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June 3, 2025, 11:05 AM
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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 …
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.
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
Financial Times:
Sources: xAI launches a $300M tender offer at a $113B valuation, validating xAI's price tag for when it acquired X in March 2025 and letting staff sell shares
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 …
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
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 …
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
Kate Park / TechCrunch:
Tel Aviv-based Speedata, which is designing analytics processing units for big data workloads, raised a $44M Series B, aims to showcase its first APU this month  —  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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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.
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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Jake Kanter / Deadline:
Sources: Hasbro is asking child actors on Peppa Pig to sign contracts letting their voices be used for AI; a group of agents condemns the terms

Reuters:
Sources: Sky has agreed on terms to buy ITV's broadcast and streaming unit in a £1.6B deal, which will include ITV Studios acquiring Sky's Love Productions

Bloomberg Law:
Publishers that collectively own nearly 400 local and regional newspapers sue OpenAI and Microsoft for scraping their products without permission or payment

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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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