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| Kevin Breuninger / CNBC: |
Trump says Elon Musk “went CRAZY” and that canceling his government contracts is “the easiest way to save money”, as their One Big Beautiful bill feud escalates — President Donald Trump on Thursday called Tesla CEO Elon Musk “CRAZY” and threatened to cut …
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| Tanaya Macheel / CNBC: |
Circle's stock soared 168% on Thursday, closing at $83.23 on the NYSE after its IPO priced at $31; the stablecoin company raised almost $1.1B in the offering — Shares of Circle Internet Group soared 168% on Thursday after the stablecoin company and its selling shareholders raised almost $1.1 billion in an initial public offering.
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Forums: r/Buttcoin and Slashdot
| David Keohane / Financial Times: |
Nintendo launches the Switch 2 globally, with midnight store openings and long queues; analysts expect it to sell 15M to 20M units, in line with its FY guidance — Mario fans queue at midnight store openings after games company apologises for failing to meet pre-order demand
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google releases an upgraded preview of Gemini 2.5 Pro, saying its Elo score jumped by 24 points on LMArena and it leads in coding benchmarks like Aider Polyglot — Google today released an “upgraded preview” of Gemini 2.5 Pro that will soon be generally available in the coming weeks.| Edward Ludlow / Bloomberg: |
Defense tech startup Anduril raised a $2.5B Series G led by Founders Fund, which invested $1B, at a $30.5B valuation, up from $14B in August 2024 — The latest capital injection and increased valuation — up from $14 billion last year — underscores how quickly the company is establishing itself … | Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: |
Source: Trump's World Liberty Financial sent a cease-and-desist letter to the company behind $TRUMP and to Magic Eden after they announced the $TRUMP Wallet — Tensions between the competing factions of Donald Trump's ever-growing crypto empire are ramping up, with a company owned in part …
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| Lila Shapiro / Vulture: |
Hollywood insiders report widespread off-the-books AI experimentation in studios, often hidden to avoid backlash, despite union contracts limiting AI use — “We can say, ‘Do it in anime, make it PG-13.’ Three hours later, I'll have the movie." — One recent evening on the Eastside of Los Angeles …
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| Emine Saner / The Guardian: |
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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
X changes its developer agreement to prevent third parties from using “the X API or X Content to fine-tune or train a foundation or frontier model” — Social network X has changed its developer agreement to prevent third parties from using the platform's content to train large language models.
More: The Verge, Mashable, X, and Social Media Today
| Bloomberg: |
Cursor maker Anysphere raised $900M led by Thrive at a $9.9B valuation, bringing its total funding to $1B+ and says its annualized revenue crossed $500M — The artificial intelligence rush has enabled some small startups to grow very big very quickly. But by some estimates … | Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: |
Anthropic co-founder Jared Kaplan says Anthropic cut Windsurf's direct access to Claude models because of reports that OpenAI is acquiring Windsurf — Anthropic Co-founder and Chief Science Officer Jared Kaplan said his company cut Windsurf's direct access to Anthropic's Claude AI models largely …
Forums: Hacker News and Slashdot
| Katherine Hamilton / Wall Street Journal: |
Broadcom reports Q2 revenue up 20% YoY to $15B, vs. $14.96B est., net income up 134% YoY to $4.97B, and sales from the AI industry up 46% YoY to $4.4B+ — Maker of semiconductors and software posted higher profit and sales as artificial intelligence demand continues to drive revenue growth
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| Thomas Brewster / Forbes: |
Cellebrite agrees to buy virtualization software startup Corellium in a $200M deal, with Corellium founder Chris Wade, pardoned by Trump in 2020, joining as CTO — Corellium founder and CEO Chris Wade is selling his startup to Cellebrite, law enforcement's favorite cellphone forensics business.
More: 9to5Mac, CyberScoop, AppleInsider, TechCrunch, Cellebrite, The Register, and Insider Monkey
| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
X is piloting a new program to use Community Notes feature to highlight posts on which people of typically differing opinions agree with each other — Elon Musk's X is piloting a new program to use its Community Notes feature to highlight posts where people of typically differing opinions actually agree …
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Anthropic unveils a new set of Claude Gov models tailored for US national security customers and designed to be applied to planning, analysis, and more — Anthropic says it has released a new set of AI models tailored for U.S. national security customers. — The new models, a custom set of …
More: Anthropic, The Verge, FedScoop, Fortune, SiliconANGLE, and implicator.ai
| Shannon Bond / NPR: |
OpenAI says it disrupted 10 malicious operations in the past three months, four of which likely originated in China and targeted multiple countries and topics — Chinese propagandists are using ChatGPT to write posts and comments on social media sites — and also to create performance reviews detailing …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
An Apple-funded study says developers using the App Store generated $1.3T globally in billings and sales in 2024, 90% on which developers paid no commission — Ahead of its Worldwide Developer Conference on June 9, Apple on Thursday offered a new update on its global App Store business … | Dario Amodei / New York Times: |
Anthropic CEO says a 10-year moratorium on AI regulation is “far too blunt an instrument” and calls for US federal transparency standards for AI companies — Picture this: You give a bot notice that you'll shut it down soon, and replace it with a different artificial intelligence system.
More: Reuters, Inc, Quartz, and Livemint
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Forums: r/technology and Slashdot
| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
CISA, the ACSC, and the FBI say that the Play ransomware gang, active since June 2022, had breached ~900 organizations as of May 2025, up 3x since October 2023 — In an update to a joint advisory with CISA and the Australian Cyber Security Centre, the FBI said that the Play ransomware gang … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
In May, Microsoft launched Signal, a 120-page print magazine focused on its tech and distributed to business leaders every few months, to counter digital noise — Signal is Microsoft's response to a world of noise and ephemeral content. … Of all the many ways Microsoft could mark its 50th anniversary … | Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Walmart expands its partnership with Alphabet-owned Wing to bring drone delivery services to Atlanta, Charlotte, Houston, Orlando, and Tampa, adding 100 stores — Customers who shop at Walmart stores in Atlanta, Charlotte, Houston, Orlando, and Tampa will soon have the ability to request a drone deliver their online shopping orders.
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| Dylan Martin / CRN: |
AMD says it has acquired the team behind AI inference chip developer Untether AI, a day after announcing it acquired AI software optimization startup Brium — The chip designer confirms to CRN that it has acquired the employees of Untether AI, a developer of AI inference chips marketed …
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