Daily Recap: Tech — 22 June 2026

Tech’s big story today is Meta’s twin bet on messaging and India: naming CRED founder Kunal Shah to run WhatsApp while reportedly taking a roughly 20% stake in CRED through a $900 million investment. It signals both a leadership reset for one of the world’s biggest chat platforms and a deeper push into fintech-adjacent growth. In AI, two very different futures are coming into focus. Getty Images surged after striking a multi-year deal to place licensed photos inside OpenAI discovery tools, including ChatGPT, underscoring how copyright and trustworthy media are becoming central to AI products. At the other end of the spectrum, new “Anticloud” research sketches a decentralized model for local-first AI, with offline mesh networking and cryptographic audit trails designed to work without centralized infrastructure. And in consumer tech, Amazon is already dangling a record-low $399 AirPods Max 2 deal ahead of Prime Day.

Top Tech stories

• Meta appoints Kunal Shah to lead WhatsApp as it invests $900M in CRED (15 sources)
• Chevron signs 20-year deal to supply natural-gas power for Microsoft’s West Texas data center (7 sources)
• AirPods Max 2 drop to $399 record low at Amazon ahead of Prime Day (7 sources)
• Getty Images shares jump after multi-year display partnership with OpenAI (7 sources)
• Nicole Kidman posts Father’s Day tribute to ex Keith Urban and late father (6 sources)
• Starmer expected to announce UK prime-minister exit timetable as Burnham prepares for Parliament (6 sources)
• Google invests $75 million in A24 for DeepMind-backed AI filmmaking tools (5 sources)
• Rumors: Galaxy S27 Pro may add Samsung’s Privacy Display feature (4 sources)

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