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Man Group Plc says “bubble risks” are mounting as bond sales boom in the race to build out artificial intelligence infrastructure... View Source

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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch three of AST SpaceMobile's BlueBird direct-to-cell satellites early Wednesday morning (June 17), and you can watch the action live... View Source

New features are coming to cameras connected to Apple’s HomeKit Secure Video. | Image: The Verge, Getty Images Apple's HomeKit Secure Video service is getting in on the Apple Intelligence party to bring more descriptive alerts from your connected cameras and let you search footage using natural language. The Apple Home app is also getting better notifications powered by AI and is finally adding s... View Source

Dan Ives, global senior equity analyst at Wedbush Securities, discusses what he calls the “tug of war” between Anthropic and the Trump administration, why he expects accelerated M&A on artificial intelligence, and reported losses at OpenAI ahead of the company’s IPO later this year. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

India has temporarily blocked Telegram, claiming it's to prevent cheating on a crucial entrance exam... View Source

Days after its massive IPO, SpaceX says it is spending $60 billion to buy Cursor - a bet designed to help Elon Musk's sprawling rocket / AI / social media behemoth win over lucrative enterprise customers and close the gap with AI rivals like Anthropic and OpenAI. The takeover was not entirely unexpected: SpaceX announced a peculiar arrangement in April in which it agreed to either acquire the prog... View Source

The AI pioneer is working to allay White House concerns about national security... View Source

Almost three years in, Meta's X competitor is still growing... View Source

The deal is supposed to help SpaceX's struggling AI division. The company told IPO investors it sees a $26 trillion addressable market in AI... View Source

A large speaker bump on the back of the Tab Plus Gen 2 contributes to the tablet’s upgraded sound. | Photo: Sean Hollister / The Verge Lenovo announced a new version of its chonky speaker-filled Tab Plus tablet that once again puts a strong focus on audio. While the original Tab Plus launched two years ago with eight built-in speakers requiring a 13.58mm rear bulge to squeeze them all in, the new... View Source

With the recent crackdown on Anthropic, the Trump administration has given global leaders another reason to panic about their place in the technology race... View Source

European markets present cheaper opportunities in artificial intelligence adoption as the focus shifts from infrastructure to implementation, according to Elise Badoy of Citigroup Inc... View Source

"With its unprecedented observational quality, JWST gives us the most detailed glimpses into distant planets to date."... View Source

Horizons Middle East & Africa is your daily spotlight on one of the world's fastest-growing regions. Live from Dubai, we bring you the latest global markets and analysis, plus news-making interviews, with a special focus on MEA. All that and more, as you head to the office in the Gulf, pause for lunch in Hong Kong, or start your day in London or Johannesburg. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

It won’t be for everyone, but there’s something delightful about the retro look. | Photo: Commodore When Christian Simpson, a retro gaming YouTuber also known as Peri Fractic, bought the remains of an early PC company called Commodore in 2025, he decided to pick up right where the original Commodore left off. Which meant starting product development in the mid-1990s. Simpson and his team first set... View Source

France’s domestic intelligence agency, DGSI, will replace Palantir Technologies Inc. data tools with a local alternative made by Chapsvision, as European countries increasingly seek to reduce their dependence on US tech firms... View Source

SpaceX shares surged in premarket trading, putting the stock on track to extend a rally following its blockbuster debut last week... View Source

xAI has some powerful friends, and they're asking the court to dismiss NAACP's lawsuit... View Source

STMicroelectronics NV is looking to raise $1.5 billion from selling debt that can be exchanged into equity after the chipmaker’s shares tripled in value so far this year... View Source

The AI race is shifting from who has the best model to who can actually deploy and access the most reliable gigawatts of compute at scale. In a recent All-In podcast episode, Chamath stated that a full 1 GW AI data center now costs around $100 billion to build. The Milk Road AI post you ... Read more... View Source

The US directive to restrict foreign access to Anthropic PBC’s most advanced technologies underscores the importance of South Korea’s sovereign artificial intelligence efforts, according to the head of a leading domestic AI startup... View Source

Kingboard Laminates Holdings Ltd. has rallied more than sixfold this year as investors bet the Chinese supplier to the printed circuit board industry will emerge as a key beneficiary of the AI buildout... View Source

Earth Observatory Science Earth Observatory Nebraska’s Wide, Rolling Domain Earth Earth Observatory Image of the Day EO Explorer Topics All Topics Atmosphere Land Heat & Radiation Life on Earth Human Dimensions Natural Events Oceans Remote Sensing Technology Snow & Ice Water More Content Collections Global Maps World of Change Articles Earth Matters Blog Blue Marble: Next Generation EO K... View Source

A SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft is scheduled to begin its journey back to Earth today (June 16), and you can watch the action live... View Source

In a bid to dismiss a lawsuit over xAI's polluting gas turbines, the Justice Department claimed the company is integral to military operations—including the Iran War... View Source

As the rest of the country celebrated the USA's first World Cup win and the New York Knicks championship, Anthropic spent its weekend fighting the Trump administration over its latest model release. At 5:21 PM on Friday, the company received a US export control directive to suspend access to its Mythos 5 and Fable 5 AI models by "any foreign national" inside or outside the US, "including foreign n... View Source

