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| Zoë Schiffer / Wired: |
Sam Altman said in a memo to staff, “missionaries will beat mercenaries” and “I believe there is much, much more upside to OpenAI stock than Meta stock” — “What Meta is doing will, in my opinion, lead to very deep cultural problems,” said CEO Sam Altman in a leaked memo sent to OpenAI researchers.
More: The Information, Observer, ZDNET, and International Business Times
Bluesky: @biblioracle, @leonardpierce, @edzitron.com, @wired.com, @edzitron.com, @karissabe, and @edzitron.com. Mastodon: @jalefkowit@vmst.io
X: @ns123abc, @turnernovak, @veggie_eric, @kyliebytes, @wired, @rohangrey, @gothburz, @mckbrando, @mikeisaac, @tednotlasso, @tayroga, @wired, and @bradneuberg
Forums: Hacker News, r/OpenAI, r/singularity, r/artificial, and r/technology
| Zoë Schiffer / Wired: |
Source: Mark Zuckerberg has, on 10+ occasions, offered to pay AI research talent up to $300M over four years, with $100M+ in compensation for the first year — The Meta CEO is leading a hiring blitz, offering top talent at OpenAI eye-watering pay packages and endless access to cutting-edge chips.
Bluesky: @mmasnick, @edzitron.com, @katie-drummond, and @bakerdphd
Threads: @katienotopoulos, @alexanddeer, and @alexheath
X: @morqon, @morqon, @mcf_dan, @signulll, @shaughnessy119, @clementdelangue, @packym, @signulll, @katienotopoulos, @wired, @apewoodx, and @stvnzhn. Forums: r/OpenAI
| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Figma files for an IPO, plans to trade on the NYSE under FIG, and reports Q1 revenue increased 46% YoY to $228.2M and net income grew from $13.5M to $44.9M YoY — Design software company Figma filed for an IPO on Tuesday, and plans to trade on the New York Stock Exchange under ticker symbol “FIG.”
More: US SEC, Figma, The Economic Times, Fortune, MarketWatch, The Register, The Information, Renaissance Capital, TechCrunch, The Verge, Constellation Research, Barron's Online, CryptoSlate, Axios, Fast Company, Wall Street Journal, BeInCrypto, Bloomberg, The Crypto Times, SiliconANGLE, and Yahoo Finance
Bluesky: @carnage4life. X: @arfurrock, @tier10k, @zoink, @tanayj, @peter, @coorslightceo, @jasonlk, @jasonlk, @jasonlk, @daveclark85, @robyn_shapiro, @sharoonbabu, @fiscal_ai, @dohamekki, @jasonlk, and @borrowed_ideas. LinkedIn: Hunter Walk. Forums: Slashdot
| 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 …
More: Associated Press, Reuters, Ars Technica, TechCrunch, Washington Post, New York Times, Financial Times, The Verge, Tech Policy Press, Axios, The Hill, ZDNET, Cryptopolitan, The Markup, Gizmodo, Axios, Forbes, WinBuzzer, GovTech, BIG by Matt Stoller, Digital Music News, All Rise News, The Register, NewsMax.com, CNN, The Wrap, and The Tennessean
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LinkedIn: Ben Colman and Leah Frazier
| 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 …
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X: @ednewtonrex, @eastdakota, @natejhake, @aly_cabral, @cloudflare, @igrigorik, @kettanaito, @arvidkahl, @lukemulks, @mer__edith, @ipullrank, @dok2001, @mattmaximo1, @aleyda, @stokel, @niemanlab, @ednewtonrex, and @tnm
LinkedIn: Sam Jacobs, Kate Knibbs, and Björn Rudling
Forums: r/webscraping, r/CloudFlare, and r/technology
| Tabby Kinder / Financial Times: |
Sources: Palmer Luckey is preparing to launch Erebor, a US bank backed by Joe Lonsdale and other tech investors to serve startups, including crypto businesses — Start-up named after the dragon's mountain in ‘Lord of the Rings’ — A group of tech billionaires led by Palmer Luckey …
More: Cryptonews and American Banker
Bluesky: @prietschka and @elkmovie
X: @lukewgoldstein, @brij, @silvermanjacob, and @jwsherrod
| Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: |
X will start to publish Community Notes written by AI agents; developers will soon be able to submit their own “fact-checking” AI agents for review — Elon Musk's X will start to publish Community Notes written by artificial intelligence agents, a move to increase the speed …
More: TechCrunch, Adweek, Engadget, arXiv.org, Cryptopolitan, Social Media Today, WinBuzzer, and The American Bazaar
Bluesky: @mantzarlis.com, @quinnypig.com, @mantzarlis.com, and @mantzarlis.com
Threads: @cult_papa, @renee.diresta, and @renee.diresta
X: @communitynotes, @lindayax, @kcoleman, @communitynotes, @_jaybaxter_, @rejuvenatedrex, @nomadxx333, @_jaybaxter_, and @_jaybaxter_. Forums: r/technology
| Bloomberg: |
Nothing unveils the $799 Phone 3, with a 6.7" AMOLED display, Snapdragon 8s Gen 4 chip, three 50MP rear cameras, and the $299 Headphone 1, both shipping July 15 — The five-year-old company, known for its bold designs, unveiled the Phone 3 and a pair of similarly quirky headphones.
