Dienstag, 10. Juni 2025

07:00
Top500: the US retains the top three supercomputers with El Capitan, Frontier, and Aurora; the US has 173 of the top 500 to Europe's 163 and China's 46
InsideHPC
06:45
IBM plans to build IBM Quantum Starling, a “fault-tolerant” quantum computer with 20,000x the power of today's quantum computers, in New York state by 2029
Wall Street Journal
06:35
The UK plans to launch an autonomous taxi trial in London in spring 2026, a year earlier than planned; Uber and Wayve will partner to operate the service
Financial Times
06:20
SAG-AFTRA reaches a tentative deal with Activision, EA, Epic, Take-Two, and other game companies on the Interactive Media Contract, after months of strikes
Variety
06:05
LVMH says AI and AI agents will be key to navigating a broad slowdown and waning demand in luxury goods, and is using AI in supply chains, pricing, and more
Wall Street Journal
05:50
UK retailer M&S begins accepting online orders again, seven weeks after disclosing a sustained cyberattack that cost it up to £300M in this financial year
Financial Times
04:40
WPP Media expects ad revenue from user-generated content and platforms like YouTube and TikTok to surpass that from traditional media for the first time in 2025
The Guardian
04:10
Sources: Mark Zuckerberg, frustrated at Meta's AI shortfalls, is personally assembling a team of AI experts and met engineers at his homes in recent weeks
Bloomberg
04:02
Sources: Meta plans to unveil an AI lab dedicated to “superintelligence”, led by Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang, and is offering seven- to nine-figure compensation
New York Times
02:00
SEC Chair Paul Atkins says the agency is working on an “innovation exemption” to boost onchain product creation and support Trump's vision of a US crypto hub
Cointelegraph

