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London-based Gigaton, which develops AI to automate industrial control systems for cement, steel, glass and chemical plants, has raised a $26 million Series A round (Mike Butcher/Pathfounders)

By Stacey D. WallsJune 3, 2026

Mike Boucher / Path founders: London-based Gigaton, which develops AI to automate industrial control systems for cement, steel, glass and…

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Researchers at the University of Toronto say they have developed an open-source AI-powered ‘worm’ that exploits known vulnerabilities and tailors attacks to each computer (Cade Metz/New York Times)

By Stacey D. WallsJune 3, 2026

Featured Podcasts Training data: Know what your customers want, every time: Alfred Wahlforss of Listen Labs Sequoia Capital partners host…

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Bitcoin fell as much as 7% over 24 hours to fall below $67,000 on Tuesday for the first time since April, following Strategy’s first BTC sale since 2022; MSTR fell 9% (Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsJune 3, 2026

Featured Podcasts Training data: Know what your customers want, every time: Alfred Wahlforss of Listen Labs Sequoia Capital partners host…

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a CoreWeave-linked data center raised $900 million via five-year junk bonds, priced at par for a 7.5% yield, as the industry increasingly shifts to high-yield bonds (Gowri Gurumurthy/Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsJune 2, 2026

Featured Podcasts Training data: Know what your customers want, every time: Alfred Wahlforss of Listen Labs Sequoia Capital partners host…

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Microsoft launches MAI-Thinking-1, its first advanced reasoning model, trained “from scratch on clean data, without distillation of third-party models” (Jay Peters/The Verge)

By Stacey D. WallsJune 2, 2026

Featured Podcasts Training data: Know what your customers want, every time: Alfred Wahlforss of Listen Labs Sequoia Capital partners host…

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Internal position: Guy Rosen, Meta’s chief information security officer who previously oversaw Meta’s election integrity work, will leave in the coming months (Kurt Wagner/Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsJune 2, 2026

Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: Internal position: Guy Rosen, Meta’s chief information security officer who previously oversaw Meta’s election integrity work,…

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Meta Expands Teen Account Safety Features to Limit Harmful Content on Instagram, Facebook and Messenger, including Nutrition, Weightlifting and Anxiety (Eli Tan/New York Times)

By Stacey D. WallsJune 2, 2026

Featured Podcasts Training data: Know what your customers want, every time: Alfred Wahlforss of Listen Labs Sequoia Capital partners host…

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Chey Tae-won, president of SK Hynix, said the company plans to double the capacity of its memory chips over the next five years, in response to a shortage that could last until 2030 (Debby Wu/Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsJune 2, 2026

Featured Podcasts Training data: Know what your customers want, every time: Alfred Wahlforss of Listen Labs Sequoia Capital partners host…

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A profile of Valve, which PrivCo says generated $5.2 billion in revenue and $1.5 billion in net profit in 2025, as lawsuits allege its Steam store abuses market power (Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsJune 2, 2026

Bloomberg: A profile of Valve, which PrivCo says generated $5.2 billion in revenue and $1.5 billion in net profit in…

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Wise confirms he is under investigation by Belgian prosecutors over suspicions his accounts were used for money laundering involving €500 million in transactions (Simon Lock/TBIJ)

By Stacey D. WallsJune 2, 2026

Simon Lock / TBIJ: Wise confirms he is under investigation by Belgian prosecutors over suspicions his accounts were used for…

Trial against Orda.kz publisher begins – The Diplomat

China’s $295 billion AI ambitions will send domestic high-tech stocks soaring – The Diplomat

Football and assimilation in the Uighur region – Le Diplomate

The industrial gap in economic security between India and Japan – The Diplomat

Japan-Philippines Comprehensive Strategic Partnership – The Diplomat

American Airlines opens take-out lounge at New York’s JFK

Nike (NKE) Q4 2026 Results

JLL’s investment arm bets big on industrial real estate

Eli Lilly, Regeneron in FDA PreCheck manufacturing program

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

Trump hands election to Democrats by holding midterm convention

Mike Johnson groans in defeat after SCOTUS overturns Trump on citizenship rights

House Democrats to force vote to cut Trump’s arms fund

Supreme Court condemns Republicans in midterms with ruling on mail-in voting

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

Anthropic says Fable 5 will be available via usage credits to Claude users starting July 7 and is working with partners to draft an AI jailbreak severity standard (Anthropic)

Lime raised $174 million in its U.S. IPO, selling 6.68 million shares at $25 each, in the middle of the marketed range, giving Lime a market value of $1.6 billion (Bloomberg)

Nearly 1,700 British investors are suing Binance and Changpeng Zhao for at least £150 million, alleging Binance sold them risky derivatives without regulatory approval (Kirstin Ridley/Reuters)

Google Shuts Down Tenor API, Affecting GIF Selectors on Platforms Like Discord, WhatsApp, and Bluesky; Nikita Bier says X has migrated elsewhere (Ben Schoon/9to5Google)

Ottawa-based Dominion Dynamics, which develops software, sensors and drones to autonomously monitor the Arctic, has raised a C$139 million Series A round led by Georgian (Josh Scott/BetaKit)

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London-based Gigaton, which develops AI to automate industrial control systems for cement, steel, glass and chemical plants, has raised a $26 million Series A round (Mike Butcher/Pathfounders)

Researchers at the University of Toronto say they have developed an open-source AI-powered ‘worm’ that exploits known vulnerabilities and tailors attacks to each computer (Cade Metz/New York Times)

Bitcoin fell as much as 7% over 24 hours to fall below $67,000 on Tuesday for the first time since April, following Strategy’s first BTC sale since 2022; MSTR fell 9% (Bloomberg)

a CoreWeave-linked data center raised $900 million via five-year junk bonds, priced at par for a 7.5% yield, as the industry increasingly shifts to high-yield bonds (Gowri Gurumurthy/Bloomberg)

Microsoft launches MAI-Thinking-1, its first advanced reasoning model, trained “from scratch on clean data, without distillation of third-party models” (Jay Peters/The Verge)

Internal position: Guy Rosen, Meta’s chief information security officer who previously oversaw Meta’s election integrity work, will leave in the coming months (Kurt Wagner/Bloomberg)

Meta Expands Teen Account Safety Features to Limit Harmful Content on Instagram, Facebook and Messenger, including Nutrition, Weightlifting and Anxiety (Eli Tan/New York Times)

Chey Tae-won, president of SK Hynix, said the company plans to double the capacity of its memory chips over the next five years, in response to a shortage that could last until 2030 (Debby Wu/Bloomberg)

A profile of Valve, which PrivCo says generated $5.2 billion in revenue and $1.5 billion in net profit in 2025, as lawsuits allege its Steam store abuses market power (Bloomberg)

Wise confirms he is under investigation by Belgian prosecutors over suspicions his accounts were used for money laundering involving €500 million in transactions (Simon Lock/TBIJ)