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Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple to unveil high-end water resistant AirPods with noise-cancellation, studio-quality over-ear headphones, and a new HomePod as early as next year  —  - High-end AirPods and over-ear headphones coming next year  — Foxconn to build AirPods; Inventec may lose some HomePod work
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
AT&T confirms it will buy AppNexus, which operates one of the largest independent ad exchanges  —  Another legacy carrier built on offering phone services is now taking a deeper dive into the world of advertising and specifically ad tech to help catapult itself into the next generation of tech and communications.
Bob Davis / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Trump admin planning rules to block firms with >25% Chinese ownership from buying firms with “industrially significant” tech, plus new export controls  —  Treasury is crafting rules that would block firms with at least 25% Chinese ownership from buying companies involved in ‘industrially significant technology’
The Verge:
As Trump admin prepares for $200B in new tariffs on Chinese goods, small US gadget makers fear that price increases on key parts may put them out of business  —  Trump's tariffs could spell doom for small hardware startups  —  As the White House barrels toward $250 billion in tariffs on Chinese imports …
Sean Keane / CNET:
Amazon's Whole Foods to expand 10% discount on some items for Prime members to all stores across US starting June 27  —  Amazon said Monday that its Prime membership discounts are coming to all Whole Foods across the US.  —  From Wednesday, Prime members can get a 10 percent discount …
Peter Bright / Ars Technica:
Details of Qualcomm SDM1000, likely Snapdragon 1000, leak showing bigger, 20×15mm sized chip for Windows 10 on ARM PCs to compete with Intel Core Y and U CPUs  —  Design goes head to head with Intel's Y and U series Core-branded processors.  —  Details of the SDM1000 …
Benedict Evans:
Machine learning may become a ubiquitous and fundamental enabling layer, similar to how relational databases impacted society in the eighties  —  We're now four or five years into the current explosion of machine learning, and pretty much everyone has heard of it.
Nellie Bowles / New York Times:
Experts say domestic abusers increasingly use connected home devices like smart locks, security cameras, and lighting to scare or spy on victims  —  SAN FRANCISCO — The people who called into the help hotlines and domestic violence shelters said they felt as if they were going crazy.
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
PayPal's Venmo follows Square by officially launching its own MasterCard-branded debit card in the US, following beta tests of a now-discontinued Visa card  —  Venmo today is officially introducing its own debit card in partnership with MasterCard, following beta tests of a Visa-branded debit card last year.
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Barbara Moens / Financial Times:
Sources: the EU is set to approve Paramount's $111B WBD takeover provided the company accepts certain remedies, the details of which are still being worked out

Max Tani / Semafor:
Documents: The Daily Wire, founded by conservative podcaster Ben Shapiro in 2015, seeks to raise at least $100M in a round that would value the company at $750M

Matthew Keys / TheDesk.net:
Source: iHeartMedia has begun a new round of layoffs affecting dozens of workers in its local radio broadcasting units as part of a broader restructuring

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