Upstart private equity firm Prime Radiant Partners is investing $50 million in Cellares, as the biotechnology company making high-tech robots to mass-produce cancer treatments raises money ahead of a potential initial public offering in 2027... View Source

Hong Kong’s underperforming stock market may come under renewed pressure as a large amount of shares frozen under restrictions tied to equities offerings become tradable next month... View Source

“Data centers in space” may sound like science fiction, but as the SpaceX IPO augurs a space boom, tech giants and startups are betting orbital artificial intelligence is the next frontier. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

A proposed deal to end hostilities between the US and Iran gave equities and bond traders a measure of relief on Monday. It also left prediction markets with a new headache... View Source

Visitors are welcome to Explore JPL to learn more about space exploration, robotics, and technology being developed at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Tickets for the popular, free event become available on Aug. 29 and go fast.NASA/JPL-Caltech Celebrating its 90th anniversary this year, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory invites the public to its campus at t... View Source

Anthropic PBC has said its new artificial intelligence tool, Mythos, is so good at finding vulnerabilities in software and computer systems that it can’t be released to the general public. The AI giant released Mythos to only 200 partner organizations because if a tool this powerful fell into the wrong hands, Anthropic says, it could help attackers more easily steal data or disrupt critical infras... View Source

Cohere Chief AI Officer Joelle Pineau says Cohere has seen a huge number of inbounds after Anthropic was ordered by the US government to disable access to its most advanced AI platforms for all foreign nationals, with governments and investors alike now seeking non-US models as Washington steps up its AI oversight. She joins Ed Ludlow on "Bloomberg Tech." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Forbes Real-Time Billionaires and Bloomberg listed Elon Musk at ~$1.3 / $1.27 trillion, with Larry Page (second) at ~$314 billion → ratio ≈ 4.04X richer. Bill Gates never reached 4X. He dominated the top spot for many years (roughly 13 consecutive years from ~1995–2007 per Forbes). The gap was smaller. In 1999, the ratio over ... Read more... View Source

Bloomberg Television brings you the latest news and analysis leading up to the final minutes and seconds before and after the closing bell on Wall Street. Today's guests are Goldman Sachs Chief Equity Strategist & Managing Director Ben Snider, Teneo Global Chair, Political Risk Advisory Kevin Kajiwara, Ariel Investments Chairman, Co-CEO & Chief Investment Officer John Rogers, Kestra Chief... View Source

Some well-known first-party Xbox studios are reportedly at risk of being closed down... View Source

Mike Schroepfer, former CTO of Meta and founding partner of Gigascale Capital - a venture firm making early-stage bets on companies focused on climate impact - says SpaceX is the only company capable of building orbital data centers. He also shares how ocean data centers are 100x cheaper than orbital ones. He joins Ed Ludlow on "Bloomberg Tech" to discuss. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The Canadian government is proposing stricter privacy rules that would limit businesses from using personal data to charge consumers higher prices, while giving individuals more power over their own information... View Source

Taxi-hailing app provider Go Inc.’s shares will start trading on the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Tuesday, testing investor sentiment after the nation’s largest initial public offering so far this year... View Source

Up, up and away! (Just try not to crash.)... View Source

SpaceX is more valuable than TSMC, Meta and is almost as valuable as Amazon. Tesla is the tenth most valuable company. The key for SpaceX to scale near term revenues and profits is with Artificial intelligence, Cursor AI compute revenue and AI data center rentals... View Source

Xbox is closing down Ninja Theory, the studio behind the Hellblade series, a source tells The Verge. Staffers were told on a call on Monday about the closure, but they are hoping the studio will find a buyer. The closure comes as "several" Xbox studios at Microsoft, including Compulsion Games and Double Fine, are in "active negotiations" about spinning off, Bloomberg reports. The closure and negot... View Source

Stephanie Aliaga, JPMorgan Asset Management global market strategist, says to expect SpaceX volatility in the next six months. She also says they are expective some big high-profile AI names, but the IPO markets are still going to be selective. She joins Ed Ludlow on "Bloomberg Tech." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Your public Facebook posts could help inform AI-generated results in Meta's new AI Mode. When you search on Facebook, the "AI Mode" option will appear alongside the usual search modes like "People" and "Marketplace." It's one of several new AI features Meta is rolling out starting today, including photo presets that swap sports jerseys onto fans and suggestions for collage templates. Instead of "j... View Source

Alicia Yap, Citi's head of Pan-Asia Internet Research, breaks down where China's tech market stands amid global AI adoption. But despite all this heavy corporate activity, Citigroup warns that global investors are still treating China tech as "a source of funds," with Wall Street dumping local stocks to fund the global AI hardware trade. She joins Ed Ludlow on "Bloomberg Tech." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The Galaxy Book 6 Edge comes with 1TB of storage and 16GB of RAM, and it costs $2,100... View Source

The valuation conversion from SpaceX to Echostar is being suppressed with the $5 billion short position and the fears from missing the June 1, 2026 debt payment of $183 million. This missed payment triggered a 30 day grace period. A few days ago, I had said that... View Source

Google Chrome version 150 and 151, expected in late June and July, respectively, will cut off support for the last remaining workarounds for running older ad blockers, 9to5Google reports. Google phased out support for ad-blocking extensions built for Manifest V2, like uBlock Origin, in 2024. At that point, most Chrome users either switched to newer Manifest V3 ad blockers like uBlock Origin Lite o... View Source

