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China blocks Meta's $2B Manus acquisition, after reviewing whether it violated investment rules, and tells both to cancel it; Manus moved to Singapore in 2025 — Regulators had reviewed whether deal violated Beijing's investment rules — China has blocked Meta's $2bn acquisition …
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| Makena Kelly / Ars Technica: |
Palantir's Slack logs and staff interviews reveal internal debates over the company's ICE and DOD contracts during Trump's second term, its manifesto, and more — It took just a few months of President Donald Trump's second term for Palantir employees to question their company's commitments to civil liberties.
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Kuo: OpenAI is working with MediaTek and Qualcomm to develop smartphone chips, with Luxshare handling the system co-design; mass production is expected in 2028 — • Latest industry checks: OpenAI is working with MediaTek and Qualcomm to develop smartphone processors … | Marcus Schuler / Implicator.ai: |
OpenAI publishes a five-principle framework for AGI development, pledging to resist concentrating AI power and to collaborate with companies and governments — OpenAI published a five-principle framework on Sunday for the development of artificial general intelligence.
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: Jay Chen, who led Tokyo Electron's China operations, left the company after the chip toolmaker discovered his family invested in Chinese competitors — Veteran executive Jay Chen, who helped build Japanese group's China business, left after links to start-ups surfaced
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| Bloomberg: |
A look at Elon Musk's efforts to launch the banking and payments service X Money, delayed by US regulatory concerns, as some industry watchers remain skeptical — More than three years after acquiring Twitter, Elon Musk says he's nearing his long-stated goal of turning it into an …
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| Bloomberg: |
How Sergey Brin's political push against a proposed wealth tax in California has helped mobilize a network of fellow tech leaders to sway state issues — In a treehouse nestled in redwoods north of San Francisco, California Governor Gavin Newsom stood cold and hungry as Sergey Brin … | Paresh Dave / Wired:NEW |
San Francisco public records: in 2024, Salesforce and Airbnb were among the top tech spenders in the city's 10B program, which lets them hire police officers — A recent attack on Sam Altman's home and OpenAI offices has put corporate security under renewed scrutiny.| Riley Griffin / Bloomberg: |
Meta says it signed a deal with Overview Energy for 1GW of space solar energy; the startup seeks to collect sunlight in satellites, with a demonstration in 2028 — Meta Platforms Inc. is looking to power artificial intelligence data centers with solar energy collected in space …
More: Reuters, TechCrunch, Dow Jones Newswires, Overview Energy, Meta Newsroom, and Benzinga
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| Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: |
Truecaller faces mounting pressure as growth slows in India, its largest market, while telcos, Apple, and Google roll out caller ID and spam-blocking features — Truecaller is one of the world's most widely used caller identification platforms, with more than 500 million users.| The Information: |
Analysis: as of late 2025, 79 of 500 tracked software companies including HubSpot, Adobe, and Salesforce adopted usage-based AI fees, more than doubling on 2024 — Dozens of enterprise software firms have shifted away from charging customers flat, per-user subscription fees as AI threatens their seat-based pricing model.
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| Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: |
A look at what's next for Netflix and Comcast's Peacock after the WBD-Paramount deal; Nielsen says Netflix had six of the top 10 original streaming shows in Q1 — The company's streaming service has lost more than $11 billion and can't keep customers form canceling
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| Boaz Sobrado / Forbes: |
A profile of Anthony Fujiwara, who industrialized “clipping” for social media video marketing and has contributed to the rise of crypto casinos like Stake — Anthony Fujiwara is the co-founder of Clipping Exe, also known as the creator of clipping, the video marketing phenomenon … | Nicole Sperling / New York Times: |
Amazon reaches a multiyear licensing deal with Oprah Winfrey to produce twice-a-week video podcasts starting in July, repurpose The Oprah Winfrey Show, and more — The multiyear deal with Ms. Winfrey signifies the tech giant's growing ambitions in video podcasts.| Financial Times: |
Sources: some UK officials fear Keir Starmer's plan for closer EU ties risks the US-UK alliance, and worry the UK may be forced to adopt the EU's AI regulation — Officials are concerned about the damage to the country's technology sector as well as its alliance with the USSponsor Posts
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IDrive:
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Salesforce data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.
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The Private AI That Remembers — Anuma is the all-in-one AI platform with private, portable memory. Chat, text, create, build, and solve across every model.
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