Montag, 9. Juni 2025

23:45
Chinese state media: Huawei CEO Ren Zhengfei says the company's chips lag a generation behind US peers, and claims the US “exaggerated Huawei's achievements”
Reuters
22:25
An analysis of X's new XChat features shows that X can probably decrypt users' messages, as it holds users' private keys on its servers
Cryptographic Engineering
21:40
Roblox hires Paramount's Naveen Chopra as CFO starting June 30; Chopra previously held senior roles at Amazon and served as CFO at Pandora and TiVo
Bloomberg
21:10
Turnkey, which builds low-level infrastructure for digital wallets used to store and manage crypto, raised a $30M Series B led by Bain Capital Crypto
Fortune
19:55
Waymo suspends operations in downtown Los Angeles after at least five vehicles were destroyed during riots, but continues to operate in other parts of the city
Los Angeles Times
19:25
Disney closes its deal with Comcast to buy out NBCUniversal's 33% stake in Hulu, paying an additional $439M, after agreeing in 2023 to pay $8.61B
The Hollywood Reporter
18:25
Apple unveils several changes to CarPlay in iOS 26, including a Liquid Glass redesign, a dashboard for Live Activities, and broad support for widgets
MacRumors
17:40
Apple says macOS 26 Tahoe will be the last macOS release that supports Intel-based Macs, with future macOS versions only available to Apple Silicon models
9to5Mac
16:50
US prosecutors charge Iurii Gugnin, founder of US-based crypto payments service Evita Pay, with laundering $500M+, including to sanctioned Russian entities
CNBC
16:35
Amazon plans to invest $20B+ in Pennsylvania to expand data center infrastructure, less than a week after announcing it would invest $10B in North Carolina
Reuters
14:47
Apple unveils Xcode 26, integrating ChatGPT for coding, document generation, and more, and says developers can use API keys to add models from other providers
TechCrunch
14:35
Apple updates Spotlight in macOS Tahoe, letting users quickly take actions in apps from playing music to creating notes and files, similar to Raycast
The Verge
14:07
Apple plans to release iOS 26, iPadOS 26, tvOS 26, and macOS Tahoe 26 in fall 2025; developer betas will be available on June 9, with public betas in July
The Verge
14:05
Apple announces Workout Buddy, bringing Apple Intelligence to Apple Watch fitness workouts by providing personalized insights during exercise sessions
MacRumors
14:00
Apple says ChatGPT image generation is now available in Image Playground with new ChatGPT styles, releases an API, adds Genmoji text descriptions, and more
MacRumors
13:55
Apple announces a new live translation feature across Messages, FaceTime, and Phone apps, but has not yet said how many languages will be supported
TechCrunch
13:50
Apple says Visual Intelligence will now be able to search on-screen content in addition to analyzing real world objects, expanding on camera search
MacRumors
13:43
Apple unveils a standalone Games app, offering games from the App Store, a dedicated section for Apple Arcade, and Game Center social features like leaderboards
9to5Mac
13:40
Apple debuts macOS 26 Tahoe, with an overhauled design using Liquid Glass, a Phone app, a game launcher, Live Activities, new AI features, and more
The Verge
13:36
Apple is bringing polls to iMessage group chats and says Apple Intelligence will suggest polls based on a conversation's context
TechCrunch
13:35
Apple unveils iOS 26, using its new Liquid Glass design language, an updated lockscreen, and new features in Camera, Safari, Phone, Messages, and more
The Verge
13:31
Apple renames its OSes, shifting to a year-based system; the next iOS is iOS 26, alongside macOS Tahoe 26, iPadOS 26, watchOS 26, tvOS 26, and visionOS 26
The Verge
13:31
Apple announces “studio-quality” audio recording and camera control features for AirPods 4, AirPods 4 with ANC, and AirPods Pro 2
9to5Mac
13:27
Apple announces visionOS 26 with spatial widgets, including Clock, Weather, Music, and Photos, all-new Personas, Spatial scenes powered by AI, and more
9to5Mac
13:25
Apple unveils iPadOS 26 with new features to help users manipulate windows, including fluidly resizing them and opening more at once, a new Files app, and more
The Verge
13:20
Apple unveils a Liquid Glass design language across its platforms, adding transparency and glass shine effects to Apple's in-app interfaces
The Verge
13:20
Apple announces the Foundation Models framework, giving developers direct access to its on-device AI models for the first time
MacRumors
13:12
OpenAI says it hit $10B in annual recurring revenue; for all of last year, OpenAI was around $5.5B in ARR
CNBC
12:59
A recording of Apple's WWDC 2025 keynote
Apple on YouTube
12:55
A live blog of Apple's WWDC keynote
The Verge
12:00
United Natural Foods, a grocery distributor to 30K+ stores in the US and Canada and Whole Foods' main distributor, hit by a cyberattack, halting some operations
TechCrunch
11:50
Q&A with Taskrabbit CEO Ania Smith on the Ikea-owned platform's history, Taskers earning up to $50/hour, AI assistants, zero fees, high suburban use, and more
The Verge
10:45
Sources: ahead of US-China talks in London, President Trump gives US negotiators room to lift export controls on a wide variety of tech and other products
Wall Street Journal
10:30
Researcher brutecat finds a vulnerability that revealed the phone number linked to any Google account via brute forcing phone numbers; Google fixed the issue
404 Media
10:20
Nintendo Switch 2 hands-on: after a few days, it is just a bigger, more powerful Switch, transferring games works smoothly, the new Joy-Cons are great, and more
The Verge
07:35
Xbox Ally X hands-on: an AMD Ryzen AI Z2 Extreme APU, 24GB of RAM, and a 1TB SSD, 1080p games run at 60 FPS with no issues, a super-slim Windows, and more
IGN
07:20
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang warns the UK lacks the digital infrastructure needed to capitalize on AI despite “incredible” research talent, as PM Starmer pledges £1B
Financial Times
07:05
Sources: Shein and Reliance plan to expand their Indian supplier base from 150 to 1,000 and sell India-made, Shein-branded clothes globally within 12 months
Reuters
06:50
Docs: from mid-December, YouTube told moderators to prioritize “freedom of expression” over potential harm, including for political, social, and cultural issues
New York Times
06:35
The Guardian partners with Cambridge University to launch Secure Messaging in its app, protecting sources by making messages indistinguishable from other data
The Guardian
06:20
The UK Financial Conduct Authority partners with Nvidia to debut a Supercharged Sandbox in which financial companies can test AI tools, starting in October 2025
Reuters
06:05
Waymo vehicles set on fire in downtown L.A. as protesters, police clash
Los Angeles Times
05:45
Alibaba, Tencent, and other Chinese AI companies have temporarily disabled chatbot functions like image recognition during China's annual college entrance exams
Bloomberg
05:30
Getty's copyright lawsuit against Stability AI begins at London's High Court, accusing it of unlawfully scraping millions of images; Stability denies the claims
Reuters
05:15
Maryland-based quantum computing company IonQ agrees to acquire Oxford Ionics, which spun out of Oxford University, for $1.07B in stock, set to close in 2025
Financial Times
04:35
Qualcomm agrees to acquire UK-listed Alphawave, which makes high-speed chip and connectivity tech for data centers, for $2.4B in cash, set to close in Q1 2026
Bloomberg
04:00
An interview with Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn on criticism after Duolingo went “AI-first”, personalized interactions with personality-based chatbots, and more
Financial Times
01:05
Cloudflare open sourced an OAuth library mostly written by Claude, showing how AI handles mechanical implementation while humans guide with context and judgment
Max Mitchell

