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June 17, 2026

10:01 PM · Nikkei Asia
10:01 PMMarvell to use TSMC's next-gen 1.4-nm chip tech to stay in AI data race — Nikkei Asia
9:08 PM · Bloomberg — Technology
9:08 PMHillhouse Seeks $600 Million Loan to Fund DayOne Investment — Bloomberg — Technology
9:07 PM · Air & Space Forces Magazine
9:07 PMWhere Things Stand with the Pentagon’s $350 Billion Reconciliation Request — Air & Space Forces Magazine
8:15 PM · Nikkei Asia
8:15 PMWoodside sees LNG, oil sales rising 50% as investments from US to Australia pay off — Nikkei Asia
8:00 PM · SCMP — Tech
8:00 PMJapan failed to build its own airliner. Now it’s turning to Boeing — SCMP — Tech
6:32 PM · Bloomberg — Technology
6:32 PMBWX Agrees to License Nuclear Reactor Design After Activist Push — Bloomberg — Technology
5:45 PM · Nikkei Asia
5:45 PMJapan's big banks weigh financing arms makers in break with past — Nikkei Asia
5:45 PM · Nikkei Asia
5:45 PMWacoal taps bra-making tech for car armrests in BASF tie-up — Nikkei Asia
5:36 PM · Bloomberg — Technology
5:36 PMUS Looks to Expand Nuclear Power as AI Drives Up Energy Demand — Bloomberg — Technology
4:58 PM · SCMP — Tech
4:58 PMHuawei CFO Meng’s admissions can be used against company at criminal trial, US judge rules — SCMP — Tech
4:46 PM · Tom's Hardware
4:46 PMIntel's fab roadmap examined — Arizona, Ohio, Ireland, and the two deadlines deciding 14A process node — Tom's Hardware
4:33 PM · The Guardian — World
4:33 PMAustralia news live: Non-stop Sydney-London flights delayed again; anti-abortion bill blocked in SA — The Guardian — World
4:15 PM · Air & Space Forces Magazine
4:15 PMLawmakers Push for More New Sensors to Track Hypersonic and Ballistic Missiles — Air & Space Forces Magazine
3:46 PM · Air & Space Forces Magazine
3:46 PMLawmakers Move to Replace MC-130s Destroyed in Iran Without Supplemental — Air & Space Forces Magazine
3:43 PM · Ars Technica
3:43 PMTesco moving 40,000 server workloads off VMware amid Broadcom's “abusive conduct” — Ars Technica
3:40 PM · The War Zone
3:40 PMPentagon’s Ability To Supply Ukraine With More Patriot Interceptors Questioned By Congress — The War Zone
3:13 PM · SpaceNews
3:13 PMUpgraded Ariane 6 launches Amazon Leo satellites — SpaceNews
3:00 PM · Nikkei Asia
3:00 PMJapan's top defense contactor branches out into small interceptor drones — Nikkei Asia
2:12 PM · Breaking Defense
2:12 PMHow Honeywell Aerospace plans to tap into the global CCA market — Breaking Defense
1:25 PM · The War Zone
1:25 PMUkraine Inks Deal To Help Fulfill Europe’s Long-Range Strike Missile Needs — The War Zone
1:15 PM · Bloomberg — Technology
1:15 PMCapital Factory CEO Baer Killed in Private Plane Crash in Texas — Bloomberg — Technology
1:10 PM · Defense News
1:10 PMCongress seeks to limit US Navy vessels built in foreign shipyards — Defense News
12:20 PM · Breaking Defense
12:20 PMArmy to release proposal requests for ISV-Heavy late this year: Official — Breaking Defense
12:11 PM · Bloomberg — Technology
12:11 PMBioNTech Investor Förtsch Says Founders’ Spinout Raises Concerns — Bloomberg — Technology
12:00 PM · Tom's Hardware
12:00 PMDeepSeek was set to be added to US Entity List for supporting China’s military and intelligence operations, report claims — White House holds off to avoid escalating tensions with China — Tom's Hardware
12:00 PM · Bloomberg — Technology
12:00 PMFrance Adopts Law to Ease EDF Grip on Hydropower Market, Spur Investment on New Generation Capacity — Bloomberg — Technology
