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Beehiiv adds Cloudflare AI Crawl Control to writers' dashboards, allowing them to decide whether AI crawlers can scrape their work (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE)

Market intelligence company Klue confirms it has suffered a breach, for which cybercrime group Icarus takes credit; Jamf, HackerOne, and others are affected (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)

Walmart acquires Paris-based Vibe.co, which lets businesses create and run targeted ads on streaming services; Vibe.co's co-founders will join Walmart Connect (Brian Steinberg/Variety)

SCOTUS ends a suit alleging Cisco aided China's Falun Gong persecution, further limiting a law used to hold corporations liable for overseas human rights abuses (Jan Wolfe/Reuters)

The Ethereum Foundation cuts ~20% of its workforce, or 54 staff, as part of a broad restructuring amid leadership turnover and growing Ethereum fragmentation (Margaux Nijkerk/CoinDesk)

Sources: Abu Dhabi's MGX has raised close to $50B from regional sovereign wealth funds, global pension funds, and others to accelerate spending on AI deals (Dinesh Nair/Bloomberg)

Menlo raised $3B for funds dedicated to backing AI startups, its largest fundraising to date; sources say Menlo's Anthropic stake is currently worth nearly $14B (Natasha Mascarenhas/Bloomberg)

Meta's Starfire glasses with Kylie Jenner include a tiny gemstone on the lens, a metal nose pad to prevent absorbing makeup, and an AI version of Kylie's voice (Julian Chokkattu/Wired)

Meta says Meta Glasses are its first AI glasses to launch with Meta AI powered by Muse Spark, and come in a range of color and lens combinations for 26 styles (Meta Newsroom)

Meta Fury, Meta Adventurer, and Meta Glasses by Kylie have EssilorLuxottica stamped on the inside; Meta executives say dropping "Ray-Ban" helps lower the price (Victoria Song/The Verge)

Meta unveils Meta Adventurer and Fury glasses, each priced at $299, its first under its own brand, and a $399 Starfire model in collaboration with Kylie Jenner (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

New York-based crypto analytics startup Allium raised a $40M Series B led by Amplify Partners, with participation from Kleiner Perkins and others (Ben Weiss/Fortune)

The Netherlands joins the US-led Pax Silica initiative alongside South Korea and Japan to coordinate AI supply chains; Taiwan endorses it as a non-signatory (Toby Sterling/Reuters)

ByteDance unveils Seedance 2.5, saying the AI video model can generate up to 30-second clips from up to 50 reference materials, up from 12 for Seedance 2.0 (Juro Osawa/The Information)

Google plans a 12-week incubator, picking 10 to 20 AI startups from its "Xoogler" alumni and providing up to $350K in cloud credits and $100K in direct funding (Guinevere Grant/Bloomberg)

How Sam Altman's 80+ personal investments, many from his time running YC, benefit from ties to OpenAI; 10+ companies have discussed business deals with OpenAI (Wall Street Journal)

Top500: China's Arm-based LineShine passes the US' El Capitan by 20%+ as the world's fastest supercomputer, the first time China has taken the crown since 2017 (Don Clark/New York Times)

The EU will apply a €3 duty on items under €150 from July 1, as the bloc seeks to slow the flood of low-priced merchandise from retailers like Shein and Temu (Brendan Murray/Bloomberg)

South Korea's tech-heavy Kospi index falls 10%, dragged down by SK Hynix and Samsung; STMicro and ASML fall ~7%, and US tech stocks fall in pre-market trading (Chloe Taylor/CNBC)

Q&A with Nvidia VP of Healthcare Kimberly Powell on how AI can ease doctors' workloads, address trained medical staff shortages, improve patient care, and more (Cristina Criddle/Financial Times)

Sources: Tencent is negotiating exits from minority investments in game studios in Japan, such as Tokyo-traded Marvelous, as it reassesses its global portfolio (Bloomberg)

How the data center boom is exposing weaknesses in US power grids, and a look at what fixes the electricity infrastructure may need to become fit for the future (Chris Gillett/Works in Progress Magazine)

Syntun: online sales during China's 618 shopping festival grew 4% YoY, a drop from 15.2% growth in 2025, amid China's persistent consumer spending slowdown (Evelyn Cheng/CNBC)

Eli Lilly plans to use its $7.3B cash reserve to fund an "App Store" for biotech scientists after launching a data center with 1,016 Blackwell chips in 2025 (Patrick Temple-West/Financial Times)

OpenAI debuts at Cannes Lions, pitching its new ChatGPT ad business and Codex to marketers, as it tries to build a multibillion-dollar business ahead of its IPO (Financial Times)

