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June 25, 2025, 2:30 AM
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Sarah Kessler / New York Times:
A surge in AI-generated résumés is overwhelming employers, who are turning to AI screening and interviewing tools to assess responses and rank candidates  —  Candidates are frustrated.  Employers are overwhelmed.  The problem?  An untenable pile of applications — many of them generated with the help of A.I. tools.
Olivia Sophie Rafferty / ai fray:
A US judge rules Anthropic's use of copyrighted books to train AI was fair use, but its storage of pirated books in a central library used for training was not  —  Context: Last August, book authors Andrea Bartz, Charles Graeber and Kirk Wallace Johnson filed a copyright infringement class action …
Zac Bowden / Windows Central:
Microsoft makes Windows 10's extended security updates free for an extra year for users who sync PC settings via a Microsoft Account and the Windows Backup app  —  Windows 10 users will have the option to continue receiving security updates for free beyond October 2025 …
Business Insider:
Scale AI used Google Docs to track work for customers like Google, Meta, and xAI, and left confidential AI training documents accessible to anyone with the link  —  - Scale AI routinely uses public Google Docs for work with Google, Meta, and xAI.  — BI reviewed thousands of files …
Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE:
Andy Konwinski, co-founder of Databricks and Perplexity, launches the nonprofit Laude Institute, self-funded with $100M for grants to AI projects and labs  —  Databricks Inc. co-founder and Apache Spark creator Andy Konwinski this week announced the creation of a new artificial intelligence …
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Apple sparks a backlash from iPhone owners after pushing a notification from the Apple Wallet app that promoted a Fandango deal for Apple's F1 movie  —  Apple customers aren't thrilled they're getting an ad from the Apple Wallet app promoting the tech giant's Original Film, “F1 the Movie.”
Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
CareerBuilder + Monster, which once dominated the online recruitment industry, files for Chapter 11 and agrees to sell its job board operations to JobGet  —  CareerBuilder + Monster, which once dominated the online recruitment industry, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Tuesday and said it plans to sell its businesses.
RT Watson / The Block:
Chainlink and Mastercard announce a partnership to enable card users to buy crypto “directly onchain through a secure fiat-to-crypto conversion”  —  - Chainlink and Mastercard have partnered to enable card users to buy crypto “directly onchain through a secure fiat-to-crypto conversion.”
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Chrome for Android is rolling out a feature that lets users move the address bar to the bottom of the screen, after it launched for iOS users in 2023  —  It's the correct place for the bar.  —  Google is starting to roll out a feature for Chrome on Android that lets users move the address bar to the bottom of the screen.
Electronic Frontier Foundation:
Analysis: of 750 data brokers registered in at least one US state, many failed to register in other states with transparency laws, undermining consumer privacy  —  Written in collaboration with Privacy Rights Clearinghouse  —  Hundreds of data brokers have not registered with state consumer protection agencies.
Wired:
Edward Coristine, a 19-year-old who has gone by “Big Balls” online and was one of the first technologists hired as part of DOGE, has resigned  —  The technologist Edward Coristine, a key operative in Elon Musk's so-called Department of Government Efficiency who's gone by the name …
Ryan Whitwam / Ars Technica:
Google releases a new Gemini Robotics On-Device model with an SDK and says the vision language action model can adapt to new tasks in 50 to 100 demonstrations  —  We sometimes call chatbots like Gemini and ChatGPT “robots,” but generative AI is also playing a growing role in real, physical robots.
LastWeekTonight on YouTube:
John Oliver's Last Week Tonight looks at AI slop, how it corrodes the concept of objective reality, the slop economy, tech leaders' enthusiasm for gen AI, more  —  ...AI tools have now reduced the barrier of entry to people who want to produce writing, images, or music that can seem plausibly professional …
Mark Lane / Financial Times:
How innovations in garden technology, including AI-driven watering systems and robotic mowers, originally built for agriculture, are now reaching home growers  —  From laser scarecrows and solar-powered weeding robots to trees bred to capture more carbon, high-tech horticulture is in full germination
Pranav Dixit / Business Insider:
WhatsApp has become a kind of AI marketplace where chatbots like ChatGPT, Meta AI, and Perplexity jockey for users' attention  —  - WhatsApp has become a hub for AI chatbots like ChatGPT and Perplexity, challenging Meta AI.  — WhatsApp's global reach and ease of use attract AI companies to integrate their chatbots.
The Information:
Sources: in 2024, OpenAI considered document collaboration features but lacked the staff to create them, but has since built some unreleased collaboration tools  —  OpenAI has been gearing up to take on Google and Microsoft with features that let people collaborate on documents …
More: The Economic Times.  Bluesky: @badfutures.com and @edzitron.com
X: @amir and @chatgpt21.  Forums: Slashdot
Jason Schreier / Bloomberg:
Sources: Microsoft is planning a round of Xbox layoffs next week, with managers expecting substantial cuts, the fourth big layoff at Xbox in the past 18 months  —  The video-game division's latest round of layoffs is expected next week … Managers within Xbox are expecting substantial cuts across …

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Alex Sherman / CNBC:
ESPN signs a deal to show the WWE's biggest live events, including WrestleMania, from 2026; sources say ESPN will pay $325M on average per year for five years

Harshita Mary Varghese / Reuters:
News Corp reports Q4 revenue up 1% YoY to $2.11B, vs. $2.1B est., and WSJ subscriptions up 7% YoY to 4.5M+ on average, 4.1M+ of which were digital-only

Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
A June ranking of the top 25 local public radio/TV websites in the US based on traffic shows MPR at the top, followed by LAist and Oregon Public Broadcasting

More News

Jay Peters / The Verge:
Roblox says it is on track to pay out $1B to creators in 2025, as it revamps its rewards program to encourage creators to bring more players onto the platform
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
AI dictation startup Wispr Flow raised a $30M Series A led by Menlo Ventures, after its 2024 pivot away from a hardware device, taking its total funding to $56M
Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge:
Amazon says it plans to bring same-day or next-day delivery to “tens of millions” of people who live “in more than 4,000” smaller US towns by the end of 2026
Jez Corden / Windows Central:
Microsoft and Meta unveil the $399 Meta Quest 3S Xbox Edition, a bundle with the $299 Meta Quest 3S in a new color, available in “extremely limited” quantities

Earlier Picks

Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
Google rolls out historical Street View imagery on Google Earth as the service turns 20, and says pro US users can access AI insights, like tree canopy coverage
Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge:
Waymo launches robotaxis in Atlanta available exclusively in Uber's app, covering a 65-square-mile area excluding highways, after launching in Austin on March 4
Belle Lin / Wall Street Journal:
Abridge, which uses AI to automate doctors' notetaking, raised $300M led by a16z at a $5.3B valuation, after raising $250M at a $2.75B valuation in February
Cristina Criddle / Financial Times:
Researchers: “chain of thought” techniques used by Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, and xAI show inconsistencies where chatbot answers contradict the stated reasoning
Google Developers Blog:
The Linux Foundation unveils the Agent2Agent project, with founding members including Google, Amazon, and Microsoft; Google donated the protocol spec and SDKs
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