11:55 AM · Breaking Defense
11:55 AMAselsan lands $900M deal to help Turkey build Steel Dome air defense systems — Breaking Defense
11:47 AM · Ars Technica
11:47 AMTowers once planned for California shuttle launches leveled for SpaceX rockets — Ars Technica
11:30 AM · Nikkei Asia
11:30 AMKomatsu may follow rivals in raising prices in North America: CFO — Nikkei Asia
11:27 AM · Bloomberg — Technology
11:27 AMASML CEO Warns of Possible Supply Constraints on Musk’s Terafab — Bloomberg — Technology
11:00 AM · SCMP — Tech
11:00 AMAs the Iran war comes to a close, is the US pulling warships back to the west Pacific? — SCMP — Tech
10:03 AM · Breaking Defense
10:03 AM3D printing company Divergent to produce Tomahawk structure at new factory, CEO says — Breaking Defense
9:44 AM · The Guardian — World
9:44 AMJaguar Land Rover reverses plans for an EV-only factory — The Guardian — World
9:30 AM · TechCrunch
9:30 AMSpaceX alum nabs $22M to turn rocket engines into geothermal power plants — TechCrunch
8:59 AM · Payload Space
8:59 AMInstinct Space Unveils Plans for Low-Cost Lunar Landers — Payload Space
8:38 AM · TechCrunch
8:38 AMCanadian pension giant joins race to fund India’s AI-fueled data center boom — TechCrunch
8:34 AM · Defense News
8:34 AMPoland weighs joining X-BAT autonomous vertical-takeoff fighter program — Defense News
8:30 AM · SCMP — Tech
8:30 AMChinese chip-equipment maker CFMEE targets US$410 million in Hong Kong IPO — SCMP — Tech
7:56 AM · SCMP — Tech
7:56 AMChina moves to end ‘irrational’ food-delivery subsidies and the sector’s price wars — SCMP — Tech
7:23 AM · SpaceNews
7:23 AMLook Up and Skynopy partner on automated satellite collision avoidance service — SpaceNews
7:01 AM · Bloomberg — Technology
7:01 AMLenovo Raises $2 Billion From Seven-Year Convertible Bonds — Bloomberg — Technology
7:00 AM · Bloomberg — Technology
7:00 AMUber to Offer Robotaxis in Houston With Lucid and Nuro, Posing Challenge to Waymo — Bloomberg — Technology
7:00 AM · Tom's Hardware
7:00 AMU.S. gov't asks court to dismiss NAACP lawsuit against Elon Musk's xAI over use of unpermitted gas turbines — DOJ says Grok model running at Colossus 2 ‘supports mission-critical operations’ — Tom's Hardware
6:53 AM · Bloomberg — Technology
6:53 AMBlue Origin Says It Will Launch a New Glenn Rocket This Year — Bloomberg — Technology
6:33 AM · Bloomberg — Technology
6:33 AMPoland Invests $11 Million in ElevenLabs to Build AI Tech Hub — Bloomberg — Technology
6:30 AM · Tom's Hardware
6:30 AMSSD controller maker Silicon Motion says its consumer PCIe 6.0 roadmap is driven by Nvidia, not by AMD and Intel — RTX Spark agentic AI platform fuels a hunger for storage bandwidth — Tom's Hardware
5:30 AM · Tom's Hardware
5:30 AMChinese memory brands ditch Samsung and Micron for homegrown CXMT and YMTC silicon — Corsair, HP, and Dell are already adopting the China-produced DDR5 chips — Tom's Hardware
4:45 AM · SCMP — Tech
4:45 AMAI boom sparks Kingboard subsidiary’s US$1.5 billion stake sale to ramp up PCB capacity — SCMP — Tech
2:54 AM · Bloomberg — Technology
2:54 AMSingapore’s Electronics Exports Jump by Record on AI Demand Boom — Bloomberg — Technology

June 16, 2026

11:15 PM · Nikkei Asia
11:15 PMSamsung sees rising chip production requests from BYD, Google, AMD: sources — Nikkei Asia
11:01 PM · SCMP — Tech
11:01 PMData leak fears after ransomware attack hits Hong Kong’s Kee Wah Bakery — SCMP — Tech
10:37 PM · Bloomberg — Technology
10:37 PMLingyi Seeks to Raise Up to $1.1 Billion in Hong Kong Listing — Bloomberg — Technology
