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June 3, 2025, 7:30 AM

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Cheng Ting-Fang / Nikkei Asia:
TSMC CEO C.C. Wei says TSMC expects 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 for 2025 despite uncertainties brought …
Bloomberg:
Sources: Elon Musk is selling $5B in debt for xAI at a double-digit interest rate, with demand already exceeding $3.5B; Morgan Stanley is shopping the debt  —  Elon Musk is selling $5 billion in debt for his artificial intelligence startup, xAI Corp., the latest in a series of fundraising efforts across …
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Financial Times:
Thomas Ptacek / Fly:
A software developer explains how LLMs, especially AI agents, help automate tedious coding tasks and addresses concerns like hallucinations, job loss, 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 plan a public glossary of state-sponsored hacking groups to ease confusion over the spread of unofficial aliases  —  Microsoft, CrowdStrike, Palo Alto (PANW.O) and Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) Google on Monday said they would create a public glossary …
Cristina Criddle / Financial Times:
AI pioneer Yoshua Bengio launches LawZero, a nonprofit focused on safer AI; LawZero has raised $30M in donations, including from Skype co-founder Jaan Tallinn  —  Turing Award winner launches LawZero not-profit for safer AI, while warning recent models display dangerous characteristics
Richard Lawler / The Verge:
Microsoft announces new Windows changes in response to the EU's DMA for EEA users, including Edge not prompting users to set it as the default unless opened  —  Apparently only the Digital Markets Act can stop Bing from begging you to switch . … Microsoft's changes in response …
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  —  The regulator is looking into whether roughly a dozen groups violated antitrust law by coordinating boycotts among advertisers.
Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority:
Google 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
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  —  The cloud data company aims to attract customers who want to build their own artificial intelligence agents
Washington Post:
Analysis: since his inauguration, President Trump posted 2,262 times on Truth Social in 132 days, 3x+ the volume of tweets in the same period of his first term  —  In his current term, the influencer-in-chief has left his own record for social media missives in the dust.  He posts day and night.
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