- Sources: EchoStar is considering filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy to protect its valuable wireless spectrum licenses from potential revocation by the FCC (Wall Street Journal)
- Watch: Moment Chile earthquake rocks live TV show
- Sources: Musk's feud with Trump will complicate xAI's attempt to raise $5B in debt, and might increase lending costs or cause some lenders to walk away entirely (Eric Platt/Financial Times)
- Scientists find immune molecule that supercharges plant growth
- Meet the Finalists: VivaTech’s 5 Most Visionary Startups of 2025
- Researchers: cybercriminals are increasingly turning from “bulletproof” hosts to “residential proxies” that disguise malicious traffic as normal online activity (Lily Hay Newman/Wired)
- Trump fast-tracks supersonic travel, amid spate of flight-related executive orders
- Scientists uncover 230 giant ocean viruses that hijack photosynthesis
- William to address Monaco forum in bid to help world's oceans
- Sols 4561-4562: Prepping to Drill at Altadena
- TechCrunch Mobility: How Jony Ive’s LoveFrom helped Rivian and what Uber’s next-generation playbook looks like
- An Indian government official says Starlink has secured a license from the telecom ministry to launch services in the country and now must apply for spectrum (Bloomberg)
- Omada Health IPO signals healthier market, avoids ‘down-round’ trend
- Searching for Ancient Rocks in the ‘Forlandet’ Flats
- 2025 will be a ‘pivotal year’ for Meta’s augmented and virtual reality, says CTO
- NASA’s ESCAPADE could launch on second New Glenn
- Anti-vaccine quack hired by RFK Jr. has started work at the health department
- Eric Trump says the TRUMP memecoin team and Magic Eden have canceled the $TRUMP Wallet; Trump's World Liberty Financial reportedly sent them a cease-and-desist (Jason Shubnell/The Block)
- Why investing in growth-stage AI startups is getting riskier and more complicated
- 3,500-year-old graves reveal secrets that rewrite bronze age history
- Anthropic releases custom AI chatbot for classified spy work
- Dr. Natasha Schatzman Receives Vertical Flight Society (VFS) Award
- Virtual chronic care company Omada Health closed up 21% in its Nasdaq debut after raising about $150M in its IPO, valuing the company at just over $1B (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)
- Anthropic appoints a national security expert to its governing trust
- Source: Milan Kovac, Tesla's head of engineering for Optimus, is leaving; Ashok Elluswamy, who leads Autopilot teams, will take over the humanoid robot program (Edward Ludlow/Bloomberg)
- AI startups continue fueling San Francisco’s office recovery
- Nintendo Switch 2 can make your old Switch games feel brand new again
- Tesla’s Optimus robot VP is reportedly leaving the company
- Sea turtle Dilly Dally released into the ocean with three flippers after undergoing amputation
- Saving Gateway, SLS and Orion? Sen. Ted Cruz proposes $10 billion more for NASA's moon and Mars efforts
- Italian lawmakers say Italy used spyware to target phones of immigration activists, but not against journalist
- Ted Cruz bill: States that regulate AI will be cut out of $42B broadband fund
- Google rolls out “scheduled actions” in the Gemini app, allowing AI Pro and AI Ultra subscribers to ask the AI assistant to perform tasks at specific times (Emma Roth/The Verge)
- The Trump-Musk feud has been great for X, which jumped up the App Store charts
- Analysis: Community Notes submissions on X fell from a high of 120,000 in January to fewer than 60,000 in May; Musk now rarely mentions the feature (Joe Murphy/NBC News)
- Figure AI CEO skips live demo, sidesteps BMW deal questions onstage at tech conference
- Millions of low-cost Android devices turn home networks into crime platforms
- Jony Ive’s LoveFrom helped design Rivian’s first electric bike
- Building Your AI Engine: How OpenAI Works with Startups
- AI startups take to the stage to pitch their companies to a panel of judges
- Sources: Trump's team seeks a potential consent decree as part of an FTC deal forcing Meta to pay restitution to conservative users harmed by content moderation (Lydia Moynihan/New York Post)
- Building More Scalable GenAI Applications for Startups and Developers
- Polymers gain fire resistance and sustainability with light-powered chemical upgrade
- Winklevoss twins' crypto exchange Gemini says it has confidentially filed for an IPO in the US, after SEC dropped its probe and Gemini settled with CFTC for $5M (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC)
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- Sources: Trump plans to extend TikTok's June 19 sale deadline; ByteDance told the White House China wouldn't approve a deal until there are trade negotiations (Alex Leary/Wall Street Journal)
- Sources: Tucker Carlson was on WH's list of potential TikTok investors, with JD Vance pushing for his inclusion, along with others like a16z and Blackstone (Financial Times)
- Webb Sees Sombrero Galaxy in Near-Infrared
- X names Polymarket as its official prediction market partner, with plans to combine Polymarket predictions with X data to deliver live insights (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
- Genetics testing startup Nucleus Genomics criticized for its embryo product: ‘Makes me so nauseous’