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Investigation: California colleges and universities continue to renew Turnitin subscriptions despite the cost, faulty anti-plagiarism tech, and privacy issues — Colleges and universities renew Turnitin subscriptions year after year even though its flawed detectors are expensive …
More: The Guardian and The Markup
Bluesky: @biblioracle, @themarkup.org, @jessifer, @calmatters.org, and @samillingworth.com. Mastodon: @katachora@hachyderm.io
| Allie Garfinkle / Fortune: |
Synthesia says it has over 65K customers and serves more than 70% of the Fortune 100, with its AI avatars mainly used for training and internal communications — Constructing an avatar of myself is even weirder than I expected. — It's a choreographed experience that made me feel … | Cate Lawrence / Tech.eu: |
Report: Swiss deep tech startups have created over $100B in total enterprise value, with 60% of VC funding in Switzerland from 2019 to 2025 going to deep tech — With 60 per cent of venture capital now flowing into deeptech, the country outpaces global peers and redefines what a small market can achieve. .
More: Gizmodo, Deep Tech Nation Switzerland, and Forbes
X: @swissambusa, @nathanbenaich, @eugen12, @investch, and @thenextweb
| Morgan Meaker / Bloomberg: |
Call center agents in Australia, Canada, Greece, and the US say they've been repeatedly mistaken for AI, as the industry rapidly integrates AI alongside humans — As more workers are asked by strangers if they're bots, surreal conversations are prompting introspection in the industry about what it means to be human.| Song Jung-a / Financial Times: |
South Korea becomes Asia's best-performing stock market in H1 2025, as shares rise following President Lee Jae-myung's pledge to allow won-based stablecoins — New president's pledge to allow won-based stablecoins has led to huge gains in related shares this month
More: The National Interest and Coinspeaker
| The Information: |
OpenAI is expanding its consulting-like service to refine its models and build bespoke apps for large enterprise and government clients spending at least $10M — As OpenAI pitches its artificial intelligence to big companies and government agencies, it's taking a page from the playbook …
X: @amir
| Scott Werner / Works on My Machine: |
MCP has promise beyond AI, and could serve as a “universal plugin system” that connects disparate data sources and tools together to enable new capabilities — Or: The Day My Toaster Started Taking Phone Calls — There's this thing about USB-C that nobody really talks about.
More: Works on My Machine. Bluesky: @searls. Mastodon: @shish@techhub.social. X: @scottwernerd. Forums: Hacker News
| Nicole Froio / The Verge: |
AI-generated images of fake, otherworldly-looking houseplants are proliferating online and misleading consumers, as AI slop extends to plant care advice — 'It's disconnecting us further from reality, relationships with nature, and also our community.' — “Maybe you could organize …
Bluesky: @wavesblog, @sarahjeong, @sarahjeong, @zackzwiezen.com, @nicolefroio, @tyleraking.com, and @alexeheath.com
| M.G. Siegler / Spyglass: |
Meta offering $100M signing bonuses may be an exaggeration by Altman, but $100M overall compensation packages are plausible given Meta's need to catch up in AI — A couple weeks back, Sam Altman made headlines for saying that Meta was approaching OpenAI talent and offering “$100M signing bonuses” …
More: The Guardian, Benzinga, Wall Street Journal, The Information, and The Indian Express
X: @austen, @kevinsxu, @gustavonicot, @kuittinenpetri, @plantmath1, and @signulll
| Financial Times: |
Nvidia executives, including Jensen Huang, have sold $1B+ worth of company stock in the past 12 months, with $500M+ in share sales occurring in June 2025 alone — Chief executive Jensen Huang leads wave of insider selling as AI demand boosts stock to record high| Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: |
A look at efforts by Coinbase, Kraken, Robinhood, and other crypto companies to tokenize stocks amid regulatory hurdles and questions about product demand — First, they came for the currency market. Then, the money market. Now, crypto's big disruptors are targeting the multi-trillion-dollar heart … | Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE: |
San Diego-based Clearspeed, which offers AI-driven voice-based risk assessment tech for 60+ languages, raised a $60M Series D, taking its total funding to $110M — Voice risk assessment startup Clearspeed Corp. today announced that it has raised $60 million in new funding to scale …
More: Business Wire, Pulse 2.0, Clearspeed, InfoRiskToday.com, FinSMEs, and Venture Capital Journal
| Steven Levy / Wired: |
As top reporters continue to flock to Substack, subscription fatigue and challenges with building a wide audience pose threats to its long-term success — While star reporters continue to flock to Substack, subscription fatigue is only getting worse. — Before June 8, the skilled … | Moneycontrol: |
Bengaluru-based ShopOS, whose AI agents help automate content creation, marketing, and site management for e-commerce brands, raised $20M from 3State Ventures — The Flipkart co-founder is betting on a new AI-native OS for brands, built by his former team at Scapic and Flipkart Labs
More: Entrackr and Inc42 Media
X: @upadhyay_harsh1, @binnybansal, @ajaypv4, @inc42, and @chandrarsrikant
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