10:01 PM · Nikkei Asia
10:01 PMChinese electronics maker Longcheer bets on US growth — Nikkei Asia
6:24 PM · Payload Space
6:24 PMDawn Aerospace Raises $25M Series B — Payload Space
6:15 PM · Nikkei Asia
6:15 PMNTT hoped to lead optical data networks. AI and Nvidia changed that — Nikkei Asia
6:08 PM · Bloomberg — Technology
6:08 PMBrookfield-Backed Data Center Firm Csquare Files for US IPO — Bloomberg — Technology
5:14 PM · Ars Technica
5:14 PMAmong the large new rockets Amazon was counting on, only Europe has delivered — Ars Technica
5:00 PM · Tom's Hardware
5:00 PMIntel’s performance-enhanced 18A-P process enters risk production — drop-in 18A upgrade promises 9% performance improvement at iso-power, cuts thermal resistance by 40% — Tom's Hardware
4:30 PM · C4ISRNET
4:30 PMRenault teams up with Thales to boost France’s drone production — C4ISRNET
4:02 PM · Defense One
4:02 PMChatGPT to debut on Pentagon's GenAI.mil in ‘early July’, OpenAI says — Defense One
3:40 PM · Bloomberg — Technology
3:40 PMSpaceX Investor Powerlaw Debuts Amid IPO Race — Bloomberg — Technology
3:24 PM · Breaking Defense
3:24 PMLockheed, GM announce partnership to bolster production for munitions and more — Breaking Defense
3:15 PM · Nikkei Asia
3:15 PMWhy Kioxia is going easy on capex despite AI memory boom — Nikkei Asia
3:00 PM · Naval News
3:00 PMDutch MoD and Naval Group Ink F21 Torpedo Procurement Contract — Naval News
2:47 PM · Bloomberg — Technology
2:47 PMLutnick’s Letter to Anthropic Warned of Curbs on Top AI Models — Bloomberg — Technology
2:14 PM · Breaking Defense
2:14 PMMach Industries wins DIU contract for maritime, long-range strike drone — Breaking Defense
1:50 PM · TechCrunch
1:50 PMMobileye’s US robotaxi launch will put it on both sides of the AV business — TechCrunch
1:48 PM · TechCrunch
1:48 PMRivian cuts hundreds of workers after R2 deliveries start — TechCrunch
1:39 PM · SCMP — Tech
1:39 PMTrump taps Defence Production Act to boost US weapons stockpiles drained by Iran war — SCMP — Tech
1:08 PM · The Guardian — World
1:08 PMFrance to ditch AI data tools from Palantir for domestic provider — The Guardian — World
1:00 PM · Breaking Defense
1:00 PMMalaysia to buy 18 Caesar self-propelled howitzers, KNDS announces at Eurosatory — Breaking Defense
12:30 PM · Bloomberg — Technology
12:30 PMHPE Boosts Networking Gear for AI Clients, Adds Siemens Energy — Bloomberg — Technology
12:18 PM · Ars Technica
12:18 PMLeaked financial docs show OpenAI is losing billions of dollars a year — Ars Technica
12:13 PM · Bloomberg — Technology
12:13 PMApollo-Backed Rackspace Loan Jumps on AMD Data Center Deal — Bloomberg — Technology
11:31 AM · Nikkei Asia
11:31 AMIndia's Kaynes enters Japan's chip assembly market with local partners — Nikkei Asia
11:30 AM · SpaceNews
11:30 AMKatalyst Space raises $12 million for GEO servicing demo mission — SpaceNews
11:19 AM · BBC — World
11:19 AMVenezuela signs deal with US energy giant to rebuild power grid — BBC — World
11:06 AM · Tom's Hardware
11:06 AMChinese fab SMIC's 7nm metal pitch beats Intel 18A but lags 38% on density, teardown finds — Huawei's sanctions-beating HiSilicon Kirin 9030 is the first subject of SemiAnalysis's new teardown lab — Tom's Hardware
10:51 AM · Breaking Defense
10:51 AMCanada opens negotiations on M-346 trainer aircraft — Breaking Defense
10:50 AM · Breaking Defense
10:50 AMEXCLUSIVE: Inside the Army’s efforts to jam its own forces — and what it learned — Breaking Defense