The studios, which include Compulsion Games and Double Fine, are in active negotiations with Xbox and may be given the chance to go independent... View Source

Taylor Swift, Bad Bunny and many, many more artists have had their work fed into AI models... View Source

Astrobotic unveiled its next lander headed to the moon: Griffin-1, which will carry one of the heaviest payloads ever delivered to the lunar surface... View Source

Fox is about to take over the TVs in more than 100 million homes worldwide. On Monday, Fox announced that it's acquiring Roku, the streaming middleman that serves as a portal for viewers to hop into services like Netflix, Disney Plus, Hulu, and more. The $22 billion deal may not change Roku's familiar purple interface, but it could put Fox in control of your data behind the screen. During a call w... View Source

Bloomberg’s Ed Ludlow breaks down why Anthropic disabled access to its most advanced models for all foreign nationals after a request from the Trump administration. Plus, Nvidia is seeking to raise at least $20 billion from its first corporate bond sale since 2021. And, SpaceX shares throttle up on day 2 of trading, adding to a blockbuster public markets debut on Friday. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

This is where the fun begins... View Source

Amazon’s Smart Thermostat looks surprisingly nice for such a cheap gadget. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge If your electricity bill climbs every summer, a smart thermostat could help keep cooling costs in check. The Amazon Smart Thermostat is an excellent option for its price, especially today. It’s down to just $57.99 at Amazon as a part of Amazon’s early Prime Day sale, whic... View Source

Rick Rieder, BlackRock global fixed income CIO, says if the new Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh eliminates forward guidance, it will be good for markets. He speaks about how other changes Warsh makes could impact stocks, the state of private credit and where he sees the price of bitcoin heading. He appears on "Bloomberg ETF IQ." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

It all comes down to big sound and big pictures... View Source

6 Min Read NASA’s Chandra Finds Unexpected Fireworks in Aftermath of Stellar Explosions To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video A composite image of the nearby galaxy Messier 83, and short timelapse videos of two curious supernova remnants hidden inside. X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO; Optical: NASA/ESA/AURA/STScI, Hubble Heritage Team, W... View Source

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying 24 Starlink satellites lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Monday, June 15, 2026... View Source

Anthropic was already navigating one dispute with the government in its standoff with the Pentagon, and then came an order on June 12th to block off foreign access to its most recently released AI models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5. When they launched on June 9th, Anthropic said “Fable 5’s capabilities exceed those of any model we’ve ever made generally available,” and that Claude Mythos 5 h... View Source

Data centers and computing chips are all the rage in global credit markets right now, but Nuveen LLC’s Laura Parrott is more excited about the “boring, plain vanilla” infrastructure on the outskirts of AI that will benefit regardless of how the technology pans out... View Source

Anthropic is being sued over Claude Max usage limits... View Source

The products pictured here aren’t on sale, but we certainly hope they will be soon. | Image: Alex Parkin / The Verge Amazon’s earlier-than-usual Prime Day doesn’t begin until June 23rd, but there are several even earlier deals on must-have products that you can check out right now. To name some examples, Apple’s AirPods Pro 3 are selling at their cheapest-ever price. Also, you can grab Ring’s lat... View Source

Salesforce Inc. has agreed to buy Fin, a firm that develops artificial intelligence-powered customer agents, for about $3.6 billion as the software company works to win new business for enterprise AI. Fin’s flagship product, AI Agent, handles customer queries via chat, email, WhatsApp, text message, phone and Slack. Bloomberg Intelligence Technology Analyst Anurag Rana joined Paul Sweeney and Scar... View Source

A federal judge decided to dismiss an xAI lawsuit against OpenAI with prejudice... View Source

NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Chris Williams collect frozen research samples while living and working aboard the International Space Station. Credit: ESA/Sophie Adenot Students in New Jersey will hear from NASA astronauts Chris Williams and Jessica Meir as they answer prerecorded STEM questions while aboard the International Space Station. The Earth-to-space call will begin at 12:05 a.m. E... View Source

At Washington's request, Anthropic suddenly took its newest and most powerful AI models offline over the weekend. The American company said it had little choice after the White House demanded it block access for all foreign nationals, including its own employees. Abroad, the incident offered a sobering reminder that the US not only dominates frontier AI - its government also wields power over who... View Source

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Don't worry, there's yet another chatbot you can ask for restaurant recommendations... View Source

Scientists await a big splash in the Pacific Ocean as one of the most research-packed Dragon spacecraft to date returns, completing the 34th SpaceX commercial resupply mission to the International Space Station for NASA. Biological and materials samples, along with tested hardware, are heading back to research teams on Earth for further analysis, advancing NASA’s work to prepare humans for explora... View Source

U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) and Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) arrive for a news conference with bipartisan senators on passage of the Online Privacy Protection Act at the Capitol on July 30, 2024 in Washington, DC. | Kent Nishimura/Getty Images. For months, Big Tech's Washington lobbyists have chased after the holy grail of pro-AI legislation: preemption. This would be a comprehensive... View Source

JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s trading desk has turned bullish on stocks following optimism that peace in the Middle East is near... View Source

'The truth is, everybody came with their A-game. Because the script called for it. Steven definitely calls for it.'... View Source

