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June 23, 2025, 9:10 AM

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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
OpenAI says it has removed all marketing materials announcing its $6.5B acquisition of Jony Ive's io from the web due to a “baseless” trademark dispute lawsuit  —  Social media users noticed Sunday that a video and website hosted by OpenAI that announced the artificial intelligence …
Financial Times:
Reuters:
Texas enacts legislation requiring a DMV permit to operate self-driving vehicles, effective from September 1, as Tesla launches its robotaxi trial in Austin  —  Texas Governor Greg Abbott, a Republican, has signed legislation requiring a permit to operate self-driving vehicles …
Bloomberg:
The Senate parliamentarian rules that a Republican effort to block 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 …
Kevin Draper / New York Times:
How Walmart, seeking to compete with e-commerce rivals like Amazon, built a multibillion-dollar HQ in Bentonville, aiming to attract workers and woo shoppers  —  The retailing giant is spending billions to attract workers to a new headquarters and woo shoppers with drone delivery and a broader range of items …
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
A look at Apple's conservative M&A strategy, which may need to change to catch up in AI by acquiring Perplexity AI, Cohere, Sierra AI, Databricks, or Mistral AI  —  Apple will need to make the biggest acquisition in its history to put an end to its artificial intelligence debacle.
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A profile of Katie Haun, a former federal prosecutor turned a16z partner who later founded Haun Ventures and believes the GENIUS Act will make stablecoins safer  —  In 2018, when Bitcoin was trading around $4,000 and most Americans, at least, thought cryptocurrency was a fad …
Esther Fung / Wall Street Journal:
DHL, UPS, FedEx, and Walmart are using robots to boost warehouse efficiency and cut costs, including automating the physically demanding task of loading trucks  —  Technology breakthroughs are allowing DHL and other companies to automate the laborious, injury-prone work of loading and unloading

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