial Times
02:30
A profile of Anthropic researcher Nicholas Carlini, who warned about Mythos in March and is now part of an Anthropic team briefing the White House on safeguards
Wall Street Journal
02:20
Sources: Samsung is seeing a rise in advanced chip production requests from BYD, Google, AMD, Tesla, and other companies as AI demand strains TSMC's capacity
Nikkei Asia
02:11
India's Telegram ban until June 22 over exam paper leak concerns is a terrible look for the country, sets a precedent, and could happen again if unchallenged
@nixxin
01:50
Sources: a new AI lab founded by Junyang Lin, a former lead of Alibaba's Qwen models, has raised several hundred million dollars at a ~$2B post-money valuation
The Information
01:40
Dealogic: investors have poured $58B across 42 data center deals YTD; Oxford Economics says nearly 850 data centers worth ~$7T are under construction globally
Financial Times
01:30
Sources: Chinese social media app Xiaohongshu is aiming for a Hong Kong IPO as early as year-end at a $70B+ valuation, up from $50B+ in private secondary trades
Wall Street Journal
01:25
Kazakhstan signs accords with Firebird on Nvidia-related computing projects that could bring up to $10B in investment, as it seeks to build a Data Center Valley
Bloomberg
00:55
Sources: Jeff Bezos is investing in Cambridge, UK-based CuspAI, which applies generative AI to material sciences, as part of a $400M round at a $2.6B valuation
Financial Times
00:40
WordPress survey: 60% of US consumers say “AI” in a brand's messaging is a turnoff, and 86% always or sometimes check the source after receiving an AI summary
TechCrunch
00:30
A look at Wyoming's Frontier Stable Token, which launched in January and currently has a market value of ~$1M, as other states explore “white labeling” the tech
Bloomberg
00:11
Databricks says its annualized revenue rose 80%+ YoY to $6.9B, up from $5.4B in Q4; CEO Ali Ghodsi says AI agent usage is increasing costs and lowering margins
CNBC

Dienstag, 16. Juni 2026

22:55
Sources: Meta moved to support KOSA after it was packaged with language preempting state AI laws and a bill that would require app stores to verify users' ages
Politico
22:25
Kapwing: in tests, 59% of the first 500 TikTok For You videos shown to a new account were AI slop, vs. 21% slop shown to a new YouTube user via the Shorts feed
Search Engine Journal
21:41
Sources: the US has held off adding DeepSeek, CXMT, and 100+ other flagged companies to its Entity List, last updated in October, the longest gap in 10+ years
Reuters
21:10
Sources: Amazon faces a possible FTC lawsuit alleging it misled advertisers; multiple state AGs are involved and the case could seek billions in civil penalties
Bloomberg
20:55
Many US lawmakers said this week they had not been briefed on Trump's Fable 5 move, including Ted Cruz, whose commerce committee has jurisdiction over AI policy
Politico
20:05
Illinois Governor JB Pritzker signs a state budget that levies taxes on social media giants, digital advertising, and prediction and crypto markets
Chicago Sun Times
18:15
Anthropic pauses its plan to move Claude Agent SDK to token-based billing from June 15, saying “Nothing changes for now”, giving power users a pricing reprieve
Ars Technica
18:05
SpaceX closed up 4.83% on Tuesday for a $2.65T market cap, just above Amazon's, after popping ~12% intraday and briefly overtaking Microsoft's $2.93T market cap
CNBC
18:00
Sources: PayPal plans to close its 10-year-old PayPal Ventures arm amid new CEO Enrique Lores' shakeup and has hired Jefferies to explore selling some positions
Fortune
16:55
Melbourne-based Everlab, which is building an AI-powered preventive healthcare platform, raised a AU$65M Series A led by Airtree Ventures
SmartCompany
15:20
Sensor Tower: ChatGPT's market share fell to 46.4% at the end of May, as Gemini rose to 27.7% and Claude to 10.3%; Grok, Meta AI, and others have less than 5%
TechCrunch
14:45
Z.ai debuts GLM-5.2, saying the open-weights AI model brings improvements to agentic coding and long-horizon tasks, with a 1M context window and an MIT license
Z.ai
14:15
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
TechCrunch
13:35
Qualcomm announces Snapdragon Reality Elite, its new flagship XR chipset, and says it will debut in the compute puck of Xreal's Aura Android XR device this fall
UploadVR
13:20
Letter: Hightouch, an ad tech startup valued at $2.75B in April, offers to buy LiveRamp's identity business from Publicis for $800M to $1.2B in cash and stock
Axios
13:10
