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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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Forums: r/singularity and r/OpenAI
| NPR: |
Sources: the US DHS, in partnership with DOGE, has built the first-ever searchable national citizenship data system, pulling from SSA and immigration databases — The Trump administration has, for the first time ever, built a searchable national citizenship data system.
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| 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, SiliconANGLE, Reuters, New York Times, implicator.ai, CleanTechnica, Cryptopolitan, The Hill, and Politico
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LinkedIn: Shawn Kelly and Guido Palazzo
Forums: r/centrist and r/NoShitSherlock
| 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
| Associated Press: |
Canada rescinds its Digital Services Tax “in anticipation of” a trade deal with the US, with trade talks resuming; the tax was set to go into effect on Monday — Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney says trade talks with U.S. have resumed after Canada rescinded its plan to tax U.S. technology firms.
Source: Government of Canada. More: Gizmodo, The Economic Times, Reuters, NBC News, Los Angeles Times, Le Monde, Axios, The Indian Express, CNN, Al Jazeera, Digital Journal, and Livemint
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Forums: r/Economics, r/ndp, r/Conservative, r/onguardforthee, r/StockMarket, r/CanadaPolitics, and r/worldnews
| Marcus Mendes / 9to5Mac: |
Kuo expects Apple to mass produce a Vision Pro with M5 in Q3 2025, a Vision Air in Q3 2027, a Vision Pro with a new design and XR glasses in H2 2028, and more — In a blog post today, analyst Ming-Chi Kuo detailed his updated roadmap forecast for Apple's headset and smart glasses markets.
More: Ming-Chi Kuo, Patently Apple, Laptop Mag, and iClarified
| Wall Street Journal: |
A profile of OnlyFans' secretive founder Leo Radvinsky, as the platform's parent company is considering a sale for as much as $8B, according to sources — Leo Radvinsky is asking as much as $8 billion for the platform he popularized for sex workers and others producing explicit content, even as he personally avoids the spotlight
Forums: r/technology
| Bloomberg: |
GOP Senators agree to change a provision in the tax bill from a 10-year ban on state AI regulation to a 5-year ban with carve outs for issues such as copyrights — The Senate is poised to approve a controversial provision preventing some US states from regulating artificial intelligence …
More: Townhall
| Financial Times: |
Sensor Tower: Temu's US MAU fell 51% to 40.2M from March to June, while Shein's dropped 12% to 41.4M, amid the US' China tariffs and “de minimis” closure — Online retailers Temu and Shein have seen their once rapid user growth go into reverse in the US after President Donald … | 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 …
More: SiliconANGLE and WinBuzzer
Bluesky: @brianmwise and @prietschka
Forums: r/technology, r/artificial, and r/worldnews
| Yuliya Chernova / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Menlo Ventures targets ~$1.5B for new funds to invest in AI ventures, including $650M for early-stage startups, and $850M for later-stage companies — The investor in Anthropic and other artificial-intelligence companies is raising about $1.5 billion for new venture funds| Bloomberg: |
China's tech giants are ramping up M&A and investment deals as the government shifts its stance to support the tech industry, particularly in areas like AI — After a chastening crackdown that wiped billions off their value and forced top executives out of the public eye … | 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
| 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: Cautious Optimism and Works on My Machine
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