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June 13, 2025, 10:45 AM
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Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch:
The public feed of the Meta AI app is filled with private and sensitive information, suggesting users might not be aware they are sharing their chats publicly  —  It sounds like the start of a 21st century horror film: Your browser history has been public all along, and you had no idea.
Bloomberg:
Meta announces a $14.3B investment in Scale AI and hires CEO Alexandr Wang to help oversee its AI efforts; source: Scale AI's post-money valuation is $29B  —  Meta said Thursday that it has backed Scale, without including details.  The size of the investment was $14.3 billion, according to a person familiar with the matter.
Jackie Davalos / Bloomberg:
Meta's Scale AI deal dwarfs rivals' “reverse acquihires” in scope and ambition, showing that its fear of lagging in AI outweighs fears of regulatory backlash  —  Tech Across the Globe … Revalued  —  Samsung and Nvidia are investing in Skild AI, seeking to support …
Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch:
Google Cloud suffered an outage on Thursday, affecting many of its customers; Cloudflare, Spotify, Discord, Snapchat, and others experienced service disruptions  —  Large swaths of the internet went down on Thursday, affecting a range of services, from global cloud platform Cloudflare to popular apps like Spotify.
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Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Walmart, Amazon, and Expedia have recently explored issuing or using stablecoins in the US to potentially save fees from cash and card transactions  —  Corporate coins could take payments activity away from banks and the traditional financial system
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple has set an internal release target of spring 2026 for its delayed upgrade of Siri, as part of an iOS 26.4 software update  —  Apple Inc. has set an internal release target of spring 2026 for its delayed upgrade of Siri, marking a key step in its artificial intelligence turnaround effort.
Dominic Preston / The Verge:
Google plans to shut down Android's Instant Apps, which let users launch apps without installing them, later this year citing low usage and engagement  —  The installation-free apps will join the Google graveyard in December. … Google has confirmed that it plans to shut …
CoinDesk:
Shopify partners with Coinbase to enable USDC payments for its merchants through Coinbase's Base layer-2 network, starting with a limited group of merchants  —  The integration is set to roll out on June 12 to a limited group of early access merchants, with wider availability expected later in the year.
Tanaya Macheel / CNBC:
Coinbase announces its first branded credit card, in partnership with American Express, for Coinbase One US users, and creates a lower-cost Basic subscription
Dong Cao / Bloomberg:
Sources: Tencent is in early talks to acquire Nexon, the South Korean gaming giant behind Dungeon & Fighter Mobile; Tencent pursued a Nexon acquisition in 2019  —  Shenzhen-based Tencent has reached out to the family of Nexon's late founder Kim Jung-ju to discuss the possibility of an acquisition …
Reuters:
Customs data shows Foxconn exported $3.2B worth of iPhones from India between March and May, with an average 97% to the US, up from a 2024 average of 50.3%  —  Nearly all the iPhones exported by Foxconn from India went to the United States between March and May, customs data showed …
Jeremy Fuster / The Wrap:
SAG-AFTRA's Interactive Media Agreement with game companies requires performers' informed consent for all planned AI use on their voice, likeness, and movements  —  Full text of the tentative agreement will be released June 18 for a ratification vote period that ends July 9
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Heather Somerville / Wall Street Journal:
The Army Reserve launches Detachment 201, an innovation corps with Palantir CTO, Meta CTO, and other tech execs advising on AI and tech as lieutenant colonels  —  Silicon Valley executives are joining a new innovation corps in Army Reserve  —  The nerd brigade is reporting for duty.
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
The BBC is seeking to subpoena Donald Trump Jr., Ivanka Trump, and Jared Kushner in the defamation lawsuit the president is pressing against the broadcaster

Dade Hayes / Deadline:
ABC and NBC plan to air a combined 90 NBA games in the 2026-2027 season, a 14% increase over last season, continuing the shift away from comedies and dramas

Bryan P. Sears / Maryland Matters:
A Maryland court strikes down a state tax on some digital ads as a violation of the Internet Tax Freedom Act; Apple, Google, and Peacock TV challenged the tax

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Emma Roth / The Verge:
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Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware:
AMD unveils its new MI350X and MI355X GPUs for AI workloads, claiming up to 4x AI compute performance and 35x inference gains over the prior-gen MI300X
MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC:
Chime shares jumped 37% in their Nasdaq debut on Thursday, closing at $37.11 and giving the company a market cap of $13.5B
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch:
A Citizen Lab report finds that two European journalists had their iPhones hacked with Paragon spyware; Apple fixed the zero-day used in the spyware in February
New York Times:
Sources: FTC is discussing a consent decree on the Omnicom-Interpublic merger, prohibiting the combined company from boycotting platforms over political content
Savyata Mishra / Reuters:
Mattel partners with OpenAI to create AI-powered toys and games, with the first product expected in 2025, and integrates ChatGPT Enterprise in its business
Emanuel Maiberg / 404 Media:
Meta sues Joy Timeline, which makes nudify app CrushAI, in Hong Kong to prevent it from advertising on Meta apps; in January, 90% of its traffic came from Meta
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