A US NLRB judge ruled that Amazon violated federal law by not recognizing the Teamsters union at a SF warehouse and must collectively bargain with the workers (Josh Eidelson/Bloomberg)

Real estate professionals are increasingly using AI-powered virtual staging tools like Stuccco and BoxBrownie to create misleading house and apartment listings (Gaby Del Valle/The Verge)

Sources: Qualcomm is in advanced talks to acquire Modular in a transaction valuing the AI chip startup at ~$4B, up from a $1.6B valuation in September 2025 (Bloomberg)

Filing: Oracle's global workforce fell by 21,000 employees in the past 12 months to 141,000 as of May 31; the company says AI adoption has led to reductions (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)

President Trump signs two executive orders aimed at speeding the development of advanced quantum computers and mitigating the security threats they present (Amrith Ramkumar/Wall Street Journal)

Meta says it is pausing its employee input tracking program after internal security issues exposed potentially sensitive data meant to train AI models (Wired)

Air Space Intelligence won an $875M, 12-year FAA contract to develop AI tools that map flight trajectories and identify areas of congestion to reduce delays (Allyson Versprille/Bloomberg)

Sakana AI launches Fugu, a multi-agent orchestration system accessible through a single model API, claiming Fugu Ultra matches Fable and Mythos on benchmarks (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)

Sources: Vimeo owner Bending Spoons seeks to raise ~$1.62B in a US IPO, selling 58M shares at $26 to $28 each, hitting a $19B valuation at the top of the range (Echo Wang/Reuters)

Valve Steam Machine review: small and quiet, runs PC games well on a TV, but nearly twice the price of a PS5 for PS5 performance and needs manual configuration (Sean Hollister/The Verge)

Valve's Steam Machine, its new living room Linux PC, will start at $1,049 for the 512GB base model without a controller, and will go on sale starting June 29 (Jay Peters/The Verge)

OpenAI unveils an updated GPT-5.5-Cyber model, launches the Patch the Planet initiative in partnership with Trail of Bits to fix open source bugs, and more (Lily Hay Newman/Wired)

Alphabet shares close down 5% on Monday following the departure of Google DeepMind VP John Jumper, the company's second top AI executive to leave in a week (Bloomberg)

Sources: marketing tech startup AppsFlyer raised a $1B Series E at a $2.7B post-money valuation; Moloco, Google, Meta, and Unity acquire minority stakes (Kerry Flynn/Axios)

SpaceX announces an offering of senior unsecured notes and discloses it has ~$100.8B in cash; SPCX closes down 16.43% in its third consecutive losing session (Samantha Subin/CNBC)

SpaceX signs a computing deal worth up to $6.3B with Reflection AI for access to Nvidia GB300s at Colossus 2; Reflection will pay $150M per month through 2029 (Deirdre Bosa/CNBC)

Groq raised $650M led by Disruptive and Infinitum after its Nvidia deal, aiming to hit 200 MW in capacity by the end of 2027, following a $750M raise in 2025 (Zsana Hoskins/Bloomberg)

Instagram is testing horizontal video on Instagram for TV, plans to experiment with longer-form storytelling and episodic series, and launches on Samsung TV (Katie Kilkenny/The Hollywood Reporter)

Crypto trading app Fomo raised a $75M Series B led by Index at a $550M valuation, taking its total funding to ~$94M, and claims to add 3,500 new users per day (Ben Weiss/Fortune)

Google invests in independent movie studio A24 as part of a new AI partnership; sources say Google is investing ~$75M, roughly equal to Thrive's 2024 investment (Ben Fritz/Wall Street Journal)

Upscale, which is building AI networking infrastructure to rival Cisco, raised a $190M Series A-1 at a $2B valuation, up from $1B after raising $200M in January (Lily Mae Lazarus/Fortune)

Nvidia unveils Halos, a safety-focused OS developed from autonomous vehicle tech and designed to run on IGX Thor hardware for humanoid robots, and opens a lab (Ian King/Bloomberg)

In a joint statement, Five Eyes agencies warn AI models capable of taking down governments and businesses are mere months away, urging leaders to "act now" (Sarah Basford Canales/The Guardian)

Meta invests $900M into Indian fintech Cred for a ~20% stake, and plans to appoint Cred founder Kunal Shah as the leader of WhatsApp, replacing Will Cathcart (Kurt Wagner/Bloomberg)

UK-based AI law firm Garfield, which received regulatory approval in 2025, wins a case in the English courts for the first time; the case focused on unpaid fees (Suzi Ring/Financial Times)