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June 19, 2025, 3:00 PM

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Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch:
Nobitex, Iran's largest crypto exchange, says it was hacked, and pro-Israel group Predatory Sparrow takes credit; Elliptic: the hackers stole and “burned” $90M+  —  Iran's largest crypto exchange, Nobitex, said Wednesday that it was hacked and funds have been drained from its hot wallet.
Barbara Ortutay / Associated Press:
Trump extends the TikTok ban deadline for a third time; there is no legal basis for the extensions and it is unclear how many times the deadline can be extended  —  President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order to keep TikTok running in the U.S. for another 90 days to give …
Andrew R. Chow / Time:
MIT study of 54 people writing essays using ChatGPT, Google Search, or no tools: ChatGPT users had the lowest brain engagement and underperformed neurologically  —  Does ChatGPT harm critical thinking abilities?  A new study from researchers at MIT's Media Lab has returned some concerning results.
Ben Schoon / 9to5Google:
Korean media: Google switching from Samsung's foundry to TSMC for its upcoming Pixel 10 series' Tensor G5 chip was a “shock” and is a wake-up call for Samsung  —  According to a new report, Google's switch from Samsung's foundry to TSMC for the Tensor G5 chip in the upcoming Pixel 10 series was a …
Sachi Kitajima Mulkey / New York Times:
A new study of 14 open-source LLMs: larger models use exponentially more energy and produce more greenhouse gas emissions, but do not always give better answers  —  When it comes to artificial intelligence, more intensive computing uses more energy, producing more greenhouse gases.
Andrej Karpathy / Y Combinator on YouTube:
Andrej Karpathy's talk on “Software 3.0”, with LLMs enabling programming via natural language, the decade of agents, LLMs as “fallible people spirits”, and more  —  Andrej Karpathy's keynote at AI Startup School in San Francisco.  Slides provided by Andrej: https …
Guillaume Grallet / Le Point:
Q&A with Pavel Durov on his arrest in France, Macron, Russia, the FBI, the fight for Telegram, leaving his wealth to the 100+ children he has fathered, and more  —  INTERVIEW.  “Le Point” met with the co-founder and CEO of the secure messaging app Telegram, who was charged in August 2024.
Zach Vallese / CNBC:
Sources: Google is using its expansive library of YouTube videos to train Gemini and Veo 3; Google says it only uses a subset of videos for the training  —  Google is using its expansive library of YouTube videos to train its artificial intelligence models, including Gemini and the Veo 3 video and audio generator, CNBC has learned.
Federico Viticci / MacStories:
An interview with Apple SVP Craig Federighi on the journey to iPadOS' windowing system and menu bar, the iPad's essence as a “magical piece of glass”, and more  —  It's a cool, sunny morning at Apple Park as I'm walking my way along the iconic glass ring to meet with Apple's SVP …
Barbara Moens / Financial Times:
The European Court of Justice's advocate-general says the EU fining Google €4.12B for using Android to squash rivals should be upheld, a major blow to Google  —  ECJ adviser supports Brussels regulators' findings over dominance of tech giant's Android mobile operating system
Emma Roth / The Verge:
Meta says it is adding support for passkeys to Facebook for iOS and Android “soon”, and will begin rolling out passkeys to Messenger “in the coming months”  —  Using your device security instead of a password makes it harder to get tricked into giving up your Facebook account.
Erin Brodwin / Axios:
Commure, which provides ambient AI, revenue cycle management, and workflow automation tools for healthcare providers, raised $200M from General Catalyst  —  Health care AI infrastructure startup Commure raised $200 million in growth financing from General Catalyst's “customer value fund,” …
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