Wednesday, Jun 17, 2026
Pinterest’s Amazon Deal Is a Confession. The Platform Needs Real Humans Back
Pinterest announced on Wednesday that it will now serve as a home for creators’ Amazon Storefronts, giving content creators the…
SpaceX Prices Friday. Here Is the $72 Nobody Is Talking About
SpaceX prices its IPO on Friday. Demand, according to people familiar with the book, is approaching four times oversubscribed, with…
Seven Million Dollars and a Grudge Against Model Lock-In
Niteshift raised a $7 million seed round led by Greylock’s Jerry Chen, and the company’s founders – Sajid Mehmood and…
August. $14 Billion. One Regulatory Clearance Away
SK Hynix is aiming to debut on a U.S. exchange as early as August, with regulatory clearance from the SEC…
Starbucks Is Quietly Dismantling Its International Empire. Japan Is Next
Brian Niccol has been CEO of Starbucks for less than a year and has already rewritten the company’s international ownership…
JPMorgan’s AI Agents Will Run for Hours Unsupervised. Waldron Has a Name for Why That’s Now Possible
JPMorgan Chase plans to deploy AI agents capable of operating without human intervention for hours at a time in 2026,…
Lula’s Fuel Subsidies Are Running at $580 Million a Month. The Election Is in October
Brazil extended its emergency fuel subsidy measures until July 31, according to a government statement this week, continuing a package…
Apollo, Blackstone, and Broadcom Just Made a $35 Billion Bet That Anthropic Doesn’t Need Nvidia
Apollo and Blackstone announced on Tuesday they are financing a $35 billion expansion of AI computing capacity for Anthropic using…
Brussels Orders Meta to Open WhatsApp to Rivals. It’s the EU’s First Antitrust Emergency in 17 Years
The European Commission issued an interim measure against Meta Platforms on Tuesday, ordering the company to restore rival AI chatbots’…
$166 Billion in Illegal Tariffs. $22 Billion Sent. The Rest Is Up to a Manhattan Judge
Officials from the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency appeared in a federal trade court in Manhattan on Tuesday for…
$14 Billion vs. $900 Billion: Why Apple’s Reluctance to Overspend on AI Looks Like Strategy
Apple’s senior vice president of software engineering Craig Federighi opened his remarks at WWDC 2026 with a line that was…
Free AI for Small App Developers: Apple’s WWDC Offer Arrives at Exactly the Right Moment
Apple announced at its developer conference on Monday that developers with fewer than two million first-time App Store downloads can…
Apple Paid $250 Million to Prove Its AI Works. Monday’s Demos Were the Evidence
Apple’s 2026 Worldwide Developers Conference keynote on Monday looked different in a way that most viewers noticed immediately but may…
Hackers Compromised Microsoft’s GitHub Repos Twice in Weeks. The Target Was AI Developers
Microsoft shut down access to more than 70 GitHub repositories on Sunday after hackers injected password-stealing malware into open-source projects…
Engines, Not Planes, Are the Ceiling on Airline Growth Right Now
United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby delivered what amounts to the airline industry’s most important constraint assessment in a long time:…