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June 28, 2025, 8:45 AM
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Financial Times:
Sources: Meta is looking to raise $3B in equity and $26B in debt, from private capital firms, including Apollo Global and KKR, to fund its data center build out  —  Apollo, Brookfield and Pimco among the lenders in talks with Mark Zuckerberg's social media group
Wall Street Journal:
A look at “The List”, a compilation of the most talented AI engineers and researchers that Mark Zuckerberg has put together in an effort to recruit them to Meta  —  Only a select few researchers have the skills for the hottest area in tech.  Mark Zuckerberg and his rivals want to hire them …
Kevin Breuninger / CNBC:
Trump says the US is “terminating all discussions on trade with Canada” in response to Canada's decision to impose a digital services tax on US tech firms  —  - President Donald Trump said the United States is immediately “terminating ALL discussions on Trade with Canada.”
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
SCOTUS upholds a Texas law that requires porn websites to verify that their visitors are 18 or older, rejecting a First Amendment challenge to the law  —  The Supreme Court has upheld a Texas law that requires porn websites to verify that their visitors are 18 or older.
Miranda Bryant / The Guardian:
Denmark plans to clamp down on AI-generated deepfakes by changing copyright law to give its citizens rights to their own body, facial features, and voice  —  Amendment to law will strengthen protection against digital imitations of people's identities, government says
Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog:
The term “context engineering” is gaining traction over “prompt engineering” as it better describes the skill of providing LLMs with the necessary information  —  I've spoken favorably of prompt engineering in the past - I hoped that term could capture the inherent complexity of constructing reliable prompts.
Patrick Howell O'Neill / Bloomberg:
Atlantic Council: US cyber power is hampered by an inefficient supply chain for zero days, with too few providers and “levels of middlemen” driving up costs  —  Atlantic Council research says market for zero days is bloated, leaving the US behind rivals such as China.  —  The Cyber Angle
The Information:
Source: OpenAI recently began renting Google's TPUs to power ChatGPT, marking its first significant use of non-Nvidia chips; Meta also considered using TPUs  —  OpenAI, one of the world's biggest customers of Nvidia artificial intelligence chips, recently began renting Google's AI chips …

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Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Sony announces Jeopardy! YouTube Edition, a spinoff hosted by Ken Jennings with three YouTube creators playing for the charity of their choice

Rohan Goswami / Semafor:
FCC Chair Brendan Carr says that if the NFL puts too many games behind streaming services' paywalls, the league could risk losing its antitrust exemptions

Anup Kaphle / Rest of World:
Anup Kaphle is stepping down as EIC of Rest of World by the end of April, moving into an advisory role

More News

Ryan Daws / AI News:
Anthropic tested Claude's ability to manage a physical “storefront” to mixed results, as the AI struggled with pricing strategy and inventory management
Marina Temkin / TechCrunch:
On the a16z podcast, Bryan Kim said a16z backed Cluely because speed in marketing and building beats crafting a perfect “artisan” product due to AI competition
Ashley Gold / Axios:
A group of 17 GOP governors write to Senate majority leader and House speaker urging for the state AI bill moratorium to be removed from the reconciliation bill
Kylie Robison / Wired:
Sources: OpenAI is not releasing an internal paper on AI stages as it may complicate OpenAI's ability to declare AGI and block Microsoft from its tech

Earlier Picks

Lauren Feiner / The Verge:
SCOTUS upholds a broadband subsidy program for low-income users, schools, and others, rejecting claims that its funding mechanism is unconstitutional
Sam Apple / Wired:
At a “couples retreat” for human-AI pairs, users of services like Replika and Nomi grapple with the virtual reality and emotional limits of their partners
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
Google launches Doppl, an experimental AI app to let users virtually try on outfits by generating videos from photos, available on iOS and Android in the US
David Uzondu / Neowin:
Google fully releases Gemma 3n, an open weights, multimodal AI model that can run on as little as 2GB of memory; the model was previously available as a preview
Chance Miller / 9to5Mac:
Apple overhauls EU App Store to comply with DMA: developers can push offers and alt payments, and the Core Technology Fee will be swapped for tiered commission
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