| 11:30 PM • | Bloomberg: Sources: Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick questioned ASML leaders on concerns China acquired one of its EUV machines, violating US-led export restrictions |
| 11:05 PM • | Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: 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 |
| 10:40 PM • | Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: 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 |
| 9:55 PM • | Financial Times: 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 |
| 9:30 PM • | Financial Times: Doc: SpaceX says the EU's plan to reserve satellite spectrum for European operators risks disrupting connectivity, including for emergency services in Ukraine |
| 8:50 PM • | Nate Raymond / Reuters: 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 |
| 8:20 PM • | Financial Times: 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 |
| 6:30 PM • | Juby Babu / Reuters: 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 |
| 6:20 PM • | Yueqi Yang / The Information: 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 |
| 5:25 PM • | Lucas Ropek / TechCrunch: 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 |
| 4:55 PM • | Bloomberg: Sources: Meta is under contract to buy roughly 1.6 GW of computing capacity from Crusoe across two data centers in Texas and Missouri |
| 4:10 PM • | Zoe Tillman / Bloomberg: 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 |
| 3:50 PM • | Politico: 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 |
| 3:25 PM • | Ben Weiss / Fortune: 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 |
| 2:55 PM • | Artificial Analysis: 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 |
| 2:30 PM • | Hugo Lowell / Wired: 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” |
| 1:35 PM • | Zack Zwiezen / Kotaku: 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% |
| 12:40 PM • | Marcus Mendes / 9to5Mac: Apple opens iOS to alternative app marketplaces in Brazil and changes App Store commission structure following a settlement with competition watchdog CADE |
| 11:55 AM • | Ashley Gold / Axios: 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 |
| 11:35 AM • | Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: 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 |
| 11:20 AM • | Mark Bergen / Bloomberg: 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 |
| 11:15 AM • | Sean O'Kane / TechCrunch: Filings: Waymo pulls its ~4K robotaxis from highways after finding 13+ instances of the cars driving into highway sections under construction |
| 10:30 AM • | Kerry Flynn / Axios: 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 |
| 9:25 AM • | The Information: 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 |
| 9:20 AM • | Max A. Cherney / Reuters: 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 |
| 9:15 AM • | Bloomberg: 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 |
| 9:01 AM • | Maria Curi / Axios: 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 |
| 8:10 AM • | James Van Straten / CoinDesk: 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 |
| 7:50 AM • | Bloomberg: Former Gojek CEO and Indonesian education minister Nadiem Makarim is charged with taking ~$46M in rewards tied to a Chromebook procurement contract for schools |
| 7:20 AM • | Gergely Orosz / The Pragmatic Engineer: 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 |
| 7:15 AM • | Natalia Kniazhevich / Bloomberg: 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 |
| 7:05 AM • | Anhata Rooprai / Reuters: 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 |
| 7:00 AM • | Summer Maxwell / Bloomberg: Verse Enterprises, which wants to provide energy-management software for 100 data centers by 2027, raised a $54M Series B from Nvidia and others |
| 6:50 AM • | Axios: Trump, who entered office opposing AI regulation, is shaping the industry through case-by-case interventions without clear rules, creating major uncertainty |
| 6:40 AM • | Angel Au-Yeung / Wall Street Journal: 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 |
| 6:35 AM • | CNBC: 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 |
| 6:30 AM • | New York Times: 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 |
| 6:10 AM • | Galit Altstein / Bloomberg: 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 |
| 5:01 AM • | Kai Nicol-Schwarz / CNBC: 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 |
| 2:35 AM • | Margi Murphy / Bloomberg: 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 |
| 2:25 AM • | Adeel Hassan / New York Times: 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 |
| 2:20 AM • | Saritha Rai / Bloomberg: 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 |
| 2:15 AM • | Michael J. de la Merced / New York Times: Businesses have started using Kalshi to hedge their business risks; Kalshi says institutional trading volume on its platform has grown 800% since November 2025 |
| 2:10 AM • | Heesu Lee / Bloomberg: The Bank of Korea warns rising bonuses at some South Korean chipmakers could fuel broader wage growth and consumer spending, complicating the inflation outlook |
| 1:55 AM • | New York Times: 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 |
| 1:50 AM • | Robert McMillan / Wall Street Journal: Nation-state hackers are increasingly using preinstalled software on low-cost home devices to create residential proxy networks for masking cyberattack traffic |
| 1:40 AM • | New York Times: 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 |
| 1:25 AM • | Financial Times: 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 |
| 1:20 AM • | Tamara Djurickovic / Tech.eu: NeuralTrust, which offers tech that lets enterprises discover, monitor, govern, and secure AI agents, raised a $20M seed led by Alstin Capital |
| 12:50 AM • | Financial Times: 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 |
| 12:45 AM • | Bloomberg: 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 |
| 12:05 AM • | Richard Lawler / The Verge: 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 |
| 11:25 PM • | Jeremy Hsu / Ars Technica: Nvidia researchers unveil ENPIRE, an agent harness framework that develops robotic self-improvement strategies for physical tasks with minimal human supervision |
| 10:40 PM • | Pew Research Center: 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 |
