• Sources: SoftBank's talks with creditors to raise $6B through a margin loan backed by its OpenAI stake have stalled, weeks after it cut its target from $10B (Bloomberg)
• Stepful, an AI-powered online training platform for healthcare workers, raised a $55M Series C led by Oak HC/FT, bringing its total funding to $105M (Heather Landi/Fierce Healthcare)
• Seattle City Council votes 9-0 to enact a one-year moratorium on new large data centers and study their impact; Mayor Katie Wilson is expected to sign the bill (Greg Kim/The Seattle Times)
• CoreWeave founders have sold $2.3B in stock since the company's lockup period expired in August after a March 2025 IPO, reducing their combined holdings by ~25% (Ella Feldman/Bloomberg)
• ServiceNow says attackers exploited a flaw, patched on June 5, that let unauthenticated users query data from customer instances, but gives few other details (Lawrence Abrams/BleepingComputer)
• Sources: SpaceX aims to launch orbital AI computing tests by late 2027 and has requested permission from regulators to launch up to 1M data-center satellites (Akash Sriram/Reuters)
• Super Micro aims to raise $7B through equity and equity-linked financing transactions to fund component purchases tied to AI orders; SMCI drops 6%+ after hours (Harshita Mary Varghese/Reuters)
• Analysis: Trump and his sons profited $2.3B+ from four crypto ventures including $TRUMP since January 2025, while other investors in those projects lost ~$2.3B (Reuters)
• Docs: ~34K Instagram accounts, including Obama's White House account, were affected in the breach tied to Meta's AI chatbot; attackers changed 3,500+ usernames (New York Times)
• Anthropic says Fable 5 has invisible safeguards that use prompt modification, steering vectors, or PEFT to limit its effectiveness for building frontier LLMs (Matthias Bastian/The Decoder)
• Claude Fable 5 hands-on: impressive results working on complex projects, like building an interactive isochrone map or a data analysis tool in just 9.5 hours (Ethan Mollick/One Useful Thing)
• Kalshi plans to require users seeking to make bets in some markets linked to material nonpublic information to submit an online form disclosing where they work (Wall Street Journal)
• Apple says 79% of all iPhones and 86% of iPhones released in the past four years were running iOS 26 as of June 7, vs. 82% and 88% for iOS 18 before WWDC 2025 (Joe Rossignol/MacRumors)
• Sources: Canadian payments company Nuvei is in advanced talks to acquire NYC-based cross-border payments company Payoneer for ~$2.7B and could sign within days (Milana Vinn/Reuters)
• A US judge cancels a Mississippi trial and disqualifies and fines lawyers on both sides after finding their filings were filled with hallucinated case citations (Jason Koebler/404 Media)
| • Great White Sharks Have Been in the Mediterranean Sea for Millions of Years—but Sightings Are Incredibly Rare
• GM Wants Your Electric Car to Power Your House—and Your Neighborhood
• MacOS 27 Golden Gate: Top New Features
• The Top New Features in Apple’s iOS 27 and iPadOS 27
• Anthropic Offers Mythos Upgrade for Cyber Partners and a ‘Safe’ Version for the Rest of You
• Longevity Startup Doses First Human in Bid to Reverse Age-Related Sight Loss
• Rivian R2 2026: Specs, Price, Availability
• The Smart Bird Feeders Everyone’s Talking About (and Actually Buying) (2026)
• Amazon Ember Artline Review: A Stylish Art Television
• The Untold Story of the Google Buses That Took Over San Francisco
• Alex Vindman Survived Trump’s Retaliation Machine. Now He’s Running for Senate
• Anguished Parents, Crying Doctors: Life Amid Utah’s Measles Outbreak
• Meta Changed Its Speech Rules. Then Threats Against Politicians Skyrocketed
