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The free PlayStation Plus Essential games for June have been revealed — and they include an Xbox-published game

Meta rolls out Plus plans for Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp globally, will test $7.99/mo. and $19.99/mo. Meta AI plans, a $49.99/mo. creator plan, and more (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

OpenAI announces partnerships to combat election misinformation, offering cybersecurity products to state officials and backing legislation to curb deepfakes (Maria Curi/Axios)

Micron hit a $1T market value for the first time on Tuesday as shares jumped 19%, driven by demand for its memory chips in the AI race (Samantha Subin/CNBC)

London-based Perceptic, which says its end-to-end AI platform for drug development is being used by top pharmaceuticals, raised a $12M seed led by Accel (Jeremy Kahn/Fortune)

Q&A with Sundar Pichai about reshaping the information ecosystem with Search changes, putting AI agents in everything, when AI will replace him as CEO, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)

The FTC settles with Cox, MindSift, and 1010 Digital Works for $930K over claims they falsely said they could use phone mics to spy on users for ad targeting (Adi Robertson/The Verge)

Iranian state media reports that President Masoud Pezeshkian has issued an order to reopen international internet access after a near-90-day blackout (Reuters)

Report: the EU plans to fine Google a high triple-digit million euro amount as part of a 2025 probe over concerns it favors its own services in search results (Reuters)

Demand for security engineers is surging, with job postings up 11% YoY in Q1, driven by threats from AI-generated code and models like Mythos and GPT-5.4-Cyber (Kate Conger/New York Times)

Sources: Uber weighs a higher bid after it approached a major Delivery Hero shareholder with a €38-per-share bid, valuing the group at €11.5B+, but was rebuffed (Financial Times)

Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced creative director says his top three favorite elements of the remake are the fight system, the new missions, and the new end game chapters — 'We have received a lot of positive reactions to the story'