Last week, Xbox boss Asha Sharma sent a memo warning of an Xbox "reset" ahead of expected layoffs, and today, Kotaku reported that Xbox plans to shut down Compulsion Games, the studio behind South of Midnight. Since taking over in February, Sharma has made some big decisions, including cutting the price of Xbox Game Pass and making Gears of War: E-Day and Clockwork Revolution Xbox console exclusiv... View Source

More than two dozen companies including JPMorgan Chase & Co. and an array of cybersecurity firms are collaborating to remedy software flaws spotted by cutting-edge artificial intelligence models... View Source

3 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Aya Collins, director of the engagement division of NASA’s Office of Communications, moderates a discussion with, from left to right, NASA astronauts Zena Cardman, Mike Fincke, and JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Kimiya Yui, Monday, June 1, 2026 at the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters building in Wa... View Source

Anthropic PBC executives are planning to meet with Trump administration officials on Monday to discuss an unprecedented US government directive barring foreign access to the company’s most advanced artificial intelligence models, according to a person familiar with the matter... View Source

EA is making a big push for more in-game advertising... View Source

NASA's Chandra X-ray spacecraft has detected the supernova wreckage of a dead star that erupted 1,700 years ago and ejected debris at 2 million miles per hour... View Source

Today, I’m talking with Adam Bry, who is CEO of Skydio, the leading US maker of autonomous drones. Before we recorded this episode, I actually got to remotely operate one of Skydio’s drones in the Bay Area from Adam’s laptop in our podcast studio in New York and fly an indoor drone around our office. You can check out the full video of that on our YouTube channel. Beyond flying drones around the c... View Source

Bloomberg Intelligence media analyst Geetha Rangananthan says this deal makes a lot of strategic sense because it gives Fox more of a gateway into streaming.  The acquisition will create the third-largest player in the US television market by share of viewing, spanning broadcast, cable, local and streaming, the companies said. She appears on "Bloomberg Open Interest." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Hosting your own group chat could let you avoid a lot of drama... View Source

8 Min Read Experience the Launch of NASA’s Roman Space Telescope  Are you ready for a new view of the universe? The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will reveal distant worlds, dark energy, and the structure of the cosmos, and we want you to be a part of it!   Digital creators and social media users are invited to register to our NASA Social for the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telesco... View Source

Roblox's vice president of safety product policy, Eliza Jacobs, told NBC News that Roblox is "optimistic" that its new facial age estimation tech will "continue to get better," saying, "Ticking a box to say you're 13 or older, it's not enough anymore." NBC invited a group of kids to try out Roblox's new video selfie age check process, but they weren't able to get around it with a fake mustache. Ja... View Source

Shares of large US industrial companies jumped to a record Monday after the US and Iran said an interim peace deal was reached, raising hopes that the energy crisis threatening manufacturers’ and transportation firms’ profits will recede... View Source

Things continue to look grim for Xbox as layoffs loom and Craig Duncan steps down... View Source

NASA astronaut and International Space Station Expedition 74/75 flight engineer Anil Menon poses for a portrait at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston.NASA/James Blair NASA astronaut Anil Menon will be available for limited media interviews beginning at 9 a.m. EDT Monday, June 22, to discuss his upcoming mission to the International Space Station as part of Expeditions 74/75. The virtual... View Source

The Echostar spectrum continues to go fine adding about $130 million six times per day. SPCX becomes marginable on July 13th. Does that become a catalyst date for SATS as people unwind their short position (to short SPCX directly if they are trying to hedge their SPCX exposure)? SpaceX price updated from $160.95 → $173.7 ... Read more... View Source

A laser system, previously tested on board the International Space Station, helped to stream video directly from the Artemis 2 mission on its way around the moon... View Source

From the day it was announced, on June 16th, 2025, the Trump phone sounded ridiculous. The T1 Phone 8002 (gold version), as it was officially called, was a combination of contradictory specs, product images that were clearly not photographs of a real phone, and the worrying requirement of a $100 deposit to secure a preorder of a $499 phone with no release date. But none of Trump Mobile's outlandis... View Source

On this episode of Stock Movers with Alexis Christoforous: - Roku (ROKU) is higher while Fox (FOX) is declining on news Fox agreed to acquire Roku in a deal that values the streaming video platform at about $22 billion including debt. - United Airlines (UAL) is surging with airlines stocks up around 4% ahead of the open after the U.S. and Iran reached an interim peace deal. - Coinbase (COIN) and R... View Source

A period of unsettled weather brought scattered showers and thunderstorms to California’s Bay Area on May 27, 2026. That afternoon, a break in the clouds left downtown San Francisco and nearby communities beneath mostly cloud-free skies, allowing an astronaut aboard the International Space Station to take this photograph.NASA An astronaut aboard the International Space Station took this picture of... View Source

There could be a deal between the USA and Iran. This would restore oil traffic over the next 30-60 days. The US has a southern route through Hormuz that has about 3-7 million barrels per day which is two to four large oil supertankers per day. US Energy Secretary Chris Wright said vessels under US ... Read more... View Source

This faint galaxy is hard to look away from... View Source

SpaceX's IPO underwriters maxed out their share purchases, adding to an already historic amount of money raised... View Source