More: The Verge, Nothing on YouTube, Tech Times, Dave2D on YouTube, Gizmodo, Tom's Guide, Trusted Reviews, NDTV Profit, MakeUseOf, Mashable, Forbes, ZDNET, Business Standard, Ars Technica, Digit, Android Authority, MobileSyrup, T3, Digital Trends, Engadget, Droid Life, 9to5Google, TechEBlog, Engadget, Financial Express, and The Verge
Threads: @bengeskin. X: @captain2phones, @chriswelch, @getpeid, @nothing, and @sondesix. Forums: r/NothingTech
| Bloomberg Law: |
Sources: the FTC has opened an in-depth investigation of SoftBank's $6.5B acquisition of Ampere, which could take a year or more to conclude — SoftBank Group Corp.'s acquisition of semiconductor designer Ampere Computing LLC is facing a potentially lengthy probe by the US government.
More: The Information and Reuters
| The Information: |
Sources: Anthropic's revenue hit a pace of $4B/year, up almost 4x from the beginning of 2025; Cursor maker Anysphere has poached two of Claude Code's leaders — Anysphere, the maker of Cursor, an artificial intelligence-powered coding app, has hired two leaders of Anthropic's competing coding product …
More: TechCrunch. Threads: @carnage4life and @vthallam
X: @swyx, @natolambert, @jakehalloran1, @jbenton, @mckaywrigley, @nickadobos, @distributionat, and @samsolid57. LinkedIn: Natasha Mascarenhas
| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Threads launches DMs for users aged 18 and older, without support for E2EE, and announces a “highlighter” feature to emphasize trending topics — For now, you can only send DMs to your followers on Threads or mutual followers on Instagram. … Threads has officially launched direct messaging for everyone.
More: Meta Newsroom, MacRumors, TechCrunch, Android Central, Business Insider, Quartz, 9to5Mac, CNET, Engadget, and WeRSM
Bluesky: @davelee.me. Threads: @morewithmj, @jaysrecordsnstuff, @masiosare, @parkerortolani, @thebrianpenny, @robbdunewood, @mosseri, and @vthallam
| Krystal Hu / Reuters: |
Grammarly acquires email startup Superhuman as part of a push to diversify and build an AI productivity suite; Superhuman was valued at $825M in August 2021 — Grammarly has acquired email efficiency tool Superhuman as part of the company's push to build an artificial intelligence-powered productivity suite …
More: Grammarly, TechCrunch, SiliconANGLE, Neowin, Inc, implicator.ai, The Information, and Thurrott
Bluesky: @ernie.tedium.co, @werd.io, and @martinsfp. Mastodon: @urlyman@mastodon.social. Threads: @andrewhartleyy
| Steve Lohr / New York Times: |
Computer science programs at Carnegie Mellon and other US universities are rethinking how to incorporate AI into curricula, including a focus on AI literacy — Computer science education will probably focus less on coding and more on computational thinking and A.I. literacy, said Mary Lou Maher …
Bluesky: @ctmathewes
| Allie Garfinkle / Fortune: |
Ambrook, a startup providing specialized accounting software for US farmers and ranchers, raised a $26.1M Series A led by Thrive Capital and Figma's Dylan Field — Ambrook cofounders Dan Schlosser, Mackenzie Burnett, and Jeff Anders. — AMBROOK — When I meet Chase Crandall, he's putting up a barbed wire fence.
More: Ambrook. X: @_tamarawinter, @fouadmatin, @jeffand_, @danrschlosser, @nwilliams030, and @ciaomack. LinkedIn: Bethany Karlberg
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