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All the news you need to keep up with the latest developments in the tech world, from product announcements and live events to tariffs, policies, and regulations. Tech touches every aspect of daily news, and our experts are here to keep you informed on what happens and how it all affects you.

Hayden Field
Hayden Field
Anthropic made a statement about recursive self-improvement, a big AI industry talking point (and concern).

RSI is also defined as an “AI system capable of fully autonomously designing and developing its own successor,” per Anthropic’s blog post. “We are not there yet, and recursive self-improvement is not inevitable. But it could come sooner than most institutions are prepared for.”

Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Bluesky wants to move away from being a “public square.”

While it’s unclear what Bluesky wants to turn into, the company is “very inspired by companies like Reddit,” COO Rose Wang tells CNBC.

Wang also says that Bluesky needs to “get to parity on video features” — and earlier today, the platform announced that video uploads can now be as big as 300MB.

Sean Hollister
Sean Hollister
This keyboard is nerd Mad Libs.

Say hello to the waterproof magnesium alloy keyboard with magnetic TMR switches paired with a touchscreen numpad with built-in SSD, kickstand, and Stream Deck-like shortcut functionality. Wired/wireless, 8,000Hz polling, rapid trigger, 5-layer gasket, swap out magnetic for mechanical switches if you like. No price or release date yet.

The MSI Strike Alloy TMR keyboard and Strike Nexus accessory.
The MSI Strike Alloy TMR keyboard and Strike Nexus accessory.
Image: MSI
Victoria Song
Victoria Song
Dexcom doubles down on nondiabetic CGM use.

First off, it announced today that it plans to acquire Nutrisense — a CGM startup that targets nondiabetics. Stelo, its over-the-counter CGM, is also getting an FDA-cleared redesign that includes “pattern recognition, proactive AI coaching, and personalized weekly and daily summaries.” Hopefully, these moves help ease the data fatigue I experienced in my yearlong experiment with CGMs as a nondiabetic.

Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Meta’s Instagram Plus subscription begins rolling out today.

The $3.99-per-month subscription adds features like letting you keep a story up for 48 hours and the ability to customize your bio’s font. You can see the whole list of features on Instagram’s website.

Lauren Feiner
Lauren Feiner
Republicans want the FBI to probe whether foreign adversaries are stoking US data center backlash.

Following a report from a bitcoin policy think tank and claims from Shark Tank’s Kevin O’Leary, three Republican lawmakers asked the Trump administration to brief them about investigations into alleged foreign influence campaigns. The lawmakers are concerned that adversaries are pushing anti-AI sentiment to slow US infrastructure development.

Terrence O'Brien
Terrence O'Brien
Investors plow another $400 million into Suno’s AI muzak.

The company just raised $250 million in November against a $2.45 billion valuation — already a staggering jump from its roughly $500 million valuation in 2024. Now it’s more than doubled its valuation to $5.4 billion in just over six months, suggesting that investors haven’t been scared off by looming lawsuits.

Lauren Feiner
Lauren Feiner
A new bipartisan framework could preempt state AI laws for three years.

Reps. Jay Obernolte (R-CA) and Lori Trahan (D-MA) are releasing a highly anticipated 269-page draft bill as a launching pad for discussion about federal AI regulation, Politico reported. In a Bloomberg Law op-ed, the lawmakers said a national standard is necessary to extend protections across state lines.

Lauren Feiner
Lauren Feiner
Supreme Court backs FCC process that let it fine carriers over location sharing.

In an 8-1 ruling, the justices found that the Federal Communications Commission’s in-house process to levy fines doesn’t violate companies’ right to a jury trial. The case involved AT&T and Verizon’s challenges to fines they faced during the Biden administration over allegations they illegally shared customers’ location without consent.

Andrew Liszewski
Andrew Liszewski
Lego’s largest set ever is a 12,060-piece recreation of Barcelona’s Sagrada Família.