A look at Specs, which have a battery life of up to four hours and a case with four charges, and an interview with Snap CEO Evan Spiegel about the AR glasses
Fast Company
13:02
Snap unveils $2,195 Specs, its first “fully standalone” AR glasses, which have a 51-degree field of view, set to ship “this fall” in the US, the UK, and France
The Verge
12:40
Microsoft is moving Copilot Cowork to usage-based pricing as it expands its access and is considering a Microsoft-hosted version of DeepSeek as a cheaper option
Axios
12:17
Sources: Apple's AirPods with cameras for AI are scheduled to launch in 2027 alongside the 20th anniversary pro iPhones and a second-generation foldable iPhone
Bloomberg
11:50
Databricks agrees to acquire Panther Labs, its third cybersecurity acquisition; Panther was valued at $1.4B when it raised a $120M Series B in December 2021
Reuters
11:25
Bland, which uses proprietary, in-house-built voice models to process calls for 250+ enterprise clients, raised a $50M Series C led by Dell Technologies Capital
Fortune
10:55
Hydra Host, a marketplace for developers and enterprises to procure GPUs pooled from data center operators, raised a $100M Series A led by Kindred Ventures
SiliconANGLE
10:15
Sources: the Trump administration won't let G7 countries regain access to Mythos 5 as doing so would be “completely illogical”; the UK requested a “carve-out”
New York Post
09:50
Sources: Binance is set to lose permission to serve EU clients from July as its license application, made to Greece's market regulator, is about to be rejected
Reuters
09:45
Ent Security, which wants to build a new layer of workspace security that reads the intent behind what users and AI agents do, launches with $100M in funding
SiliconANGLE
09:35
Limitless Labs, which is developing an AI platform to automate CNC manufacturing, raised a $20M Series A led by Dell Technologies Capital and Square Peg
CTech
09:20
Microsoft upgrades Surface Pro and Surface Laptop with Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 chips; Pro starts at $1,499 and Laptop at $1,599, both $100 higher than last-gen
The Verge
09:01
Copia, an industrial code management and recovery provider, raised $26M co-led by AE Ventures and Squadra Ventures, after previously raising $16.4M
Axios
08:53
Docs: audited financial figures show OpenAI spent $34B in 2025, up 172% YoY, including $19B on research and development and nearly $6B on sales and marketing
Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At
08:45
Roblox rolls out Roblox Kids accounts for ages 5 to 8 and Roblox Select accounts for ages 9 to 15, globally, after unveiling them alongside age checks in April
The Verge
08:40
Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev says the company is “proactively” reducing its full-time workforce by ~10%, or ~290 employees, in a “flattening” of its org structure
Cointelegraph
08:30
Ripple acquires a stake in Flutterwave as part of the African payments startup's Series E, valuing Flutterwave at $3.2B
Bloomberg
08:15
An interview with SBF about life in prison, his serialized prison memoir titled Manfred, and more, as he praises Trump, becomes a Republican, and seeks a pardon
New York Magazine
07:50
Atom Computing, one of the nine quantum computing startups backed by the US, raised a $100M Series C led by Third Point, bringing its total funding to $300M
Axios
07:15
Meta says Threads now has 500M MAUs, adds a “Your Algo” tool that lets users privately control what they see in their feed, and launches Communities out of beta
TechCrunch
07:01
Alibaba's AI unit Tongyi Lab launches the Qwen Robot Suite, its first suite of AI models for robots, in pilot testing with some Alibaba Cloud enterprise clients
South China Morning Post
06:44
SpaceX agrees to acquire Cursor in an all-stock deal valuing the AI coding startup at $60B, set to close in Q3 2026, or pay a $4B to $10B termination fee
Reuters
06:35
SoftBank announces an OpenAI-powered “patching service” that aims to protect Japan's top 3,000 companies behind crucial infrastructure against cyberattacks
Associated Press
06:15
Florida sues TikTok for allegedly violating its social media regulations for minors and state consumer protection laws by showing “X-Rated” content to minors
Bloomberg Law
06:00
France plans €655M in AI investments through 2030 and a Mistral-based chatbot for state workers; its spy service will drop Palantir for French firm ChapsVision
Bloomberg
05:55
India blocks Telegram until June 22, citing its use by organized “cheating rackets” to “defraud candidates” taking a national medical entrance exam on June 21
