Q&A with Tim Sweeney on his vision for a cross-platform gaming social system, Unreal Engine 6, AI's PR challenges, the state of AAA game development, and more (Tim Clark/PC Gamer)

Tim Clark / PC Gamer:
Q&A with Tim Sweeney on his vision for a cross-platform gaming social system, Unreal Engine 6, AI's PR challenges, the state of AAA game development, and more  —  The Epic Games CEO discusses his vision for “Team Open,” his objections to Steam's AI disclosure requirement, and the huge problems facing AAA game development.

Italy is investigating Microsoft 365's price hike, saying Microsoft failed to inform users that AI tools like Copilot were being integrated into the service (Giulia Segreti/Reuters)

Giulia Segreti / Reuters:
Italy is investigating Microsoft 365's price hike, saying Microsoft failed to inform users that AI tools like Copilot were being integrated into the service  —  Italy's antitrust authority said on Friday it had opened an investigation into Microsoft (MSFT.O) over alleged unfair commercial practices linked …

Binance tells EU customers that it will stop providing services for them from July 1, after Greece rejected its application for a bloc-wide license last week (Financial Times)

Financial Times:
Binance tells EU customers that it will stop providing services for them from July 1, after Greece rejected its application for a bloc-wide license last week  —  World's biggest crypto exchange tells customers how to withdraw their money as MiCA rules set to come into force

Mirendil, founded by former Anthropic researchers and seeking to build self-improving AI for open-source developers, raised a $200M seed at a $1B valuation (Tina Li/Wall Street Journal)

Tina Li / Wall Street Journal:
Mirendil, founded by former Anthropic researchers and seeking to build self-improving AI for open-source developers, raised a $200M seed at a $1B valuation  —  Mirendil raises $200 million from Andreessen Horowitz and Kleiner Perkins to make AI that can do the job of an AI engineer

Rockstar sets the release date for GTA VI for November 19 and says it will cost $79.99, or $99.99 for the Ultimate Edition; pre-orders start at midnight tonight (Stevie Bonifield/The Verge)

Stevie Bonifield / The Verge:
Rockstar sets the release date for GTA VI for November 19 and says it will cost $79.99, or $99.99 for the Ultimate Edition; pre-orders start at midnight tonight  —  The game is set to launch on November 19th. The game is set to launch on November 19th.

Humanoid robot maker Agility plans to go public via a merger with Michael Klein's SPAC, in a deal valuing it at ~$2.5B and listing under ticker symbol AGLT (Lauren Thomas/Wall Street Journal)

Lauren Thomas / Wall Street Journal:
Humanoid robot maker Agility plans to go public via a merger with Michael Klein's SPAC, in a deal valuing it at ~$2.5B and listing under ticker symbol AGLT  —  Agility's humanoid robot, Digit, is used by companies including Amazon  —  Agility Robotics, a startup that makes humanlike robots used …

Top500: China's Arm-based LineShine surpasses the US' El Capitan by 20% to be the world's fastest supercomputer, the first time China takes the crown since 2017 (Don Clark/New York Times)

Don Clark / New York Times:
Top500: China's Arm-based LineShine surpasses the US' El Capitan by 20% to be the world's fastest supercomputer, the first time China takes the crown since 2017  —  A supercomputer in Shenzhen was declared the world's fastest.  It uses only standard microprocessors and not the special-purpose chips called graphics processing units.

South Korea's tech-heavy Kospi index falls 10%, dragged down by SK Hynix and Samsung; STMicro and ASML fall ~7%, and US tech stocks fall in pre-market trading (Chloe Taylor/CNBC)

Chloe Taylor / CNBC:
South Korea's tech-heavy Kospi index falls 10%, dragged down by SK Hynix and Samsung; STMicro and ASML fall ~7%, and US tech stocks fall in pre-market trading  —  Global stocks sold off on Tuesday, led by deep losses for tech stocks following a losing session for the sector on Wall Street.

Bain says it is using AI coding tools to recreate pieces of target companies' software, making hundreds of rough prototypes in recent years as due diligence (Ryan McMorrow/Financial Times)

Ryan McMorrow / Financial Times:
Bain says it is using AI coding tools to recreate pieces of target companies' software, making hundreds of rough prototypes in recent years as due diligence  —  Private equity groups swiftly recreate software products to gauge their competitive advantages  —  Private equity investors …

Sources: Virgin Media O2 and VodafoneThree have deployed tech to disable phones stolen from their stores, after phone makers resisted broader antitheft measures (Kieran Smith/Financial Times)

Kieran Smith / Financial Times:
Sources: Virgin Media O2 and VodafoneThree have deployed tech to disable phones stolen from their stores, after phone makers resisted broader antitheft measures  —  Virgin Media O2 and VodafoneThree's move comes after Apple and Samsung resisted calls to adopt broader measures

Sources: Anduril has begun exploring the possibility of establishing operations in Israel and is in talks to recruit a local manager (Sophie Shulman/CTech)

Sophie Shulman / CTech:
Sources: Anduril has begun exploring the possibility of establishing operations in Israel and is in talks to recruit a local manager  —  Palmer Luckey's $61 billion startup considers local operations, partnerships, and investments in Israeli startups.  —  Anduril, the world's largest …

Sources: John Ternus gets ready to put his firm imprint on Apple's industrial design team, which has lost a true seat at Apple's exec table over the past decade (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: John Ternus gets ready to put his firm imprint on Apple's industrial design team, which has lost a true seat at Apple's exec table over the past decade  —  Also: The 2027 iPhone and AirPods plans.  —  The No. 1 priority for new Apple CEO John Ternus should be revamping …

SoftBank says it is struggling to find startups in Latin America ready for major investments and has completed only two new deals over the past two years (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg:
SoftBank says it is struggling to find startups in Latin America ready for major investments and has completed only two new deals over the past two years  —  SoftBank Group Corp. is struggling to find startups in Latin America ready for major investments, underscoring how sharply the tech boom …

Granta says it will stop publishing short story contest winners or join publishing partnerships it doesn't control after AI use allegations against a winner (Ella Creamer/The Guardian)

Ella Creamer / The Guardian:
Granta says it will stop publishing short story contest winners or join publishing partnerships it doesn't control after AI use allegations against a winner  —  Literary magazine will no longer engage in ‘external publishing partnerships’ after Commonwealth prize furore

Claude Guillemot, co-founder of Ubisoft and chairman of gaming hardware company Guillemot Corporation, died at 69 after a plane crash in France (Angela Cullen/Bloomberg)

Angela Cullen / Bloomberg:
Claude Guillemot, co-founder of Ubisoft and chairman of gaming hardware company Guillemot Corporation, died at 69 after a plane crash in France  —  Claude Guillemot, who co-founded French video-game publisher Ubisoft Entertainment SA with his brothers in 1986, has died, according to the company.