The AM52 can charge devices via Qi2.2 and USB-C simultaneously. | Photo: Cameron Faulkner / The Verge I recently published a buying guide on the best Qi2 power banks. Out of seven feature-packed batteries, I really dug the Baseus AM52 10,000mAh power bank that has a built-in USB-C cable. It’s fast at Qi2.2 wireless charging for iPhones, and it’s quick with wired charging, too. And now, it’s an unb... View Source

Nvidia is preparing to raise at least $20 billion through its first corporate bond sale since 2021, marketing bonds across seven tranches with maturities ranging from two to thirty years, according to people with direct knowledge of the matter. Ed Ludlow has more on "Bloomberg Open Interest." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

With Father's Day on the horizon, happening June 21st, it's time to start thinking about what kind of gifts you want to buy for the fathers you care about. You know your dad best - he may be a man of simple pleasures who wants nothing more than to share a meal or drinks with his loved ones. Or, he might have… extremely specific preferences and expectations of how his big day should go. Of the many... View Source

Ten days ago, in a moment of very high drama in orbit, NASA directed its astronauts living on the International Space Station to briefly seek emergency refuge in a Crew Dragon spacecraft. Since then, neither the US space agency nor Roscosmos has provided additional public information about the situation in orbit. But according to sources who spoke to Ars, following the spectacle in space, the prob... View Source

The US Commerce Department imposed export controls on June 12 restricting Anthropic from offering its most advanced AI models to foreign nationals. In response, Anthropic announced it would halt access to these models for all users, citing the impracticality of policing usage on a case-by-case basis and noting that many of its employees are foreign nationals who would also be affected. Ed Ludlow h... View Source

Is it time to double down on red?... View Source

The US labor board ruled against Whole Foods Market’s objections to a landmark Philadelphia unionization vote, teeing up a likely yearslong legal battle over whether the Amazon.com Inc. grocery chain must collectively bargain with US employees for the first time... View Source

Earth Observatory Science Earth Observatory Pumice Rafts Encroach on… Earth Earth Observatory Image of the Day EO Explorer Topics All Topics Atmosphere Land Heat & Radiation Life on Earth Human Dimensions Natural Events Oceans Remote Sensing Technology Snow & Ice Water More Content Collections Global Maps World of Change Articles Earth Matters Blog Blue Marble: Next Generation EO Kids Mi... View Source

These results could benefit space weather forecasts... View Source

On Friday Google announced it was making a relatively unknown feature of Google Earth available to a wider audience. The desktop version of Google Earth has had a hidden flight simulator mode since 2007, but it's now easily accessible through a web browser without having to download or install any apps. To take to the virtual skies you'll need to open the Google Earth website and then click on the... View Source

Salesforce Inc. has agreed to buy Fin, a firm that develops artificial intelligence-powered customer agents, for about $3.6 billion as the software company works to win new business for enterprise AI... View Source

Nvidia Corp. is seeking to raise at least $20 billion from its first corporate bond sale since 2021, according to people with direct knowledge of the matter... View Source

Fox is paying $22 billion for Roku, its streaming devices and its ecosystem... View Source

Through more than two decades of travel for both work and leisure, my packing list has evolved from a random assortment of gadgets and accessories thrown together at the last minute into a refined checklist of gear honed by trial and error. The right packing list, I've found, can be the difference between a good trip and a great one. Or at least the difference between hectic trips to the local Bes... View Source

On the heels of arranging a record $85 billion equity-raise for Alphabet Inc., Goldman Sachs Group Inc. has scored a lesser-known victory for the tech giant in the municipal bond market... View Source

Fox has announced that it's acquiring Roku outright, in a deal that values the streaming company at $22 billion. The deal will see Fox's TV networks and Tubi streamer combine with Roku's network of streaming devices, smart TV software, and The Roku Channel. The companies say in a statement that by combining they'll become the third-largest player in the US TV industry by viewing share. It doesn't... View Source

Fox Corp. will acquire Roku Inc. for $160 a share in a cash-and-stock deal that values the streaming video platform at an enterprise value of about $22 billion... View Source

We rank these Canon 18x50 IS binoculars as the best for shake-free, high-magnification stargazing. Take advantage of this summer binocular deal for fantastic views of June’s moon and Mercury conjunction... View Source

The crease isn’t quite invisible, but otherwise this feels like the complete foldable package — on the hardware side at least. On paper, the Honor Magic V6 sounds like a tremendous leap forward for foldable phones: It's the thinnest one yet, with the biggest battery, and the best water-resistance ever. In practice, only the bigger battery feels like a meaningful improvement. The other upgrades are... View Source

Cameron Dawson, CIO at NewEdge Wealth, examines the areas of the equity markets that could see the biggest potential upswings with the announcement of an agreement between the US and Iran. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Ahead of the G7 conference in France, Donald Trump is once again threatening massive tariffs on France over its digital tax... View Source

Patsnap, an intellectual-property data provider, has filed confidentially for an initial public offering in Hong Kong and Singapore, snapping a prolonged drought for technology listings by Southeast Asian companies... View Source

Scientists think a new framework for quantum gravity could offer clues about a mysterious 5th fundamental force of nature... View Source

A new report warns that Miami, Kansas City, Philadelphia, Dallas, and Houston could be particularly hot places to play during the 2026 World Cup... View Source

