Cloudflare, Mozilla, Google, and Microsoft are developing PACT, a privacy-preserving protocol to verify legitimate web traffic without tracking users.

Bending Spoons will market 58 million shares at $26 to $28 each, targeting an early-July Nasdaq debut at a $19 billion valuation, Reuters reports.

Amazon is inviting Indian users to beta-test a Hindi version of Alexa+, its generative AI assistant, as it expands beyond English-speaking markets.

Google is putting roughly $75M into A24, the indie studio behind Backrooms, as part of a new research partnership with its DeepMind AI lab.

A 76-year-old Texas woman died after a Tesla Model 3 driver using Autopilot crashed into her home. NHTSA is launching a special crash investigation.

Instagram for TV is expanding to Samsung smart TVs and testing episodic series, Live on TV, and horizontal video as Meta pushes into the living room.

TrendForce says DDR2 contract prices rose 55-60% in Q2 as hardware makers downgrade to older memory generations to cope with AI-driven DRAM shortages.

Alem Capital Management anchored the $25M final close of Sturgeon's SEO II fund, its first disclosed regional VC bet as Central Asian tech investment surges.

Days after its record IPO, SpaceX is raising at least $20bn in its first investment-grade bond sale to fund a huge AI data-centre build-out.

SpaceX stock has fallen back toward $185 from a $225 peak, as a thin float, new short-selling tools, and a $60bn Cursor deal cool the euphoria.

Lucid is cutting 1,500 jobs and eliminating its second factory shift four months after a prior 12% cut, as new CEO Silvio Napoli restructures the EV maker.

Tencent has begun testing Xiaowei, a voice-and-text AI assistant built into WeChat, with a full public rollout targeted for the third quarter.