Do you prefer your hobbies to feel more like a part-time job? Lego’s new 12,060-piece Sagrada Família finally dethrones the company’s previous record holder, the 11,695-piece World Map that launched in 2021. This set is now available for preorder for a hefty $799.99, but won’t ship until November 1st.

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Stevie Bonifield
Stevie Bonifield
NASA ends MAVEN orbiter mission after 11 years of collecting atmospheric data from Mars.

NASA hasn’t heard from MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution) since December 6th. A review board concluded that the spacecraft was in an unrecoverable state after emerging from the far side of Mars because it was rotating at an “unusually high rate,” which drained the batteries, cutting off power to MAVEN’s communications systems.

Dominic Preston
Dominic Preston
Honor’s IP69 foldable is beginning to launch internationally.

The Magic V6 was first announced at MWC this year, and is already on sale in China. Today it launches in Singapore and Malaysia, where it costs RM 7,699 (about $1,930), with Europe to follow later this month. Alongside an IP69 rating it’s super slim, and has a huge 6,660mAh battery.

Photo of the Honor Magic V6, open, on a wooden table, showing the front screen and camera
Photo of the Honor Magic V6, open, on a wooden table
Photo of the Honor Magic V6, closed, showing the Honor logo
Photo of the Honor Magic V6, closed, from the bottom.
1/4Photo: Dominic Preston / The Verge
Dominic Preston
Dominic Preston
SpaceX gets a Terafab tax break.

Grimes County, Texas, awarded the company a property tax exemption for its planned $55 billion Terafab semiconductor plant. Local residents seem to feel the same way about the project as many do about data centers, and this tax break won’t help. As local landowner Rhonda Nesloney put it in court:

“Elon was on the news bragging he’s about to be a trillionaire . . . and you want to consider giving him a tax abatement.”

Emma Roth
Emma Roth
Google is bringing ID passes to five EU countries.

Starting this summer, users in Ireland, Spain, France, Italy, and Estonia will be able to scan their passports to create a digital pass within the Google Wallet app. Unlike in the US, people can’t use Google’s ID passes for travel in the EU, but they can be used for online age verification as requirements sweep across the globe.

Dominic Preston
Dominic Preston
Google might pay to peek at your code.

The company is lagging behind Anthropic, OpenAI, and even Microsoft when it comes to AI coding tools, but 404 Media reports it’s found a novel way to expand its training base of code: offering to pay Android developers for access to the innards of their apps.

Antonio G. Di Benedetto
Antonio G. Di Benedetto
Afraid the Steam Machine will be too expensive? Imagine the price of this NUC with a mobile RTX 5090.

At Computex, Asus announced the ROG NUC 16 Edition 20 — a mini-PC with Intel’s highest-end mobile chip and a flagship RTX 5090 Laptop GPU. It’s even decked out in gold accents for the Republic of Gamers’ 20th anniversary.

Like other Asus Computex announcements, there’s no pricing. But as Liliputing points out, the standard model with an RTX 5080 costs $3,799.

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Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Meta’s metaverse team is now headed up by a former Fortnite exec.

The previous boss, Gabriel Aul, announced his retirement in February with Saxs Persson, once the EVP of the Fortnite ecosystem at Epic, taking over, Business Insider reports.

Persson, who joined Meta in October, had a big role in making Fortnite the giant that it is today — we interviewed him a few times during his tenure at Epic.

Sean Hollister
Sean Hollister
This mouse is a Stream Deck.

Corsair owns Elgato, so here’s synergy: the $130 Nightsword V2 Wireless. Hold the Stream Deck button to summon virtual Stream Deck buttons, no LCD keys necessary. (Or map to other buttons on the 89-gram mouse.) 170 hours of 2.4GHz battery life or 164 hours on Bluetooth; far less with RGB or 8K polling.

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The Stream Deck mouse.
The Stream Deck mouse.
Image: Corsair
Stevie Bonifield
Stevie Bonifield
SpaceX is reportedly aiming to raise $75 billion in its IPO.

