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June 22, 2025, 1:55 PM
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Bloomberg:
The Senate parliamentarian rules that a Republican effort blocking US states from enforcing AI laws for 10 years will remain in Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill  —  A Republican effort to block US states from enforcing new artificial intelligence regulations will remain in President Donald Trump's massive tax …
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
A look at Apple's conservative approach to M&A, which may need to change to catch up in AI by acquiring a startup like Perplexity, Cohere, Sierra AI, or Mistral  —  Apple will need to make the biggest acquisition in its history to put an end to its artificial intelligence debacle.
Reuters:
Texas enacts legislation, effective September 1, requiring a permit to operate self-driving vehicles, just before Tesla's planned robotaxi trial in Austin  —  Texas Governor Greg Abbott, a Republican, has signed legislation requiring a permit to operate self-driving vehicles …
Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg:
An interview with LinkedIn CEO Ryan Roslansky on how AI is affecting the jobs market, AI agents, dealing with fake AI-generated accounts, and more  —  LinkedIn's CEO offers his thoughts on how AI is changing the way people work, himself included.  But first...  Standing out in an AI world
More: TechCrunch
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Adobe Labs launches Project Indigo, a free computational photography app for iPhones that captures a burst of images and combines them into a high-quality photo  —  Marc Levoy, a former distinguished engineer at Google who helped put the Pixel camera on the map, helped build the app at Adobe.
Maisie Grice / Financial Times:
Fidelity: ~50% of UK investors trust social media, finfluencers, and AI tools for financial decisions; only ~33% used a qualified adviser in the past two years  —  Growing draw of social media influencers and platforms comes at expense of regulated advice  —  Nearly half of UK investors put …
Akash Sriram / Reuters:
Austin-based PE firm Haveli Investments agrees to acquire Couchbase, which offers a cloud database for AI applications, for about $1.5B  —  Haveli Investments will acquire Couchbase (BASE.O) for about $1.5 billion, the companies said on Friday, as the private equity firm looks to capitalize …
New York Times:
Inside the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, whose 3.2-gigapixel camera will produce 60PB of space image data over 10 years, to be analyzed using ML and deep learning  —  The Vera C. Rubin Observatory will make the study of stars and galaxies more like the big data-sorting exercises of contemporary genetics and particle physics.
Ben Raab / Wall Street Journal:
Purism's $1,999 security-focused Liberty Phone, assembled in the US with decade-old specs and some US-made parts, exposes the gaps in US phone manufacturing  —  Despite the president's domestic manufacturing push—and the Trump Organization's launch of an ostensibly U.S.-made phone—the challenges remain massive
Steven Levy / Wired:
A look at the US Army Reserve's Detachment 201, which lets tech executives, like Meta's Bosworth, give advice as senior officers while keeping their day jobs  —  Meta CTO Andrew “Boz” Bosworth and leaders from OpenAI and Palantir have joined a detachment intended to make the US Armed Forces “leaner, smarter, and more lethal.”
Alexander Nazaryan / New York Times:
A look at DARPA's “Exponentiating Mathematics” program, which aims to speed up progress in pure mathematics by developing an AI “co-author” to conduct research  —  Breakthroughs in pure mathematics can take decades.  A new Defense Department initiative aims to speed things up using artificial intelligence.
More: DARPA
George Hammond / Financial Times:
An interview with computational linguist Emily Bender, who coined the term “stochastic parrot”, on her AI skepticism, co-writing the book The AI Con, and more  —  The computational linguist on her motivations for taking on Big Tech, the dangers of chatbots — and why AI is just a ‘glorified Magic 8 Ball’

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Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Filing: Byron Allen sold his 10.7% Starz stake over August and September, netting a bit less than $45M; he acquired it from Steve Mnuchin's Liberty 77 for $25M

Wall Street Journal:
MGM Resorts says talks with People Incorporated are over, after each weighed buying the other; MGM amended its voting deal with People, which owns ~27% of MGM

Reuters:
Independent Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta plans to shut down after 30+ years, following pressure from Russian authorities and the persecution of its reporters

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Ina Fried / Axios:
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