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Google Engineer Charged With Insider Trading After Polymarket Bets

A federal prosecutor in New York charged Google engineer Michele Spagnuolo with using early access to internal Google information to place cryptocurrency bets on Polymarket that returned about $1.2 million…

BMW Deploys Humanoid Aeon Robots In European Car Production

BMW will introduce two humanoid Aeon robots from Hexagon Robotics into production at its Leipzig factory this summer after a test deployment, marking the first use of humanoid robots for…

Blue Origin Rocket Explodes During Florida Hotfire Test

Blue Origin said a rocket experienced an anomaly and exploded during a hotfire test at Cape Canaveral, with footage showing the vehicle erupting into a large fireball while emergency teams…

Canada Agrees To 20‑Year LNG Deal With Germany From Ksi Lisims Project

Canada and Germany agreed to a long-term contract that will deliver one million tonnes per year of liquefied natural gas from the proposed Ksi Lisims project in British Columbia to…

Phillips Distilling Moves Sour Puss Production To Canada After Provincial Boycott

Phillips Distilling shifted some production of its Sour Puss liqueur to Canada after provincial bans on U.S. liquor cut its Canadian sales by about 70 percent. The company said moving…

Volvo Secures U.S. Exemption For Vehicles With Chinese Connected Tech

The U.S. Department of Commerce granted Volvo Cars a specific authorization to continue importing and selling vehicles that include Chinese-connected car technology, exempting the automaker from recent U.S. restrictions. The…

UK Visa Portal Exposed Thousands Of Passports And Selfies

The third-party site UK Visa Portal publicly exposed thousands of passport images and selfie photos uploaded by applicants, a security lapse that TechCrunch says affected at least 100,000 documents before…

CEOs Are Overestimating AI’s Immediate Impact, Says Aaron Levie

Box founder Aaron Levie argued that many CEOs overestimate what AI agents can do because they are removed from the “last mile” of work that generates most value. Levie said…

YouTube Will Automatically Label Photorealistic AI Videos

YouTube said it will apply AI labels automatically when its systems detect significant photorealistic AI in a video, and it will make those labels more prominent across long-form uploads and…

China Imposes Travel Curbs On Top AI Talent And Tightens Capital Controls

The Chinese government has begun requiring some leading AI researchers, startup founders, and private-sector executives to seek approval before traveling abroad, according to Bloomberg, effectively narrowing opportunities for international movement.…

SOND Launches Dreambuds Earbuds That Actively Intervene To Improve Sleep

The Boston startup SOND emerged from stealth with $7 million in funding and introduced Dreambuds, an in-ear system that captures 12 physiological signals and uses a cloud-based AI sleep coach…

Spotify Adds Podcast Clips Tool To Trim And Share Moments

Spotify launched a Podcast clips feature that lets listeners trim, preview, save, and share short segments from episodes directly from the Now Playing view. The feature places a scissors icon…

ElevenLabs Releases Music V2 Model That Switches Genres Mid-Track

The voice AI company ElevenLabs launched Music v2, a music-generation model that can switch genres mid-track and handle complex vocals and composition. The model allows artists to edit song sections…

FAA Orders Investigation After SpaceX Starship Booster Mishap

The Federal Aviation Administration has declared SpaceX’s May 22 Starship Flight 12 a mishap and ordered a SpaceX-led investigation that the FAA will oversee and approve, pausing further Starship test…

Shadow Brokers leak still stands as one of cybersecurity’s biggest unsolved mysteries

The Shadow Brokers, an unidentified group that appeared in 2016 and released hacking tools believed to come from the NSA, remain unmasked ten years later. Their dump helped expose powerful…

Report says Iranian-backed hackers were behind LACMTA breach

Security researchers say a March breach of the Los Angeles transit system was carried out by hackers linked to Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and State Security, according to a report…

UMG and TikTok renew deal to remove unauthorized AI music

Universal Music Group and TikTok have renewed their licensing agreement with a new commitment to remove unauthorized AI-generated music and improve artist and songwriter attribution. The agreement marks a shift…

Spotify adds narrated magazine articles to its audio app

Spotify is bringing narrated long-form magazine articles into its app, expanding beyond music, podcasts, and audiobooks as it pushes further into “everything audio.” Premium subscribers will get the articles as…

ClickUp lays off 22% as CEO says AI will drive a “100x org”

ClickUp laid off 22% of its workforce while CEO Zeb Evans said the collaboration software company is embracing AI agents to raise productivity and reshape pay, not simply cut costs.…

BP removes chairman Albert Manifold over governance concerns

BP has removed chairman Albert Manifold with immediate effect after serious concerns over governance standards, oversight and conduct, with the BBC understanding that bullying and overbearing behaviour were among the…