Reuters
05:35
Study: Mistral and other open-source AI models are among the worst at filtering out Russian disinformation; Mistral's top model ranks 47 out of 60 tested models
Financial Times
04:25
Kuala Lumpur-based Respond.io, which uses AI agents to manage customer conversations, raised a $62.5M Series B led by Camber, following a $7M Series A in 2022
TechCrunch
03:00
Italy's competition regulator opens an investigation into Apple under the DMA over whether iOS and iPadOS interoperate with third-party consumer cloud services
Reuters
01:15
Sources: DeepSeek closed a ~$7.4B round at a $50B+ valuation under an unusual structure requiring investors to put capital into an LP run by CEO Liang Wenfeng
The Information
01:00
Docs: OpenAI's net loss grew from $5B in 2024 to ~$39B in 2025, a source says due to a $30B non-cash accounting charge linked to its previous structure
Financial Times
00:40
Sources: Microsoft is adding AWS capacity to GitHub after AI-driven growth strained its infrastructure and contributed to dozens of major GitHub outages in 2026
Business Insider
00:00
Memo: CTO Andrew Bosworth said Meta did “an atrocious job” sharing Applied AI's vision, promising employees better communication, career growth, and more perks
Wired

Montag, 15. Juni 2026

23:40
Filing: the US DOJ asks the court to dismiss an NAACP lawsuit over xAI's gas turbines, saying xAI is integral to the US' military operations, like the Iran War
Wired
23:20
Sources: Trump officials weighed Anthropic export controls weeks before forcing its models offline, after a dispute over giving China-linked firm Mythos access
Washington Post
23:05
Anthropic says its senior leaders met Trump administration officials on Monday, didn't reach a resolution, and both sides are working to resolve things quickly
The Information
22:00
Taxi-hailing app Go's shares grew 21% in its Tokyo debut, after it raised ~$553M in Japan's largest IPO in 2026, giving the company a market value of ~$1.16B
Bloomberg
20:40
A look at Roblox's biometric age-checking tool, which will help place its users into age-based accounts starting in June, amid controversy over user privacy
NBC News
19:05
A profile of Cursor, including its hiring process and testy relationship with Anthropic, which told Cursor that Claude Code was a research effort, per a source
Business Insider
18:00
Sources: several Xbox studios, including Hellblade maker Ninja Theory, are in talks with Microsoft to buy themselves back and go independent to avoid closure
Bloomberg
17:30
Source: Qualcomm is in talks to acquire AI chip designer Tenstorrent for $8B to $10B; in 2025, Tenstorrent had discussed raising $800M at a ~$3.2B valuation
The Information
16:40
OpenRouter debuts Fusion, a tool that prompts multiple AI models in parallel, claiming it can “reach and surpass Fable-level performance on deep research tasks”
OpenRouter Blog
16:20
SpaceX's stock closed up 19.6% on June 15, its first full day of trading; Musk said it “might be able to reach” ~$1T in revenue in 2030, up from $18.7B in 2025
CNBC
14:45
Meta debuts new AI features, including an “AI Mode” that uses Meta AI to search for answers pulled from public posts across Facebook, including Groups and Reels
TechCrunch
14:20
Arcade, which helps companies manage which actions AI agents are authorized to take, raised a $60M Series A led by SYN Ventures, following a $12M seed in 2025
Wall Street Journal
14:05
A US judge dismisses xAI's lawsuit alleging OpenAI stole trade secrets, saying xAI failed to show that OpenAI induced a former xAI engineer to divulge Grok info
Reuters
13:25
Anthropic's origin story is rooted in OpenAI not taking safety seriously enough, so only Anthropic can control AI and everyone else, including the US government
Stratechery
13:15
Radical Numerics, which is developing AI models that learn directly from biological data, raised a $50M seed led by Emergence Capital
Axios
12:30
Source: Anthropic was given 90 minutes to comply and wasn't provided with detailed concerns before the Commerce Department imposed export controls on its models
Financial Times
12:25
Google says a Chinese-linked hacking group targeted US and Canadian academic, medical, and military research institutions from September 2023 to November 2025
Reuters
12:20
NewCore, which helps companies manage both human and AI agent identities in a single system, emerges from stealth with a $66M seed led by Cyberstarts
TechCrunch
12:15
