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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)

Electronic Arts launches EA Advertising, letting brands integrate directly into gameplay through dynamic, real-time placements, including stadium signage (Assiatou Hann/CNBC)

Zhipu's shares closed up 33% on Monday after JPMorgan raised the stock's price target and picked it as a winner against MiniMax; MiniMax closed up 7% (Bloomberg)

SpaceX IPO raised a total of $85.7B as underwriters exercised their overallotment of shares, after raising an initial $75B on June 11 (CNBC)

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 (Urvi Dugar/Reuters)

SailPoint is acquiring Entro Security, which develops a cybersecurity platform for managing non-human identities, a source says in a deal valued at ~$200M (Meir Orbach/CTech)

1Password acquires Apono, which operates an AI-powered platform for managing cloud access, sources say in a deal valued at $250M to $300M (Meir Orbach/CTech)

Sources say Anthropic struggles to speak President Trump's language; a Trump administration official says it "screwed us" after failing to "honor" a cyber EO (Axios)

Salesforce agrees to acquire AI customer service platform Fin, formerly Intercom, for ~$3.6B, in a deal expected to close in Q4 of its 2027 fiscal year (Samantha Subin/CNBC)

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 (Peter Coy/New York Times)

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% (Lillian Rizzo/CNBC)

Source: Nvidia is seeking to raise $20B+ from its first corporate bond sale since 2021, marketed in seven tranches, with maturities spanning two to 30 years (Bloomberg)

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)

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)

Fox says it is acquiring Roku in its largest deal yet, valued at ~$22B including debt, giving it access to 100M+ streaming households globally; FOX drops 10%+ (Joseph De Avila/Wall Street Journal)

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 (Allison Pohle/Wall Street Journal)

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 (April Ma/Bloomberg)

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 (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer)

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 (Liv McMahon/BBC)

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 (Sam Sabin/Axios)

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)

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 (James Franey/New York Post)

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)

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)

Sources: Alibaba is in talks to buy Chinese fresh grocery delivery platform Pupu for $1.5B, in a bid to better compete with food delivery rivals like Meituan (Cathy Chan/Bloomberg)

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 (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch)

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 (Emily Shugerman/The San Francisco ...)

Sources: ByteDance is in talks with Shanghai-based Iluvatar CoreX to purchase AI inference GPUs, and is also considering a deal to buy Baidu's Kunlunxin chips (Reuters)

Health wearables are booming, with both Oura and Whoop eyeing IPOs, but investors remain cautious after Fitbit's struggles and low consumer hardware margins (David Wainer/Wall Street Journal)

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 (Sophie Shulman/CTech)

Hypha, which extracts data from private-market documents to create workflows for underwriting, portfolio monitoring, and asset management, raised a $50M seed (Ryan Lawler/Axios)

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 (Russell Brandom/TechCrunch)

Sundar Pichai faced a walkout at his Stanford commencement speech, as 100+ students left amid chants of "Free, free Palestine" over Google's ties with Israel (Zain Khan/New York Post)

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)

A profile of Kalshi COO Luana Lopes Lara, who has overseen a tremendous pace of growth over the past year as the company faces political and regulatory backlash (Emily Nicolle/Bloomberg)

Chinese Tesla drivers are using tiny plastic heads to fool Tesla's distracted-driving controls, which appear unable to distinguish figurines from real people (Zeyi Yang/Wired)

A government crackdown on online casinos operating in the Isle of Man has led to a major tax revenue loss, accelerating the island's slide toward a fiscal cliff (Jack Adamović Davies/Bloomberg)

Satya Nadella says companies must own their AI "learning loops" to compound human and token capital, or risk ceding all value to a handful of frontier models (Satya Nadella/@satyanadella)

Sources: senior Anthropic technical staff are in DC to meet WH officials and try to fix the Mythos 5 dispute; both sides say they are eager to resolve the issue (Maria Curi/Axios)

Canadian 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)

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)

EU says it is looking at the practical consequences of US restricting Anthropic's models, notes such measures "should not be discriminatory against partners" (Reuters)

Siri AI is good enough to ease Apple's AI crisis; sources: the ability to tap third party AI models beyond OpenAI's is already active in internal iOS 27 builds (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

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 (Andrew Osborn/Reuters)

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)

After years of uncertainty, including delayed listings, memory chipmaker Kioxia's shares soared 56x in 18 months, making it Japan's most valuable company (Shuhei Ochiai/Nikkei Asia)

As the 2026 FIFA World Cup begins, there is still no clear replacement for "Sports Twitter", which was a perfect second-screen experience during live events (Andrew Webster/The Verge)

Challenger, Gray & Christmas: out of ~398K US jobs cuts in 2026 through May, employers cited AI as the reason for ~88K of them, up from ~54K in all of 2025 (Hyunsoo Rim/Sherwood News)

Nothing CEO Carl Pei says memory is now the costliest phone component, accounting for 50%+ of BOM in some models, and predicts phone prices will rise into 2027 (Stevie Bonifield/The Verge)

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 (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)