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| Zoë Schiffer / Wired: |
Memo: OpenAI's Mark Chen responds to Meta offers, says it feels like “someone has broken into our home and stolen something” and OpenAI is “recalibrating comp” — As Mark Zuckerberg lures away top research talent to Meta, OpenAI executives say they're ‘recalibrating comp,’ according to an internal memo.
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Bluesky: @markriedl, @drdoofenschmirtz, @leahfeiger, and @zoeschiffer
X: @kimmonismus, @bonybean, and @bonybean
| Noah Smith / Noahpinion: |
Elon Musk calls the Senate tax bill “utterly insane” as it raises taxes on nuclear and geothermal energy and battery storage, which are crucial for AI training — Trump's “Big Beautiful Bill” is an attack on American energy production. — There are many things to despise …
More: Washington Post, The Information, New York Times, Reuters, CleanTechnica, Cryptopolitan, The Hill, and Politico
Bluesky: @vegasmick and @quinnypig.com
X: @elonmusk, @teddyschleifer, @armanddoma, @atrupar, @noahpinion, @jessepeltan, @elonmusk, and @douglewinenergy
LinkedIn: Shawn Kelly and Guido Palazzo
Forums: r/NoShitSherlock and r/centrist
| Anthony D'Alessandro / Deadline: |
The F1 movie gives Apple its first box office hit, opening to $144M worldwide and $55.6M in the US; it was pushed on Apple Music, Podcasts, Fitness+, and Wallet — It's a win for racing car movies. It's a win for Zack Van Amburg and Jamie Erlicht led Apple Original Films on the big screen …
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Forums: r/blankies, r/formula1, r/tvPlus, and r/boxoffice
| 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: @assaf@mas.to, @hrbrmstr@mastodon.social, and @shish@techhub.social
| Kevin Williams / CNBC: |
Baidu plans to open-source its Ernie LLM on June 30; some say this could cement China's AI leadership, while others doubt it will be a “DeepSeek moment” — On Monday, Chinese technology giant Baidu plans to make its Ernie generative AI large language model open source … | 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 … | 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
| 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 …
More: The 74, The Guardian, Mirror, and The Markup
Bluesky: @themarkup.org, @calmatters.org, @biblioracle, @jessifer, and @samillingworth.com. Mastodon: @katachora@hachyderm.io
| Jon Fingas / BetaKit: |
Winnipeg-based Conquest Planning, which uses AI to help financial advisors and other clients make decisions, raised an $80M Series B led by Goldman Sachs — Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives led the Winnipeg startup's latest funding round. — Conquest Planning has secured an $80-million USD …
More: Finextra, Venture Capital Journal, and FinTech Futures
| 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.| 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
| 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
More: CNBC, Wall Street Pit, and Cryptopolitan
| 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 Block, crypto.news, The National Interest, and Coinspeaker
| 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 … Sponsor Posts
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