CNBC reports details from a new filing ahead of SpaceX’s IPO on June 12th and notes a mention that xAI, which merged with SpaceX earlier this year, bought $269 million worth of Tesla megapack batteries in April.

At the $135 per share price tag, SpaceX would be valued at $1.77 trillion, which assumes the EchoStar spectrum and Cursor transactions close. The valuation would make SpaceX the seventh-biggest company in the U.S. by market cap, and put it above Tesla, which is valued at about $1.6 trillion.

Sean Hollister
Sean Hollister
Samsung Display was holding out on us: the 4K 360 QD-OLED has a third mode.

We told you the new 31.5-inch OLED could do 4K at 360Hz or 1080p680, but MSI made it do 2K520 as well — in “the world’s first triple-mode QD-OLED gaming monitor” the MPG OLED 322URDX36. Also, the RGB-stripe monitor has customizable HDR, with 1500-nit peaks. 98W USB-C PD, too. Flatpanels says it won’t ship till 2027.

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Sean Hollister
Sean Hollister
Would you buy a power supply that splits in two?

Spotted at Computex 2026 by OC3D among others, the Thermaltake Dockpower makes power supplies even more modular — so you can theoretically upgrade to more power without unplugging and plugging all your cables, hopefully without introducing another common point of failure. $120 and up in Q3, in 750W, 850W, 1000W and 1200W flavors.

<em>Gallery: Thermaltake Dockpower.</em>
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Gallery: Thermaltake Dockpower.
Image: Thermaltake
Stevie Bonifield
Stevie Bonifield
People are paying to get rid of the recording light on their Meta Ray-Bans.

Former Verge editor Joanna Stern found listings in 30 states offering to remove the recording indicator LED on Meta smart glasses. She met one of the people offering this service, who drilled the light out of her glasses and filled it in, allowing her to stealthily record with the glasses.

Stevie Bonifield
Stevie Bonifield
ChatGPT reportedly hit 1 billion monthly active users faster than any other app.

According to market intelligence firm Sensor Tower, ChatGPT reached the milestone last month, roughly three years after launching, Reuters reports. It apparently passed 1 billion MAUs faster than the other apps that have hit the benchmark, including Google Maps, TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube.

Stevie Bonifield
Stevie Bonifield
Ultrahuman data breach exposed users’ wellness data.

The smart ring company says on March 27th hackers used an internal analytics tool to access users’ contact and account details, transaction history, and “some fitness related data.” According to TechCrunch, the breach impacted 0.1 percent of Ultrahuman users, or an estimated 700 people.

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Jay Peters
Jay Peters
It sure seems like the Vision Pro isn’t getting upgraded for a while — if ever.

Supply chain analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, in a post today: “The Apple XR headset and smart glasses roadmap I put together about a year ago is no longer a useful reference. For now, only two smart glasses products remain visible in the roadmap.”

Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, this weekend: Apple is developing “a slimmer and lighter headset to succeed to the $3,499 Vision Pro.”

Whatever actually pans out, it seems like 2025’s M5 upgrade might be the last for the Vision Pro.

Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Crystal Dynamics used “AI-assisted tools” while developing the Tomb Raider reboot.

According to the Steam page for Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis:

AI-assisted tools were used during development to support some early exploration and temporary development content. Any AI-assisted assets were either replaced or refined by humans in order to maintain the creative and artistic vision of the development team.

Crystal Dynamics tells Eurogamer that “we leverage AI tools to help our teams iterate on ideas faster and more efficiently, while ensuring that all finished content in the final product is human-crafted.”

Jay Peters
Jay Peters
The studio from the creator of PUBG is laying off staff.

PlayerUnknown Productions is restructuring to a “smaller team” and stopping work on Prologue: Go Wayback, the survival roguelike launched in early access last year.

The studio plans to release one more update and then bring the game out of early access and make it free. It’s “investigating” refunds for people who already bought it.

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