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The Netherlands joins the US-led Pax Silica initiative alongside South Korea and Japan to coordinate AI supply chains; Taiwan endorses it as a non-signatory (Toby Sterling/Reuters)

The Netherlands joins the US-led Pax Silica initia...

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ByteDance unveils Seedance 2.5 in Beijing, saying the AI video model can generate 30-second clips from up to 50 reference materials, up from 12 for Seedance 2.0 (Juro Osawa/The Information)

ByteDance unveils Seedance 2.5 in Beijing, saying ...

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Google plans a 12-week incubator, picking 10 to 20 AI startups from its "Xoogler" alumni and providing up to $350K in cloud credits and $100K in direct funding (Guinevere Grant/Bloomberg)

Google plans a 12-week incubator, picking 10 to 20...

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How Sam Altman's 80+ personal investments, many from his time at YC, benefit from ties to OpenAI; 10+ companies have discussed business deals with OpenAI (Wall Street Journal)

How Sam Altman's 80+ personal investments, many fr...

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Top500: China's Arm-based LineShine surpasses the US' El Capitan by 20% to be the world's fastest supercomputer, the first time China takes the crown since 2017 (Don Clark/New York Times)

Top500: China's Arm-based LineShine surpasses the ...

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The EU is set to impose a €3 duty on non-EU items under €150 from July 1, as the bloc seeks to slow the flood of low-priced merchandise from retailers like Temu (Brendan Murray/Bloomberg)

The EU is set to impose a €3 duty on non-EU items ...

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South Korea's tech-heavy Kospi index falls 10%, dragged down by SK Hynix and Samsung; STMicro and ASML fall ~7%, and US tech stocks fall in pre-market trading (Chloe Taylor/CNBC)

South Korea's tech-heavy Kospi index falls 10%, dr...

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An interview with Nvidia VP of Healthcare Kimberly Powell on how AI can ease doctors' workloads, help address trained medical staff shortages, and more (Cristina Criddle/Financial Times)

An interview with Nvidia VP of Healthcare Kimberly...

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Sources: Tencent is negotiating exits from several game studio investments in Japan, including Tokyo-traded Marvelous, as it reassesses its global portfolio (Bloomberg)

Sources: Tencent is negotiating exits from several...

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How the data center boom is exposing weaknesses in US power grids and what fixes the electricity infrastructure may need to become fit for the future (Chris Gillett/Works in Progress Magazine)

How the data center boom is exposing weaknesses in...

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Syntun: online sales during China's 618 shopping festival grew 4% YoY, a sharp drop from 15.2% growth last year, amid a persistent consumer spending slowdown (Evelyn Cheng/CNBC)

Syntun: online sales during China's 618 shopping f...

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Eli Lilly plans to use its $7.3B cash reserve to fund an "App Store" for biotech scientists after launching a data center with 1,016 Blackwell chips in 2025 (Patrick Temple-West/Financial Times)

Eli Lilly plans to use its $7.3B cash reserve to f...

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OpenAI debuts at Cannes Lions, pitching its new ChatGPT ad business and Codex to marketers, as it tries to build a multibillion-dollar business ahead of an IPO (Financial Times)

OpenAI debuts at Cannes Lions, pitching its new Ch...

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A US NLRB judge ruled that Amazon violated federal law by not recognizing the Teamsters union at a SF warehouse and must collectively bargain with the workers (Josh Eidelson/Bloomberg)

A US NLRB judge ruled that Amazon violated federal...

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Real estate professionals are increasingly using AI-powered virtual staging tools like Stuccco and BoxBrownie to create misleading house and apartment listings (Gaby Del Valle/The Verge)

Real estate professionals are increasingly using A...

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Sources: Qualcomm is in advanced talks to acquire Modular in a transaction valuing the AI chip startup at ~$4B, up from a $1.6B valuation in September 2025 (Bloomberg)

Sources: Qualcomm is in advanced talks to acquire ...

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Filing: Oracle's global workforce fell by 21,000 employees in the past 12 months to 141,000 as of May 31; the company says AI adoption has led to reductions (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)

Filing: Oracle's global workforce fell by 21,000 e...

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President Trump signs two executive orders aimed at speeding the development of advanced quantum computers and mitigating the security threats they present (Amrith Ramkumar/Wall Street Journal)

President Trump signs two executive orders aimed a...

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