macOS Tahoe 26 hands-on: Liquid Glass is slick but slightly overwrought, and the new Spotlight search features are nifty and useful, but fall short of Raycast (Antonio G. Di Benedetto/The Verge)

Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge:
macOS Tahoe 26 hands-on: Liquid Glass is slick but slightly overwrought, and the new Spotlight search features are nifty and useful, but fall short of Raycast  —  Tahoe is all about power users and theme options borrowed from the iPhone. … At WWDC, Apple announced its new Liquid Glass design language …

UK retailer M&S begins accepting online orders again, seven weeks after disclosing a sustained cyberattack that cost it up to £300M in this financial year (Laura Onita/Financial Times)

Laura Onita / Financial Times:
UK retailer M&S begins accepting online orders again, seven weeks after disclosing a sustained cyberattack that cost it up to £300M in this financial year  —  Retailer says it will take ‘weeks’ to restore some online services as fashion ranges return

Protesters against immigration raids in LA damaged and set several Waymo autonomous taxis on fire on Sunday; Waymo says it is working with law enforcement (Los Angeles Times)

Los Angeles Times:
Protesters against immigration raids in LA damaged and set several Waymo autonomous taxis on fire on Sunday; Waymo says it is working with law enforcement  —  As police struggled with another day of unrest in downtown L.A., several Waymo autonomous taxis were set on fire, sending thick plumes of black smoke billowing high into the air.

Maryland-based quantum computing company IonQ agrees to acquire Oxford Ionics, which spun out of Oxford University, in a $1.07B all-stock deal, closing in 2025 (Oliver Barnes/Financial Times)

Oliver Barnes / Financial Times:
Maryland-based quantum computing company IonQ agrees to acquire Oxford Ionics, which spun out of Oxford University, in a $1.07B all-stock deal, closing in 2025  —  Acquisition of Oxford Ionics for $1.1bn shows advances in processing are kick-starting dealmaking

Treefera, which uses satellite imagery, drone imagery, and AI to provide real-time insights into supply chains, raised a $30M Series B led by Notion Capital (Cate Lawrence/Tech.eu)

Cate Lawrence / Tech.eu:
Treefera, which uses satellite imagery, drone imagery, and AI to provide real-time insights into supply chains, raised a $30M Series B led by Notion Capital  —  Treefera delivers real-time, first-mile traceability using adaptive AI, satellite imagery and financial-grade risk modelling.

A look at the intensifying race for super apps in the Gulf, as Careem, Talabat, Amazon, Botim, and Noon consolidate various services into single platforms (Divsha Bhat/Rest of World)

Divsha Bhat / Rest of World:
A look at the intensifying race for super apps in the Gulf, as Careem, Talabat, Amazon, Botim, and Noon consolidate various services into single platforms  —  From Dubai to Riyadh, apps are consolidating ride-hailing, payments, and delivery into single platforms.  —  The race for super-apps is intensifying in the Middle East.

Skyral, a London-based modeling and simulation startup developing AI-based digital twin tech for defense, healthcare, and other sectors, raised a $20M Series A (Lucy Adams/Tech.eu)

Lucy Adams / Tech.eu:
Skyral, a London-based modeling and simulation startup developing AI-based digital twin tech for defense, healthcare, and other sectors, raised a $20M Series A  —  Global demand for predictive simulation and digital twin technology has accelerated in recent years, driven by geopolitical instability and climate risk.

Sources: ByteDance replaced some TikTok Shop's US staff in Seattle with China-based managers after 2024 revenue hit $9B, far short of its $17.5B goal (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg:
Sources: ByteDance replaced some TikTok Shop's US staff in Seattle with China-based managers after 2024 revenue hit $9B, far short of its $17.5B goal  —  TikTok Shop initially set a goal to increase its US e-commerce business tenfold last year to $17.5 billion in transaction volume …

Microsoft plans to add a "safety" category to its AI leaderboard on Azure Foundry, with a safety metric based on its ToxiGen and CAIS's WMD Proxy benchmarks (Financial Times)

Financial Times:
Microsoft plans to add a “safety” category to its AI leaderboard on Azure Foundry, with a safety metric based on its ToxiGen and CAIS's WMD Proxy benchmarks  —  Tech group's corporate clients use its ‘leaderboard’ to assess rival offerings by likes of OpenAI and Elon Musk's xAI

YouTube rolls out a tool to let some creators upload different thumbnails for each video dubbed into a different language, to help expand their global audience (Dan Whateley/Business Insider)

Dan Whateley / Business Insider:
YouTube rolls out a tool to let some creators upload different thumbnails for each video dubbed into a different language, to help expand their global audience  —  - YouTube is adding a new tool to let creators change thumbnails for videos in different languages.

A profile of Panos Panay, head of devices and services at Amazon, who has scaled back new releases to focus on perfecting products like Alexa+ before rollout (Sebastian Herrera/Wall Street Journal)

Sebastian Herrera / Wall Street Journal:
A profile of Panos Panay, head of devices and services at Amazon, who has scaled back new releases to focus on perfecting products like Alexa+ before rollout  —  Panos Panay needs the more advanced Alexa+ assistant to be a hit.  For 10 years, the product has struggled to evolve.

The UK FCA says it will lift its ban on offering crypto exchange traded notes to retail investors "to support UK growth and competitiveness" (Ian Allison/CoinDesk)

Ian Allison / CoinDesk:
The UK FCA says it will lift its ban on offering crypto exchange traded notes to retail investors “to support UK growth and competitiveness”  —  The move is to support U.K. growth and competitiveness, the FCA said.  —  What to know: … U.K. financial regulator …

China's Hainan province tests letting some corporate users bypass the Great Firewall for global internet access, as the island seeks to become a free-trade port (Ben Jiang/South China Morning Post)

Ben Jiang / South China Morning Post:
China's Hainan province tests letting some corporate users bypass the Great Firewall for global internet access, as the island seeks to become a free-trade port  —  China's southernmost province of Hainan is piloting a programme to grant select corporate users broad access to the global internet …

United Airlines partners with Spotify to provide free access to 450+ hours of curated playlists, audiobooks, and podcasts across its flights (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)

Jess Weatherbed / The Verge:
United Airlines partners with Spotify to provide free access to 450+ hours of curated playlists, audiobooks, and podcasts across its flights  —  Access over 450 hours of curated content for free on seat-back screens. … United Airlines is expanding its in-flight entertainment catalog …

An interview with ASML CEO Christophe Fouquet, as the company navigates political instability in The Netherlands and abroad and the impacts of Trump's trade war (Adam Satariano/New York Times)

Adam Satariano / New York Times:
An interview with ASML CEO Christophe Fouquet, as the company navigates political instability in The Netherlands and abroad and the impacts of Trump's trade war  —  ASML, the Dutch company that makes multimillion-dollar tools to manufacture advanced semiconductors, is grappling with the repercussions of a tech trade war.