10:38 AM · Naval News
10:38 AMHII Delivers First of the Newest REMUS Variant: 130 — Naval News
10:38 AM · Bloomberg — Technology
10:38 AMPrincipal Mineral Buys Cerberus-Backed Critical Materials Firm — Bloomberg — Technology
10:03 AM · Breaking Defense
10:03 AMWith new Paris office, UAE’s EDGE Group sees Europe as ‘next large market’: CEO — Breaking Defense
10:00 AM · SpaceNews
10:00 AMPiLogic partners with Air Force lab to test satellite fault-prediction software — SpaceNews
9:30 AM · Tom's Hardware
9:30 AMSMI's PCIe 6.0 SSD controller for consumer SSDs coming next year, but severe NAND shortages will get even worse in 2027 as AI data centers swallow supply — An interview with Silicon Motion's SVP Nelson Duann — Tom's Hardware
9:21 AM · Breaking Defense
9:21 AML3Harris, Turkish firm Skydagger to establish US co-production of FPV interceptors — Breaking Defense
9:18 AM · The Guardian — World
9:18 AMFujitsu chair resigns after ‘woman-related inappropriate conduct’ — The Guardian — World
9:15 AM · Bloomberg — Technology
9:15 AMPoland Pursues Taiwan Investments to End Role as Assembly Hub — Bloomberg — Technology
9:00 AM · Bloomberg — Technology
9:00 AMStartup Backed by Ex-Google CEO Debuts Industrial Robot With LG — Bloomberg — Technology
8:48 AM · Tom's Hardware
8:48 AMQualcomm mulls taking over Jim Keller's Tenstorrent, report claims — deal for AI chipmaker would value the company at between $8 billion and $10 billion — Tom's Hardware
8:28 AM · Payload Space
8:28 AMOptera Raises £3M to Open New UK HQ — Payload Space
8:07 AM · SCMP — Tech
8:07 AMHong Kong Science Park, SenseTime partner to build home-grown AI data centre — SCMP — Tech
7:54 AM · Bloomberg — Technology
7:54 AMAdani Ports Partners With Kaleris for AI Terminal Software — Bloomberg — Technology
7:48 AM · Bloomberg — Technology
7:48 AMUK Regulator Weighs Cutting Data Center Power Use at Peak Times — Bloomberg — Technology
7:45 AM · Nikkei Asia
7:45 AMVietnam group plans $360m plane repair hub with Hong Kong, Japan partners — Nikkei Asia
7:25 AM · TechCrunch
7:25 AMThis startup’s super metals could soon be in military drones, luxury watches, and chef’s knives — TechCrunch
7:06 AM · Tom's Hardware
7:06 AMAMD’s massive SP7 socket for EPYC Venice and Intel’s gargantuan 9,324-pin socket for Diamond Rapids appear at Computex — SP7 and LGA9324-1 sockets will power the next generation of AI servers — Tom's Hardware
7:00 AM · Tom's Hardware
7:00 AMTSMC says panel packaging won't replace CoWoS anytime soon for the largest future AI processors — wafer-level tech can scale to 58 massive dies in one package — Tom's Hardware
7:00 AM · Bloomberg — Technology
7:00 AMRipple Acquires Stake in Flutterwave Valuing It at $3.3 Billion — Bloomberg — Technology
6:58 AM · Bloomberg — Technology
6:58 AMSpaceX Cements $60 Billion Deal to Take Over AI Startup Cursor — Bloomberg — Technology
6:46 AM · SCMP — Tech
6:46 AMUS military plans permanent war-ready weapons stockpile in Australia — SCMP — Tech
6:00 AM · Tom's Hardware
6:00 AMProject Jupiter AI data center build raises concerns about water usage in rural New Mexico desert — Oracle calls water usage 'negligible' for 11 million gallon one-time fill — Tom's Hardware
3:48 AM · Bloomberg — Technology
3:48 AMSTMicro Eyes $1.5 Billion Convertible Bonds After AI-Fueled Jump — Bloomberg — Technology
2:16 AM · SCMP — Tech
2:16 AMAlibaba eyes physical world with its first suite of AI models for robots — SCMP — Tech

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