Tech

Rockstar sets the release date for GTA VI for November 19 and says it will cost $79.99, or $99.99 for the Ultimate Edition; pre-orders start at midnight tonight (www.theverge.com)
2026-6-24

How Chicago is betting on quantum computing, including turning the site of the former US Steel mill into a campus, after largely missing the digital revolution (www.wsj.com)
2026-6-24 Quantum

Q&A with AWS CEO Matt Garman on the parallels between early AWS and AI, Quick, AI coding, Amazon's $200B capex in 2026, hiring entry-level staff, and more (www.platformer.news)
2026-6-24 Amazon AI

SK Hynix says it is seeking to raise ~$29.4B in a US listing, expects trading to start on July 10, and intends to use the funds for building additional capacity (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-24

Humanoid robot maker Agility plans to go public via a merger with Michael Klein's SPAC, in a deal valuing it at ~$2.5B and listing under ticker symbol AGLT (www.wsj.com)
2026-6-24 Robot

Europe: The World's Fastest-Warming Continent (news.slashdot.org)
2026-6-24 Europe

An interview with Bob Iger on stepping down as Disney's CEO, his legacy, new CEO Josh D'Amaro, Bob Chapek, Apple, Disney+, purchasing Pixar, AI, and more (www.ft.com)
2026-6-24 Interview AI Apple

Sources: Qualcomm is in talks to design custom chips for ByteDance, based partly on connectivity tech from Alphawave Semi, which Qualcomm acquired in 2025 (www.reuters.com)
2026-6-24

US AI Stock Sell-Off Shakes Markets From Wall Street To Asia (news.slashdot.org)
2026-6-24 Asia AI Wall Street

Sources: India drives 50%+ of WhatsApp's revenue, generating $1B+ annually, largely via business messaging, likely helping Kunal Shah get WhatsApp's top job (www.moneycontrol.com)
2026-6-24 India WhatsApp

SK Hynix overtaking Samsung to become South Korea's most valuable company is the culmination of 14 years of bets on HBM, which paid off as the AI boom took off (www.reuters.com)
2026-6-24 Korea Samsung AI

London-based Isometric, which develops AI agents that work with human verifiers to automate industrial certification, raised a €34M Series A led by AVP (www.eu-startups.com)
2026-6-24 AI London

New York-based Probook, which is building an AI operating system for home service businesses, raised a $34M Series A led by a16z and a $6M seed led by Sequoia (fortune.com)
2026-6-24 AI New York

AI creative tools startup Krea, which has raised $83M and claims to have 30M users, releases the open weights for its image model Krea 2 under a custom license (venturebeat.com)
2026-6-24 Startup AI

Customer engagement service MoEngage acquires Aampe, whose AI agents help brands personalize messaging, for “tens of millions”, per a source; Aampe raised ~$28M (techcrunch.com)
2026-6-24 AI

Sources: Zhipu is considering a multibillion-dollar Hong Kong share sale after its stock surged 2,000% since its January IPO, pushing its market cap above $128B (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-24 Hong Kong IPO

Sources: prices for Nvidia's AI chips on China's black market have more than doubled amid a US export crackdown; its flagship DGX B300 server has risen to $1.1M (www.ft.com)
2026-6-24 China AI Nvidia

Flipkart says it plans to expand its network of micro-fulfillment centers in India to 1,500 by the end of 2026, as it also claims orders have grown ~400% YoY (techcrunch.com)
2026-6-24 India

Superhuman acquires AI detection startup GPTZero, which has 19M+ registered users and $30M in annual recurring revenue; PitchBook: GPTZero is valued at $88M+ (www.businessinsider.com)
2026-6-24 Startup AI

Alex Bores lost to Micah Lasher in an NY Congressional Democrat primary that became a proxy war over AI regulation that drew millions in spending from AI PACs (www.nbcnews.com)
2026-6-24 AI Democrat

The NSA was red-teaming Mythos 5 before losing access amid the Anthropic dispute; the tests showed Mythos identified cybersecurity flaws in classified systems (www.nytimes.com)
2026-6-24

Orderful, which offers AI-powered tools to automate supply chain data management, raised a $35M Series C led by KDT, bringing its total funding to $85M (siliconangle.com)
2026-6-24 AI

xLight, a startup developing advanced lasers for EUV machines, told investors that it is in talks to raise $350M led by Boardman Bay and Bain Capital (www.theinformation.com)
2026-6-24 Startup

Micron and Sandisk led a tech selloff on Tuesday, falling more than 13%; Western Digital fell 8%, Marvell 9%, Seagate 5%, Qualcomm 8%, and Applied Materials 8% (www.marketwatch.com)
2026-6-24 Western Digital

YouTube settles a lawsuit ahead of a second California trial over social media harms to minors; Meta, TikTok, and Snap remain defendants (www.courthousenews.com)
2026-6-24 YouTube California

29-Year-Old Squid Proxy Bug 'Squidbleed' Can Leak Cleartext HTTP Requests (it.slashdot.org)
2026-6-24

Sources: the Trump administration is pressing Meta to submit its AI models for voluntary review; Meta is the only major US AI developer without an agreement (www.nytimes.com)
2026-6-24 Trump AI

China Reclaims Fastest Supercomputer At 2 Exaflops (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-6-24 China

Cerebras reports Q1 revenue up 94% YoY to $193.4M, net loss down 41% to $14M, and forecasts core gross margin to shrink in Q2; CBRS drops 8%+ after hours (www.cnbc.com)
2026-6-24

Cisco Unified CM SME flaw CVE-2026-20230 now exploited in attacks (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-6-24 Cisco

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