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June 24, 2025, 9:05 AM
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Bloomberg:
The NHTSA says it is investigating incidents of Tesla's robotaxis apparently violating traffic laws, like by entering opposite lanes, as seen on social media  —  The US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is aware of the incidents that were captured in videos posted on social media …
Financial Times:
Tesla's Austin robotaxi service gets a limited launch, with ~10 Model Y vehicles and safety drivers; Elon Musk says initial users will pay “a $4.20 flat fee”
Financial Times:
The UK CMA proposes to designate Google with “strategic market status” in general search and search advertising under the new Digital Markets Competition Regime  —  Big Tech giant slams Competition and Markets Authority's plan as ‘punitive’ and risk to economic growth
Google Developers Blog:
The Linux Foundation unveils the Agent2Agent project, with founding members including Google, Amazon, and Microsoft; Google donated the protocol spec and SDKs  —  Today at Open Source Summit North America, the Linux Foundation announced the formation of the Agent2Agent project with Amazon Web Services …
Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge:
Waymo launches robotaxis in Atlanta available exclusively in Uber's app, covering a 65-square-mile area excluding highways, after launching in Austin on March 4  —  Atlanta is the second city to host Uber and Waymo's burgeoning partnership. … Uber customers in Atlanta now have the option …
Nathan Lambert / Interconnects:
A look at 2025's AI models and what's next: OpenAI's o3 is a technical breakthrough, agents will improve randomly and in leaps, but scaling parameters will slow  —  Summer is always a slow time for the tech industry.  OpenAI seems fully in line with this, with their open model “[taking] …
Ben Thompson / Stratechery:
A look at the AI landscape and its impact on Apple, Google, Meta, Microsoft, and Amazon, as well as the foundation model makers, including OpenAI and Anthropic
Andy Greenberg / Wired:
Elliptic: Telegram-based crypto scam marketplaces like Tudou Guarantee have almost entirely filled the void left by Telegram banning the two biggest a month ago  —  Last month, Telegram banned black markets that sold tens of billions of dollars in crypto scam-related services.
New York Times:
Inside Amazon's Indiana data center complex: built for Anthropic with plans for ~30 centers, consuming 2.2GW of power and millions of gallons of water per year  —  On 1,200 acres of cornfield in Indiana, Amazon is building one of the largest computers ever for work with Anthropic, an artificial intelligence start-up.
Freya Jones / Bloomberg:
Amazon says it plans to invest £40B in the UK economy over the next three years, including opening four new warehouses; Amazon invested £12B+ in the UK in 2023  —  UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer welcomed a three-year program by Amazon.com Inc. to invest £40 billion …
Boone Ashworth / Wired:
Google, the Earth Fire Alliance, and Muon Space form Fire Sat, aiming to launch 52 satellites by 2029 to detect wildfires globally and make the data accessible  —  A partnership with the nonprofit Earth Fire Alliance and satellite manufacturer Muon Space is giving Google a better shot at tracking wildfires …
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Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch:
Court filings from in-ear hardware startup iyO's trademark dispute lawsuit against OpenAI detail OpenAI and io's early work on in-ear hardware devices  —  Legal filings submitted earlier this month from lawyers representing OpenAI and Jony Ive's io reveal new details about the companies' efforts …
Michael Paulson / New York Times:
How Broadway is embracing large-scale, high-resolution videos and projectors as an integrated narrative tool aided by AI, as some creatives worry about overuse  —  Sarah Snook screen-sharing selfies from a face-filtering phone app.  Nicole Scherzinger getting her close-up via movie cameras.
Paul Thurrott / Thurrott:
Microsoft unveils Mu, an on-device small language model used in Copilot+ PCs, mapping natural language queries in the Settings app to function calls  —  Microsoft today detailed Mu, its latest small language model (SML) for Copilot+ PCs, which maps natural language queries to Settings function calls.

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From Mediagazer

Jennifer Jacobs / CBS News:
Sources: the Pentagon fired Stars and Stripes' publisher, EIC, and a Middle East reporter for insubordination; the publisher earlier announced his retirement

Gene Maddaus / Variety:
Sources: Paramount reps are expected to meet Monday with the California AG's office to discuss a possible settlement of the antitrust suit blocking the WBD deal

Cynthia Littleton / Variety:
Owl & Co.: vertical video revenue is expected to hit $150B outside of China in 2026, up 42% YoY, with Meta, ByteDance, and YouTube generating 94% of the total

More News

Chris Welch / Bloomberg:
Samsung schedules its next Galaxy Unpacked event for July 9 at 10am ET in Brooklyn, where AI updates, the Galaxy Z Fold 7, and Galaxy Z Flip 7 are expected
Larry Dignan / Constellation Research:
Salesforce launches Agentforce 3 with an observability tool called Command Center and MCP support, and says 8,000 customers have signed up to deploy Agentforce
Will Sattelberg / 9to5Google:
Samsung unveils the Exynos 2500 mobile chipset built on its 3nm GAA node, with a 10-core ARM CPU, an AMD RDNA 3-based GPU, and up to 59 TOPS of NPU performance
Wired:
Filing: Elon Musk's lawyers say he “does not use a computer” after OpenAI accused Musk of not complying with the discovery process in his lawsuit against OpenAI

Earlier Picks

Anna Tong / Reuters:
Decagon, which offers AI-powered customer service agents for enterprises, raised a $131M Series C co-led by Accel and a16z at a $1.5B valuation
Emily Mason / Bloomberg:
Fiserv aims to launch its own stablecoin by the end of 2025 and partners with PayPal and Circle to develop new products for financial institutions and merchants
Jody Godoy / Reuters:
The FTC approves Omnicom's $13.5B acquisition of rival Interpublic on the condition that the new company does not boycott platforms over political content
Jez Corden / Windows Central:
Microsoft says it is testing a new aggregated gaming library in the Xbox PC app for Windows 11 with Xbox Insiders, integrating “leading PC storefronts”
MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC:
Anthony Pompliano's ProCap raised $750M+, including $235M in convertible debt, and is going public via a SPAC; the new firm aims to hold up to $1B in bitcoin
Alexandra Sternlicht / Fortune:
Legal AI startup Harvey raised a $300M Series E co-led by Kleiner Perkins and Coatue at a $5B valuation and says it serves 337 clients like KKR and PwC globally
Andrew Solender / Axios:
Source: the US House's CAO informed congressional staffers that WhatsApp is now banned on their government devices as the app is deemed “a high-risk to users”
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