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June 14, 2025, 9:40 AM

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Reuters:
Sources: Google, Scale AI's largest customer, plans to cut ties with the company after the Meta deal; Microsoft, OpenAI, and xAI also plan to step back  —  Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) Google, the largest customer of Scale AI, plans to cut ties with Scale after news broke that rival Meta (META.O) …
Matt O'Brien / Associated Press:
Harvard releases Institutional Books 1.0, a dataset for AI researchers with 242B tokens, from 394M scanned pages and 983K public domain books in 254 languages  —  Everything ever said on the internet was just the start of teaching artificial intelligence about humanity.
Ira Boudway / Bloomberg:
A profile of Chess.com, which has popularized online chess among pro athletes, as CEO Erik Allebest says the site has over $100M in annual revenue and 35M MAUs  —  Social media is a minefield for pro sports players.  But online chess offers rankings, instant analysis, wholesome interactions and few trolls.
Emma Roth / The Verge:
Google says it is testing Audio Overviews for certain Search queries, available for Labs users in English in the US  —  If you opt into the test, you'll see the option to generate an Audio Overview based on some of your searches. … Google is rolling out a test that puts its AI-powered Audio Overviews …
Samantha Stokes / Business Insider:
A look at 10 AI agent startups from YC's first-ever spring Demo Day; the batch included 144 companies, 70 of which focused on agentic AI  —  - Y Combinator's spring 2025 batch featured 70 startups focused on agentic AI.  — The intensive, three-month accelerator program invests $500,000 in each selected startup.
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Rachyl Jones / Semafor:
AIM Intelligent Machines, which retrofits heavy construction equipment to operate autonomously, raised $50M from Khosla Ventures, General Catalyst, and others  —  THE SCOOP  —  Tech startup AIM Intelligent Machines, which retrofits heavy construction equipment to operate autonomously …
Wall Street Journal:
23andMe says TTAM Research Institute, a nonprofit backed by Anne Wojcicki, is the new buyer for the company's assets, offering $305M and topping Regeneron's bid  —  Regeneron is backing away from buying the DNA-testing company after a nonprofit controlled by co-founder Wojcicki made a higher bid

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