Cybersecurity startup Chainguard, Cisco, Cloudflare, JPMorgan Chase, and others launch Athena, a coalition to secure open-source software using AI
Bloomberg
11:50
American Express agrees to acquire restaurant booking platform TheFork from Tripadvisor for $700M in cash; in October, Starboard Value pushed for TheFork's sale
Reuters
11:45
A US judge rejects Meta's bid to dismiss a lawsuit from Strike 3, which owns porn production companies, that alleges Meta torrented its videos for AI training
TorrentFreak
11:35
Canadian payments company Nuvei agrees to acquire NY-based cross-border payments company Payoneer for ~$2.75B in cash; the deal is expected to close in mid-2027
Reuters
11:30
Electronic Arts launches EA Advertising, which lets brands integrate directly into gameplay through dynamic, real-time placements, including stadium signage
CNBC
11:25
Zhipu's shares closed up 33% on June 15 after JPMorgan raised the stock's price target and picked it as a winner against rival MiniMax, whose stock closed up 7%
Bloomberg
11:15
SpaceX's IPO raised a total of $85.7B as underwriters exercised their overallotment of shares; the additional money is bigger than almost all tech IPOs to date
CNBC
11:05
Indian AI startup Sarvam raised $234M in the first close of a $300M Series B at a $1.5B valuation, with HCLTech acquiring a 10.5% stake for ~$150M in cash
Reuters
10:40
SailPoint is acquiring Entro Security, which develops a cybersecurity platform for managing non-human identities, a source says in a deal valued at ~$200M
CTech
10:30
1Password acquires Apono, which operates an AI-powered platform for managing permissions and access to cloud infrastructure, sources say for $250M to $300M
CTech
10:25
Sources say Anthropic struggles to speak the Trump administration's language; a White House official says Anthropic “screwed us” as it didn't “honor” a cyber EO
Axios
10:15
Salesforce agrees to acquire AI customer service platform Fin, formerly known as Intercom, for ~$3.6B, in a deal expected to close in Q4 of its 2027 fiscal year
CNBC
09:35
A look at a few proposals for sharing AI wealth with the public: government stakes in AI companies, a tax on AI token use, a global capital income tax, and more
New York Times
09:15
Fox says it obtained a $12B loan for the ~$22B Roku deal; existing Fox shareholders are expected to own ~73% of the combined company and Roku shareholders ~27%
CNBC
08:40
Nvidia sold $25B of high-grade bonds, after an initial target of ~$20B, in its first corporate bond sale since 2021; source: investor demand hit as much as $85B
Bloomberg
08:15
Sources: the US government plans to let the Federal Data Center Enhancement Act, which details standards for data center use and operations, expire in September
Wired
08:10
Docs: Tesla sent Swedish and Dutch regulators Full Self-Driving safety data that traffic-safety researchers called misleading; Dutch RDW approved FSD in April
Reuters
07:38
Court reporting shows AI's limits in replacing human skill, as reporters remain crucial for capturing gestures and working through noise, amid a worker shortage
Wall Street Journal
07:38
Fox says it is acquiring Roku in its largest deal yet, valued at ~$25B, giving it access to 100M+ streaming households globally; FOX closes down 15.22%
Wall Street Journal
06:10
Tencent-backed Enflame receives approval for a Shanghai IPO and plans to raise ~$888M; Enflame is the last of China's four leading AI chipmakers to go to market
Bloomberg
05:40
The FBI dismantles Outsider Enterprise, an AI-powered Chinese phishing operation, and seizes ~$100K in Tether in a joint effort with Google and Black Lotus Labs
BleepingComputer
05:35
The UK's social media ban will cover Snapchat, TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, X, and more, and will require platforms to stop children from livestreaming
BBC
05:00
Letter: US cybersecurity leaders urge the White House to lift the ban on Anthropic's Mythos 5 and Fable 5, arguing the move hurts defenders more than attackers
Axios
04:40
Keir Starmer says the UK will ban social media for under-16s in an “Australia-plus model” to “give kids their childhood back”, set to take effect in spring 2027
Reuters
04:20
President Trump says he warned Emmanuel Macron to drop France's 3% digital services tax on US tech giants, or face a 100% tariff on French champagnes and wines
New York Post
03:25
As AI “nudify” tools proliferate, unleashing a new form of bullying among kids, parents and schools struggle to protect young victims from explicit deepfakes
Wall Street Journal
01:55
