On June 2, 2026, a bipartisan 11-member UK committee warned Palantir reliance is an “unacceptable point of weakness” that could increase vendor leverage and lead to costlier, lower-quality services. It urges the NHS to trigger a contract clause next February to exit, citing 2020 COVID use, $750M in NHS/MoD deals, and Peter Thiel’s 2023 “Stockholm syndrome” comments.
Partiful’s first monetization move, announced June 2026, adds in-app ticket sales: hosts can manage tiers, set capacity, process payments, and verify QR codes at entry. Partiful takes a cut per sale; the 2020 startup is backed by $27M from Andreessen Horowitz.
Anthropic submitted confidential paperwork to the US Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday, June 2, 2026, initiating an initial public offering process for the AI company behind the Claude…
Play claimed in May 2026 it hacked MyPillow, exfiltrating private data, client documents, budgets, payroll, IDs and taxes, and set a Friday deadline. Mike Lindell denied the breach as a political “hit job,” and the FBI says Silent Ransom Group operatives physically enter offices to steal data.
More than 150 contract workers staged a protest and march outside Meta’s European headquarters in Dublin, Ireland, on Friday, May 29, 2026, demanding better severance pay ahead of planned…
A book examining how artificial intelligence distorts people’s sense of reality is now under scrutiny for its own use of AI-generated content. Steve Rosenbaum, author of The Future of Truth and…
Meta will launch paid “Plus” subscriptions for Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp in summer 2026: Instagram Plus and Facebook Plus are $4/month, WhatsApp Plus is $3/month. Maria Cubeta calls it part of “Meta One,” which will later add pricier business/creator tiers and more Meta AI access—echoing Snapchat+, launched at $4/month in 2022 and reaching a $1B annualized direct-pay run rate with 25M+ subscribers in Feb 2026.
Illinois House passed SB 315 on May 28, 2026, requiring “frontier AI” labs like OpenAI, Anthropic and Google DeepMind to get independent auditors to verify safety practices. Gov. JB Pritzker says he’ll sign; audits could be handled by Deloitte, EY, KPMG, PwC or the AI Evaluator Forum.
Trajectory, launched in May 2026 by ex-DeepMind, Apple, OpenAI and Meta researchers, raised a $15M seed at a $115M post-money valuation led by Conviction with Bessemer VC, Radical VC and BoxGroup. Founded by Ronak Malde, it has 11 people and targets continual learning from real user interactions.
A wave of privacy-focused gay dating apps launched in 2026 as user frustration with dominant platforms like Grindr and Sniffies intensified, prompting developers to build community-driven…
The FBI is planning to purchase nationwide access to automated license plate reader (ALPR) data, with procurement records showing the agency intends to pay millions for near real-time access to…
Palantir held a company-wide hack week this spring focused on building new user-auditing and oversight tools for its software used by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Immigration and…
