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Featured Headlines
- Court denies Apple’s request to pause ruling on App Store payment feesby Ivan Mehta on June 6, 2025 at 7:34 am
A U.S. court denied Apple a stay on a ruling that requires the company to stop charging developers for payments made outside the App Store through links in apps.
- The best earbuds we’ve tested for 2025by Chris Welch on June 6, 2025 at 12:33 am
It’s hard to buy a bad pair of wireless earbuds these days, and with constant discounts and deals wherever you look, now is as good of a time as any to splurge on the pair you’ve been eyeing. The market has come a long way since the early era of true wireless earbuds when we
- The best Android phonesby Allison Johnson on June 5, 2025 at 11:37 pm
The Android ecosystem is all about choice. While iPhone owners have a smaller pool of new devices to pick from when it’s time to upgrade, there’s a wider range of choices on Android. Some Android phones even fold in half! Imagine. On the flip side, all that choice can make for some hard decisions. Here’s
- A GameStop damaged Switch 2 screens with staples, but they’re getting replacedby Jay Peters on June 5, 2025 at 10:43 pm
Some people reported an unwelcome surprise after picking up their Nintendo Switch 2 preorders at GameStop: staples used to attach receipts to Switch 2 boxes ended up damaging the screens on the console, as reported by IGN. However, GameStop says this was an issue that was “isolated” to a single store and that it has
- Cursor’s Anysphere nabs $9.9B valuation, soars past $500M ARRby Marina Temkin on June 5, 2025 at 10:14 pm
The massive round is Anysphere's third fundraise in less than a year. The 3-year-old startup secured its previous capital haul of $100 million at a pre-money valuation of $2.5 billion late last year.
AI & Machine Learning
- Palantir Is Going on Defenseby Caroline Haskins on June 5, 2025 at 7:22 pm
Palantir threatened to call police on a WIRED reporter and kicked out other journalists from a recent conference following reports of the data analytics firm’s work with the Trump administration.
- Reddit sues Anthropic over AI data scrapingby Ryan Daws on June 5, 2025 at 12:28 pm
Reddit is accusing Anthropic of building its Claude AI models on the back of Reddit’s users, without permission and without paying for it. Anyone who uses Reddit, even a web-crawling bot, agrees to the site’s user agreement. That agreement is clear: you cannot just take content from the site and use it for your own The post Reddit sues Anthropic over AI data scraping appeared first on AI News.
- Perplexity’s CEO Sees AI Agents as the Next Web Battlegroundby Will Knight on June 4, 2025 at 4:25 pm
Aravind Srinivas says agents need access to apps and claims that letting OpenAI take control of Chrome would be a disaster for the open Web.
- Facing a Changing Industry, AI Activists Rethink Their Strategyby Louise Matsakis on June 4, 2025 at 11:00 am
As power over artificial intelligence concentrates in a handful of companies, a new report urges advocacy groups to expose the technology’s connection to broader economic struggles.
- Google DeepMind’s CEO Thinks AI Will Make Humans Less Selfishby Steven Levy on June 4, 2025 at 10:00 am
Demis Hassabis says that systems as smart as humans are almost here, and we’ll need to radically change how we think and behave.
Gadgets & Hardware
- The best earbuds we’ve tested for 2025by Chris Welch on June 6, 2025 at 12:33 am
It’s hard to buy a bad pair of wireless earbuds these days, and with constant discounts and deals wherever you look, now is as good of a time as any to splurge on the pair you’ve been eyeing. The market has come a long way since the early era of true wireless earbuds when we
- The best Android phonesby Allison Johnson on June 5, 2025 at 11:37 pm
The Android ecosystem is all about choice. While iPhone owners have a smaller pool of new devices to pick from when it’s time to upgrade, there’s a wider range of choices on Android. Some Android phones even fold in half! Imagine. On the flip side, all that choice can make for some hard decisions. Here’s
- A GameStop damaged Switch 2 screens with staples, but they’re getting replacedby Jay Peters on June 5, 2025 at 10:43 pm
Some people reported an unwelcome surprise after picking up their Nintendo Switch 2 preorders at GameStop: staples used to attach receipts to Switch 2 boxes ended up damaging the screens on the console, as reported by IGN. However, GameStop says this was an issue that was “isolated” to a single store and that it has
- Here are three new apps building out the open social webby Emma Roth on June 5, 2025 at 9:45 pm
For the past couple of years, the virtual FediForum conference has offered a glimpse at what’s new in the open social web, with last year’s big news being Threads’ foray into the fediverse. This year’s presentation was no different, with several developers showing off new apps that will help to expand the ecosystem of decentralized
- After the Switch 2, there’s no going back to the old eShopby Jay Peters on June 5, 2025 at 9:43 pm
Ahead of the Nintendo Switch 2’s launch, Nintendo said that the eShop would be improved and run more smoothly on the new console. Based on our initial testing at The Verge, it’s immediately apparent that the Switch 2’s eShop is much better. On the original Switch, the eShop can be extremely sluggish. Even just moving
Big Tech (Apple, Google, Microsoft)
- Court denies Apple’s request to pause ruling on App Store payment feesby Ivan Mehta on June 6, 2025 at 7:34 am
A U.S. court denied Apple a stay on a ruling that requires the company to stop charging developers for payments made outside the App Store through links in apps.
- Senate response to White House budget for NASA: Keep SLS, nix scienceby Eric Berger on June 5, 2025 at 11:55 pm
Gateway is back, baby.
