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| Financial Times: |
Sources: Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab raised $2B led by a16z at a $10B valuation; Murati will hold board voting rights that outweigh all other directors — Six-month-old secretive AI start-up in one of the largest initial funding rounds in Silicon Valley's history
More: Maginative, TechCrunch, PitchBook, and SiliconANGLE
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| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
Sources: Mark Zuckerberg recently discussed buying Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab, but the talks didn't progress to the formal offer stage — Mark Zuckerberg has been playing the field as he looks to reboot his AI strategy. … At this point, it's becoming easier …
More: Entrepreneur, The Information, The Decoder, CTech, The Economic Times, and CNBC. X: @kevinroose
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Meta held talks with Perplexity about a possible takeover and tried to hire CEO Aravind Srinivas before moving ahead with its investment in Scale AI — The two companies couldn't come to an agreement and decided not to pursue the deal, said the people, who asked not to be named as the details of the talks aren't public.
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| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
Meta unveils the $399+ Oakley Meta HSTN glasses, with Meta AI and the features of its Ray-Ban models, plus 3K video recording and double the battery life — The new lineup starts at $399 and captures 3K video. … Meta is announcing its next pair of smart glasses with Oakley.
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple execs have held internal discussions about bidding for, or partnering with, Perplexity, seeking to address the need for more AI talent and tech — Apple Inc. executives have held internal discussions about potentially bidding for artificial intelligence startup Perplexity AI …
More: 9to5Mac, MacRumors, Reuters, Financial Express, The Wrap, Spyglass, SiliconANGLE, iClarified, AppleInsider, and Reuters
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Forums: r/apple and MacRumors Forums
| Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: |
Cluely, which wants to help users “cheat on everything”, including job interviews and exams, raised a $15M Series A led by a16z, two months after a $5.3M seed — Cluely, a startup that claims to help users “cheat” on job interviews, exams, and sales calls, has raised …
More: Bloomberg, Andreessen Horowitz, Dror Poleg, and Business Insider
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Cloudflare says it mitigated a record-breaking 7.3Tbps DDoS attack in mid-May, which delivered 37.4TB of junk traffic to the target in just 45 seconds — Large-scale attacks designed to bring down Internet services by sending them more traffic than they can process keep getting bigger …
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| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Anthropic's test of 16 top AI models from OpenAI and others found that, in some cases, they resorted to malicious behavior to avoid replacement or achieve goals — Large language models across the AI industry are increasingly willing to evade safeguards, resort to deception and even attempt …
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| Jonathan Greig / The Record: |
Insurance giant Aflac says a cybercrime group breached its systems and may have stolen data; source: the attack bears the hallmarks of Scattered Spider — Insurance company Aflac said a “sophisticated cybercrime group” breached its systems and may have stolen data.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: a US official told Samsung, SK Hynix, and TSMC that the US may revoke waivers that let them ship US chipmaking equipment to their factories in China — Move isn't meant to escalate trade tensions, White House officials say — A U.S. official told top global semiconductor makers … | Bloomberg: |
Sources: Masayoshi Son is pitching Trump officials and TSMC on a Shenzhen-like $1T AI and robotics manufacturing hub in Arizona, codenamed Project Crystal Land — Musk's xAI Sparks New EU Scrutiny Ahead of Potential X Penalty — Iran-Israel Conflict Spreads to Hacks on Banks, Crypto
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LinkedIn: Anto Antony and Min-Jeong Lee
Forums: r/intelstock and Slashdot
| Reed Albergotti / Semafor: |
Sources: Reddit is exploring Tools for Humanity's World ID identity system to allow users to verify that they are unique individuals while remaining anonymous — THE SCOOP — Reddit is considering using World ID, the verification system based on iris-scanning Orbs whose parent company was co-founded by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.
More: The Block, Social Media Today, crypto.news, Cointelegraph, Protos, San Francisco Business Times, and Crypto Briefing
Bluesky: @quinnypig.com. X: @andrewcurran_, @iethics, @aaroncbailey, @jbsdc, @sashahodler, and @semaforben
| Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
Coinbase says it has secured a MiCA license from Luxembourg to offer crypto services across the EU, and will shift its European base from Ireland to Luxembourg — Coinbase has secured a license from Luxembourg to offer crypto services across the European Union and will make the country its central hub in the region.
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LinkedIn: Faryar Shirzad, Lauren Abendschein, Emilie Choi, Tom Thé, and Ryan Browne
| Alex Riehl / BetaKit: |
Report: Vista Equity Partners and Blackstone buy out other investors in Assent for $400M, valuing the Ottawa-based supply chain software company at $1.3B — Company spokesperson denied that Assent had been acquired, but declined to break down post-deal ownership structure.
Source: Globe and Mail
| Coco Feng / South China Morning Post: |
Huawei unveils a beta version of HarmonyOS 6, making it available to developers, and announces the HarmonyOS Agent Framework to help developers create AI agents — The tech giant did not give a public launch date for the latest version of the operating system, but said it will be more intelligent and open
More: GSMArena.com and Tom's Hardware
| Pritam Biswas / Reuters: |
Corporate travel and expense management service Navan, formerly known as TripActions, confidentially files for a US IPO; it was valued at $9.2B in October 2022 — Corporate travel and expense company Navan said on Friday it had confidentially filed for a U.S. initial public offering …
More: Skift
| Tanaya Macheel / CNBC: |
Circle shares jumped over 20% on Friday as investors cheered the US Senate approval of the GENIUS Act, and have surged ~675% since the company's IPO on June 5 — Shares of Circle continued to climb Friday as investors cheered the Senate approval of its proposed stablecoin legislation, the GENIUS Act.Sponsor Posts
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