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Opera announces Opera Neon, an AI "agentic browser" that performs tasks on users' behalf, describing it as a "premium subscription product" behind a waitlist (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)

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Salesforce reports Q1 revenue up 8% YoY to $9.83B, vs. $9.75B est., and raises its FY 2026 revenue forecast to between $41B and $41.3B (Zaheer Kachwala/Reuters)

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HP reports Q2 revenue up 3.3% YoY to $13.22B, vs. $13.14B est., Personal Systems revenue up 7% to $9B, and Q3 forecast below est.; HPQ drops 15%+ after hours (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)

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Nvidia reports Q1 revenue up 69% YoY to $44.06B, vs. $43.31B est., Data Center revenue up 73% to $39.1B, and net income up 26% to $18.78B (Kif Leswing/CNBC)

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Source: Tesla is poised to begin its long-awaited robotaxi service in Austin on June 12 (Edward Ludlow/Bloomberg)

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India asks e-commerce platforms and retailers to remove "dark patterns" or deceptive actions that manipulate customers into making unintended purchases (Bloomberg)

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Sources: Elon Musk tried to derail OpenAI's Abu Dhabi deal, telling G42 officials that there was no chance of Trump signing off on it unless xAI was included (Wall Street Journal)

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Marco Rubio says the US will impose visa bans on foreign nationals "who censor Americans" and calls arrest warrants for social media posts "unacceptable" (Reuters)

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Sources: the US Commerce Department has told electronic design automation groups, which include Cadence and Synopsys, to stop supplying their tech to China (Financial Times)

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Sources: Apple's next operating systems will be called iOS 26, macOS 26, watchOS 26, and more, as it plans a rebrand with numbers based on the upcoming year (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

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Rillet raised a $25M Sequoia-led Series A and has added ~200 customers, including Windsurf, since debuting an AI tool in 2024 to automate general ledger systems (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)

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Amazon and Stellantis say their deal, announced in 2022, to create in-car software and bring Fire TV to in-car entertainment systems, is "winding down" (Reuters)

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Anthropic appoints Netflix co-founder and Chairman Reed Hastings to its board of directors, as the company balances growth with its stated focus on safety (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg)

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In Q1 2025, the iPhone 16 was the best selling smartphone globally, followed by the iPhone 16 Pro Max, 16 Pro, 15, Samsung Galaxy A16, Galaxy A06, and S25 Ultra (Counterpoint Research)

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Bell Canada plans to invest hundreds of millions to build data centers in six Canadian cities; the first, set to launch in June, has Groq as an anchor tenant (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)

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Sources: Shein is shifting its IPO plans from London to Hong Kong after failing to secure approval from Chinese regulators, and aims to file in the coming weeks (Reuters)

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Discord unveils Discord Orbs, a new in-app currency in beta that users can earn by completing Quests, which reward participants who interact with ads (Wes Davis/The Verge)

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Instacart appoints Chief Business Officer Chris Rogers as its new CEO, effect August 15, replacing Fidji Simo, who left to become OpenAI's CEO of Applications (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)

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Pavel Durov says Telegram and xAI agreed a one-year deal to distribute Grok; Telegram will get $300M in cash and equity from xAI and 50% of subscription revenue (Oliver Knight/CoinDesk)

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Global Payments says it will sell its Heartland Payroll Solutions unit, which has 50K+ clients, to Michigan-based fintech Acrisure for $1.1B, closing in H2 2025 (Reuters)

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