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July 1, 2025, 11:30 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:
Trump says “We might have to put DOGE on Elon”, “DOGE is the monster that might have to go back and eat Elon”, and “We'll have to take a look” at deporting Musk  —  President Trump said Tuesday that DOGE could investigate Elon Musk, the latest indicator …
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.
Bloomberg:
CoinMarketCap: bitcoin's share of crypto market value grew to 64% this year, highest since January 2021, and altcoins lost $300B+, as big investors flock to BTC  —  On the face of it, 2025 looks like a banner year for crypto: Bitcoin hitting a record, an industry-boosting US president whose family …
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From Mediagazer

Reuters:
The UK says it is leaning towards intervening in Paramount's $110B WBD takeover, citing concerns over media freedom and the provision of on-demand programming

Rob Wile / NBC News:
President Trump's 2025 financial disclosures show $80M in income from settlements tied to his lawsuits against ABC, CBS, Meta, YouTube, and other companies

Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
NPR retracts an article saying Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito was retiring; he has made no such announcement, and a spokesman called the story “inaccurate”

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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

Earlier Picks

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
The latest version of the Senate's OBBB has a provision that removes the 6 GHz band's protection from spectrum auctions; Wi-Fi 6E and Wi-Fi 7 use the 6 GHz band
Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg:
X hires Nikita Bier, the serial entrepreneur who sold polling startup TBH to Facebook and teen-focused social network Gas to Discord, as its new head of product
Jody Godoy / Reuters:
A US judge denies Apple's motion to dismiss the DOJ antitrust lawsuit, filed in March 2024, that accuses Apple of unlawfully dominating the US smartphone market
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
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
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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