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- Inside the Trump admin's push to integrate AI into the healthcare system, including an FDA regulatory fast track for digital health tech like AI chatbots (Elizabeth Dwoskin/Washington Post) [7m]
- Paris-listed Teleperformance, the world's largest customer service company, has become one of Europe's most shorted stocks, as hedge funds bet on AI disruption (Ramsay Hodgson/Financial Times) [52m]
- Sources: Uber has committed nearly $500M to self-driving startup Nuro, providing a crucial runway as Nuro works to prove its technology at commercial scale (Abhirup Roy/Reuters) [1h]
- Kepple: seed-stage startup funding in Japan fell 42% YoY in 2025 to a 10-year low of $124M, as the Tokyo Stock Exchange moves to reduce small listings (Ami Yamada/Nikkei Asia) [1h]
- SoftBank's PayPay, Japan's dominant payments app, says it will take a 70.2% stake in T&D Financial Life Insurance for $840M, expected to close in October 2027 (Mayumi Negishi/Bloomberg) [1h]
- OpenAI rolls out Lockdown Mode, an optional security setting designed to offer users advanced protection from prompt injection attacks by limiting some features (Igor Bonifacic/Engadget) [5h]
- Google Cloud says its SpaceX compute deal is a "short-term" agreement "to ensure we have bridge capacity to meet surging customer demand" for Gemini Enterprise (Kate Conger/New York Times) [5h]
- Privacy token Zcash plunges after the disclosure of a 2022 vulnerability in its Orchard shielded pool that could have allowed undetectable ZEC counterfeiting (Akash Girimath/Decrypt) [6h]
- Sources and docs detail defense tech startup Shield AI's struggles to overcome years of technical hitches and safety concerns with its V-BAT autonomous drone (David Jeans/Reuters) [7h]
- Marvell and Flex, a contract manufacturer for electronics, will join the S&P 500; MRVL jumps 6%+ after hours after closing down 16.74% amid a broader sell-off (Kif Leswing/CNBC) [8h]
- Source: OpenAI and White House are discussing a government stake in the company, to seed something like the "Public Wealth Fund" that OpenAI outlined earlier (CNBC) [9h]
- Sources: Apollo and Blackstone finalized a $35B package for Anthropic to lease TPUs; Broadcom is backstopping payments on the debt's largest senior portions (Bloomberg) [9h]
- Trump signs a national security memorandum seeking to "accelerate the use of AI across intelligence and warfighting domains in line with American values" (Reuters) [9h]
- US-traded chipmakers plunged on Friday, after Broadcom missed expectations; Nvidia fell 6.19%, Micron fell 13.25%, AMD fell 10.86%, and Broadcom 7.92% (Noel Randewich/Reuters) [10h]
- Bitcoin falls below $60K, its lowest level since October 2024, amid a record streak of bitcoin ETF outflows following Strategy's bitcoin sale (CNBC) [10h]
- Sources: AI coding startup Lovable is in talks to raise funding at a $12B valuation, up from $6.6B in December 2025 (Rashi Shrivastava/Forbes) [11h]
- Filing: Google has agreed to pay SpaceX $920M a month for access to Nvidia chips as part of a cloud-services deal that runs through mid-2029 (Lynn Doan/Bloomberg) [11h]
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- ‘Communities across the UK are paying the price for this criminal behaviour': Openreach teams up with metal recycling giant to tackle UK's £4bn a decade cable theft problem [23m]
- LaCie 8big Pro5 review: I tested LaCie’s huge 256TB DAS solution, and it's ideal for 8K video editing but it comes with a price tag that's just as big [33m]
- Amazon Prime members can already get $135 in free perks ahead of Prime Day 2026 — here are 7 freebies to claim right now [43m]
- Hasbro is turning Optimus Prime and Mr. Potato Head into AI-powered voices — which is one sure-fire way to ruin our childhood memories [2h]
- HP announces the most powerful Windows AI PC ever built — Nvidia GB300 workstation can handle one trillion parameters thanks to its 784GB unified memory, but it won't be cheap [5h]
- Denon's all-new home speaker offers style, substance and serious spatial audio chops — but I still have one (very minor) gripe [5h]
- Buying your dad a tech gift or gadget for Father's Day? You may want to wait until Prime Day, if possible [5h]
- Which Amazon Fire Stick do I need? A simple guide to the key differences [5h]
- How much data does your favorite messaging app collect? New study shows 90% of messaging apps now include AI that puts privacy at risk [6h]
