Apple approves Poke as the first AI agent on its Messages for Business platform
Poke, the startup that lets people use AI agents through simple text messages, has become the first AI agent approved for Apple’s Messages for Business platform.
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Helion, the Sam Altman-backed fusion startup, raises $465M to build a power plant for Microsoft
Fusion startup Helion is racing to complete a power plant for Microsoft by 2028. A fresh infusion of cash should help with that.
Kevin O’Leary agrees to downsize massive Utah data center
Kevin O’Leary agreed to halve the size of his planned 40,000-acre data center in Utah amid mounting pressure from residents and activists, as reported earlier by local affiliate ABC4. The Shark Tank star sent a letter to Utah Senate President J. Stuart Adams on Thursday, saying that he will remove 19,430 acres from the project, … Read more
Google is letting social media stars customize their search result page
Google now lets big creators and publishers in the US claim dedicated profiles in Search to highlight things like videos, articles, and their other profiles online. But this feature won’t be available to most people or organizations; Google is limiting it to people with at least 100,000 YouTube subscribers, 100,000 followers on Instagram or X, … Read more
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6 Best Platforms Where Gaming Startups Should Publish Their Stories in 2026
Heyo, Hackers! We are back with another HackerNoon Startups of the Week edition. This one is for the gaming startups. The gaming industry has become a crowded ecosystem where discovery, storytelling, and community engagement matter just as much as gameplay mechanics. Indie studios, Web3 gaming startups, and metaverse builders are now competing not only for … Read more
Amazon’s new plan for games: James Bond and AI Snoop Dogg
Amazon’s gaming strategy has never really been clear. It’s been very active in the space: acquiring Twitch, launching its Luna cloud gaming service nearly six years ago, investing heavily in MMOs during the peak of live-service wave, and having access to a huge slate of franchises through Prime Video and the MGM Studios library. Late … Read more
Meta’s Oversight Board says account bans lack due process, transparency
Meta’s board cites “due process” concerns over account bans. It’s also pushing Meta to offer clear information about violations and its use in AI in making its determinations.
Meta rolls out a new AI creator assistant on Facebook
Creators often have to parse through charts and dashboards to understand their performance, but with the new AI assistant, they can get quick answers to questions like “When should I post?” and “What are people saying in my comments?”
What to expect from WWDC 2026: Siri’s highly anticipated revamp and Apple Intelligence updates
Apple’s WWDC nears: here’s what you can look forward to.
A burglar used a Waymo to steal yoga clothes in San Francisco — and got away with it
The incident helps shed some new light on how Waymo treats and stores the footage captured by its robotaxis.
Fhenix and Monaco Research Are Trying to Build a Dark Pool That Actually Works: Behind DeFi
Every open blockchain is, structurally, a surveillance machine for your counterparty. Fhenix’s FHE infrastructure and Monaco’s institutional-grade trading layer are attempting something most thought impossible: private execution that doesn’t break the trust model of DeFi. There is a problem in DeFi that nobody has properly fixed, and the reason it hasn’t been fixed is that … Read more
The HackerNoon Newsletter: The Pope and AI (6/4/2026)
How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, June 4, 2026? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, The Kingdom of Tonga Achieved Independence in 1970, The World’s First Shopping Carts Were Introduced in 1937, American Women Won the Right to Vote in 1919, The Montgolfier … Read more
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Cash App launches a wand for tap-and-pay
Cash App plans to launch more tap-to-pay tags
Belkin’s new Joy-Con grips also boost the Switch 2’s battery life
Most of Belkin’s Switch 2 accessories are designed to either protect or power up Nintendo’s latest handheld, like its Charging Case Pro that actually does both at the same time. Its new multitasking Charging Grip can also add three or four more hours of playtime through an included 10,000mAh battery pack, while improving the Switch … Read more
Cash App made a magic wand for contactless payments
The Cash App Wand is a novel way to pay for your next coffee. | Image: Cash App The convenience of contactless payments can already feel magical, but Cash App is really leaning into that with its latest accessory. The mobile payment service is launching the Cash App Wand: an NFC-enabled, iridescent, star-topped wand that … Read more
Windows is back on the Microsoft menu
I can’t remember the last time Microsoft kicked off a Build keynote with Windows front and center, but that’s exactly what CEO Satya Nadella did this week. Nadella didn’t address the issues Microsoft is trying to fix in Windows 11 but chose to woo the audience with Microsoft’s slick Surface RTX Spark Dev Kit instead, … Read more
Remarkable’s refurbished Paper Pro bundle is hundreds off
Color E Ink tablets aren’t usually affordable. I’m not going to say that Woot’s price on a refurbished “good as new” Remarkable Paper Pro is cheap, but it’s pretty fantastic compared to buying one new. Normally $629 just for the tablet, you can get a bundle that includes the big 11.8-inch Paper Pro plus $139 … Read more
How I Built Guardrails That Stopped My AI Agent From Going Rogue
My agent leaked a customer’s email address to another customer on day three. This was not a hypothetical scenario from a conference talk. It was my code, running in production, doing something I never tested for.
86% Retention, $5M in 8 Weeks: Pred Just Opened Its Sports Exchange for the World Cup
General prediction platforms are winning on political markets and crypto bets. They are not built for the 15-minute goal window that settles before the commentator finishes his sentence. Pred just opened to the public for the biggest betting event in American history, and its private beta suggests sports trading is ready to become its own … Read more
TSMC struggles to keep up with AI demand: ‘We can only support so much’
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. – the world’s biggest semiconductor-maker – is struggling to meet demands from American customers even with its factory buildout in the US, according to reports from Reuters and Bloomberg. “Customer demand is so high, and we can only support so much,” TSMC CEO C.C. Wei said after a shareholder meeting on … Read more
Apple touts $1.4 trillion in App Store billings and sales, 90% without a commission
Apple’s App Store generated $1.4 trillion in sales, up from $1.3 trillion last year, with $149 billion in sales for digital goods.
The TechBeat: AI Is Writing More Code Than Ever. So, why is Software Quality Getting Worse? (6/4/2026)
How are you, hacker? 🪐Want to know what’s trending right now?: The Techbeat by HackerNoon has got you covered with fresh content from our trending stories of the day! Set email preference here. ## Why macOS Is Underrepresented in Public AI Research Datasets By @macpaw [ 5 Min read ] MacPaw Research explains why macOS … Read more