Wednesday, Jun 17, 2026
Xi’s Pyongyang Visit Is China’s Answer to a Question It No Longer Controls
Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in Pyongyang on Monday for his first visit to North Korea in seven years, received…
Notion Turned Off Anthropic. The “Astonishment” at the Reaction Tells You More Than the Outage Did
Notion’s AI integration with Anthropic experienced degraded performance over the weekend, specifically affecting the Opus 4.7 and 4.8 models, leading…
OpenAI’s Plan to Kill ChatGPT and Replace It With Something Bigger
A senior OpenAI employee has apparently declared that “chat is dead,” and the company plans to replace the conversational interface…
Bluesky Has 40 Staff. Australia’s Teen Ban Compliance Team Is Bigger Than That
Rose Wang, Bluesky’s chief operating officer, made a simple observation at SXSW in London on Wednesday that cuts through most…
Mammoth Brands Wants to Be the Next P&G. The Question Is Whether the Public Market Agrees
Mammoth Brands, the New York-based consumer packaged goods company whose portfolio includes Harry’s razors, Lume Deodorant, Flamingo, Mando, and Coterie…
Bank of America Lit Its Spire Like a Rocket. The SpaceX IPO Roadshow Is Unlike Anything Before It
Wall Street’s major investment banks opened their SpaceX pre-IPO investor events on Thursday in a display of theatrical enthusiasm that…
Daniela Amodei Says AI Returns Are Real. The $1.25B Monthly Compute Bill Suggests the Real Question Is Different
Anthropic co-founder Daniela Amodei spoke at a major technology industry conference on Thursday and addressed the growing skepticism around whether…
Meta’s Own Oversight Board Says the Account Ban System Is Broken. Meta Agreed the Ban Was Correct
Meta’s Oversight Board published a report on Thursday that found systemic human rights concerns and a lack of transparency and…
CrowdStrike Called It a ‘Mythos Moment.’ The Numbers Agree
CrowdStrike reported Q1 fiscal year 2027 results on June 3 that beat expectations on both revenue and non-GAAP profit, raised…
Lululemon Beat on Revenue. The Guidance Cut Is the Story
Lululemon reported Q1 fiscal 2026 results after the close on Wednesday that superficially looked like a beat but carried guidance…
SK Hynix’s Investors Love the U.S. Listing Plan. So Does the Math on $14 Billion
SK Hynix told investors this week it has received “tremendously positive” feedback on its proposed U.S. listing, according to a…
C.C. Wei Just Told Shareholders TSMC Can’t Keep Up. That’s the Best Possible Business News
TSMC Chief Executive C.C. Wei stood at the company’s annual shareholders’ meeting in Hsinchu, Taiwan, on Thursday and said something…
Uber’s 500 Sensor Trucks and the Data Arms Race Reshaping Who Wins Autonomous Driving
Uber revealed on Wednesday a sensor-laden Hyundai Ioniq 5 prototype that it plans to deploy in a fleet of 500…
Meta Said It Fixed the Instagram Hack. Then More Accounts Got Hacked
Meta’s AI-powered support chatbot spent the weekend handing strangers control of other people’s Instagram accounts. The attack required no technical…
$135 a Share, $75 Billion Raised: The SpaceX IPO That Makes Musk the First Trillionaire
SpaceX published an updated IPO prospectus on Wednesday, pricing its upcoming offering at $135 a share for a total valuation…