Sonntag, 8. Juni 2025

20:30
Apple researchers detail the limitations of top LLMs and large reasoning models, including on classic problems like the Tower of Hanoi, which AI solved in 1957
Marcus on AI
18:40
CB Insights: VCs and private equity firms poured $3.1B to fund 144 deals in the LA area in Q1 2025, vs. $2.7B in Q1 2024, $1.4B in Q1 2023, and $5.7B in Q1 2022
Los Angeles Times
16:40
Interviews with The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, and Yahoo News executives about how AI-powered summaries can help busy readers, reliability issues, and more
Nieman Lab
14:15
Microsoft showcases a full-screen, Windows-based Xbox experience optimized for handheld gaming on the Asus ROG Xbox Ally, rolling out to other handhelds in 2026
The Verge
13:50
Microsoft and Asus unveil the ROG Xbox Ally and ROG Xbox Ally X, two PC gaming handhelds that will run Windows games from multiple storefronts, including Steam
Game File
12:40
At a clandestine math conclave in Berkeley in May, a chatbot powered by o4-mini answered some of the hardest solvable problems much faster than a mathematician
Scientific American
10:55
Thoughts on Apple's OSes getting redesigned UI elements called “Liquid Glass”, which will launch at WWDC 2025 and set the stage for fresh hardware products
Bloomberg
10:40
Treefera, which uses satellite imagery, drone imagery, and AI to provide real-time insights into supply chains, raised a $30M Series B led by Notion Capital
Tech.eu
08:50
A look at the intensifying race for super apps in the Gulf, as Careem, Talabat, Amazon, Botim, and Noon consolidate various services into single platforms
Rest of World
06:20
Skyral, a London-based modeling and simulation startup developing AI-based digital twin tech for defense, healthcare, and other sectors, raised a $20M Series A
Tech.eu
03:50
Sources: Meta is in talks to make a $10B+ investment in Scale AI, which would be its largest AI investment yet; Scale AI had a ~$13.8B valuation in May 2024
Bloomberg
02:00
An in-depth look at the US SEC's EDGAR system breach that was disclosed in 2017, as one of the key hackers, Olga Kuprina, says EDGAR remains a soft target
Bloomberg
01:35
Voxel, whose AI-powered logistics safety software integrates into existing security cameras to detect and predict workplace hazards, raised a $44M Series B
Axios
01:20
Sources: Mistral AI has closed or is closing a handful of commercial contracts, each worth $100M+ over three to five years, as it expands its own infrastructure
Financial Times
01:10
Obvio, which uses AI-powered stop sign cameras to detect infractions, raised a $22M Series A led by Bain to expand beyond its first five cities in Maryland
TechCrunch
01:00
Former Apple employees say integrating LLMs with Siri has led to bugs, an issue not faced by companies that have built GenAI-based voice assistants from scratch
Financial Times
00:20
Singapore-based investment app Syfe raised a $53M Series C extension, taking the round to $80M and total funding to $132M, and plans to expand into Hong Kong
South China Morning Post

