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Chris Eudaily / CNBC:

Filing: Intel warns the US taking a 10% stake could cause “adverse reactions”, like in international sales, which made up 76% of revenue in its past fiscal year — Intel on Monday warned of “adverse reactions” from investors, employees and others to the Trump administration taking …

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Ben Thompson / Stratechery:

The US taking a 10% equity stake in Intel is a terrible idea and a dangerous turn in US industrial policy, but also the least bad option to make Foundry viable — The U.S. taking an equity stake in Intel is a terrible idea; it also happens to be the least bad idea to make Intel Foundry viable.

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Rachel Metz / Bloomberg:

Stanford researchers: over the past three years, employment has dropped 13% for entry-level workers just starting out in fields that are the most exposed to AI — Artificial intelligence is making it harder for entry-level workers in the US to find jobs in fields like software development …

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Jess Weatherbed / The Verge:

Spotify launches a DM feature that lets users share audio and send text chats, available to mobile users aged 16 years and older in “select markets” this week — Both Free and Premium accounts can share audio content and send messages to each other.

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Humeyra Pamuk / Reuters:

Sources: the Trump administration is considering imposing sanctions on EU or member state officials that implement the DSA, after US tech company complaints — President Donald Trump's administration is considering imposing sanctions on European Union or member state officials responsible …

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Financial Times:

Japanese media groups Nikkei and Asahi Shimbun jointly sue Perplexity in Tokyo, alleging the AI startup “copied and stored” their articles without permission — The publishers say the company illegally ‘copied and stored article content’ — Two of Japan's largest media groups …

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Bloomberg:

Sources and docs: Microsoft worked with the FBI to track anti-Israel protests, flagged internal emails with words like “Gaza”, deleted posts, and fired staff — Twenty activists urging company to sever ties with Israeli military were arrested last week.

More: Music Ally and Reuters

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Bloomberg:

AT&T agrees to buy spectrum licenses from EchoStar for ~$23B in cash, adding ~50MHz of spectrum, expected to close by mid-2026, pending regulatory approval — Corrected — EchoStar Corp. has agreed to sell spectrum licenses to AT&T Inc. for about $23 billion in a deal that may help …

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Samantha Cole / 404 Media:

Forty-four US AGs sign an open letter to 11 chatbot and social media companies, warning that they will “answer for it” if their AI chatbots knowingly harm kids — Forty-four attorneys general signed an open letter on Monday that says to companies developing AI chatbots: “If you knowingly harm kids, you will answer for it.”

Alex Barasch / New Yorker:

A profile of film studio A24, valued at $3.5B in June 2024, as it focuses on big budget projects and explores AI tools via A24 Labs, drawing mixed reactions — The studio is brilliant at selling small, provocative films. Now it wants to sell blockbusters, too.

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Financial Times:

Sources: Temu resumes shipping goods from China directly to US consumers and increases its US ad spending, after a trade truce between Washington and Beijing — Low-cost ecommerce platform steps up US advertising after tentative trade deals to reduce tariffs on Chinese goods

More: Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, TheStreet, Axios, and Benzinga

Graham Fraser / BBC:

French prosecutors open an investigation into Australian video platform Kick over the death of a content creator who was violently abused during livestreams — French prosecutors have opened an investigation into the Australian video platform Kick over the death of a content creator during a livestream.

More: Reuters and Politico

Mike Scarcella / Reuters:

Court filing: Tesla rejected a $60M settlement offer in a lawsuit over a fatal 2019 crash of a Model S with Autopilot, before a jury awarded a $243M verdict — Billionaire Elon Musk's electric vehicle company Tesla (TSLA.O) rejected a $60 million settlement proposal in a lawsuit …

More: Silicon UK, Benzinga, The Drive, TechCrunch, and Pixel Envy

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Reuters:

Sources: Klarna seeks a $13B to $14B valuation in its IPO next month, selling shares for $34-$36 as early as this week; Klarna sought a ~$50B valuation in 2021 — Swedish fintech Klarna will restart its plan to go public in the United States next month with a valuation of between $13 billion …

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BBC Strictly Come Dancing presenters Tess Daly and Claudia Winkleman are leaving at the end of this season after 10+ years; Strictly is the BBC's biggest show

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Navya Menon / Bloomberg:

Yield Sec: illegal gambling operators captured 71% of Europe's online betting and casino market in 2024, or €80.65B, as regulators struggle with crypto casinos

Thomas Seal / Bloomberg:

Shopify updated a help page in May to tighten its rules against “hateful content” like racist merchandise, after removing a similar ban in July 2024

Financial Times:

Bengaluru, home to about 33% of India's 1,800+ GCCs and key to the $300B tech industry, struggles as its infrastructure lags behind rapid tech sector growth

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Nikkei Asia:

SoftBank shares are up 61% in 2025, making it one of Tokyo's top performers, on the back of AI and chip investments, as some investors question the upside

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Moneycontrol:

Q&A with Harsh Jain, CEO of Dream11 parent Dream Sports, on India's real-money gaming law, which he says erased 95% of the group's revenue and all its profits

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Jaspreet Singh / Reuters:

LinkedIn is expanding its BrandLink video ads program with new publishers and creators, and says payouts to them have more than tripled year over year

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Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch:

Google says NotebookLM's Video Overviews now support 80 languages, and Audio Overviews now provide more detailed non-English summaries

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Sources: Doug Beck, director of the Pentagon's Defense Innovation Unit, resigns; DOD officials had previously raised concerns about his donations to Democrats

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Bloomberg:

So far in 2025, at least 10 biotech companies have pivoted into crypto to boost stock prices, frequently sparking frenzied but short-lived spikes in shares

David Shepardson / Reuters:

The US Commerce Department voids a Biden administration deal with the nonprofit Natcast to oversee $7.4B in semiconductor research funds, calling it illegal

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Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority:

Google plans to begin verifying the identities of developers who distribute Android apps, even outside the Play Store, rolling out in phases from September 2026

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Kif Leswing / CNBC:

Nvidia says the Jetson AGX Thor, its latest “robot brain” chip module, is now on sale for $3,499 as a developer kit; the module will ship next month

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xAI sues Apple and OpenAI, alleging their deal to integrate ChatGPT into Apple's OSes stifles competition and that Apple favors OpenAI in its App Store rankings

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