| 10:05 PM • | Wired: 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 |
| 9:20 PM • | Allie Garfinkle / Fortune: 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 |
| 9:05 PM • | Chris Martin / Tech Advisor: 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 |
| 8:35 PM • | The Information: 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 |
| 8:15 PM • | Todd Bishop / GeekWire: 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 |
| 7:40 PM • | Yusuf Khan / Wall Street Journal: Frontier, a group including Stripe, Google, Salesforce, and newly joined Anthropic, commits $915M to buy carbon-removal credits, on top of $1B already pledged |
| 6:55 PM • | Hugo Lowell / Wired: Trump administration officials say Anthropic must ensure Fable 5's guardrails can't be circumvented before rerelease; experts say that may not be possible |
| 6:00 PM • | Arseniy Shestakov: 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 |
| 5:30 PM • | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: 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 |
| 5:20 PM • | Rolfe Winkler / Wall Street Journal: 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” |
| 4:40 PM • | Lucas Ropek / TechCrunch: 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 |
| 4:35 PM • | Joey Cappelletti / Associated Press: 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 |
| 4:15 PM • | Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: 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 |
| 3:55 PM • | Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: Anthropic updates Claude Design with design system imports, bidirectional integration with Claude Code, lower token consumption, and more export destinations |
| 3:25 PM • | Andy Robinson / Video Games Chronicle: 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 |
| 2:15 PM • | Financial Times: 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 |
| 1:50 PM • | Kai Nicol-Schwarz / CNBC: CEOs of Anthropic and Google DeepMind call for U.S.-led AI coalition in meeting at G7 |
| 1:25 PM • | Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: 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 |
| 12:55 PM • | Ryan Merket / RuntimeWire: 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 |
| 12:45 PM • | Ingrid Lunden / Resilience Media: 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 |
| 12:35 PM • | Michael Peel / Financial Times: Studies: Mira, an AI medical tool developed by researchers in Germany, and Google's Amie matched or surpassed doctors on diagnostic and treatment decisions |
| 12:25 PM • | Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: 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 |
| 11:40 AM • | Muvija M / Reuters: 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 |
| 11:25 AM • | Yohan Yunstaff / Cointelegraph: Trace Finance, which provides stablecoin settlement infrastructure for cross-border payments across Latin America, raised a $32M Series A led by CoinFund |
| 11:15 AM • | Tim Fernholz / TechCrunch: XDOF, which is building data pipelines, collection tools, and annotation systems for robot training data, emerges from stealth with $70M |
| 10:50 AM • | New York Times: 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 |
| 10:40 AM • | Anhata Rooprai / Reuters: 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% |
| 10:35 AM • | Russell Brandom / TechCrunch: 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 |
| 10:10 AM • | Ben Bergman / Business Insider: Convey, which is building AI “teammates” to automate workflows for clients like NBCUniversal, Samsara, and TelevisaUnivision, raised a $38M Series A led by a16z |
| 9:55 AM • | Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge: 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 |
| 9:35 AM • | Politico: 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” |
| 9:15 AM • | Ryan Lawler / Axios: Andera, which uses AI to automate corporate audit and compliance testing, raised a $37M Series A led by Lightspeed |
| 9:01 AM • | Reuters: 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 |
| 8:35 AM • | Chris Metinko / Axios: 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 |
| 8:30 AM • | Ott Tammik / Bloomberg: 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 |
| 8:10 AM • | Colin Demarest / Axios: 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 |
| 8:05 AM • | Yazhou Sun / Bloomberg: Nasdaq Private Market sues Hiive, claiming Hiive stole trade secrets and infringed on its IP, poaching two employees in part to access confidential information |
| 7:45 AM • | The Information: 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” |
| 7:30 AM • | Stephen Nellis / Reuters: 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 |
| 7:20 AM • | Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: 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 |
| 7:00 AM • | Ina Fried / Axios: 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 |
| 6:45 AM • | Eleanor Mueller / Semafor: Sources: Trump officials discussed how to structure government equity stakes in AI companies, with Commerce Secretary Lutnick preferring a sovereign wealth fund |
| 6:35 AM • | Financial Times: 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 |
| 4:55 AM • | Financial Times: 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 |
| 2:30 AM • | Wall Street Journal: 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 |
| 2:20 AM • | Nikkei Asia: 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 |
| 2:11 AM • | Nikhil Pahwa / @nixxin: 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 |
| 1:40 AM • | Financial Times: Dealogic: investors have poured $58B across 42 data center deals YTD; Oxford Economics says nearly 850 data centers worth ~$7T are under construction globally |
| 1:30 AM • | Wall Street Journal: 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 |
| 12:55 AM • | Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: 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 |
| 12:40 AM • | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: 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 |
| 12:30 AM • | David Voreacos / Bloomberg: 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 |
| 12:11 AM • | Jordan Novet / CNBC: 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 |
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