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June 3, 2025, 12:30 PM
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Cheng Ting-Fang / Nikkei Asia:
TSMC CEO C.C. Wei says TSMC expects a record profit in 2025 despite geopolitical, tariff, and FX risks, and confirms it is not building a fab in the Middle East  —  HSINCHU, Taiwan — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. on Tuesday said it expects to log a record profit …
Cristina Criddle / Financial Times:
AI pioneer Yoshua Bengio launches LawZero, a nonprofit focused on safer AI; LawZero has raised nearly $30M from donors including Skype co-founder Jaan Tallinn  —  Turing Award winner launches LawZero not-profit for safer AI, while warning recent models display dangerous characteristics
Thomas Ptacek / Fly:
A software developer explains how AI agents help automate tedious coding tasks, and addresses concerns like hallucinations, job losses, mediocre code, and more  —  Tech execs are mandating LLM adoption.  That's bad strategy.  But I get where they're coming from.
Reuters:
Microsoft, Google, CrowdStrike, and Palo Alto Networks plan to create a public glossary of state-sponsored hacking groups to ease unofficial alias confusion  —  Microsoft, CrowdStrike, Palo Alto (PANW.O) and Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) Google on Monday said they would create a public glossary …
Bloomberg:
Sources: Elon Musk is selling $5B in xAI debt at a double-digit interest rate via Morgan Stanley, with demand already over $3.5B and commitments due by June 17  —  Elon Musk is selling $5 billion in debt for his artificial intelligence startup, xAI Corp., the latest in a series …
Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch:
Elon Musk's Neuralink raised a $650M Series E from ARK, Founders Fund, G42, Human Capital, Sequoia, Thrive, and others, reportedly at a ~$9B pre-money valuation
Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority:
Google says it is ending PayPal account integration in Google Wallet for US users, effective June 13, after stopping new PayPal account linking in April 2025  —  Later this month, Google Wallet will no longer let users in the U.S. use their PayPal account for payments
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
Adobe launches Photoshop for Android in beta for devices running Android 11 or later with 6GB+ of RAM, offering tools like layers, masks, and Generative Fill  —  Android users can now download Photoshop for mobile.  Adobe announced on Tuesday that it's releasing the beta version …
Richard Lawler / The Verge:
Microsoft announces Windows changes in response to the EU's DMA for EEA users, including Edge not prompting users to set it as the default browser unless opened  —  Apparently only the Digital Markets Act can stop Bing from begging you to switch . … Microsoft's changes in response …
Catherine Perloff / The Information:
How AppLovin, which lets advertisers use IP addresses to track users, began eroding Google's ad market share and pushed Google to loosen its privacy stance  —  In 2023, Google ad executives noticed something alarming about one aspect of their business.  Once-red hot revenue growth …
Miguel Salazar / New York Times:
David Cope, a composer and algorithmic composition pioneer who developed a program in the 1980s to write music in the style of Bach and others, died at age 83  —  His EMI algorithm, an early form of artificial intelligence that he developed in the 1980s, prompted searching questions about the limits of human creativity.
Kate Park / TechCrunch:
Tel Aviv-based Speedata, which is designing analytics processing units for big data workloads, raised a $44M Series B and aims to showcase its first APU in June  —  Speedata, a Tel Aviv-based startup developing an analytics processing unit (APU) designed to accelerate big data analytic and AI workloads …
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Michael Acton / Financial Times:
Alphabet offers to spend $500M+ over 10 years to rebuild its global compliance structure, in a settlement proposal for an antitrust lawsuit from shareholders

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Sara Fischer / Axios:
Source: Bari Weiss is planning to create a masthead for CBS News as part of a broader overhaul of standards and procedures

Todd Spangler / Variety:
Trump says Stephen Colbert is a “pathetic trainwreck” and “CBS should, ‘put him to sleep,’ NOW”; earlier CBS aired the Kennedy Center Honors, hosted by Trump

Lorcan Lovett / Nieman Reports:
A look at the state of independent media in Myanmar, which lost US and Swedish funding this year and where subscriptions aren't a dependable source of revenue

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Bloomberg:
Meta agrees to buy power from Constellation Energy's Illinois nuclear plant, signing a 20-year deal that starts in mid-2027 when a 10-year state subsidy expires

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New York Times:
Sources: the FTC is investigating whether roughly a dozen US advertising and advocacy groups violated antitrust law by coordinating boycotts among advertisers
Belle Lin / Wall Street Journal:
Netic, which sells an AI platform that helps home services firms automate client outreach and handle calls, raised $20M from Greylock, Founders Fund, and others
David Heaney / UploadVR:
Sources: Meta is prioritizing an ultralight Horizon OS headset with a compute puck for 2026 and likely won't ship a new traditional form factor Quest until 2027
Maya Goldman / Axios:
The US FDA debuts an agencywide generative AI tool to help scientific reviewers and others streamline work and, soon, to find high-priority inspection targets
Belle Lin / Wall Street Journal:
Snowflake agrees to acquire Crunchy Data, a cloud-based database service that helps businesses and government agencies use PostgreSQL, a source says for ~$250M
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