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Trump says a 25%+ tariff “must be paid by Apple” on iPhones not made in the US, and he told Tim Cook long ago that iPhones sold in the US must be made in the US — President Donald Trump said in a social media post Friday that Apple will have to pay a tariff of 25% or more for iPhones made outside the United States.
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| Bloomberg: |
President Trump says that the tariffs he has threatened against Apple would also be aimed at “Samsung and anybody that makes that product” — “It would be more,” Trump said when asked at the White House whether his tariff threat would only apply to Apple.
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| Reuters: |
Sources: DOGE is using a customized Grok to analyze US government data, including at DHS where it has not been approved, raising security and privacy concerns — Billionaire Elon Musk's DOGE team is expanding use of his artificial intelligence chatbot Grok in the U.S. federal government to analyze data …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Trump hosted a gala dinner for top buyers of $TRUMP, including Justin Sun, and said he was fulfilling his promise to make the US the world's “crypto capital” — The president hosted the biggest investors in his memecoin at his golf club outside Washington
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
CEO Anil Dash says Glitch will stop hosting projects and close user profiles on July 8; Glitch launched in March 2017, and Fastly acquired it in May 2022 — The collaborative coding platform will no longer host projects starting July 8th. … Glitch, the coding platform where developers …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Tim Cook called Texas Governor Greg Abbott last week urging a veto or changes to a bill that would require Apple to verify users' ages on its devices — Apple's CEO called Greg Abbott after law passed requiring app stores to verify user ages — Apple stepped up efforts in recent weeks …
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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Zoom CEO Eric Yuan used an AI avatar for his initial comments on Zoom's Q1 earnings call on May 21; Klarna's CEO used an AI avatar to deliver earnings on May 19 — CEOs are now so immersed in AI, they're sending their avatars to address quarterly earnings calls instead of themselves, at least partially.
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| Kylie Robison / Wired: |
A look at Anthropic's first developer conference, where CPO Mike Krieger said 70%+ of Anthropic's code pull requests are now written by their AI model Claude — Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said everything human workers do now will eventually be done by AI systems.
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: Oracle will buy ~400,000 Nvidia GB200 chips and lease them to OpenAI at its 1.2 gigawatts Texas data center, billed as the first US Stargate project — The 1.2 gigawatts infrastructure project will be one of the largest in the world — Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.
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| Hugh Son / CNBC: |
Monarch, which makes a personal finance app, raised a $75M Series B at a $850M valuation, says its subscribers grew by 20x since Intuit closed Mint in 2023 — The personal finance startup Monarch has raised $75 million to accelerate subscriber growth that took off last year when budgeting tool Mint was shut down, CNBC has learned.| New York Times: |
Q&A with Demis Hassabis about how Google I/O became the Gemini show, Google getting “AGI-pilled”, Project Astra, Sergey Brin's shorter AGI timelines, and more — A few years ago, most Google executives didn't talk about A.G.I. — artificial general intelligence, the industry term for a human-level A.I. system.| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI says Operator, its AI agent that can use the web to perform tasks, will soon use a model based on o3 after previously using a custom version of GPT-4o — OpenAI is updating the AI model powering Operator, its AI agent that can autonomously browse the web and use certain software within a cloud-hosted virtual machine.| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Salesforce is in talks to acquire cloud data management company Informatica, reviving discussions that stalled in 2024; INFA closes up 17.45% — If a deal is reached, it could be announced as soon as next week, according to the people, who asked to not be identified because the discussions are private.
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Discord SVP Peter Sellis says the app is exploring forums and LLM-powered summaries to make discussions easy to follow and shareable outside the platform — It's thinking about something like forums, too. … Discord has become the place for gaming communities on the internet.| Joseph Menn / Washington Post: |
Experts say some Trump officials' plans to amp up cyberattacks against China would risk retaliation the US is increasingly unprepared for amid budget cuts — Some Trump administration officials want to hit back at China for its hacks on U.S. infrastructure — a risky strategy, experts say, amid budget reductions.| Bloomberg: |
Sources: CommScope is exploring a sale of its broadband connectivity and cable arm CCS for up to $10B, seeking to unload assets to repay debt — The company is working with an adviser to gauge buyer interest in the business, known as CCS, said the people, who asked not to be identified discussing confidential information.
More: Reuters
| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
First Lady Melania Trump releases an audiobook of her memoir, with her “official AI voice” created by ElevenLabs, available exclusively in the ElevenReader app — First Lady Melania Trump released her recently published memoir “Melania” as an audiobook that will be available …
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