Google released Android 17 and Wear OS 7 on Tuesday, June 16, 2026, rolling out the updates first to its Pixel devices alongside a Pixel Drop that brings support for several new AI models and…
Florida filed a lawsuit against TikTok in June 2026, alleging the company is violating the state’s child safety law by allowing underage users to remain on its platform. The suit, first reported by…
African payments infrastructure company Flutterwave announced on Tuesday, June 16, 2026, a Series E funding round that values the company at $3.2 billion. The round includes an equity investment from…
AI startup Probably raised $9 million in seed funding in 2026 to develop a system designed to eliminate hallucinations and factual errors from AI-generated outputs, with backing from Andreessen…
TikTok has barred sellers from listing iPhones, iPads, televisions, diamonds, gift cards, and precious metals as prizes in its “Surprise Set” livestream auctions, following complaints from users who…
Threads announced on June 16, 2026 that it has reached 500 million monthly active users, adding 100 million users in the 10 months since reporting 400 million in August 2025. Alongside the milestone,…
India’s National Testing Agency ordered a nationwide temporary Telegram block in June 2026, keeping it offline until June 22 after the June 21 NEET (UG) re-test, citing cheating networks selling fake papers and spreading misinformation. It also ordered Telegram to disable message editing until June 30, saying it was used to fabricate evidence of leaks; the actions were issued under Section 69A.
Days after its IPO, SpaceX confirmed plans to buy AI coding platform Cursor for $60B, filing with the SEC that the deal should close in Q3 2026. Earlier, it had set either the $60B price or a $10B breakup fee, citing Musk’s frustration that xAI coding lags Claude Code and OpenAI’s Codex.
Respond.io, a Kuala Lumpur-based customer conversation management platform, announced in June 2026 that it has raised a $62.5 million Series B round led by Camber Partners, with participation from…
High-level talks between Anthropic and Trump administration officials concluded Monday without resolution, leaving export controls on the company’s Claude Fable 5 AI model in place. The two sides…
At Stanford’s June 15, 2026 commencement, Google CEO Sundar Pichai was booed and ~200 students walked out. Activists protested Project Nimbus’s $1.2B cloud/AI contract with Amazon for the Israeli military and Google’s ICE ties, citing EFF claims they “look the other way.”
Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth called its March 2026 Applied AI rollout “atrocious,” apologizing in a June 2026 memo seen by WIRED after consolidating about 6,500 engineers and product managers and sparking widespread unrest. He says Meta will cap managers at ~20 direct reports, cut how often employees are moved to new managers during restructures, and demand clearer explanations and greater people-management focus.
