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June 3, 2025, 10:15 PM
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Molly White / Citation Needed:
NFT marketplace Magic Eden and the TRUMP memecoin team announce the “Official $TRUMP Wallet” and open a waitlist; Trump's sons deny any involvement or knowledge  —  UPDATE, June 3 at 3:00pm: Following publication of this story, Magic Eden pushed out its announcement for the Trump Wallet at 1:35pm.
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  —  Constellation Energy Corp. agreed to sell power from an operating Illinois nuclear plant to Meta Platforms Inc. …
Emma Roth / The Verge:
Google's NotebookLM now lets users share notebooks publicly; people can interact with a public notebook by asking questions or exploring generated content  —  Viewers can't edit the notebook, but they can interact with AI audio overviews, ask questions, and read FAQs.
Théophane Hartmann / Euractiv:
TikTok has banned the hashtag #SkinnyTok globally, saying it is “linked to unhealthy weight loss content”, following pressure from the French government  —  The decision raises questions over the European Commission's credibility as a tech enforcer.
Harshita Mary Varghese / Reuters:
CrowdStrike reports Q1 revenue up 20% YoY to $1.1B, in line with est., forecasts Q2 revenue below est., approves a $1B share buyback; CRWD drops 6%+ after hours  —  CrowdStrike (CRWD.O) forecast second-quarter revenue below estimates, signaling soft enterprise spending on cybersecurity products …
Sam Sabin / Axios:
Source: ~1,000 people have left the CISA during the second Trump administration, including 750+ taking a buyout, cutting CISA's workforce by nearly a third  —  Roughly 1,000 people have already left the nation's top cybersecurity agency during the second Trump administration …
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch:
Qualcomm releases patches to fix a series of vulnerabilities in dozens of chips, including three zero-days that “may be under limited, targeted exploitation”  —  Chipmaker giant Qualcomm released patches on Monday fixing a series of vulnerabilities in dozens of chips …
Miriam Gottfried / Wall Street Journal:
Thoma Bravo raised $34.4B across three funds, including $24.3B for its main software company buyout fund and $8.1B for its midsize software company-focused fund  —  Many firms are struggling to return cash to investors and raise money  —  A reckoning in the private-equity industry is sharpening …
Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:
Researchers detail a technique Meta used to glean some of its logged-in users' browsing histories from Chromium-based browsers on Android via web identifiers  —  Abuse allows Meta and Yandex to attach persistent identifiers to detailed browsing histories.  —  Tracking code that Meta …
Brody Ford / Bloomberg:
HPE reports Q2 revenue up 6% YoY to $7.63B, vs. $7.46B est., Server revenue up 6% YoY to $4.1B, and says it expects a reduced impact from tariffs this year  —  Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. reported quarterly revenue that topped estimates and said it expects a reduced impact from tariffs on its business this year.
Emma Roth / The Verge:
TikTok expands Manage Topics, a feature that lets users customize how often specific topics appear in the For You feed, and adds AI-powered keyword filtering  —  The ‘Manage Topics’ settings let you control how often you see TikTok videos related to sports, travel, humor, dance, and other categories.
Kate Payne / Associated Press:
A federal judge temporarily blocks Florida from enforcing a law banning social media accounts for children under 14, saying the law is “likely unconstitutional”  —  A federal judge has barred state officials from enforcing a Florida law that would ban social media accounts for young children …
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Epic Games launches MetaHuman, its game developer tool to quickly create realistic digital human characters, now embedded as part of Unreal Engine 5.6  —  The MetaHuman creator is now built right into Unreal Engine. … Epic Games' hyperrealistic MetaHuman characters are seriously impressive …
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Some researchers say it looks like DeepSeek may have used Google Gemini to help train its R1-0528 reasoning model  —  Last week, Chinese lab DeepSeek released an updated version of its R1 reasoning AI model that performs well on a number of math and coding benchmarks.
Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog:
OpenAI updates its coding agent Codex with internet access, turned off by default, and expands availability to ChatGPT Plus users  —  Codex agent internet access.  Sam Altman, just now: … This is the Codex “cloud-based software engineering agent”, not the Codex CLI tool or older 2021 Codex LLM.
Thomas Brewster / Forbes:
The Trump administration announces plans to reorganize the US AI Safety Institute into the new Center for AI Standards and Innovation  —  The Trump administration has announced plans to reorganize the U.S. AI Safety Institute (AISI) into the new Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI).
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 …
Andy Robinson / Video Games Chronicle:
Nintendo says it didn't send any Switch 2 review units to outlets as “important features and updates” will only be available via an update on its June 5 launch  —  It's official: for the first time in more than 20 years, there will be no pre-release reviews for a new Nintendo console.
Sifted:
TechCrunch has shut down its operations in Europe; one former staffer says new owner Regent thought “international startup coverage wasn't essential”  —  The flagship media brand has quietly retreated from the region, leaving long-serving staff unemployed
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

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Wall Street Journal:
Sources: the DOJ closed an investigation of Paramount's bid for WBD before career staffers who were concerned about the acquisition had an opportunity to object

Max Tani / Semafor:
The NYT says it is reviewing columnist Nick Kristof's work that favorably mentioned former donors to his 2022 Oregon governor bid, including Bill Gates

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