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June 3, 2025, 6:15 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  —  Trump to launch branded crypto trading application  —  Listen to me read this post here (not an AI-generated voice! …
MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC:
Kaiko: the USD1 stablecoin launched by Trump's World Liberty Financial is off to a sluggish start, with muted inflows and little organic demand  —  President Donald Trump's new dollar-pegged stablecoin is off to a sluggish start, with muted inflows and little organic demand, new data shows.
More: CryptoSlate
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 and AI podcasts publicly; viewers can interact with AI audio overviews, ask questions, and read FAQs  —  Viewers can't edit the notebook, but they can interact with AI audio overviews, ask questions, and read FAQs.
Théophane Hartmann / Euractiv:
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 …
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.
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
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 …
Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:
Researchers detail a technique Meta uses 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 …
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  —  This is the Codex “cloud-based software engineering agent”, not the Codex CLI tool or older 2021 Codex LLM.  Codex just started rolling out to ChatGPT Plus …
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  —  NINTENDO'S DECISION NOT TO FACILITATE PRE-LAUNCH SWITCH 2 REVIEWS IS DISAPPOINTING NEWS FOR EVERYONE

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