Xiaohongshu Technology Co., the Chinese creator of social platform RedNote, is preparing to confidentially file for an initial public offering in Hong Kong by the end of this month, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

Tencent Holdings Ltd.-backed Shanghai Enflame Technology Co. has received approval for an initial public offering, a key step toward bringing to the market the last of the “four little dragons,” a group of leading artificial intelligence chipmakers... View Source

SpaceX shares jumped in premarket trading Monday, after its blockbuster debut Friday vaulted it into the ranks of the world’s most valuable public companies... View Source

The UK is following Australia by banning young people under 16 from TikTok, Instagram and other social media platforms... View Source

When we spoke to DRW's Don Wilson last year, he talked about building out a GPU market that might be bigger than oil. Now, a year later, he is working with Carmen Li to do just that. Li is the CEO of two companies — Silicon Data and Compute Exchange (where she works alongside Wilson). The former company is building the index for GPU pricing while the latter is a spot marketplace for GPU proc... View Source

The UK is the latest country to follow Australia in implementing a total social media ban for children under 16, Prime Minister Keir Starmer has announced. The ban, which could take effect from early next year, will be joined by wider measures that will also prevent children from talking to strangers in online games, livestreaming, or using sexual or romantic chatbots. "Do we truly believe that so... View Source

Anthropic has shut off access to its most advanced AI models after a Trump administration order citing national security concerns. The move could set a major precedent for AI regulation, with implications for OpenAI, Google, Meta and beyond. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Kazakhstan signed accords with the startup Firebird Inc. on computing projects involving Nvidia Corp. that could bring as much as $10 billion in investment, as the Central Asian energy producer looks to position itself as an artificial intelligence hub... View Source

With less than a year left in office, Emmanuel Macron wants to be remembered as the French president who put Europe back in the technology race... View Source

The extraordinary move by the US to bar foreign access to Anthropic PBC’s best AI models underscores the Trump administration’s newfound willingness to exert control over a pivotal industry. It also reminds Silicon Valley that it’s working with an imperfectly understood technology with uncertain impact... View Source

Elon Says $1 Trillion Revenue for SpaceX in 2030 , this is like I have been projecting. SpaceX can get to $200 billion each for high speed internet. 400 million customers up from 12 million today. Adding at 1 million per month and in 2-4 months reach 1.5 million per month. They will need to ... Read more... View Source

South African companies with operations across Africa are facing mounting pressure as anti-immigrant protests in the continent’s largest economy trigger diplomatic tensions and calls for action against their businesses... View Source

Three-day-old moon will be about its own width away from luminous planet in constellation of CancerA silver sliver of moon joins the bright beacon of Venus this week for a delightful twilight conjunction. The moon will be just over three days old and only 11% of its visible surface will be illuminated.Venus will be burning brightly and less than a moon’s width away from our natural satellite. The... View Source

Hong Kong Chief Executive John Lee remained non-committal about seeking a second term, deflecting questions regarding his political future ahead of the city’s leadership selection next year... View Source

Banks from Sydney to London are racing to fill the senior role of chief AI officer, a job that barely existed a year ago. Those in the position, however, say it might not be around for long... View Source

アップルの新Siriは2年遅れで登場したものの、実用性が十分な水準に達し、AI戦略立て直しの足掛かりとなりつつある。... View Source

Activist hedge fund Palliser Capital is urging Taiwanese company WUS Printed Circuit Co. to enhance shareholder value, including through a potential privatization, according to documents viewed by Bloomberg News... View Source

SPACEXAI has five data center locations. Three sites for terrestrial data centers and the fourth is distributed AI with Tesla and the fifth is AI data centers in Space. Ground / Terrestrial: 3–5 GWThis is the bulk of the near-to-medium term capacity.Core Colossus Cluster (Memphis, TN + Southaven, MS) — ~2 GW near-term foundation Colossus ... Read more... View Source

Two films built largely with generative AI tools are on view in South Korean theaters... View Source

The plane will soon be ready to fly over US communities... View Source

There’s also a fake power company to jack up prices thanks to the fake data center. | Image: FBI Last year, the FBI opened a Cyber Range in Huntsville, Alabama, for simulating cyberattacks. Think of it sort of like the famous Hogan's Alley, but for modern digital crime training. It's a massive 22,000 square-foot replica of an entire town, complete with a convenience store, gas station, hospital, a... View Source

Gustavo Ripa channel (a legitimate Uruguayan musician/guitarist with older albums like Calma from ~2010 and ~12K subscribers) is currently (June 14 2026) being used to host live streams about “Elon Musk’s First Trillion-Dollar Interview: SpaceX IPO & SPCX Target Price.” This guy has never had any live streams before and his first live stream is ... Read more... View Source

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Here are some ways you can get a Kindle Unlimited membership at a discounted price... View Source

Apple is still holding some of its iOS 27 cards close to its chest... View Source

According to a new report from Semafor, the White House's decision to impose export restrictions on Anthropic's Mythos was driven in part by fears that it had been accessed by a group linked to China. If the Chinese government actually had access to Mythos 5 or Fable 5, it would present a serious national security risk. The government could also attempt to reverse engineer the model through distil... View Source

Prime Minister Mark Carney said the US export ban blocking all foreign access to Anthropic PBC’s latest artificial intelligence models underscores the risk of depending on just a handful of powerful AI tools... View Source