Samstag, 7. Juni 2025

22:20
Filipino workers in Taiwan's chip industry report struggling with overwork and discrimination, citing overnight shifts of up to 16 hours and abusive treatment
Rest of World
20:20
Some WordPress veterans and the Linux Foundation start FAIR, a federated update network to decentralize WordPress infrastructure and boost supply chain security
Fast Company
19:45
Justin Sun-linked BiT Global dismisses with prejudice its lawsuit against Coinbase for delisting wBTC; the delisting followed Coinbase launching rival cbBTC
CoinDesk
19:20
Enterprise vibe coding startup Superblocks raised a $23M Series A, bringing its total funding to $60M, and launched an enterprise coding AI agent called Clark
TechCrunch
17:20
Bill Atkinson, a pioneering Apple engineer and key member of the original Macintosh team, died on June 5 at age 74 from pancreatic cancer
Daring Fireball
15:55
An interview with Leah Belsky, OpenAI's VP of Education, as the startup competes with Google and others to offer premium AI tools to universities and students
New York Times
15:01
Sources: the UK has delayed proposals to regulate AI, with plans to introduce an AI bill in 2026 to address concerns about issues like safety and copyright
The Guardian
13:55
Sources: before installing Starlink at the White House in February, DOGE ignored security concerns that the service bypasses traditional WH security controls
Washington Post
12:55
The UK High Court warns lawyers of possible criminal charges for using AI-generated fake legal material, citing two recent cases with hallucinated content
New York Times
11:45
Sources: ByteDance replaced some TikTok Shop's US staff in Seattle with China-based managers after 2024 US revenue hit $9B, far short of its $17.5B goal
Bloomberg
10:35
Microsoft plans to add a “safety” category to its AI leaderboard on Azure Foundry, with a safety metric based on its ToxiGen and CAIS's WMD Proxy benchmarks
Financial Times
09:40
YouTube rolls out a tool to let some creators upload different thumbnails for each video dubbed into a different language, to help expand their global audience
Business Insider
06:40
A profile of Panos Panay, head of devices and services at Amazon, who has scaled back new releases to focus on perfecting products like Alexa+ before rollout
Wall Street Journal
02:35
New apps are helping immigrants navigate Trump's deportation crackdown, including by alerting users to locations of ICE raids and informing them of their rights
Rest of World
02:20
AI research nonprofit EleutherAI releases the Common Pile v0.1, an 8TB dataset of licensed and open-domain text for AI models that it says is one of the largest
TechCrunch
02:10
Simetrik, which uses AI to automate account reconciliation, raised a $30M Series B extension led by a Goldman Sachs Alternatives unit, taking the round to $85M
Bloomberg
02:00
CapVest-owned Datasite, which offers workflow automation tech for dealmaking, acquires Grata, which helps users with all aspects of the deal process, for $200M+
Wall Street Journal
01:30
Boulder, CO-based quantum computing startup Infleqtion raised a $100M Series C and partnered with US government services contractor SAIC to pursue defense deals
Reuters
00:50
Beijing-based Kuaishou's stock climbs after the company said it expects its video-generation service Kling AI to hit $100M in annual revenue by February 2026
Bloomberg
00:20
Walmart's Flipkart secures a lending license from the RBI, letting the e-commerce company offer loans directly to Indian customers and sellers on its platform
Reuters