A profile of UC Berkeley professor Hany Farid, the world's leading digital forensics expert for 20+ years, who says he is now struggling to identify deepfakes
New York Times
00:50
Sources: Alibaba is in talks to buy Chinese grocery delivery platform Pupu for $1.5B, as part of a broader push to compete with rivals like Meituan and JD.com
Bloomberg
00:45
Madrid-based Orbio, which uses AI agents to help businesses interview, onboard, and manage frontline workers, raised a $21M Series A led by Dawn Capital
TechCrunch
00:20
Inside the Signal group chat where Sergey Brin, Marc Andreessen, Garry Tan, and other tech elites toss out strategies to oppose a proposed California wealth tax
The San Francisco Standard

Sonntag, 14. Juni 2026

23:50
Sources: ByteDance is in talks with Shanghai-based Iluvatar CoreX to purchase GPUs for AI inference, and is considering a deal to buy Baidu's Kunlunxin chips
Reuters
22:30
Rylo, which develops real-time speech and sign-language translation tools for deaf and hard-of-hearing users, raised $85M led by General Catalyst and Canaan
CTech
21:40
Hypha, which extracts data from private-market documents to create workflows for underwriting, portfolio monitoring, and asset management, raised a $50M seed
Axios
21:10
Sandstone, which builds AI-powered workflow automation tools for legal teams at small and mid-sized businesses, raised a $30M Series A led by Lightspeed
TechCrunch
20:30
Sundar Pichai faced a walkout at his Stanford commencement speech, as 100+ students left while chanting “Free, free Palestine” over Google's Israel contract
New York Post
19:25
Sources: Frank founder Charlie Javice, sentenced in September 2025 to 85 months for defrauding JPMorgan Chase, has been seeking a presidential pardon from Trump
Wall Street Journal
18:55
A profile of Kalshi COO Luana Lopes Lara, who has overseen a tremendous pace of growth over the past year as the startup faces political and regulatory backlash
Bloomberg
15:35
Satya Nadella says companies must own their AI “learning loops” that compound human capital and token capital, or risk ceding all value to a few frontier models
@satyanadella
14:40
Sources: senior Anthropic technical staff flew to DC to meet WH officials over the Mythos 5 dispute, with both sides saying they are eager to resolve the issue
Axios
13:55
Canada's PM says the Anthropic ban shows the dangers of “over-reliance on certain models”, and compares the risks to those that led to the 2008 financial crisis
Bloomberg
12:25
Sources: UK plans to announce an “Australia plus” under-16 social media ban, including restrictions on chats with strangers on gaming apps and under-18 curfews
The Guardian
11:55
The EU says it's assessing the practical consequences of the US' Anthropic export controls, noting such measures “should not be discriminatory against partners”
Reuters
11:40
Siri AI is good enough to ease Apple's AI crisis; sources say the ability to tap third-party AI models beyond OpenAI's is inside the first iOS 27 developer beta
Bloomberg
11:10
Since Russia ratcheted up control over the internet this year, some Russians are turning to solutions like using multiple phones and VPNs to evade restrictions
Reuters
08:10
Ajinomoto says it can meet demand through 2030 for ABF, a key material for advanced chipmaking substrates, and plans to expand capacity instead of hiking prices
Wall Street Journal
00:45
US export controls on Anthropic reignite debate in India over the country's AI ambitions, which are increasingly tied to tech developed and governed in the US
TechCrunch

Samstag, 13. Juni 2026

23:15
US officials: the Trump administration's decision to impose export controls on Anthropic followed multiple tense calls between Dario Amodei and admin officials
Politico
18:23
Source: the White House imposed export controls on Mythos partly over suspicions a China-linked group had accessed it
Semafor
16:25
Source: the White House is unlikely to extend export restrictions to other AI companies
The Information
15:55
European political figures say Anthropic disabling access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 is a “wake-up call” about the risks of depending on the US for AI tech
Associated Press
14:20
David Sacks says Dario Amodei refused to “fix the jailbreak or de-deploy the model” after “a highly credible trusted partner” reported a Fable jailbreak
@davidsacks
12:35
Sources: Amazon CEO Andy Jassy is among tech leaders who raised concerns with Trump officials about Mythos 5, setting in motion new export restrictions
The Information