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Sources: Kraken is in talks to acquire a 15% stake in DeFi protocol Aave at a $385M valuation, investing 35,000 ETH in return for 250,000 AAVE tokens (www.coindesk.com)
2026-6-26 ETH

Notion plans to shut down its Gmail client Notion Mail on September 22 and go “all in” on AI agents to run inboxes, saying 50%+ of users do not open the inbox (9to5mac.com)
2026-6-26 AI

Google launches a Google Finance app for Android, with market data, financial news, and an AI-powered “Key Moments” feature, and plans an iOS version this year (techcrunch.com)
2026-6-26 Android IOS Google AI

Microsoft says the price of Xbox consoles will increase on August 1 by $100 for 512GB models and $150 for 1TB models, the third price increase since 2025 (kotaku.com)
2026-6-26 Microsoft Xbox

Nebulock, which helps security teams proactively find and remediate threats across a company's security stack, raised a $25M Series A led by FirstMark (www.axios.com)
2026-6-26

Sources: Bumble explores a sale amid slowing growth in the online dating sector; its shares fell 48% over the past 12 months, giving it a market cap of $388M (www.reuters.com)
2026-6-26

Sources: Apple plans to skip higher-end M6 chips and launch its next Pro and Max chips in 2027 as part of the M7 lineup, to boost on-device AI capabilities (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-26 AI Apple

Ford Rehires 350 Engineers After AI Fails To Preserve Expertise or Train Juniors (slashdot.org)
2026-6-26 AI Ford

Memo: Meta Superintelligence Labs is hiring three founders and other team members behind AI security startup Virtue AI; two founders report to Nat Friedman (www.axios.com)
2026-6-26 Startup AI

General Intuition, which trains AI agents in spatial reasoning via gameplay footage, raised $320M led by Khosla at a $2.3B valuation, for $454M in total funding (techcrunch.com)
2026-6-26 AI

New macOS malware embeds fake errors to confuse AI analysis tools (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-6-26 AI

Anthropic hires French telecom group Orange's Chief AI Officer Steve Jarrett to help Anthropic “better understand and adapt” its products to Europe and Africa (www.reuters.com)
2026-6-26 France Europe AI Africa

Micron Locks In Historically High Memory Prices For Five Years (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-6-26

Sources and a draft document: the US proposes that the EU sign on to an AI partnership to help secure chip supply chains; the one-page statement had few details (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-26 AI

Google Starts Lowering Play Store Fees, Making Good On Epic Games Settlement (news.slashdot.org)
2026-6-26 Google

Sony's Bungie says it is laying off a “significant number of employees”, including “most of the Destiny team”; Bungie has an estimated headcount of 800 (kotaku.com)
2026-6-26 Sony

PirloTV sports piracy network disrupted as 44 domains seized (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-6-26

Bluekit phishing kit adopts browser-in-the-middle for login theft (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-6-26 Browser

The Four Elevations of Effective Fraud Prevention (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-6-26

Apple says “the rapid expansion of AI data centers has created an extraordinary surge in demand for memory and storage”; the MacBook Neo rises from $599 to $699 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-26 AI Apple MacBook

Sources: Google expands the scope of its months-old AI coding strike team to “midtraining” to better compete with Anthropic, after key executive departures (www.theinformation.com)
2026-6-25 Google AI

Sail, whose software optimizes how AI models run on existing chips, emerges from stealth with $80M in seed and Series A led by Kleiner at a $450M valuation (fortune.com)
2026-6-25 AI

Apple raises Mac, iPad, and other product prices by 15%-25%, saying it has “never seen a component price increase this much, this quickly”; iPhone is unchanged (www.wsj.com)
2026-6-25 iPhone Apple iPad

Apple says “the rapid expansion of AI data centers has created an extraordinary surge in demand for memory and storage”; the MacBook Neo rises to $699 from $599 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-25 AI Apple MacBook

Webinar: Why account takeovers remain one of the hardest threats to stop (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-6-25

NordVPN is $30 right now & includes dark web monitoring (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-6-25 Darknet

Australian payments startup Airwallex raised $320M led by Lee Fixel's Addition at an $11B valuation, and is incubating blockchain payments startup Metal (www.forbes.com)
2026-6-25 Blockchain Australia Startup

Scaled Cognition, a reliability-focused lab that develops the Agentic Pretrained Transformer model, raised a $100M Series A led by Khosla at a $750M valuation (www.wsj.com)
2026-6-25

Exponential View: global AI sales, excluding China, hit $25B in Q1, exceeding an estimated $21B in data center and chip depreciation costs; margins remain thin (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-25 China AI

New Study Shows That Tall Vehicle Hoods Cause Hundreds More Deaths Per Year (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-6-25

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