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June 29, 2025, 1:40 PM
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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.
Tara García Mathewson / The Markup:
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 …
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. .
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 …
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” …
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 …
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 …

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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Trump says Stephen Colbert is a “pathetic trainwreck” and “CBS should, ‘put him to sleep,’ NOW”; earlier CBS aired the Kennedy Center Honors, hosted by Trump

Zachary Leeman / Mediaite:
White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller calls for CBS staff who “revolted” over Bari Weiss' decision to postpone 60 Minutes' CECOT segment to be fired

Todd Spangler / Variety:
Comcast extends Mike Cavanagh's contract through January 1, 2029, and grants a ~$35M performance-based stock package; he's set to become co-CEO in January 2026

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Bengaluru-based ShopOS, whose AI agents help automate content creation, marketing, and site management for e-commerce brands, raised $20M from 3State Ventures

Earlier Picks

Roy / @im_roy_lee:
[Thread] Cluely unveils a desktop AI assistant that it says can help users cheat on meetings, sales, lectures, interviews, learning new software, and more
Jonathan Vanian / CNBC:
As Reddit turns 20, a look at its AI efforts, including the Reddit Answers chatbot, while it battles unauthorized scraping of user data for AI training
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