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June 7, 2025, 10:35 AM

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Eric Geller / Cybersecurity Dive:
President Trump signs an EO scrapping or revising several Biden- and Obama-era cybersecurity programs, including for AI security and post-quantum cryptography  —  The White House accused the Biden administration of trying to “sneak problematic and distracting issues into cybersecurity policy.”
Jason Shubnell / The Block:
Eric Trump says the TRUMP memecoin team and Magic Eden have canceled the $TRUMP Wallet; Trump's World Liberty Financial reportedly sent them a cease-and-desist  —  - Earlier this week, Magic Eden and the $TRUMP token project announced a forthcoming “official” wallet and trading app.
Emma Roth / The Verge:
Google rolls out “scheduled actions” in the Gemini app, allowing AI Pro and AI Ultra subscribers to ask the AI assistant to perform tasks at specific times  —  Now subscribers can ask the AI assistant to provide calendar summaries on a daily basis or generate a summary of an event after it takes place.
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
AI research nonprofit EleutherAI releases the Common Pile v0.1, an 8TB dataset of licensed and open-domain text for AI models that it says is one of the largest  —  EleutherAI, an AI research organization, has released what it claims is one of the largest collections of licensed and open-domain text for training AI models.
Edward Ludlow / Bloomberg:
Milan Kovac, Tesla's head of engineering for Optimus, is leaving; source: Ashok Elluswamy, who leads Autopilot teams, will take over the humanoid robot program  —  Milan Kovac, the head of engineering for Optimus, informed colleagues on Friday that he is departing effective immediately …
Rest of World:
New apps are helping immigrants navigate Trump's deportation crackdown, including by alerting users to locations of ICE raids and informing them of their rights  —  With tightening immigration policies and rising fears of deportation, new apps provide migrants with resources to stay prepared and connected.
Alex Leary / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Trump plans to extend TikTok's June 19 sale deadline; ByteDance told the White House that China wouldn't approve a deal until trade negotiations began  —  The move would mark Trump's third extension, as he seeks to stave off enforcement of a law requiring that the app be banned in the U.S. or sold
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Sebastian Herrera / Wall Street Journal:
A profile of Panos Panay, head of devices and services at Amazon, who has scaled back new releases to focus on perfecting products like Alexa+ before rollout  —  Panos Panay needs the more advanced Alexa+ assistant to be a hit.  For 10 years, the product has struggled to evolve.
Financial Times:
Microsoft plans to add a “safety” category to its AI leaderboard on Azure Foundry, with a safety metric based on its ToxiGen and CAIS's WMD Proxy benchmarks  —  Tech group's corporate clients use its ‘leaderboard’ to assess rival offerings by likes of OpenAI and Elon Musk's xAI
Bloomberg:
An Indian government official says Starlink has secured a license from the telecom ministry to launch services in the country and now must apply for spectrum  —  Elon Musk's Starlink Inc. has got regulatory approval in India, paving the way for rolling out its satellite internet services in the world's most-populous country.

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