Tech

Google invests in independent movie studio A24 as part of a new AI partnership; sources say Google is investing ~$75M, roughly equal to Thrive's 2024 investment (www.wsj.com)
2026-6-23 Google AI

Crypto trading app Fomo raised a $75M Series B led by Index at a $550M valuation, taking its total funding to ~$94M, and claims to add 3,500 new users per day (fortune.com)
2026-6-23

Instagram is testing horizontal video on Instagram for TV, plans to experiment with longer-form storytelling and episodic series, and launches on Samsung TV (www.hollywoodreporter.com)
2026-6-23 Samsung Instagram

Upscale, which is building AI networking infrastructure to rival Cisco, raised a $190M Series A-1 at a $2B valuation, up from $1B after raising $200M in January (fortune.com)
2026-6-23 AI Cisco

Nvidia unveils Halos, a new safety-focused OS derived from autonomous vehicle tech, designed to run on IGX Thor hardware for humanoid robots, and opens a lab (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-23 Robot Nvidia Autonomous Car

In a rare joint statement, Five Eyes leaders warn AI models capable of taking down governments and businesses are mere months away, urging leaders to “act now” (www.theguardian.com)
2026-6-22 AI

Several US States Bet That AI Can Solve Their Prison Recidivism Crisis (news.slashdot.org)
2026-6-22 AI

Meta invests $900M into Indian fintech startup Cred, and plans to appoint Cred founder Kunal Shah as the new leader of WhatsApp, replacing Will Cathcart (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-22 India Fintech Startup WhatsApp

NYC-based Prosper AI, whose health care AI tool is designed to answer patient phone calls, raised a $30M Series A led by a16z, for $35M in total funding (www.axios.com)
2026-6-22 AI

UK-based AI law firm Garfield, which received regulatory approval in 2025, wins a case in the English courts for the first time; the case focused on unpaid fees (www.ft.com)
2026-6-22 AI

Electric bike rental company Lime is seeking to raise up to $180.9M in its US IPO, offering 6.7M shares at $24 to $26 each, giving it an up to $1.7B valuation (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-22 IPO

Chevron signs a 20-year deal with Microsoft to provide natural-gas power for a proposed West Texas data center, which could be one of the biggest in the US (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-22 Microsoft Texas

Netherlands-based Nearfield Instruments, which makes atomic force microscopes to measure chip features, raised $380M led by Fidelity at a $1.6B valuation (www.reuters.com)
2026-6-22 Netherlands

JD.com founder Richard Liu says robots will replace the company's 700K delivery workers “sooner or later”, and it will help retrain them in robot maintenance (www.ft.com)
2026-6-22 Robot

Analysis: Taiwanese car display chip maker Himax, which makes driver integrated circuits for Ferrari, VW, and others, nets its founders a $1B combined net worth (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-22 Taiwan

Getty signs a licensing deal with OpenAI, letting its image library appear in ChatGPT's search and discovery features; GETY jumps 150%+ pre-market (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-22

SK Hynix passes Samsung to become South Korea's most valuable company, closing up 5.6% for a ~$1.4T market cap; South Korea's Kospi index is up 117% YTD (www.wsj.com)
2026-6-22 Korea Samsung

Bain says it is using AI coding tools to recreate pieces of target companies' software, making hundreds of rough prototypes in recent years as due diligence (www.ft.com)
2026-6-22 AI

S&P and IBM: 22% of global cyberattacks in 2024 hit Japan, the most targeted country, as it scrambles to improve its substandard systems against AI threats (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-22 Japan IBM AI

Satya Nadella says the public wouldn't tolerate a few AI labs “doing all of the learning for the world”, as Microsoft moves to provide low-cost models and tools (www.wsj.com)
2026-6-22 Microsoft AI

A look at JD Vance's “AI doctrine”, which combines pro-innovation VC principles, worker protections, and concerns about power concentration in dominant AI labs (www.theatlantic.com)
2026-6-22 AI

A profile of Sarah Polcz, the UC Davis law professor that Bernie Sanders' team consulted while developing his AI sovereign wealth fund proposal (www.theinformation.com)
2026-6-22 AI

'Tutor' Who Took Online Tests for 124 Students Jailed for Three Years (news.slashdot.org)
2026-6-22

Analysis: Anthropic may have talked itself into an export ban, as its 2026 official statements and posts used AI risk-related terms 8x more often than OpenAI (www.ft.com)
2026-6-22 AI Ban

PitchBook: defense tech companies making drones, battlefield AI, and more have raised $12.3B across 175 deals YTD, up from a $9.95B total from 158 deals in 2025 (www.ft.com)
2026-6-22 AI Drone

Tencent starts testing the new Xiaowei AI assistant powered by WeLM and DeepSeek models in its WeChat app in China, in an effort to catch up in the AI race (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-22 China AI WeChat Tencent

Source: Morgan Stanley is pitching data center developers to use leveraged loans rather than bonds, and estimates ~$15B will be issued this year in such loans (www.theinformation.com)
2026-6-22 Morgan Stanley

WiseTech shares fell 11% after Australian police probed co-founder Richard White over sex exploitation claims; WiseTech shares are down ~67% in the past year (www.smh.com.au)
2026-6-22 Australia

TikTok Shows 3x More AI Slop Than YouTube, Report Finds (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-6-22 AI YouTube

Sources: ByteDance shares are trading at a $600B+ valuation in gray markets; an IPO is unlikely and its growth continues to benefit its Chinese and US backers (asia.nikkei.com)
2026-6-22 China IPO

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