- One year ago, Ukraine launched Operation Spiderweb to destroy billions of dollars worth of Russian combat planes – It 'served as a warning to the United States' [6h]
- Final Fantasy 7 Revelation let's you jump out of an airship Fortnite style [7h]
- ‘Our hardware is designed to be picked up and shaken about’: Aquark Technologies takes quantum sensing outside of the lab as a viable GNSS alternative [7h]
- We've called Shokz OpenRun Pro 2 'the best headphones for runners', and this 25% EOFY discount has arrived just in time for marathon season [7h]
- Quordle hints and answers for Saturday, June 6 (game #1594) [7h]
- NYT Strands hints and answers for Saturday, June 6 (game #825) [7h]
- NYT Connections hints and answers for Saturday, June 6 (game #1091) [7h]
- 9 dog-care gadgets that are so clever they deserve a treat — including an ingenious on-the-go water solution and a 'canine FitBit' [8h]
- Quote of the day by former Apple design chief Jony Ive: "When something exceeds your ability to understand how it works it sort of becomes magical" — wisdom on the power of simplicity [8h]
- It was always the plan to make a Dylan-focused game, says Control Resonant art director, but creating a 'high level' world came first — 'We create the world, and then there are opportunities to have these different lenses into it, or different stories' [8h]
- Remedy says Control Resonant's shapeshifting weapon was conceptualized for the first game when it considered enabling Jesse's gun to turn into a sword — 'We really needed to make sure that this is something that works and is fun on a very visceral level' [8h]
- Inside the "disappearing battery" revolution — how forest-powered supercapacitors could keep wireless sensors running for years [9h]
- Ex-Google CEO is key to Ukraine's most formidable drone weapon to date - $5000 Hornet can carry 5Kg of explosives on a 200Km, one-way trip [9h]
- I just watched a robot kick a child and I'm over it — let's keep robots away from people until these bots are 100% safe [9h]
- Mark Rosewater's infectious love of Marvel has changed my mind on Magic: The Gathering's next Universes Beyond set [9h]
- Meta’s smart glasses might soon sport facial recognition — and the code to power this dystopian feature is already present in the Meta AI app on your phone [10h]
- All the latest Summer Game Fest 2026 announcements live from the show in Los Angeles [10h]
- 'Fraud won’t be tolerated in this country any longer': FBI releases Most Wanted Fraudsters list to help fight the crime that 'costs Americans tens of billions of dollars every year' [10h]
- China combats US carrier restrictions by opening telecoms pilots to foreign outfits – Beijing drops 50% foreign ownership cap to attract new investment [11h]
- The Dyson HushJet Mini Cool is the powerful personal fan you won't want to live without this summer — and it's surprisingly reasonably priced, too [11h]
- Creative's Katana V2X speaker potentially has a serious vulnerability that could allow hackers to attack your PC, and there's only one way to avoid it [11h]
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- Today's NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Saturday, June 6 [3h]
- First Look at the New Pokemon Lego Smart Play Sets video [5h]
- Final Fantasy 7 Revelation Wraps Up the Remake Trilogy in 2027 [6h]
- 14 of the Best Peacock Shows to Watch This Weekend [6h]
- US Passport Renewal Can Now Take as Little Time as 10 Minutes Online [6h]
- Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for June 6, #621 [6h]
- All the Trailers From Summer Game Fest 2026 [6h]
- Today's NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for June 6 #825 [6h]
- Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for June 6, #1091 [7h]
- Crossfire, the Debut Game From That's No Moon, Seeks to Revolutionize Cover Shooters [7h]
- Control Resonant Spills Paranormal Chaos into the Streets of New York [7h]
- Apple Brings Back Its Enhanced Maps Features for F1 Monaco Grand Prix [7h]
- Resident Evil: Code Veronica Finally Gets a Remake [8h]
- Everything to Know About World Cup 2026: Teams, Hosts, Where and Who to Watch [9h]
- NASA Orders ISS Crew Members to Briefly Shelter During Leak Repair Work [9h]
- Today's Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for June 6, #1813 [10h]
- The Siri Overhaul Expected at WWDC 2026 Might Be Bigger Than We Imagined [10h]
- Code Reveals Meta Smart Glasses Can Use 'Faceprint' Tracking, Raising Privacy Alarms [10h]
- Samsung Health App Gets AI Upgrade Before Rumored Galaxy Watch 9 Launch [11h]
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