Freitag, 6. Juni 2025

23:45
President Trump signs an EO scrapping or revising several Biden- and Obama-era cybersecurity programs, including for AI security and post-quantum cryptography
Cybersecurity Dive
22:05
Sources: EchoStar is considering filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy to protect its valuable wireless spectrum licenses from potential revocation by the FCC
Wall Street Journal
21:00
Sources: Musk's feud with Trump will complicate xAI's attempt to raise $5B in debt, and might increase lending costs or cause some lenders to walk away entirely
Financial Times
19:45
Researchers: cybercriminals are increasingly turning from “bulletproof” hosts to “residential proxies” that disguise malicious traffic as normal online activity
Wired
18:25
An Indian government official says Starlink has secured a license from the telecom ministry to launch services in the country and now must apply for spectrum
Bloomberg
17:25
Eric Trump says the TRUMP memecoin team and Magic Eden have canceled the $TRUMP Wallet; Trump's World Liberty Financial reportedly sent them a cease-and-desist
The Block
16:55
Virtual chronic care company Omada Health closed up 21% in its Nasdaq debut after raising about $150M in its IPO, valuing the company at just over $1B
CNBC
16:35
Milan Kovac, Tesla's head of engineering for Optimus, is leaving; source: Ashok Elluswamy, who leads Autopilot teams, will take over the humanoid robot program
Bloomberg
16:10
Google rolls out “scheduled actions” in the Gemini app, allowing AI Pro and AI Ultra subscribers to ask the AI assistant to perform tasks at specific times
The Verge
15:35
Analysis: Community Notes submissions on X fell from a high of 120,000 in January to fewer than 60,000 in May; Musk now rarely mentions the feature
NBC News
14:40
Sources: Trump's team seeks a potential consent decree as part of an FTC deal forcing Meta to pay restitution to conservatives affected by content moderation
New York Post
14:15
Winklevoss twins' crypto exchange Gemini says it has confidentially filed for an IPO in the US, after SEC dropped its probe and Gemini settled with CFTC for $5M
CNBC
14:10
Sources: Trump plans to extend TikTok's June 19 sale deadline; ByteDance told the White House that China wouldn't approve a deal until trade negotiations began
Wall Street Journal
14:05
Sources: Tucker Carlson was on WH's list of potential TikTok investors, with JD Vance pushing for his inclusion, along with others like a16z and Blackstone
Financial Times
13:50
X names Polymarket as its official prediction market partner, with plans to combine Polymarket predictions with X data to deliver live insights
TechCrunch
13:10
Tech industry fears the fallout from the Musk-Trump rift, as some prominent tech right figures downplay its permanence; source: David Sacks was “shell-shocked”
Financial Times
12:40
A probe found hundreds of ads for “nudify” apps on Meta platforms; Meta removed the ads, and says those behind the apps constantly evolve to avoid detection
CBS News
11:40
VA used a DOGE AI tool by Gumroad founder Sahil Lavingia that hallucinated contract sizes to cancel 24+ deals; Lavingia says “mistakes were made”
ProPublica
11:10
DocuSign reports Q1 revenue up 8% YoY to $764M, subscription revenue up 8% to $746.2M, net income up 113% to $72.1M, and cuts FY 2026 forecast; DOCU falls 18%+
CNBC
10:20
What to expect at WWDC 2025: iOS 26 and other software branding changes, redesigned software interfaces, productivity enhancements, minor AI changes, and more
Bloomberg
09:35
The UK FCA says it will lift its ban on offering crypto exchange traded notes to retail investors “to support UK growth and competitiveness”
CoinDesk
08:20
China's Hainan province tests letting some corporate users bypass the Great Firewall for global internet access, as the island seeks to become a free-trade port
South China Morning Post
07:25
United Airlines partners with Spotify to provide passengers with free access to 450+ hours of curated playlists, audiobooks, and podcasts across 130K screens
The Verge
05:30
An interview with ASML CEO Christophe Fouquet, as the company navigates political firestorms in The Netherlands and abroad and the impacts of Trump's trade war
New York Times
02:25
How spyware posing as an app from a humanitarian organization spread among Syrian army officers, mainly via Telegram, and fueled the Assad regime's collapse
Mobile Hacker
01:05
OpenAI appeals a court order in The New York Times case requiring it to keep ChatGPT outputs indefinitely, saying it conflicts with its user privacy commitments
Reuters
00:25
Thread AI, which offers a composable infrastructure platform to help enterprises design, deploy, and scale AI workflows, raised a $20M Series A led by Greycroft
Fortune

