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Taiwan and South Korea's stock market capitalizations overtake India's as global investors favor markets with companies positioned to benefit from the AI boom (Krishn Kaushik/Financial Times)
Current and former employees detail Amazon's e-commerce struggles in India, where local rivals have challenged the company more than anywhere outside of China (Bloomberg)
World's highest-grossing law firm Kirkland & Ellis agrees to a multiyear deal with Palantir to develop an AI tool to help advise PE firms on raising capital (Financial Times)
US SEC filing: Vanguard marks down Ola Consumer's valuation to ~$70.3M; Ola, which faces intense competition from Uber and Rapido, was valued at $7.3B in 2021 (Kunal Manchanada/Entrackr)
Moderators of the r/biohackers subreddit claim that peptide companies are spamming their forum in hopes of getting their posts scraped and used by AI chatbots (Jason Koebler/404 Media)
Sources: Meta has repeatedly delayed plans to release the Muse Spark API due to bugs and infrastructure needs; Meta says it plans to release it this month (Meghan Bobrowsky/Wall Street Journal)
Liftoff Mobile raised $437M in its US IPO, selling 19M shares for $23 each, above its marketed range of $20 to $22, valuing the company at $3.83B (Natalia Kniazhevich/Bloomberg)
Sam Altman and Dario Amodei are among signatories on an open letter urging improved tracking of synthetic DNA potentially used in AI-developed bioweapons (Emily Mullin/Wired)
Meta says Australia's proposed tax on domestic revenue for tech giants that don't sign news licensing deals violates the US-Australia Free Trade Agreement (Byron Kaye/Reuters)
Bengaluru-based grocery delivery startup FirstClub raised a $55M Series B co-led by Peak XV and Sofina at a $255M valuation, up from $120M in September 2025 (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
Quantinuum raised $1.68B in an upsized US IPO, selling 28M shares for $60 each, above its marketed range of $53 to $55, valuing the company at $15.6B (Carmen Reinicke/Bloomberg)
Google releases macOS versions of AI Edge Gallery, which lets users run open models on their devices, and AI Edge Eloquent, an on-device voice dictation app (Google Developers Blog)
Apple says users in Texas must confirm they are 18 years or older or obtain parental consent to create an Apple Account starting June 4, after a court ruling (Juli Clover/MacRumors)
Sources: Benchmark raised $2B across two new funds, including a $1.25B fund for late-stage bets, its first growth fund after decades focusing on new startups (Kate Clark/Wall Street Journal)
Sources: Lila Sciences, which uses AI tools to speed up the rate of scientific discovery, is in talks to raise a $2B Series B at an expected valuation of ~$8.5B (Bloomberg)

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Apple begins requiring age verification for App Store use in Texas
The co-creator of Scavengers Reign is working on a new show for Netflix
Persona 5 Royal is one of many additions to Xbox Game Pass for June
You can make the hyper-violence in Marvel's Wolverine more PG-13, if you want to
Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight is headed to the Switch 2 on September 18
A British MP is suing to see if xAI is legally responsible for the images Grok produces
PUBG's creator is downsizing his studio and ending development of a game
VR exercise platform Supernatural is getting a second chance as an independent company
The European Union reveals details of its tech sovereignty package
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DOJ opens investigation into George Santos for insider trading on Kalshi
Pokémon Champions hits iOS and Android on June 17
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Mark Zuckerberg wants Meta agents to "run your whole business"
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Meta took down over a million scam accounts in joint operation with Microsoft, SpaceX and DOJ
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