Our self-proclaimed Scroogian (cheapskate) book-loving writer has put together a guide on finding free books for your Kindle... View Source

Startups are trying to "ride that SpaceX IPO wave."... View Source

Unlock a party. | Image: Conclave I have this vivid memory of walking to pick up my oldest from school in June of 2022. For a variety of reasons, I was in a very bad place mentally. And to make matters worse, it was brutally hot. I was depressed, angry with the world, sunburned, and soaked through with sweat. But as the second track on Conclave, "Habla," settled into its groove, I found myself unc... View Source

Customers can order new joysticks, batteries, screens and more... View Source

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, how AI is playing a part... View Source

GUADALAJARA, MEXICO - JUNE 11: In-Beom Hwang #6 of Korea Republic scores his team's first goal past Matej Kovar #1 of Czechia during the FIFA World Cup 2026 Group A match between Korea Republic and Czechia at Guadalajara Stadium on June 11, 2026 in Guadalajara, Mexico. (Photo by Lars Baron/Getty Images) | Getty Images Hoping to catch some World Cup matches while spending as little money as possibl... View Source

Mercury will appear farthest from the sun in its current evening apparition on June 15... View Source

The company prepares for the foldable iPhone and touch-screen MacBook... View Source

Written in the 1860s, Jules Verne’s novels "From the Earth to the Moon" and "All Around the Moon" were highly speculative fiction in their time, but tell a tale that now seems remarkably familiar: three astronauts in a conical capsule on a free-return trajectory around the moon... View Source

Our expert sports fan made a detailed guide on what sports you can watch on Apple TV in multiview and how to do so. Plus, some tips for non-Apple TV users too... View Source

You don't really ever have to explain why a universal remote is a good idea. You have a bunch of stuff that needs controlling; this thing controls them all. Many companies have set out to build a product worthy of this idea, and one product came much closer than most. It was called the Harmony, and for many years it was the best universal remote on the market. Maybe the only one that mattered. And... View Source

When Eli Ben-Sasson helped create the Zcash cryptocurrency nearly a decade ago, the cryptographer worried about human adversaries. He didn’t expect that machine intelligence would one day expose a flaw that had eluded years of expert human judgment... View Source

The nights surrounding the new moon on June 14 are the perfect time to hunt for planets and sparkling constellations in the late spring sky... View Source

Google is making the biggest change to its search business in more than two decades, integrating AI-generated answers, conversational search, and reasoning tools directly into the heart of its search product, which has shaped the course of content and the internet.. Nick Fox, Google’s Senior Vice President of Knowledge and Information, argues that AI allows users to ask more complex questions and... View Source

This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on e-bikes, power stations, and how to work anywhere, follow Thomas Ricker. The Stepback arrives in our subscribers' inboxes at 8AM ET. Opt in for The Stepback here. How it started Lithium-ion batteries are everywhere as we enter the second quarter of the 21st century, and that's a problem. Fr... View Source

Search for “finance analyst” and you’re likely to find around 80 vacancies in London, according to a prominent recruitment website. If that seems like a surprisingly low number for one of the world’s biggest banking and corporate hubs, it’s because it is — four years earlier, the same website featured more than 350 of these roles... View Source

"We were totally amazed when we noticed this mass and size range of planet formation."... View Source

President Donald Trump says a secret mission moved 100 million barrels of oil through the blocked Strait of Hormuz. That number is impossible to verify... View Source

A UK ban on under-16s using social media set to be unveiled this week is not “a silver bullet” but will have “a significant role to play” in keeping children safe, Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy told Sky News on Sunday... View Source

Ant Group Co. is testing an overhaul to its Alipay super app that would introduce an AI agent interface, a major escalation in its battle for users with archrival WeChat... View Source

Friday’s debut share surge for SpaceX is bolstering the fortunes of one of Saudi Arabia’s richest men... View Source

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer will meet his Japanese counterpart Sanae Takaichi on Sunday as uncertainty mounts over their joint fighter jet program with Italy because of doubts about the UK’s commitment... View Source

Here are some wearables that will last longer than a mere two days while offering some of the features you might be looking for... View Source

According to the Wall Street Journal, the export control directive that led to Anthropic cutting off access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 was triggered in part by cybersecurity research from Amazon and conversations between CEO Andy Jassy and the White House. According to the report, the paper from Amazon claims that, through a series of prompts, it was able to get Fable 5 to serve up information that c... View Source

In 2026, Marvel and Mattel are both releasing projects designed to capitalize on people's love for iconic animated heroes from their childhoods. Masters of the Universe has put a live-action He-Man on the big screen, and the second season of X-Men '97 is about to fling some of Charles Xavier's mutants into an apocalyptic future. Both projects were clearly made by people who love the source materia... View Source

You know this came for free bundle with the console for $150, right? | Image: Heritage Auctions A copy of Super Mario Bros., still in the box and sealed with its original sticker, just sold at Heritage Auctions for $3 million. That absolutely crushes the previous record of $2 million, also for a copy of Super Mario Bros., in 2021. That sale also came hot on the heels of a controversial auction of... View Source

