Meta buys a fifth of Cred, and a new WhatsApp boss

Meta is paying $900mn for a fifth of Cred, an Indian fintech. The bigger prize is its founder, Kunal Shah, who will now run WhatsApp. Meta has found its next WhatsApp boss the way it now likes to find [...]

NYSE owner ICE is forming a joint venture with crypto exchange OKX to tokenize Wall Street

The 50-50 venture, co-chaired by former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, aims to give OKX's 120 million users access to NYSE equities and ICE futures [...]

Google is investing $75 million in A24 as part of an AI filmmaking partnership

Alphabet's Google is taking a stake in the independent studio for the first time, with DeepMind aiming to build new production tools [...]

Instagram is coming for your living room with episodic series and live TV on Samsung

Instagram for TV is expanding to Samsung smart TVs across the United States, making the app available on the majority of connected TV devices in the country. Meta announced Monday that the expansion c [...]

Lucid Motors cuts 18% of workforce as new CEO dismantles second production shift

Lucid Motors is cutting 18 percent of its workforce, roughly 1,500 employees, just four months after the EV maker laid off 12 percent of its staff. The company said Monday that it has also eliminated [...]

A US military exercise in space got underway with barely anyone noticing

The Space Force wants to cut the time to field new satellites from years to weeks, days, or hours. [...]

A Kazakh fund-of-funds just made its first public venture bet on Central Asia’s startup boom

Kazakhstan’s Alem Capital Management has anchored a regional venture capital fund backing technology startups across Central Asia and the Caucasus, marking the fund-of-funds manager’s first public [...]

Nearly 7,000 fake Amazon domains registered ahead of Prime Day 2026, researchers warn

Cybersecurity researchers have identified nearly 7,000 fraudulent Amazon-themed domains registered in the six months leading up to Prime Day 2026, which begins on 23 June. Check Point Research tracked [...]

Google makes Interactions API the default interface for Gemini models and agents

Google Deepmind has made the Interactions API the default interface for Gemini models and agents. It replaces the old generateContent API and uses a simplified schema with typed steps instead of role- [...]