• Exclusive: Get Bruvi’s Pod Coffee Maker for Nearly Half Off
• 1Password Coupon: Score a Free Trial in June 2026
• HelloFresh Promo Codes: 55% Off for June 2026
• OnePlus Promo Codes: 30% Off June 2026
• Noom Promo Codes: 50% Off Best Deals & Free Trials for June 2026
• We-Vibe Discount Codes and Deals: Up to 60% Off
• Womanizer Coupons: Save 15% in June
• Sony Coupons: 45% Off Sony Headphones, WF-1000XM6 Earbuds, and Sony Cameras for June
• eBay Coupons: 20% Off in June 2026
• 50% Off Blue Apron Promo Codes | June 2026
• Whoop Promo Codes: 20% Off This June 2026
• Tuft & Needle Promo Codes: 30% Off | June 2026
• Western Digital Promo Code: 15% Off
• Shark Promo Codes for June 2026
• Logitech Promo Codes and Deals: Up to $100 Off
• OpenAI Confidentially Files for IPO on the Heels of SpaceX and Anthropic
• Polymarket and Kalshi Say Influencer Partners Can’t Deny Election Results, Actually
• Everything Apple Announced at WWDC 2026
• Apple’s iPhone Camera App Is Getting an AI Upgrade in iOS 27
• Apple’s New Siri AI Is Ready to Get Personal
• The UK Is Betting on a Billion-Dollar AI Supercomputer to Kick Its Addiction to US Tech
• Meta Deletes Face-Recognition System From Its Smart Glasses App After WIRED Report
• Apple WWDC 2026 Live Blog: All the Updates, as They Happen
• Watch Duty Is Adding Flood Alerts to Its Wildfire App
• Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 5x Review: The Best Laptop Under $1,000
• Momfluencers Are Pitching AI as a Better ‘Coparent’ Than Men
• Afroman Is Back—and He’s Bitcoin’s Latest Freedom Fighter
• All the Ways Europe Is Ditching American Technology
• Sigma BF Review (2026): Eccentric but Strangely Lovable
• You May Not Need a Giant Chef’s Knife When a Midsize Knife Does the Trick
• Lauf eElja Electric Mountain Bike Review: Power Trip
• Best Red-Light Therapy for Hair Restoration and Regrowth (2026)
• How to Watch Apple’s WWDC 2026 Keynote—and What to Expect
• The Best 3-in-1 Apple Charging Stations After Testing Top Models
• Anti-Vax Dating Apps Are Going IRL. People Are Mad as Hell About It
• 2 Best Bluetooth Trackers of 2026, Plus Honorable Mentions
• Crypto-Funded Chinese Peptide Labs Are Booming
| • Conan O'Brien is hosting educational videos for an AI cybersecurity company
• Kalshi will require employment info for some bets as an insider trading precaution
• GM's EVs will soon support more kinds of public chargers
• Anthropic's Fable AI brings the capabilities of its unreleased Mythos model to regular users
• Opera's latest Android update includes a soccer hub and a refreshed start page
• Marshall's Stockwell III portable speaker offers more than 40 hours of use per charge
• Kingdom Hearts IV gets a surprise Nintendo Direct trailer drop
• Siri AI first look: How Apple's rebuilt AI-powered assistant behaves across iPhone, iPad and Mac
• The next Nintendo sports game for Switch 2 features thumb wrestling
• Big Walk is an oddball blend of Peak and Escape Academy, and it's out August 4
• NASA announces the crew of its critical Artemis III mission
• Xenoblade Genesis, the next mainline entry in the action RPG franchise, launches in 2027
• New HD-2D Final Fantasy announced for consoles and PC
• FromSoftware's Switch 2 exclusive The Duskbloods will have a closed network test soon
• The French government's internal messaging service was compromised in a security breach
• The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake is real and is coming later this year
• Razer announces the Seiren V3 Pro, its first XLR mic
• Pokémon Pokopia is getting underwater mechanics and a bunch of paid DLC
• Switch 2 exclusive Orbitals arrives September 3
• Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave hits Switch 2 on September 17
|