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Denver-based Scotch, which makes AI-powered payment tools for alcohol retailers, raised a $20 million Series A from VMG Partners, following a $10 million seed in 2024 (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)

By Stacey D. WallsJune 5, 2026

Featured Podcasts Great discussion: Who are billboards intended for? A podcast mainly about technology. Presented weekly by Angela Du, Sally…

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Internal documents from lawsuits filed by 1,400 school districts show how social media companies targeted children: Meta paid "teen ambassadors"Snap sent alerts during school hours (Jennifer Valentino-DeVries/New York Times)

By Stacey D. WallsJune 4, 2026

Jennifer Valentino-DeVries / New York Times: Internal documents from lawsuits filed by 1,400 school districts show how social media companies…

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Google now allows large creators and publishers in the United States to claim and customize dedicated search profiles to aggregate their content from multiple platforms (Jay Peters/The Verge)

By Stacey D. WallsJune 4, 2026

Jay Peters / The edge: Google now allows major US creators and publishers to claim and customize dedicated search profiles…

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Coinbase and Better fund the first Fannie Mae-backed mortgage that uses bitcoin as collateral, with a nationwide rollout planned in the coming months (Yogita Khatri/The Block)

By Stacey D. WallsJune 4, 2026

Featured Podcasts Access: AI turns sketches into real products A show about the inside conversations of the tech industry, hosted…

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Just 26% of Americans support increased data center construction, the lowest share among 15 major countries, including the United Kingdom, Japan and Canada (Financial Times)

By Stacey D. WallsJune 4, 2026

Featured Podcasts Access: AI turns sketches into real products A show about the inside conversations of the tech industry, hosted…

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SpaceX gets property tax exemption for its $55 billion Terafab chip plant project in Texas, despite threats of legal action from Texans, amid local opposition to AI (Stephanie Findlay/Financial Times)

By Stacey D. WallsJune 4, 2026

Stephanie Findlay / Financial Times: SpaceX gets a property tax exemption for its $55 billion Terafab chip installation project in…

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A profile of Anthropic as it prepares to go public and expand access to Mythos, amid criticism that commercial pressures have eroded its AI security standards (Madhumita Murgia/Financial Times)

By Stacey D. WallsJune 4, 2026

Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times: A profile of Anthropic as it prepares to go public and expand access to Mythos,…

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Moderators of the r/biohackers subreddit say peptide companies are spamming their forum in hopes that their posts will be deleted and used by AI chatbots (Jason Koebler/404 Media)

By Stacey D. WallsJune 4, 2026

Jason Koebler / 404 Media: Moderators of the subreddit r/biohackers claim that peptide companies are spamming their forum in the…

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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)

By Stacey D. WallsJune 4, 2026

Google Developer Blog: Google releases macOS versions of AI Edge Gallery, which lets users run open models on their devices,…

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Filing: SpaceX aims to raise $75 billion in its IPO, selling 555.6 million shares at $135 each, which would value the company at about $1.77 billion (Bailey Lipschultz/Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsJune 3, 2026

Bailey Lipschultz / Bloomberg: Filing: SpaceX aims to raise $75 billion in its IPO, selling 555.6 million shares at $135…

ASEAN and Trump’s Section 301 Tariffs – The Diplomat

Pakistan wants the world to see it as a peacemaker. I want him to find my father. – The diplomat

Border towns light up at night as North Korea goes solar – Radio Free Asia

What’s next? – The diplomat

Why India’s foreign minister visited Mongolia – The Diplomat

Medicare will soon cover obesity medications, but many seniors may not know it

‘Perfect storm’ portends much smaller U.S. auto market by 2040

Summer box office could generate first $10 billion since pandemic

How Kohl’s lost its way and is trying to become relevant again

Walmart heir Lukas Walton buys minority stake in Chicago Bulls

Even Fox News Can’t Hide Trump’s Great Failing for Fairness in America

Donald Trump now spends his days counting trees in the park

Failure of Trump’s big fair rally in US state really upsets him

Evangelical Christians humiliated as Trump falls asleep on them

President Mike Johnson admits he’s running a protection racket for Trump

DeepSeek details DSpark, a speculative decoding framework for its V4 models, saying it speeds up AI inference by up to 85% and has been tested on Gemma and Qwen (Ben Jiang/South China Morning Post)

Jefferies: Memory prices are expected to rise 40-50% in the third quarter of 2026 and 30-40% in the fourth quarter as Chinese memory makers are unlikely to provide significant relief in the near term (Hassan Mujtaba/Wccftech)

Austria is pushing the EU to consider hosting Anthropic within its borders, highlighting EU efforts to strengthen the bloc’s independence from US and Chinese technology (Marton Eder/Bloomberg)

Kunlunxin Technology, Baidu’s chip unit, plans an IPO in Hong Kong with a target valuation of $50 billion, asking investors to buy chips worth 3 to 7 times their IPO investment (Qianer Liu/The Information)

Australia-based Firmus partners with Nvidia to build its first data center in Batam, Indonesia; Nvidia DSX AI 360MW Factory Campus Developed with DayOne (Bloomberg)

Browsing: Technology

Denver-based Scotch, which makes AI-powered payment tools for alcohol retailers, raised a $20 million Series A from VMG Partners, following a $10 million seed in 2024 (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)

Internal documents from lawsuits filed by 1,400 school districts show how social media companies targeted children: Meta paid "teen ambassadors"Snap sent alerts during school hours (Jennifer Valentino-DeVries/New York Times)

Google now allows large creators and publishers in the United States to claim and customize dedicated search profiles to aggregate their content from multiple platforms (Jay Peters/The Verge)

Coinbase and Better fund the first Fannie Mae-backed mortgage that uses bitcoin as collateral, with a nationwide rollout planned in the coming months (Yogita Khatri/The Block)

Just 26% of Americans support increased data center construction, the lowest share among 15 major countries, including the United Kingdom, Japan and Canada (Financial Times)

SpaceX gets property tax exemption for its $55 billion Terafab chip plant project in Texas, despite threats of legal action from Texans, amid local opposition to AI (Stephanie Findlay/Financial Times)

A profile of Anthropic as it prepares to go public and expand access to Mythos, amid criticism that commercial pressures have eroded its AI security standards (Madhumita Murgia/Financial Times)

Moderators of the r/biohackers subreddit say peptide companies are spamming their forum in hopes that their posts will be deleted and used by AI chatbots (Jason Koebler/404 Media)

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)

Filing: SpaceX aims to raise $75 billion in its IPO, selling 555.6 million shares at $135 each, which would value the company at about $1.77 billion (Bailey Lipschultz/Bloomberg)