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European Union flag with digital circuit overlay representing the EU AI Act Omnibus regulatory amendments of May 2026

AI & ML 5 min

AI & ML · 1 Jun 2026 —

EU AI Act Omnibus: Annex III High-Risk Deadline Extends 16 Months, Annex I Gets 12, Nudifier Apps Banned from December 2026

A provisional political agreement reached on 7 May 2026 pushes Annex III standalone high-risk AI compliance to December...

Priya Nair

1 Jun

Illinois State Capitol building in Springfield, Illinois, where SB 315 the AI Safety Measures Act was passed in May 2026

AI & ML 5 min

AI & ML · 1 Jun 2026 —

Illinois Passes First US Law Requiring Independent Audits of Frontier AI — a Narrower Claim Than It Sounds

Senate Bill 315 cleared the Illinois House 110-0 on 27 May 2026, making Illinois the first US state to require annual in...

Priya Nair

1 Jun

Colorado state capitol building with AI governance policy documents, representing SB 26-189 signing in May 2026

AI & ML 5 min

AI & ML · 1 Jun 2026 —

Colorado Scraps Its 2024 AI Act for a Lighter Disclosure Law — What the Retreat Signals for US AI Governance

Colorado Governor Jared Polis signed SB 26-189 on 14 May 2026, replacing the state's 2024 AI Act with a narrower disclos...

Priya Nair

1 Jun

SK Hynix headquarters in Icheon, South Korea, lit at dusk as the company crosses a $1 trillion market capitalisation milestone

Finance 5 min

FINANCE · 1 Jun 2026 —

SK Hynix Crosses US$1 Trillion, Giving South Korea Two Trillion-Dollar Companies at Once

SK Hynix shares rose 9.41% on 27 May 2026, pushing its market cap to roughly US$1.07 trillion — three weeks after Samsun...

Daniel Koh

1 Jun

Masayoshi Son SoftBank surpasses Toyota Japan most valuable company June 2026 AI rally

Finance 5 min

FINANCE · 1 Jun 2026 —

SoftBank Dethrones Toyota as Japan's Most Valuable Company on AI Wave, Marking First Shift in 22 Years

SoftBank Group surged 14% in a single Tokyo session on 1 June 2026, pushing its market cap past Toyota's ¥45.8 trillion...

Daniel Koh

1 Jun

Hanoi skyline with overlay of digital asset and banking symbols representing Vietnam's SME crypto collateral proposal

ASEAN Tech 5 min

ASEAN TECH · 1 Jun 2026 —

Vietnam Proposes Crypto and Digital Assets as SME Loan Collateral in $144 Billion Credit Market

Vietnam's Ministry of Finance is consulting on draft legislation that would let SMEs pledge digital assets, virtual asse...

Sarah Chen

1 Jun

Developer typing on a laptop with code on screen, illustrating AI coding-assistant usage and billing.

Developer Tools 2 min

DEVELOPER TOOLS · 1 Jun 2026 —

GitHub Copilot moves to usage-based billing, and developers are not happy

From 1 June, every GitHub Copilot plan bills by usage. Your coding assistant now spends "GitHub AI Credits" measured in...

Kenji Tanaka

1 Jun

Rows of servers in a data centre, illustrating the AI inference infrastructure Baseten provides.

AI & ML 2 min

AI & ML · 1 Jun 2026 —

Baseten is in talks to raise US$1 billion at an US$11 billion valuation as inference money keeps flowing

Baseten, which rents Nvidia servers to companies running AI models, is in talks to raise US$1 billion at an US$11 billio...

AI Tools Desk

1 Jun

Laptop showing code and a container configuration, illustrating cloud development environments for AI agents.

Developer Tools 2 min

DEVELOPER TOOLS · 1 Jun 2026 —

Cursor gives its cloud agents a proper home: multi-repo environments and faster Docker builds

Cursor has built dedicated development environments for its cloud coding agents, letting one setup hold every repository...

Maya Lin

1 Jun

Dark screen of system code and a terminal, illustrating software vulnerabilities being patched.

Cybersecurity 3 min

CYBERSECURITY · 1 Jun 2026 —

This week's bugs to patch: a critical OTRS flaw and a Linux root hole on CISA's list

A short, practical read of the week's most urgent vulnerabilities: a critical pre-authentication flaw in the OTRS servic...

Cyber Team

1 Jun

Team collaborating around a laptop with a project workspace on screen, illustrating workplace AI agents.

Developer Tools 2 min

DEVELOPER TOOLS · 1 Jun 2026 —

Notion opens a developer platform and turns the workspace into a home for AI agents

Notion has launched a developer platform that lets teams run custom code, sync outside databases and plug in AI agents —...

Maya Lin

1 Jun

Person messaging on a laptop chat app, illustrating an AI assistant working inside team chat tools.

AI & ML 2 min

AI & ML · 1 Jun 2026 —

Viktor raises US$75 million to put an AI "coworker" inside Slack and Teams

A Warsaw-built startup called Viktor has raised US$75 million from Accel to grow an AI agent that lives inside Slack and...

Maya Lin

1 Jun

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