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SPACEX LISTS AT $1.8TN, MUSK BECOMES FIRST TRILLIONAIRE
SpaceX has raised $75bn from financial firms ahead of its listing on Friday, the biggest stock market debut in history.
business
EU LAUNCHES TECH SOVEREIGNTY PACKAGE, CUTS ON EU AND CHINESE TECH
The European Commission unveiled a sweeping initiative spanning semiconductors, cloud infrastructure and open-source software, acknowledging that the original Chips Act failed to deliver meaningful production capacity.
business
ALEX KARP SAYS AI COMPANIES DONT KNOW HOW UNLIKEABLE THEY ARE
The Palantir CEO called out the AI industry's detachment from real-world problems, labeling the OpenAI Deployment Company a while acknowledging he has with rivals Sam Altman and Dario Amodei.
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Apple's new iOS 27 AI will change all your bad passwords for you with one tap. It navigates the sites, generates new ones, even handles 2FA. You just have to let an AI read your texts first. Cool cool cool.
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Deezer will now tell you what percentage of your music library was cooked by a machine that's never had its heart broken. 43% of people had AI tracks and didn't know. The bots are streaming to each other. Bon appétit.
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$75 billion raised, $1.77 trillion valuation, and Musk becomes a trillionaire without selling a single share. The house always wins — they just let the regular folks buy a seat at the table this time. SpaceX trades Friday as SPCX. Strap in or don't, the rocket leaves either way.
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OPENAI ACQUIRES ONA, INCREASES AGENTIC CAPABILITIES
The cloud startup's secure environments will let OpenAI's coding assistant handle multi-day tasks, expanding beyond the single-session paradigm that has limited AI coding tools.
ai
DOORDASH ADDS AI CHATBOT FOR FOOD ORDERING AND RESERVATIONS
The conversational tool lets users describe what they want in natural language, the latest move in food delivery's AI arms race.
ai
FABLE 5 WONT TELL YOU WHAT A MITOCHONDRION IS
Anthropic's new flagship model refuses basic biology questions and hands them off to an older version. The reason is deliberate: bioweapons risk.
ai
TRUMP SIGN'S AI SECURITY ORDER
The June 2 executive order gives developers a 30-day window to share with the government before release, but explicitly rules out mandatory preclearance. It echoes…
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WAYMO LAUNCHES $30 PREMIER MEMBERSHIP
The robotaxi company is offering priority pickups, 10% cash back, and early access to new cities for frequent users, positioning itself as a premium alternative…
consumer tech
AMAZON ECHO HUB GETS MASSIVE UPDATE
The free software update puts users in control of their smart home dashboard like never before, with drag-and-drop tiles, room-based grouping, and Ring AI integration.
consumer tech
GOOGLE'S NEW SMART HOME SPEAKER ARRIVES NEXT WEEK
The head of Google Home told early access testers to watch their inboxes, and Best Buy Canada has the device listed for June 25.
consumer tech
CASHAPP LAUNCHES $40 PHONE PLAN? BUT WHY?
The Square-owned payments app is now selling wireless service through an MVNO running on AT&T, and the play is not about minutes. It is about…
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OPENAI BANS CHINESE INFLUENCE OPS
Two campaigns named and deployed AI-generated posts across social media to amplify existing US political fractures.
cybersecurity
AI HAS TURNED THE VULNERABILITY MARKET AGAINST DEFENDERS
New research shows every major AI model can now find bugs, half can build working exploits, and the timeline from discovery to attack has collapsed…
cybersecurity
13% OF UK EMPLOYEES HAVE SOLD CORPORATE CREDENTIALS
13% of UK workers admitted selling logins or knowing someone who did. Among C-suite executives, 43% think it's justifiable.
cybersecurity
FRENCH GOVT MESSAGING PLATFORM TCHAP BREACHED, 14GB STOLEN
The French government's encrypted messaging app Tchap was compromised on June 7, with a threat actor claiming to have stolen nearly 14GB of documents shared…
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EU LAUNCHES TECH SOVEREIGNTY PACKAGE, CUTS ON EU AND CHINESE TECH
The European Commission unveiled a sweeping initiative spanning semiconductors, cloud infrastructure and open-source software, acknowledging that the original Chips Act failed to deliver meaningful production…
business
CMA INVESTIGATES RYANAIR OVER MANDATORY FAMILY SEAT FEES
The UK's competition watchdog is examining whether Ryanair's practice of charging parents to sit with their children violates consumer law, with penalties up to 10%…
business
ALEX KARP SAYS AI COMPANIES DONT KNOW HOW UNLIKEABLE THEY ARE
The Palantir CEO called out the AI industry's detachment from real-world problems, labeling the OpenAI Deployment Company a while acknowledging he has with rivals Sam…
business
MICROSOFT BLOCKS FABLE 5 FOR EMPLOYEES
The new Mythos-class model requires data storage for safety classifiers, a tradeoff Microsoft is willing to make for customers but not for its own internal…
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