Donnerstag, 5. Juni 2025

23:50
Chinese startups and tech giants are racing to create general AI agents for Chinese and global consumers, following the popularity of Butterfly Effect's Manus
MIT Technology Review
22:15
Shield Technology Partners, an AI-enabled managed IT service platform, acquires four IT companies and launches with $100M from Thrive Holdings and ZBS Partners
Wall Street Journal
21:10
Q&A with Runway CEO Cris Valenzuela on making the movie-making process cheaper and faster, copyright cases, why using Runway is like using a camera, and more
The Verge
20:10
Walmart expands its partnership with Alphabet-owned Wing to bring drone delivery services to Atlanta, Charlotte, Houston, Orlando, and Tampa, adding 100 stores
The Verge
18:45
AMD says it has acquired the employees behind AI inference chip developer Untether AI, a day after announcing it acquired AI software optimization startup Brium
CRN
16:55
Broadcom reports Q2 revenue up 20% YoY to $15B, vs. $14.96B est., net income up 134% YoY to $4.97B, and AI revenue up 46% YoY to $4.4B+, driven by AI networking
Wall Street Journal
16:30
Anthropic co-founder Jared Kaplan says Anthropic cut Windsurf's direct access to Claude models largely because of reports that OpenAI was acquiring Windsurf
TechCrunch
15:28
Trump says Elon Musk “went CRAZY” and that canceling his government contracts is “the easiest way to save money”, as their One Big Beautiful bill feud escalates
CNBC
14:45
Source: Trump's World Liberty Financial sent a cease-and-desist letter to the company behind $TRUMP and to Magic Eden after they announced the $TRUMP Wallet
Bloomberg
14:15
In May, Microsoft launched Signal, a 120-page print magazine focused on its tech and distributed to business leaders every few months, to counter digital noise
The Verge
13:35
X changes its developer agreement to prevent third parties from using “the X API or X Content to fine-tune or train a foundation or frontier model”
TechCrunch
13:15
Cursor maker Anysphere raised $900M led by Thrive at a $9.9B valuation, bringing its total funding to $1B+ and says its annualized revenue has surpassed $500M
Bloomberg
12:55
Circle's stock soared 168% on Thursday, closing at $83.23, after the stablecoin company priced its NYSE IPO at $31 and raised almost $1.1B in the offering
CNBC
12:20
Google releases an upgraded preview of Gemini 2.5 Pro, saying its Elo score jumped by 24 points on LMArena and it leads in coding benchmarks like Aider Polyglot
9to5Google
12:10
Defense tech startup Anduril raised a $2.5B Series G led by Founders Fund, which invested $1B, at a $30.5B valuation, up from $14B in August 2024
Bloomberg
12:00
iVerify says it found the first evidence of an active spyware campaign targeting iPhones in the US and the EU; Apple fixed a flaw but disputes it was exploited
Axios
11:35
Anthropic's CEO says a 10-year moratorium on AI regulation is “far too blunt an instrument” and calls for a US federal transparency standard for AI companies
New York Times
11:05
X is piloting a new program that would use its Community Notes feature to highlight posts on which people of typically differing opinions agree with each other
Axios
10:30
An Apple-funded study says developers using the App Store generated $1.3T globally in billings and sales in 2024, 90% on which developers paid no commission
TechCrunch
09:45
Anthropic unveils custom Claude Gov models tailored for US national security customers and designed to be applied to planning, support, analysis, and more
TechCrunch
09:05
OpenAI says it disrupted 10 malicious operations in the past three months, four of which likely originated in China and targeted multiple countries and topics
NPR
08:40
Apple's transparency reports show it gave governments data on thousands of push notifications, which can contain unencrypted info, from July 2022 to June 2024
404 Media
08:30
Cellebrite agrees to buy virtualization software startup Corellium in a $200M deal, with Corellium founder Chris Wade, pardoned by Trump in 2020, joining as CTO
Forbes
08:20
OnePlus unveils the $700+ OnePlus Pad 3, a 13.2-inch Android tablet less than 6mm thick, with a Snapdragon 8 Elite chip, 17+ hours of battery life, and an LCD
Bloomberg
07:50
Source: Apple expands its Tata partnership in India, giving Tata the iPhone and MacBook after-sales repair business from an Indian unit of Taiwan-based Wistron
Reuters
07:35
Lime and Uber sign a new multiyear deal to let Uber feature Lime's shared bikes and scooters on its ridehail app; the deal was set to expire in 2025
The Verge
07:20
CISA, the ACSC, and the FBI say that the Play ransomware gang, active since June 2022, had breached ~900 organizations as of May 2025, up 3x since October 2023
BleepingComputer