A look at the troubled rollout of the EU's automated biometric entry/exit border system, as airport operators warn of severe delays ahead of the summer holidays (Financial Times)

Financial Times:
A look at the troubled rollout of the EU's automated biometric entry/exit border system, as airport operators warn of severe delays ahead of the summer holidays  —  Automated system first mooted in 2008 was meant to keep out criminals — instead, it is delaying travellers

How ByteDance is making Hollywood inroads with its Seedance video generator, thanks to low pricing, striking realism, and features like timeline-based prompting (Nilesh Christopher/Los Angeles Times)

Nilesh Christopher / Los Angeles Times:
How ByteDance is making Hollywood inroads with its Seedance video generator, thanks to low pricing, striking realism, and features like timeline-based prompting  —  - 8 min Click here to listen to this article … - A viral AI video of Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise sparked industry outrage …

Q&A with Doug Brooks, senior product manager of Apple silicon, about Mac minis becoming preferred AI agent machines, future of on-device AI, and more (Jason Hiner/The Deep View)

Jason Hiner / The Deep View:
Q&A with Doug Brooks, senior product manager of Apple silicon, about Mac minis becoming preferred AI agent machines, future of on-device AI, and more  —  W  —  alk into any of the frontier AI labs, and you'll find wall-to-wall Macs.  —  Decisions Apple made years ago …

Official data shows Hong Kong accounted for 50%+ of China's $239B in chip imports in the first five months of 2026, a record share, up from ~33% a decade ago (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg:
Official data shows Hong Kong accounted for 50%+ of China's $239B in chip imports in the first five months of 2026, a record share, up from ~33% a decade ago  —  Hong Kong has become a vital conduit for high-tech products moving in and out of China, emerging as one node in a $2 trillion network …

Filing: GoDaddy challenges a New Delhi court ruling requiring domain sellers to stop offering privacy by default, saying it could expose website owners globally (Reuters)

Reuters:
Filing: GoDaddy challenges a New Delhi court ruling requiring domain sellers to stop offering privacy by default, saying it could expose website owners globally  —  The world's biggest internet domain seller, GoDaddy, has warned that India's crackdown on fake websites impersonating famous brands …

Sources: Alibaba has banned employees from using Claude Code and asked them to remove all Claude models from their work computers, citing security concerns (The Information)

The Information:
Sources: Alibaba has banned employees from using Claude Code and asked them to remove all Claude models from their work computers, citing security concerns  —  Alibaba Group has banned employees from using Anthropic's Claude Code, and asked them to remove all Claude models from their work computers …

The US DOJ says Peter Stokes, a 19-year-old dual US-Estonian citizen, was extradited from Finland to face charges of participating in Scattered Spider hacks (Joe Warminsky/The Record)

Joe Warminsky / The Record:
The US DOJ says Peter Stokes, a 19-year-old dual US-Estonian citizen, was extradited from Finland to face charges of participating in Scattered Spider hacks  —  A 19-year-old man with dual U.S. and Estonian citizenship was extradited from Finland to Chicago this week to face criminal charges …

Germany-based Quantum Systems, which sells surveillance drones used by Ukraine, raised $1.2B led by Blackstone, Noteus, Airbus, and Advent at an ~$8B valuation (Yazhou Sun/Bloomberg)

Yazhou Sun / Bloomberg:
Germany-based Quantum Systems, which sells surveillance drones used by Ukraine, raised $1.2B led by Blackstone, Noteus, Airbus, and Advent at an ~$8B valuation  —  Quantum Systems has raised $1.2 billion in a funding round, more than doubling the German drone startup's valuation …

The US sentences Guo Wengui, a self-exiled billionaire Chinese tycoon who defrauded his online followers out of hundreds of millions, to 30 years in prison (Associated Press)

Associated Press:
The US sentences Guo Wengui, a self-exiled billionaire Chinese tycoon who defrauded his online followers out of hundreds of millions, to 30 years in prison  —  A self-exiled billionaire Chinese business tycoon once believed to be among China's wealthiest men was sentenced Monday to 30 years …

Q&A with Grindr CEO George Arison on turning Grindr into an "AI-native company", "impos[ing]" AI on staff, facing "opposition", using AI as a CEO, and more (Jordyn Holman/New York Times)

Jordyn Holman / New York Times:
Q&A with Grindr CEO George Arison on turning Grindr into an “AI-native company”, “impos[ing]” AI on staff, facing “opposition”, using AI as a CEO, and more  —  George Arison, the gay dating app's chief executive, is aiming for all code to be eventually written …

Meituan open-sources LongCat-2.0, a 1.6T-parameter model that it says was trained on a 50K-chip cluster of domestic Chinese processors, without giving details (Reuters)

Reuters:
Meituan open-sources LongCat-2.0, a 1.6T-parameter model that it says was trained on a 50K-chip cluster of domestic Chinese processors, without giving details  —  China's food delivery giant Meituan (3690.HK) said on Tuesday it had released and would open-source its next-generation LongCat …

Sources: CXMT and Tencent sign a ~$3B, three-year DRAM supply agreement for servers ahead of CXMT's IPO; CXMT is in talks with other major Chinese companies (Reuters)

Reuters:
Sources: CXMT and Tencent sign a ~$3B, three-year DRAM supply agreement for servers ahead of CXMT's IPO; CXMT is in talks with other major Chinese companies  —  Chinese memory chipmaker ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) has signed a long-term supply agreement with Tencent Holdings (0700.HK) …

Australian government says it plans to double the maximum penalty for any social media company breaking its minimum age law and grant more powers to enforcers (Jackson Chen/Engadget)

Jackson Chen / Engadget:
Australian government says it plans to double the maximum penalty for any social media company breaking its minimum age law and grant more powers to enforcers  —  The fine can now potentially hit 99 million AUD, or $68 million.  —  After becoming the first in the world to implement …

Australia-based Firmus partners with Nvidia to build its first data center in Batam, Indonesia; the 360 MW Nvidia DSX AI factory campus is developed with DayOne (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg:
Australia-based Firmus partners with Nvidia to build its first data center in Batam, Indonesia; the 360 MW Nvidia DSX AI factory campus is developed with DayOne  —  Firmus Technologies Pty Ltd. will build its first data center project in Indonesia as part of a partnership with US chip giant Nvidia Corp. …

An analysis of US payroll data across 730+ occupations: employment among workers ages 22 to 25 in highly AI-exposed jobs is now shrinking by 3.8% per year (Nick Lichtenberg/Fortune)

Nick Lichtenberg / Fortune:
An analysis of US payroll data across 730+ occupations: employment among workers ages 22 to 25 in highly AI-exposed jobs is now shrinking by 3.8% per year  —  Last August, a team led by Stanford economist Erik Brynjolfsson published a deep look at the impact of AI on jobs, boosted by a …