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Berber Jin / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: OpenAI and Microsoft talks have become so fraught that OpenAI execs discussed accusing Microsoft of anticompetitive behavior before federal regulators  —  The startup, growing frustrated with its partner, has discussed making antitrust complaints to regulators
New York Times:
WhatsApp rolls out ads in its Updates tab, a first for the app, and Meta will collect some data to target the ads, but says it has no plans to put ads in chats  —  They will appear in only one part of the Meta-owned messaging service, it said.  The move is potentially lucrative, while raising questions about user privacy.
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Jordan Novet / CNBC:
The US Defense Department awards a one-year $200M contract to OpenAI to develop AI tools for addressing challenges in “warfighting and enterprise domains”  —  OpenAI has been awarded a $200 million contract to provide the U.S. Defense Department with artificial intelligence tools.
Mike Rogoway / Oregonian:
Memo: Intel's manufacturing VP said Intel plans to cut 15%-20% of staff, starting in July, “to meet our affordability challenges and current financial position”  —  Intel plans to lay off up to a fifth of its factory workers, an enormous cutback that will have a profound effect on one of the chipmaker's core businesses.
Katie Notopoulos / Business Insider:
The Meta AI app now shows a warning prompt before users share content to the public feed, after reports of users accidentally sharing chats with personal info  —  - Business Insider found that the Meta AI app's public feed was full of personal information that looked to be accidentally published.
Nieman Lab:
2025 Digital News Report: social media overtakes TV as the top news source in the US, with 54% accessing news via social media and video apps, vs. 50% for TV  —  Plus: The pivot to video is really happening, digital subscriptions may have peaked, and other findings from RISJ's 2025 Digital News Report.
Todd Spangler / Variety:
The Trump Organization teases the $499 “T1 Phone”, a gold phone “designed and built” in the US, and Trump Mobile, an MVNO that uses AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile  —  President Trump and his family are getting into the wireless business, in partnership with the three major U.S. carriers.
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Threads: @snazzyq and @cult_papa
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Forums: r/technology, r/NoShitSherlock, r/nottheonion, r/politics, r/AntiTrumpAlliance, r/technology, r/stupidpol, r/politics, r/politics, r/Economics, r/TheBusinessMix, r/EnoughTrumpSpam, r/Destiny, r/centrist, r/VaushV, r/facepalm, r/AnythingGoesNews, r/inthenews, and r/politics
Cory Weinberg / The Information:
Sources: Meta's talks with Scale AI started in mid-April, with Zuckerberg floating a $5B investment in early May, which Alexandr Wang later countered with $20B  —  The negotiations started as just one billionaire tech founder talking to another.  Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg approached …
Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer:
Europol, Germany, and more dismantle Archetyp Market, a darknet drug marketplace active since May 2020 with 612K users processing €250M+ in Monero transactions  —  Law enforcement authorities from six countries took down the Archetyp Market, an infamous darknet drug marketplace that has been operating since May 2020.
Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Threads plans to let users hide text or images that spoil a piece of entertainment, blurring the text or image that has been marked as a spoiler  —  The text-based app from Meta is launching a tool that lets users hide spoilers in text or images, to encourage discussion of TV shows and films on the platform.
Financial Times:
Justin Sun's Tron plans to go public via a reverse merger with Nasdaq-listed toy maker SRM Entertainment, which intends to buy TRX tokens and rename itself Tron  —  Deal involving Justin Sun's digital asset venture orchestrated by investment bank linked to Trump's sons

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Gary Baum / The Hollywood Reporter:
A look at the first “case” brought before Objection, which aims to use AI to evaluate news stories, and a Q&A with Objection's founder; the site is now dark

Daniel Arkin / NBC News:
Gene Shalit, a longtime film critic for NBC's Today who was with the show from 1970 until his retirement in 2010, dies at 100

Aidan Ryan / The Boston Globe:
A look at an AI-reliant news site for 19 towns south of Boston, which uses public meeting transcripts and LLMs to produce stories and has 350 paid subscribers

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Katie Roof / Bloomberg:
Juniper Square, which offers investment management and fund administration tools for real estate, PE, VC firms, raised $130M led by Ribbit at a $1.1B valuation
Oliver Knight / CoinDesk:
Trump Media and Technology Group files an S-1 with the US SEC to launch a spot Bitcoin and Ethereum ETF, allocating 75% to bitcoin and 25% to ether

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Carl Benedikt Frey / Financial Times:
AI is just another productivity tool and the productivity gains will be limited; for lasting economic expansion, AI must catalyze new industries and initiatives
Dade Hayes / Deadline:
Amazon Ads and Roku sign an ad initiative that will give media buyers access to 80%+ of US connected-TV households, set to launch by Q4 2025, using Amazon's DSP
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