A federal judge just threw out Trump’s $100,000 H-1B visa fee, calling it an unlawful tax
A federal judge just threw out Trump’s $100,000 H-1B visa fee, calling it an unlawful tax

US District Judge Leo T. Sorokin in Massachusetts ruled on Monday that the $100,000 fee President Donald Trump imposed on H-1B visa applications is an unlawful tax and must be vacated. The ruling found that the proclamation violated both the federal Ad…

Apple finally ships its AI do-over: Siri AI, a standalone app, and a three-tier privacy stack
Apple finally ships its AI do-over: Siri AI, a standalone app, and a three-tier privacy stack

Apple used its annual developer conference on Monday to unveil Siri AI, the most significant overhaul of its voice assistant in 15 years, rebuilt from the ground up on a custom Google Gemini model. The WWDC 2026 keynote at Apple Park also marked Tim Co…

FCC gives Amazon Leo more time on satellite deployment but strips its spectrum priority
FCC gives Amazon Leo more time on satellite deployment but strips its spectrum priority

The Federal Communications Commission has freed Amazon from a requirement to deploy the first 1,616 satellites in its Amazon Leo broadband constellation by 30 July, issuing a conditional waiver instead of the two-year extension Amazon requested in Janu…

A Qilin ransomware affiliate exploited a Check Point VPN zero-day for a month before a patch existed
A Qilin ransomware affiliate exploited a Check Point VPN zero-day for a month before a patch existed

Check Point has disclosed and patched a critical zero-day vulnerability in its Remote Access VPN and Mobile Access products that a Qilin ransomware affiliate exploited for roughly a month before a fix was available. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-50751 …

SpaceX’s $75 billion IPO is well oversubscribed as order books close ahead of Wednesday pricing
SpaceX’s $75 billion IPO is well oversubscribed as order books close ahead of Wednesday pricing

SpaceX’s initial public offering is well oversubscribed, according to Bloomberg, with order books set to close on Monday ahead of a pricing expected on Wednesday and first trading on Nasdaq on Thursday. The $75 billion raise at $135 a share would be th…

Amazon raises C$14 billion in the largest Canadian dollar bond sale on record to fund AI infrastructure
Amazon raises C$14 billion in the largest Canadian dollar bond sale on record to fund AI infrastructure

Amazon is raising C$14 billion, approximately $10 billion, from investment-grade bonds denominated in Canadian dollars, according to Bloomberg. The deal is the largest corporate bond offering ever in the currency, surpassing the C$8.5 billion Alphabet …

Trump orders the military to adopt AI faster, protect models from China, and never let a vendor pull the plug
Trump orders the military to adopt AI faster, protect models from China, and never let a vendor pull the plug

President Donald Trump signed National Security Presidential Memorandum 11 on Friday, directing the US military and intelligence agencies to accelerate their adoption of advanced AI while protecting frontier models from theft by foreign adversaries. Th…

The UK just signed an AI deal with ElevenLabs to make government services accessible in any language and any voice
The UK just signed an AI deal with ElevenLabs to make government services accessible in any language and any voice

The UK government and ElevenLabs have signed a memorandum of understanding to explore how voice AI can improve public services, deepen safety research, and build AI talent in the UK. The MoU, signed by AI Minister Kanishka Narayan and ElevenLabs CEO Ma…

The UK just collected billions in AI pledges on day one of London Tech Week
The UK just collected billions in AI pledges on day one of London Tech Week

London Tech Week opened the way these events increasingly do: with a leaderboard of investment pledges. By the end of the first morning, the UK had collected several billion pounds in AI commitments, most of it aimed at the unglamorous machinery of com…

JPMorgan poaches Nomura’s international AI strategy chief as Dimon doubles down on AI hiring
JPMorgan poaches Nomura’s international AI strategy chief as Dimon doubles down on AI hiring

JPMorgan Chase is hiring Nomura Holdings’ international head of artificial intelligence strategy, according to Bloomberg, as the largest US bank by assets accelerates its recruitment of AI specialists. Singapore-based Tahir Zafar, who joined Nomura in …