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GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke says he is leaving to “become a startup founder again”, with GitHub and its leadership team moving into Microsoft's CoreAI organization — GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke announced Monday that he plans to step down, with Microsoft opting not to directly replace the position …
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| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
President Trump says that he initially asked Nvidia for a 20% cut of H20 sales to China, but the number came down to 15% after Jensen Huang negotiated with him — President Donald Trump on Monday said that he initially asked Nvidia for a 20% cut of the chipmaker's sales to China … | Financial Times: |
Trump says “it's possible” to make a deal to let Nvidia sell Blackwell chips “enhanced in a negative way” in China and calls H20 “an old chip” China already has — US president confirms he negotiated ‘a little deal’ with chipmaker's chief Jensen Huang
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A UK judge dismisses Wikimedia's Online Safety Act challenge over requiring Wikipedia to verify users and contributors' IDs, but says it can file new challenges — The operator of Wikipedia on Monday lost a legal challenge to parts of Britain's Online Safety Act, which sets tough new requirements …
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| Omair Pall / Mashable India: |
xAI makes Grok 4 free for all users worldwide after making Grok Imagine free for all US users; Grok 4 Heavy remains exclusive to SuperGrok Heavy subscribers — xAI releases Grok 4 free, rivals GPT-5 launch. — Elon Musk-owned xAI has officially made the latest version of its AI model …
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Reddit says it will block the Internet Archive from indexing most of its pages after it caught AI companies scraping its data from the Wayback Machine — The company says that AI companies have scraped data from the Wayback Machine, so it's going to limit what the Wayback Machine can access.
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| Luc Olinga / Gizmodo: |
Sam Altman says OpenAI is “significantly increasing rate limits for reasoning” for ChatGPT Plus users, as the share of users using reasoning models increases — The move is a stunning reversal, proving that even the most powerful AI company can't ignore a mutiny from its loyal user base.| Lauren Thomas / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan is set to meet Trump on Monday to propose ways the US and Intel could work together, show his commitment to the US, and more — Lip-Bu Tan is set to meet with the president, who last week called for Tan's removal — Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan is set to visit …
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| Financial Times: |
The EU Commission approves Prosus' €4.1B takeover of Just Eat Takeaway in a bid to create a “European tech champion” to rival DoorDash, which acquired Deliveroo — The European Commission has approved the €4.1bn takeover of Just Eat Takeaway by Prosus …
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| Robert Frank / CNBC: |
CB Insights: there are now 498 AI unicorns, with a combined value of $2.7T, including 100 founded since 2023, and over 1,300 AI startups are valued above $100M — Artificial intelligence startups have minted dozens of new billionaires this year, adding to an AI boom that's quickly becoming … | Matt Burgess / Wired: |
UK researchers estimate 80 game cheat-selling websites generate $12.8M to $73.2M annually from 30K to 174K monthly buyers across North America and Europe alone — Gaming cheats are the bane of the video game industry—and a hot commodity. A recent study found that cheat creators are making …
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| Reuters: |
Rumble says it plans to acquire German AI cloud group Northern Data in an all-stock deal; estimates show the deal could be valued at ~$1.17B, a 32% discount — U.S.-listed video platform Rumble (RUM.O) is considering a potential offer of about $1.17 billion (1 billion euro) … | Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
Amazon's Kuiper launches 24 satellites via SpaceX's Falcon 9 after four launch attempts were delayed by weather issues, taking its total to 102 in orbit — Amazon shipped another batch of internet-beaming satellites into orbit on Monday atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, after four previous launch attempts …
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| James Davey / Reuters: |
UK retailer M&S resumes click-and-collect services 15 weeks after disclosing a cyberattack, set to cost it ~£300M; M&S resumed online delivery orders on June 10 — British retailer Marks & Spencer (MKS.L) has resumed taking click and collect orders for clothing …
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