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WhatsApp is finally letting users reserve usernames so they never have to hand over their phone number

Iran’s cyberattacks on Israel tripled in a year, Israeli cyber chief says

Baidu’s chip unit Kunlunxin is targeting a $50 billion Hong Kong IPO and asked investors to buy its semiconductors

Nvidia-backed Firmus will build a 360MW AI data centre in Indonesia and expects $30 billion in offtake deals

The 33-year-old ex-Snap exec Nadella is trusting to fix Copilot now oversees 11,000 people

Ford had to rehire 350 engineers after its AI got vehicle quality wrong

OpenAI releases its most powerful AI model to just 20 partners, each one approved by the US government

TikTok is building a super app, and most of its users have not noticed yet

Taktile raises $110M to automate banking’s riskiest calls

Hyundai workers vote to strike over robot fears

Europe’s biggest tech CEOs have formed a standing lobby group with a direct line to von der Leyen

A Tesla on Autopilot plowed into a Texas home. The woman inside didn’t survive.

Nearly 7,000 fake Amazon domains registered ahead of Prime Day 2026, researchers warn

SK Hynix overtakes Samsung as Korea’s most valuable company

London’s Isometric lands $40M to certify the industrial economy with AI

The American dream is ‘very dead’ for young Americans, says Mrs. Dow Jones

Signal’s Meredith Whittaker says AI chatbots ‘are not your friends’ and calls Copilot agents a backdoor

Hackers are mass-exploiting a Gravity SMTP flaw to steal API keys from 100,000 WordPress sites

Hackers have stopped breaking in. They’re abusing the things developers already trust.

SpaceX adds Sequoia’s Roelof Botha to its board, days after record $75 billion IPO

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SpaceX’s surging stock just turned its valuation into an acquisition weapon

A million Dutch adults get news solely from social media. Only 12% trust what they see.

Rivian lays off hundreds of workers one week after launching R2 deliveries as it chases its first profit

I was in OpenAI’s first intern cohort. Here’s what it taught me about becoming an AI-native engineer

YouTube’s AI slop purge is punishing the human creators who never showed their faces

Seattle has been using AI to listen to every 911 medical call since 2023. Nobody was told.

Built to assist, not replace: inside Intercall’s real-time AI for professional interpreters

A Tesla on Autopilot swerved into someone’s garage door in Washington. Police are investigating.

Microsoft is considering spinning off Xbox entirely as the division’s margins hit 3%

Spotify is adding editor-hosted videos to New Music Friday so you can meet the people behind the playlist

Firefox’s AI kill switch exists. Only 1% of users have flipped it.

IMF chief warns advanced AI models like Mythos “can be used to destroy the financial system”

Coinbase launches an AI agent that can trade crypto and pay for research on your behalf

Waymo launches a $29.99/month subscription for its most frequent robotaxi riders

Why the next AI safety problem is the conversation between models

SpaceX’s IPO is expected to mint 4,000 new millionaires, from engineers to cafeteria workers

BNP Paribas says the $3.6 trillion US tech IPO pipeline will pull European startups towards public markets

The most AI-obsessed companies spend $7,500 per employee per month. The median spends $11.

Boeing upgrades the Ghost Bat with internal weapons and longer range as it competes with Helsing for German drone orders

Meta pulled facial recognition code from its smart glasses app one day after WIRED found it, then denied the timing was related

Anthropic releases Claude Fable 5, a Mythos-class model the public can finally use, days before a potential record IPO

Rivian begins R2 deliveries as it bets a shrinking US EV market is an opportunity, not a threat

Chip stocks bounced 10% on Monday. The smart money is buying insurance against the next drop.

Trump orders the military to adopt AI faster, protect models from China, and never let a vendor pull the plug

The UK just signed an AI deal with ElevenLabs to make government services accessible in any language and any voice

South Korea’s AI chip boom is so strong it’s crushing the bond market

Spotify is licensing live concert video and reserving tickets for superfans

OpenAI adds Lockdown Mode to ChatGPT to block data theft from prompt injection attacks

Trump’s top AI adviser Sriram Krishnan is stepping down from the White House