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June 30, 2026, 1:35 PM
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Reuters:
Meituan open-sources LongCat-2.0, a 1.6T-parameter model that it says was trained on a 50K-chip cluster of domestic Chinese processors, without giving details  —  China's food delivery giant Meituan (3690.HK) said on Tuesday it had released and would open-source its next-generation LongCat …
Sam Tabahriti / Reuters:
The UK CMA proposes requiring Apple and Google to relax UK developer payment “steering” rules, and Apple to open NFC; Google says it “already made the changes”  —  Britain's competition regulator on Tuesday proposed allowing app developers to steer users …
The Keyword:
Google launches Nano Banana 2 Lite, a low cost text-to-image model that delivers outputs in four seconds, and rolls out Gemini Omni Flash to developers  —  We're making it easier to experiment and scale your ideas with Nano Banana 2 Lite, our fastest, most cost-efficient Gemini Image model …
Emmy Martin / New York Times:
As OpenAI and Anthropic prepare to go public, San Francisco tech workers making six figures say they cannot compete with the new AI elite and may have to leave  —  As OpenAI and Anthropic prepare to go public, tech workers making six figures are grousing that they cannot compete with the new A.I. elite.
Russell Brandom / TechCrunch:
AWS launches an internal organization for AI-focused forward-deployed engineers, backed by $1B in resources, following OpenAI and others in launching FDE teams  —  As companies struggle to integrate AI, they're increasingly ready to bring in outside help — and service providers are launching …
Dina Bass / Bloomberg:
AI inference startup Etched raised $800M from investors including Jane Street and a TSMC-linked venture firm, and says it has signed sales contracts worth $1B  —  Nvidia rival says it has raised $800 million and has $1 billion in contracts.  —  AI chip startup Etched said it has raised $800 million …
Stephanie Stacey / Financial Times:
Hotels, tour operators, and travel agencies rush to launch proprietary online tools and loyalty schemes to fend off future competition from AI travel agents  —  Chatbots could help to find, filter and book customers' destinations  —  Hotels, tour operators and travel agencies are rushing …
Semafor:
Source: the Trump administration has talked with SpaceX about donating shares to Trump Accounts, which provide children with tax-advantaged savings accounts  —  THE SCOOP  —  The Trump administration has spoken with SpaceX about donating stock to the children's savings accounts known …
Kyle Baird / The Block:
Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, BlackRock, Coinbase, and 140+ companies join Open Standard to launch Open USD, a stablecoin that shares earnings from its reserves  —  Quick Take  — Payment giants, banks, tech firms and crypto companies are among Open Standard's launch members.
Julie Bort / TechCrunch:
AI coding startup 8090 raised a $135M Series A led by Salesforce Ventures; founder Chamath Palihapitiya announces that he will lead the company as CEO  —  Chamath Palihapitiya, best known for his venture capital firm Social Capital and the All-In podcast, announced Monday that the AI coding startup he founded raised a sizable Series A.
Jordyn Holman / New York Times:
Q&A with Grindr CEO George Arison on turning Grindr into an “AI-native company”, “impos[ing]” AI on staff, facing “opposition”, using AI as a CEO, and more  —  George Arison, the gay dating app's chief executive, is aiming for all code to be eventually written …
Peter Vercoe / Bloomberg:
Australia's ACCC sues Amazon for allegedly introducing ads to Prime Video under unfair contract terms and forcing existing subscribers to pay more to avoid them  —  Amazon.com Inc. has been sued by Australia's consumer watchdog for introducing advertising to its Prime Video streaming service …
Zoho:
Meet Zia Agents: Zoho SalesIQ's autonomous AI workforce  —  AI in customer support is moving fast.  Not long ago, rule-based bots gave way to conversational AI, which quickly evolved into generative assistants.  But for most businesses, the real goal was never just to answer first-level questions …
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New York Times:
An Indonesian court sentences Gojek co-founder and ex-education minister Nadiem Makarim to 10 years in prison for power abuses over a Chromebook contract  —  The case against Nadiem Makarim, a co-founder of Gojek, has fueled concerns about judicial fairness in a nation where foreign investors were already growing wary.
Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch:
Google says the Gemini app now offers personalized Nano Banana image generation, previously limited to Plus, Pro, and Ultra users, to eligible US users for free  —  Google announced on Monday that the Gemini app is now offering its personalized Nano Banana-powered image generation feature to a broader audience.
Wired:
Sources: hundreds of Meta contractors posed as minors to probe how competitor chatbots responded to prompts involving suicide, sex, and other high-risk subjects  —  Hundreds of contractors working on a project for Meta pretended to be kids—and then prompted rival chatbots like Gemini and ChatGPT to discuss high-risk subjects.

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Anthropic launches Claude Science, an AI workbench that uses existing Claude models like Opus 4.8 to integrate 60+ scientific databases and specialized toolkitsFind
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Kyle Baird / The Block:
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Frank Connelly / Bloomberg:
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Mike Scarcella / Reuters:
SCOTUS agrees to hear Apple's appeal of a 2025 contempt ruling in its Epic case after a district judge found Apple violated an order to make App Store changesFind
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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

Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Axel Springer closes its £575M acquisition of Telegraph Media Group, ending a three-year saga, and names Carolin Hulshoff Pol as TMG CEO, replacing Anna Jones

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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Financial Times:
The UK FCA unveils the updated version of its crypto regulatory framework, after softening proposed rules that critics said risked holding the UK back
Nick Wadhams / Bloomberg:
The US DOD appoints Marc Andreessen to its Defense Policy Board, a committee that gives strategic advice to the US defense secretary and other top officials

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Murray Stassen / Music Business Worldwide:
Tidal adopts an AI policy that blocks wholly AI-generated music from earning royalties and removes AI-generated music that impersonates artists
Debby Wu / Bloomberg:
Source: Taiwanese authorities raided Super Micro's Taiwan office as part of a probe into the alleged smuggling of Nvidia chips to China; SMCI closed down 8.1%
Sean O'Kane / TechCrunch:
Waymo and Uber quietly ended their partnership in Phoenix in May; Uber says it is readying the launch of a separate autonomous vehicle partnership in the city
Reuters:
Sources: a ransomware group stole Apple component and supplier lists, photos of iPhone 18 Pro models, and other files from Apple's Indian supplier Tata
TechCrunch:
SCOTUS limits the law enforcement use of “geofence” warrants, saying people have “a reasonable expectation of privacy” in their cell-phone location data
Marcus Mendes / 9to5Mac:
WhatsApp rolls out username reservations globally, allowing users to claim a unique name before the privacy-focused feature launches later this year
James Hunt / The Block:
Filing: Strategy paused its bitcoin acquisitions last week, instead topping up its USD reserve to $2.55B and announcing a $1B digital credit buyback program
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