- Cursor’s Anysphere nabs $9.9B valuation, soars past $500M ARRby Marina Temkin on June 5, 2025 at 10:14 pm
The massive round is Anysphere's third fundraise in less than a year. The 3-year-old startup secured its previous capital haul of $100 million at a pre-money valuation of $2.5 billion late last year.
- Circle IPO soars, giving hope to more startups waiting to go publicby Marina Temkin on June 5, 2025 at 10:06 pm
The USDC stablecoin issuer ended its first trading day at a 167% jump from its $31 IPO price.
- Why are Elon Musk and Donald Trump fighting?by Amanda Silberling on June 5, 2025 at 9:42 pm
Elon Musk donated $288 million to Trump's 2024 election campaign, but now the tech mogul is calling for Trump's impeachment.
Cybersecurity
- Senate response to White House budget for NASA: Keep SLS, nix scienceby Eric Berger on June 5, 2025 at 11:55 pm
Gateway is back, baby.
- Discord CTO says he’s “constantly bringing up enshittification” during meetingsby Scharon Harding on June 5, 2025 at 8:33 pm
"It's not a bad thing to build a strong business and to monetize a product."
- What would happen if Trump retaliated against Musk’s companies?by Eric Berger on June 5, 2025 at 8:02 pm
"I was always surprised that Biden didn't do it!"
- Google’s new Gemini 2.5 Pro release aims to fix past “regressions” in the modelby Ryan Whitwam on June 5, 2025 at 6:40 pm
Google expects this version to roll out in the Gemini app soon.
- Nvidia RTX 5060/5060 Ti review: You can have “affordable” or “future-proof.” Pick one.by Andrew Cunningham on June 5, 2025 at 6:28 pm
An OK, but uninspiring, end to the 50-series rollout for mid-range gaming PCs.
Startups & Innovation
- Google claims Gemini 2.5 Pro preview beats DeepSeek R1 and Grok 3 Beta in coding performanceby Emilia David on June 5, 2025 at 9:30 pm
Google said the newest version of Gemini 2.5 Pro, now on preview, gives faster and more creative responses while performing better than OpenAI's o3.
- Google Play launches Diamond District experience in Robloxby Rachel Kaser on June 5, 2025 at 5:49 pm
Google Play launches a special experience in Roblox with special rewards for its Play Points members, called Diamond District.
- Solidroad just raised $6.5M to reinvent customer service with AI that coaches, not replacesby Michael Nuñez on June 5, 2025 at 5:39 pm
Dublin AI startup Solidroad raises $6.5M from First Round Capital to transform customer service training with AI that coaches human agents and improves satisfaction scores.
- How much information do LLMs really memorize? Now we know, thanks to Meta, Google, Nvidia and Cornellby Carl Franzen on June 5, 2025 at 3:35 pm
Using a clever solution, researchers find GPT-style models have a fixed memorization capacity of approximately 3.6 bits per parameter.
- Securing AI at scale: Databricks and Noma close the inference vulnerability gapby Louis Columbus on June 5, 2025 at 2:13 pm
Databricks Ventures and Noma Security partner to tackle critical AI inference vulnerabilities with real-time threat analytics, proactive red teaming, and robust governance, helping CISOs confidently scale secure enterprise AI deployments.
Tech from Around the Web
- Court denies Apple’s request to pause ruling on App Store payment feesby Ivan Mehta on June 6, 2025 at 7:34 am
A U.S. court denied Apple a stay on a ruling that requires the company to stop charging developers for payments made outside the App Store through links in apps.
- Cursor’s Anysphere nabs $9.9B valuation, soars past $500M ARRby Marina Temkin on June 5, 2025 at 10:14 pm
The massive round is Anysphere's third fundraise in less than a year. The 3-year-old startup secured its previous capital haul of $100 million at a pre-money valuation of $2.5 billion late last year.
- Circle IPO soars, giving hope to more startups waiting to go publicby Marina Temkin on June 5, 2025 at 10:06 pm
The USDC stablecoin issuer ended its first trading day at a 167% jump from its $31 IPO price.
- Why are Elon Musk and Donald Trump fighting?by Amanda Silberling on June 5, 2025 at 9:42 pm
Elon Musk donated $288 million to Trump's 2024 election campaign, but now the tech mogul is calling for Trump's impeachment.
- Google claims Gemini 2.5 Pro preview beats DeepSeek R1 and Grok 3 Beta in coding performanceby Emilia David on June 5, 2025 at 9:30 pm
Google said the newest version of Gemini 2.5 Pro, now on preview, gives faster and more creative responses while performing better than OpenAI's o3.
- Europe will have to be more Tenacious to land its first rover on the moonby Anna Heim on June 5, 2025 at 9:27 pm
Tenacious was set to become the first European-made rover to land on the Moon, but communications were lost with the lander that carried it.
- Elon Musk and Donald Trump are smack-talking each other into their own digital echo chambersby Rebecca Bellan on June 5, 2025 at 8:36 pm
Elon Musk and Donald Trump are smack-talking each other into their own echo chambers.
- Perplexity received 780 million queries last month, CEO saysby Aisha Malik on June 5, 2025 at 8:28 pm
Srinivas went on to note that the same growth trajectory is possible, especially with the new Comet browser that it's working on.
- Walmart and Wing expand drone delivery to five more US citiesby Kirsten Korosec on June 5, 2025 at 8:00 pm
Walmart and Wing are expanding their partnership and rolling out drone delivery to dozens of more stores in Atlanta, Charlotte, Houston, Orlando, and Tampa.
- Amazon launches new R&D group focused on agentic AI and roboticsby Rebecca Szkutak on June 5, 2025 at 7:48 pm
Amazon wants this group to develop an agentic AI framework to be used to give its warehouse robots more skills.
