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Starlink says that it has 12M+ "active customers" across 160+ countries, territories, and other markets, up from 9M in December 2025 (@starlink)
Sources: data center developer Switch is in talks to raise billions of dollars from PE firms including Brookfield and KKR at a $50B+ valuation (The Information)
Elon Musk petitioned the FTC in May to end its 2022 order restricting Twitter's data use, claiming Twitter no longer exists as X merged with xAI and then SpaceX (Ashley Belanger/Ars Technica)
Analysis: Meta discreetly added code for an unreleased "NameTag" face-recognition system for its AI glasses over multiple updates to the Meta AI app this year (Wired)
S&P Dow Jones rejected proposals to expedite S&P 500 eligibility for mega-cap IPOs such as SpaceX, which remains ineligible until one year after going public (Isabelle Lee/Bloomberg)
An interview with Naomi Gleit, Meta's head of product who joined the company 20 years ago, on Zuckerberg's "unfair" reputation, AI agents' capabilities, more (Zoe Kleinman/BBC)
Denver-based Scotch, which makes AI-powered payments tools for liquor retailers, raised a $20M Series A from VMG Partners, following a $10M seed in 2024 (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)
Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince says agentic traffic is "growing so fast that bots have now passed human traffic online for the first time" (Mark Tyson/Tom's Hardware)
Anthropic calls for top AI labs to weigh slowing or temporarily pausing development, suggesting that self-improving AI systems may soon pose societal risks (Wall Street Journal)
Sources: US officials have held talks with AI companies about the government acquiring shares; Sam Altman first pitched the concept directly to Trump in 2025 (NOTUS)
OpenAI updates ChatGPT memory with a "more capable and compute-efficient" architecture and a summary page that lets users review and steer what it remembers (OpenAI)
Quantinuum closed up 0.63% in its Nasdaq debut on Thursday, with a market value of $15.7B, after raising $1.68B in an upsized IPO (CNBC)
Internal docs from lawsuits by 1,400 school districts show how social media companies targeted kids: Meta paid "teen ambassadors", Snap sent school-hour alerts (Jennifer Valentino-DeVries/New York Times)
Poke, which lets users access AI agents via text message, becomes the first AI agent approved for Apple's Messages for Business platform (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
Unsealed 2020 lawsuit: ex-IBM VP of threat intelligence alleges that IBM and AT&T concealed foreign cyber breaches to maintain eligibility for federal contracts (Bloomberg)

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Engadget

Steam Machine and Steam Frame are coming 'this summer'
The Instagram Plus subscription has officially launched
Wired found code for an unreleased facial recognition feature in Meta's AI app
ChatGPT's memory is getting better, especially if you're on the free tier
Canada Prime Minister Mark Carney announces questionable national AI strategy
Police have yet to catch a thief who used a Waymo to steal yoga clothes
Netflix will release its FIFA World Cup: Launch Edition game on June 11
Meta's latest AI tool gives creators a 'brainstorming partner'
Marshall Milton ANC review: Making the rare case for premium on-ear headphones
Belkin made a charging grip for the Switch 2
Elden Ring finally launches for Switch 2 on August 28
Ferrari and HP made a vivid red laptop with a transparent 'engine bay'
Here's what you should and shouldn't plug into a TV USB port
Amazon's new Proteus warehouse robot is fully autonomous
How to watch Apple's WWDC 2026 keynote
How to watch the Summer Game Fest showcase
NASA's Mars MAVEN probe is dead
Samsung's updated Health app unsurprisingly comes with new AI-powered features
Even Meta's Oversight Board thinks its rules for banning accounts are baffling
SpaceX expects its IPO to raise $74.4 billion

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