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Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch:
Cloudflare debuts “Pay per Crawl”, a marketplace that lets sites charge AI crawlers per crawl; new sites using Cloudflare will now block AI crawlers by default  —  Cloudflare, a cloud infrastructure provider that serves 20% of the web, announced Tuesday the launch of a new marketplace …
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Mike Rockwell and Craig Federighi started a project to evaluate external models to power Siri; after testing, Anthropic's tech seemed most promising  —  Apple Inc. is considering using artificial intelligence technology from Anthropic PBC or OpenAI to power a new version of Siri …
Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg:
Memo: Mark Zuckerberg announces Meta Superintelligence Labs and 11 new hires for the group; Nat Friedman will “partner” with Alexandr Wang to lead the new group  —  Zuckerberg wrote Monday to employees that Meta's AI efforts will fall under a new group called Meta Superintelligence Labs …
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch:
The US takes down a North Korean operation that, from 2021 to 2024, impersonated 80+ people to get remote jobs at 100+ US firms, using “laptop farms” in the US  —  The U.S. Department of Justice announced on Monday that it had taken several enforcement actions against North Korea's operations …
Hannah Lang / Reuters:
Circle applies for a US national trust bank license, which would let it act as a custodian for its own reserves and hold crypto for its institutional clients  —  Stablecoin firm Circle (CRCL.N) is applying to create a national trust bank in the U.S., a major move after its blockbuster IPO valued …
Bloomberg:
The Senate votes 99-1 to remove a Trump tax bill provision that would have barred states from regulating AI if they got funding from a $500M broadband program  —  The Senate killed a controversial effort to prevent US states from regulating artificial intelligence, marking a loss …
Sebastian Herrera / Wall Street Journal:
Amazon says it has deployed over 1M robots in its warehouses, its most ever and close to its human workforce, with 75% of global deliveries aided by robotics  —  The e-commerce giant now counts more than one million of the machines at its facilities  —  | Photographs and Videos by Desiree Rios for WSJ
Jody Godoy / Reuters:
A US judge denies Apple's motion to dismiss the DOJ antitrust lawsuit, filed in March 2024, accusing Apple of unlawfully dominating the US smartphone market  —  Apple (AAPL.O) must face the U.S. Department of Justice's lawsuit accusing the iPhone maker of unlawfully dominating the U.S. smartphone market, a judge ruled on Monday.
Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg:
X hires Nikita Bier, the serial entrepreneur who was behind polling startup TBH and teen-focused social network Gas, as its new head of product  —  Elon Musk's X has hired entrepreneur Nikita Bier as the platform's new head of product, giving Bier a senior role atop one of the most widely used social apps in the world.
Dylan Butts / CNBC:
Huawei open sources its 7B and 72B Pangu AI models, and some of its model reasoning tech, to incentivize the use of Huawei products like its Ascend AI chips  —  Huawei has open-sourced two of its artificial intelligence models — a move tech experts say will help the U.S.-blacklisted firm continue …
Ethan Baron / SiliconValley.com:
Filing: Apple sues Di Liu, a former senior product designer who worked on the Vision Pro, for allegedly stealing trade secrets and taking them to Snap  —  Di Liu allegedly told iPhone maker he needed family time  —  Di Liu of San Jose told Apple he was resigning his position as a design engineer …
Bloomberg:
Investigation: three US Treasury hacks in the past five years were due to a failure to deploy basic security measures, as DOGE cuts further weaken the agency  —  In three major hacks, Treasury didn't deploy cybersecurity measures that could have prevented the attacks or flagged the intruders sooner …
Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
The latest version of the Senate's OBBB has a provision removing the 6 GHz band's protection from spectrum auctions; Wi-Fi 6E and Wi-FI 7 utilize the 6 GHz band  —  Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) has a plan for spectrum auctions that could take frequencies away from Wi-Fi and reallocate them for the exclusive use of wireless carriers.

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Ted Johnson / Deadline:
A new filing from Nexstar in the DirecTV lawsuit says the existing restraining order freezing the Nexstar-Tegna merger could jeopardize assets of both companies

Associated Press:
A US district court judge agrees to permanently block the Trump administration from implementing an executive order to end federal funding for NPR and PBS

Qassim Abdul-Zahra / Associated Press:
Iraqi officials say a US journalist was kidnapped in Baghdad and security forces are looking for her captors; one outlet identified her as Shelly Kittleson

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Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch:
Cursor launches a web app and Slack integration for managing AI coding agents from mobile and desktop
Samantha Subin / CNBC:
SEC filing: Oracle signed multiple large cloud agreements, including one expected to contribute $30B+ in annual revenue starting in FY 2028; ORCL closes up ~4%
Edith Hancock / Wall Street Journal:
Apple will delay rolling out some iOS 26 features in the EU later this year, including “visited places”, citing the difficulty of complying with the DMA
Will Knight / Wired:
Microsoft claims its AI tool MAI-DxO diagnoses diseases with 80% accuracy vs. doctors' 20%; Mustafa Suleyman calls it a “step toward medical superintelligence”
Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac:
Kuo: Apple plans to launch a cheaper, ~13" MacBook powered by iPhone 16 Pro's A18 Pro chip, expected to enter mass production in late Q4 2025 or early Q1 2026
Associated Press:
Canada rescinds the Digital Services Tax targeting US companies, set to go into effect on June 30, “in anticipation of” a US trade deal, as trade talks resume
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