• Meta Muse Spark Debuts, META Shares Jump 6.5%
  • First model from Superintelligence Labs; multimodal reasoning, tool-use
  • Closed-source now; open-source version and paid API access planned
  • TechCrunch, The Verge, Meta Blog
• Anthropic Launches Agents Platform, Loses Pentagon Court Fight
  • Claude Managed Agents: composable APIs for cloud-hosted agents at scale
  • DC appeals court upholds DOD supply-chain risk designation, overriding CA judge
  • Anthropic, Wired, The Information
• NYT Investigation Names Adam Back as Bitcoin's Satoshi Nakamoto
  • Blockstream CEO and Hashcash inventor; Back publicly denies the claim
  • Investigation built on cryptographic analysis and circumstantial evidence
  • Techmeme
• xAI 'Clearly Behind'; SpaceX SVP Becomes President
  • Michael Nicolls takes title of xAI president per internal memo
  • Engineering team restructured amid competitive pressure from rivals
  • Techmeme
• Microsoft DevDiv Chief Exits; Open-Source Devs Locked Out
  • Julia Liuson leaving after 34 years; moves to advisory role end of June
  • WireGuard and VeraCrypt can't sign Windows drivers after account lockouts
  • The Verge, TechCrunch, TechCrunch

• Perplexity ARR Surges 50% in One Month to $450M+
  • Agent tool launch and shift to usage-based pricing drove the spike
  • The Information separately pegs current ARR at $500M
  • Techmeme, The Information
• Gemini App Gets Notebooks and NotebookLM Integration
  • Notebooks are personal knowledge bases shared across Google products
  • Deepens integration beyond initial source support introduced in 2025
  • 9to5Google
• Databricks CTO Wins ACM Prize, Declares AGI 'Already Here'
  • Matei Zaharia wins the 2026 ACM Prize in Computing
  • Says 'AGI is simply misunderstood,' not a future milestone
  • TechCrunch
• Feifei Li Named Alibaba Cloud CTO; Zhenwu Datacenter Launches
  • 10,000 Zhenwu AI chips power new southern China facility with China Telecom
  • Jingren Zhou steps down as CTO to become chief AI architect
  • Techmeme, Techmeme

• Ex-Andreessen GP Midha Closes $1.3B Debut Fund
  • Former a16z general partner raising independently
  • One of the largest solo GP debut raises reported this year
  • The Information
• Nebius Eyes Acquisition of Israeli AI Startup AI21
  • Prior deal with Nvidia reportedly fell through first
  • AI21 known for its Jurassic language model family
  • The Information
• Polygon Labs Seeks $100M for Payments Spinout
  • Raising for a dedicated payments business unit
  • Separate capital raise from Polygon's core Ethereum scaling protocol
  • The Information

• AWS Launches S3 Files: Buckets as Local File Systems
  • Built on Elastic File System; enables POSIX-style access to S3
  • Designed so AI agents can mount S3 buckets like a local drive
  • Techmeme
• Atlassian Confluence Gets Visual AI and Third-Party Agents
  • Remix tool in open beta: turns stored data into charts and graphics
  • Lovable, Replit, and Gamma among first integrated agent partners
  • TechCrunch

• Hacker Claims 10PB+ Stolen From China's Top Supercomputer
  • Allegedly includes classified defense docs and missile schematics
  • National Supercomputing Center in Tianjin said to be the target
  • Techmeme
• Russia's Military Hijacks Up to 40K Routers Across 120 Nations
  • MikroTik and TP-Link home and SOHO devices most affected
  • Used to harvest credentials and tokens for espionage campaigns
  • Ars Technica
• LinkedIn Sued Twice for Scanning Users' Browser Extensions
  • Two class actions filed Monday in N.D. California
  • LinkedIn claims extension maker fabricated the allegations
  • Ars Technica
• Supermicro Probes Staff Indicted for China GPU Smuggling
  • Two employees and a contractor charged with diverting Nvidia GPU servers
  • Board-led independent investigation launched after indictment
  • The Register

• Japan Eliminates Consent Requirement to Win AI Race
  • Firms won't need user consent to use personal data for AI training
  • Minister Matsumoto calls opt-out a 'very big obstacle' to adoption
  • The Register
• Iran Demands Bitcoin Tolls for Hormuz Strait Passage
  • New fee levied during the active US-Iran two-week ceasefire
  • Reported by Financial Times; adds friction to fragile truce terms
  • Financial Times

• Nvidia's Rubin GPU Faces Delays and Smaller Volumes
  • Memory shortage and technical challenges flagged by TrendForce
  • Now forecast to account for just 22% of Nvidia's 2026 GPU mix
  • The Register
• VW and Uber Begin Autonomous Microbus Testing in LA
  • ID. Buzz-based MOIA vehicles; commercial launch targeted late 2026
  • LA is first city; regulatory approval process still underway
  • TechCrunch

• Stratechery: The Mythos Wolf, Glasswing, and Alignment
  • Ben Thompson: skepticism warranted, but the danger framing raises deeper questions
  • If Anthropic's capability claims are true, implications go beyond PR
  • Stratechery
• The Verge: The Vibes Are Off at OpenAI
  • $852B valuation met with internal controversies and strategy drift
  • Analysis: company in 'relatively precarious position' despite funding
  • The Verge
• Railway Ditches Next.js; Build Times Fall From 10 Min to Two
  • Migrated to Vite + TanStack Router in two PRs with zero downtime
  • Serves millions of monthly users; six engineers made the call
  • Railway Blog