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Financial Times:
Sources: Oracle will spend ~$40B on ~400,000 Nvidia GB200 chips and lease them to OpenAI at its 1.2GW 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 …
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.
Jesse Pound / CNBC:
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
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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 …
Financial Times:
Sources: Builder.ai collapsed after it revised its 2024 revenue estimate from $220M to ~$55M and restated its previously reported 2023 sales from $180M to ~$45M  —  Failed UK start-up revised down revenues to just a quarter of prior estimates  —  Microsoft-backed Builder.ai collapsed …
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.
Dan Gallagher / Wall Street Journal:
A look at the rise of “sovereign AI”, wherein countries invest directly in chip companies like Nvidia and AMD, making AI chips a highly politicized business  —  As Nvidia and others strike deals with sovereign nations, their business will become politicized as never before
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.
Nilay Patel / The Verge:
Q&A with Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi on the trade-offs with Route Share, Uber's business structure, autonomous vehicles, working with fleet operators, and more  —  Today, I'm talking with Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi.  We recorded this conversation the day Uber announced a big set of product updates …
Bloomberg:
A US judge vacates Avraham Eisenberg's convictions for fraud and manipulation related to a $110M theft on Mango Markets in 2022 due to insufficient evidence  —  A trader charged in the first US case tied to cryptocurrency manipulation won a legal challenge to overturn his convictions …

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Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Arkansas PBS severs ties with the PBS network, the first state public TV system to do so since Congress cut CPB funds, citing the annual $2M+ membership cost

Financial Times:
OpenAI hopes the Disney deal boosts Sora, which has high costs and limited traction; Sensor Tower: users average 13 minutes per day on Sora vs. 90 on TikTok

Sam Roberts / New York Times:
Arthur L. Carter, who started a Connecticut newspaper in 1981, bought and sold The Nation, and founded the New York Observer in 1987, has died at 93

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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
RevenueCat, which offers tools for devs to add subscriptions to their apps, raised a $50M Series C led by Bain Capital Ventures, valuing the company at $500M
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

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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
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”
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
Ionut Ilascu / BleepingComputer:
The US DOJ indicts a Russian national for allegedly leading the Qakbot malware operation that infected 700K+ computers and enabled ransomware attacks for years
Jody Godoy / Reuters:
The US FTC drops a case that sought to block Microsoft's $69B acquisition of Activision Blizzard, saying that pursuing the case was not in the public interest
Andy Greenberg / Wired:
The US DOJ announces criminal charges against 16 individuals allegedly linked to DanaBot, a Russia-based malware operation that infected 300K+ machines globally
Sam Bowman / @sleepinyourhat:
Anthropic says Opus 4 will use an email tool to “whistleblow” if it detects users doing something “egregiously evil”, like marketing a drug based on faked data
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