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July 1, 2025, 11:15 AM

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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 …
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 …
Avery Lotz / Axios:
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 …
Miles Kruppa / The Information:
Morgan Stanley says xAI raised $5B of equity in addition to $5B in debt; the startup raised $6B in December from a16z, BlackRock, Lightspeed, MGX, and others  —  Elon Musk's xAI raised $5 billion of equity in addition to $5 billion in debt, according to Morgan Stanley, which advised on the debt transactions.
Krystal Hu / Reuters:
Grammarly acquires email startup Superhuman as part of a push to build an AI-powered productivity suite; Superhuman was last valued at $825M in 2021  —  Grammarly has acquired email efficiency tool Superhuman as part of the company's push to build an artificial intelligence-powered productivity suite …
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Sebastian Herrera / Wall Street Journal:
Amazon says it has 1M+ robots in its warehouses, the most it's ever had and near the count of human workers, with ~75% of global deliveries assisted 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
Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat:
An interview with Claude AI product lead Scott White on Claude Code writing 90% of its own code, MCP, coding being accessible to non-technical workers, and more  —  Scott White still marvels at how quickly artificial intelligence has transformed from a novelty into a true work partner.
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 …

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