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Trump says a 25%+ tariff “must be paid by Apple” on iPhones not made in the US, and he told Tim Cook long ago that iPhones sold in the US must be made in the US — President Donald Trump said in a social media post Friday that Apple will have to pay a tariff of 25% or more for iPhones made outside the United States.
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Sources: DOGE is using a customized Grok to analyze US government data, including at DHS where it has not been approved, raising security and privacy concerns — Billionaire Elon Musk's DOGE team is expanding use of his artificial intelligence chatbot Grok in the U.S. federal government to analyze data …
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Mastodon: @bruno_j_navarro … and @Gurre@mastodon.nu
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Glitch CEO Anil Dash says it will stop hosting projects and close user profiles on July 8; Glitch launched in March 2017 and Fastly acquired it in May 2022 — The collaborative coding platform will no longer host projects starting July 8th. … Glitch, the coding platform where developers … | Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Zoom CEO Eric Yuan used an AI avatar for his initial comments on Zoom's Q1 earnings call on May 21; Klarna's CEO used an AI avatar to deliver earnings on May 19 — CEOs are now so immersed in AI, they're sending their avatars to address quarterly earnings calls instead of themselves, at least partially.
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Sources: Tim Cook called Texas Governor Greg Abbott last week urging a veto or changes to a bill that would require Apple to verify users' ages on its devices — Apple's CEO called Greg Abbott after law passed requiring app stores to verify user ages — Apple stepped up efforts in recent weeks … | Kylie Robison / Wired: |
A look at Anthropic's first developer conference, where CPO Mike Krieger said 70%+ of Anthropic's code pull requests are now written by their AI model Claude — Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said everything human workers do now will eventually be done by AI systems.| Wall Street Journal: |
Trump hosted a gala dinner for top buyers of $TRUMP, including Justin Sun, and said he was fulfilling his promise to make the US the world's “crypto capital” — The president hosted the biggest investors in his memecoin at his golf club outside Washington
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Discord SVP Peter Sellis says the app is exploring forums and LLM-powered summaries to make discussions easy to follow and shareable outside the platform — It's thinking about something like forums, too. … Discord has become the place for gaming communities on the internet.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Bluesky lets “notable and authentic” accounts apply for blue check verification and enables select organizations to become Trusted Verifiers to verify others — Bluesky on Thursday quietly opened the doors to those who want to become verified on its social networking service.
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| Hugh Son / CNBC: |
Monarch, which makes a personal finance app, raised a $75M Series B at a $850M valuation, says its subscribers grew by 20x since Intuit closed Mint in 2023 — The personal finance startup Monarch has raised $75 million to accelerate subscriber growth that took off last year when budgeting tool Mint was shut down, CNBC has learned.
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Sources: companies co-owned by JPMorgan Chase, BOA, Citigroup, Wells Fargo, and other large commercial banks are exploring whether to issue a joint stablecoin — The discussions involve payments companies co-owned by JPMorgan Chase, other large banks — The nation's biggest banks …
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple aims to release smart glasses at the end of 2026 as part of a push into AI devices, but has shelved plans for an Apple Watch with a camera — Apple Inc. is aiming to release smart glasses at the end of next year as part of a push into AI-enhanced gadgets …
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
First Lady Melania Trump releases an audiobook of her memoir, with her “official AI voice” created by ElevenLabs, available exclusively in the ElevenReader app — First Lady Melania Trump released her recently published memoir “Melania” as an audiobook that will be available … | Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI says Operator, its AI agent that can use the web to perform tasks, will soon use a model based on o3 after previously using a custom version of GPT-4o — OpenAI is updating the AI model powering Operator, its AI agent that can autonomously browse the web and use certain software within a cloud-hosted virtual machine.
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| Ionut Ilascu / BleepingComputer: |
The US DOJ indicts a Russian national for allegedly leading the Qakbot malware operation that infected 700K+ computers and enabled ransomware attacks for years — The U.S. government has indicted Russian national Rustam Rafailevich Gallyamov, the leader of the Qakbot botnet malware operation …
More: US Department of Justice, The Guardian, Metacurity, Tech Monitor, ITPro, The Stack, The Cyber Express, The Register, Reuters, and The Record
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| Philip Stafford / Financial Times: |
UK-based R3, a blockchain tech developer for financial institutions, partners with the Solana Foundation to let it and its customers use the Solana blockchain — R3 reaches agreement with Solana Foundation in move to tokenise global stocks, bonds and funds
More: R3, Bitcoin Insider, Coinspeaker, Ledger Insights, R3, TokenPost, crypto.news, The Block, and CoinDesk
X: @gendal, @solana, @bradyowen_, @muzicluver, @perkinscr97, and @marcosalzmann80
| Jody Godoy / Reuters: |
The US FTC drops a case that sought to block Microsoft's $69B acquisition of Activision Blizzard, saying that pursuing the case was not in the public interest — The U.S. Federal Trade Commission dropped a case that sought to block Microsoft's (MSFT.O) $69-billion purchase of “Call of Duty” … Sponsor Posts
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