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Trump extends the TikTok ban deadline for a third time; there is no legal basis for the extensions and it is unclear how many times the deadline can be extended — President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order to keep TikTok running in the U.S. for another 90 days to give …
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| Angus Whitley / Bloomberg: |
A government-backed tech trial in Australia finds user age checks are technologically possible, clearing the way for a social media ban for under-16s this year — Australia's world-first social media ban for under-16s moved closer to implementation after a key trial found that checking …
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| Richard Waters / Financial Times: |
Tesla's robotaxi service will launch in Austin with just ~10 cars that are geofenced to avoid complex intersections and monitored by backup teleoperators — Autonomous ride-hailing service to make tentative debut in Austin, Texas, with only about 10 cars — For Elon Musk, tech's great showman …
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| Christine Wang / Axios: |
Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince said Google's ratio of pages crawled per visitor sent to a publisher fell from 2:1 10 years ago to 6:1 six months ago to 18:1 now — Publishers face an existential threat in the AI era and need to take action to make sure they are fairly compensated for their content … | Kate Rooney / CNBC: |
Sources: Meta tried to buy Safe Superintelligence earlier this year; Zuckerberg moved to recruit SSI CEO Daniel Gross after Ilya Sutskever rebuffed the offer — When Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg poached Scale AI founder Alexandr Wang last week as part of a $14.3 billion investment …
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| Financial Times: |
In a letter to CEO Aravind Srinivas, the BBC says it has evidence Perplexity's default model used its content and seeks “a proposal for financial compensation” — British broadcaster makes first move to clamp down on alleged infringement of copyright by tech groups
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| Dia Rekhi / The Economic Times: |
Sources: Foxconn plans to make iPhone enclosures in India and is looking to set up a new unit in Tamil Nadu; only Tata is currently making enclosures in India — Foxconn is planning to manufacture iPhone enclosures in India, establishing a new unit in Tamil Nadu.
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| Ellen O'Regan / Politico: |
The Irish Data Protection Commission says Meta told it that WhatsApp ads “won't be launching” in the EU “until 2026”; WhatsApp says ads are coming “gradually” — Meta's advertising plan has triggered privacy concerns in Europe.
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| Marissa Newman / Bloomberg: |
Israeli authorities urge citizens to turn off home cameras, and say Iran is tapping into security cameras in Israel to gather real-time intelligence for attacks — Iran is tapping into private security cameras in Israel to gather real-time intelligence about its adversary …
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| Bloomberg: |
How JD.com is taking on China's food-delivery duopoly with viral stunts, low commissions, and deep discounts, prompting Meituan and Alibaba's Ele.me to respond — One unusually warm evening in April, Richard Liu revved his scooter through Beijing's traffic-snarled streets alongside other delivery workers …
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| Reuters: |
South Korea's SK Group and AWS will invest ~$5.1B including $4B from AWS to build a 100 MW AI data center in Ulsan by 2029, and plan to expand capacity to 1 GW — South Korea's SK Group will invest around 7 trillion won ($5.11 billion) including $4 billion from Amazon Web Services … | Peggy Corlin / Euronews: |
The EU says Apple and Meta will not face sanctions immediately after their 60-day DMA grace period ends on June 26, following €500M and €200M fines in April — The European Commission will opt not to impose immediate financial penalties on Apple and Meta—even if they fail to comply … | Ryan Lawler / Axios: |
Milan-based Jet HR, which provides all-in-one payroll and HR services to SMBs, raised €25M led by Base10 Partners, bringing its total funding to about €42M — Jet HR, a Milan-based platform serving small and midsized enterprises, raised €25 million in funding led by Base10 Partners … | Andrej Karpathy / Y Combinator on YouTube: |
Andrej Karpathy's talk on “Software 3.0”, with LLMs enabling programming via natural language, the decade of agents, LLMs as “fallible people spirits”, and more — Andrej Karpathy's keynote at AI Startup School in San Francisco. Slides provided by Andrej: https …
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Forums: Hacker News, r/singularity, r/theprimeagen, and Lobsters
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