I have worked with Cern Basher to analyze Echostar. Full disclosure I own Echostar and SpaceX. Based upon this analysis, the value of SpaceX within Echostar works out to an implied price of $80-113 per share depending upon how the parts of Echostar are valued. Echostar has 266 million shares of SpaceX spread over 288 ... Read more... View Source

Bose’s latest QuietComfort Ultra headphones fold down for easy storage. | Image: Bose If you’re planning on traveling anytime soon, Bose’s second-generation QuietComfort Ultra headphones are a great companion for long flights and train rides. Not only do they offer excellent noise cancellation, but they also retain the foldable design of their predecessor, making them easy to pack in a carry... View Source

The point-and-click adventure game based on the horror anthology series arrives in August... View Source

Asha Sharma. | Image: The Verge, Microsoft Microsoft is preparing to lay off a significant chunk of its Xbox division and is reevaluating the plans for its next-generation Project Helix console. It's apparently also considering dramatically restructuring its relationship with Xbox, and hasn't ruled out spinning it off into a separate company. A new report from The Information suggests that Microso... View Source

The magnetic fields emitted by your headphones will need to be used a safe distance away from your CIDs... View Source

I turned off Siri on the Mac years ago and never looked back. Similarly, I found Apple Intelligence so fruitless I never engage with it. But the new Siri AI coming to macOS 27 Golden Gate has at least got me slightly rethinking things. I'm still early in testing Siri AI, as I've only had access to it in the macOS 27 developer beta for little more than 24 hours. It's also in an early preview state... View Source

Have you ever looked at a USB connector or port and wondered why it was that color?... View Source

Echo Isle is heavily inspired by The Legend of Zelda, and it's not afraid to show it: The retro graphics bear a striking resemblance to Link's Awakening, the main character wears a blue tunic and wields a sword, and he navigates dungeons to collect items and keys to fight bosses and gather magical MacGuffins. But where Echo Isle shines is how it takes the best parts of a Zelda adventure and shrink... View Source

The Trump administration is making another move into venture-style investing, taking equity stakes in nine quantum computing companies. IBM, the largest recipient of the investment, thinks that quantum systems could eventually solve problems involving drug discovery, financial markets, cybersecurity, logistics, and climate science that remain beyond the reach of classical computers. But while comp... View Source

You can use your AirPods as a remote control for your iPhone's camera. Here's how... View Source

Plan now to be in the right place at the right time for an unforgettable show... View Source

Mike Rugnetta is a writer, podcast host, producer, audio engineer, educator, musician, sound designer, and father. In short, the man wears a lot of hats. He's the cocreator and host of the award-winning Never Post, an absolutely must-listen podcast about the internet, as well as Fun City, a TTRPG podcast where he's the GM. He's also hosted two different Crash Course series and PBS's Idea Channel... View Source

This week's science news... View Source

On Episode 214 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik talk with former NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine about his past and the space agency's future... View Source

iPhone owners are getting real, native AI photo editing for the first time. The most popular camera in the world just got its first set of serious AI photo editing features, and I don't think any of us are ready. As far as AI photo editing goes, the new features in iOS 27 are pretty tame compared to what you can do on, say, Google's Pixel phones. But for the iPhone, they represent a tipping point... View Source

Venus appeared to move closer to Jupiter in Earth's sky, as the two planets drifted farther apart in space... View Source

When I returned to my computer five minutes after giving Gemini a lengthy prompt, I had two things: a functional app in a preview window, and a message about a bug. "~ Channel is unrecoverably broken and will be disposed!" Sounded bad! But right below it was a button to fix the bug. Pretty weird that I just instructed a computer to build a whole app for me with a single prompt, but it needed me to... View Source

KPMG published a paper about the benefits of AI last year. An investigation found that it was full of AI hallucinations... View Source

On Friday evening, the government ordered Anthropic to block access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all foreign nations, both inside and outside the US, due to national security concerns. That order included employees of Anthropic. To meet those demands, the company has completely cut off access to the models for all customers. In a statement, Anthropic said that while it was complying with the order,... View Source

SpaceX is coming to a mutual fund or 401(k) near you... View Source

A roundup of recent reviews published by Engadget... View Source

The company’s response to the launchpad blast has become a key test for Artemis IIIAs Blue Origin tells it, the most spectacular launchpad explosion in recent memory, which destroyed its pioneering New Glenn space rocket last month and severely damaged almost everything around it, was merely a blip.“We will fly again before the end of this year. Gradatim Ferociter,” Dave Limp, the company’s chief... View Source

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 132, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, happy soccer, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I've been preparing for a month of getting absolutely nothing done during the World Cup. I've also been reading about Steven Spielberg and wearables and the Boeing 747, over... View Source

Days after filing confidentially to go public, Anthropic, the $965 billion artificial intelligence juggernaut that’s one of the fastest-growing startups of all time, dropped another bombshell... View Source

Plus, the next game from the Mouthwashing devs and trying to survive as a sentient guitar... View Source

Concept art from Dear Upstairs Neighbors that used to train custom builds of Google’s Veo and Imagen models. | Image: Google DeepMind For all the noise that's been made about how generative AI is poised to revolutionize the filmmaking industry, there haven't really been any projects created with the technology that felt like the sort of entertainment people would pay to see. Most AI firms' video m... View Source

As World Cup action kicks off, we look at the physics of the beautiful game... View Source