Q&A with Sundar Pichai on the future of Google Search, Google's place in the AI race, public skepticism toward AI, AI agents, AI safety, TPUs, and more (New York Times)
Samsung's bonus deal is fueling employee resentment over a 100x payout gap between memory division staff and those making smartphones, TVs, and home appliances (Yoolim Lee/Bloomberg)
Sources and data: billions in crypto went through Binance to Iranian regime-linked networks in the two years before the US-Iran war; Binance denies wrongdoing (Wall Street Journal)
AMD CEO Lisa Su projects the CPU market will grow over 35% annually through 2031, up from 3% to 4% historically, driven by AI inference and agentic AI demand (Cheng Ting-Fang/Nikkei Asia)
Sources: Nintendo asked partners and suppliers to assemble ~20M Switch 2 consoles by March 2027, ~20% above the 16.5M public sales outlook issued in early May (Takashi Mochizuki/Bloomberg)
AMD pledges to invest $10B+ in Taiwan's chip industry to expand partnerships and advanced chip packaging for AI, and begins making its next-gen Venice chips (Sherry Qin/Wall Street Journal)
A study conducted in the Phoenix metro area finds that waste heat from data centers can raise air temperatures in downwind neighborhoods by as much as 4°F (Tech Xplore)