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Astroport and Vermeer are adapting industrial surface mining equipment for the Moon, using a modular tool adapter to build roads, landing pads, and base infrastructure by 2030.

OpenAI launches GPT-5.4-Cyber with binary reverse engineering for verified defenders, scaling access to thousands as it competes with Anthropic's restricted Mythos model.

Spotify now lets users buy physical books through Bookshop.org links in the app, alongside Page Match in 30+ languages and new Audiobook Charts and Recaps.

Researchers hijacked Claude, Gemini, and Copilot AI agents via prompt injection to steal API keys and tokens. All three vendors paid bounties but skipped public disclosure.

Google's new spam policy targets sites that trap users by hijacking the back button. Enforcement begins 15 June, with ranking penalties for non-compliant pages.

Snap is laying off 1,000 employees and closing 300 open roles, targeting $500M in annual savings as CEO Evan Spiegel frames AI as the path to profitability.

A US court ruled AI chatbot conversations aren't legally privileged. The case involved Claude. Clients to treat public AI chats as potentially discoverable in court.

HBO Max launches in India as a JioHotstar add-on at 49/month, bringing Euphoria, House of the Dragon, Friends, and The Big Bang Theory to 100M+ paid subscribers.

Stendr, an AI counter-drone startup co-founded by Sky Mavis' Aleksander Leonard Larsen, has raised a $5.4M pre-seed to build sovereign European drone defence systems.

Adobe's Firefly AI Assistant uses natural language to orchestrate tasks across Photoshop, Premiere, Lightroom, and Illustrator. It enters public beta soon, with Anthropic Claude integration.