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| Zoë Schiffer / Wired: |
Memo: OpenAI's Mark Chen responds to Meta offers, says it feels like “someone has broken into our home and stolen something” and OpenAI is “recalibrating comp” — As Mark Zuckerberg lures away top research talent to Meta, OpenAI executives say they're ‘recalibrating comp,’ according to an internal memo.
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X: @mikeisaac, @bgurley, @kimmonismus, @signulll, @signulll, @morqon, @bonybean, and @bonybean
Forums: r/OpenAI and r/singularity
| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Kuo: Apple plans a cheaper MacBook powered by iPhone 16 Pro's A18 Pro chip and with a ~13" display, expected to enter mass production in late 2025 or early 2026 — Apple's current entry-level laptop is the $999 MacBook Air, but analyst Ming-Chi Kuo believes Apple is aiming to launch an even more affordable model soon.
More: Neowin and Cult of Mac
| Marcus Mendes / 9to5Mac: |
Kuo expects Apple to mass produce a Vision Pro with M5 in Q3 2025, a Vision Air in Q3 2027, a Vision Pro with a new design and XR glasses in H2 2028, and more — In a blog post today, analyst Ming-Chi Kuo detailed his updated roadmap forecast for Apple's headset and smart glasses markets.
More: Ming-Chi Kuo, GSMArena.com, The Mac Observer, Livemint, iClarified, and Laptop Mag
X: @scobleizer, @scobleizer, and @mingchikuo
Forums: r/VisionPro and r/apple
| NPR: |
Sources: the US DHS, in partnership with DOGE, has built the first-ever searchable national citizenship data system, pulling from SSA and immigration databases — The Trump administration has, for the first time ever, built a searchable national citizenship data system.
Bluesky: @rachelcoldicutt and @marypcbuk
Mastodon: @lauren@mastodon …, @peter@thepit.social, and @scottwilson@infosec.exchange
Forums: r/NoShitSherlock, r/Fuckthealtright, r/esist, r/Defeat_Project_2025, r/conservativeterrorism, r/LegalNews, r/EnoughMuskSpam, r/politics, r/fivethirtyeight, r/behindthebastards, r/FreeSpeech, r/AnythingGoesNews, r/KnowledgeFight, r/50501, r/NPR, r/Foodforthought, r/suppressed_news, r/AntiTrumpAlliance, r/privacy, r/technology, r/somethingiswrong2024, r/itshappeninghere, r/TheLib, r/law, r/neoliberal, and r/democrats
| Associated Press: |
Canada rescinds its Digital Services Tax “in anticipation of” a trade deal with the US, with trade talks resuming; the tax was set to go into effect on Monday — Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney says trade talks with U.S. have resumed after Canada rescinded its plan to tax U.S. technology firms.
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Forums: r/StockMarket, r/ndp, r/CanadaPolitics, r/Conservative, r/onguardforthee, r/technology, r/Economics, r/worldnews, and r/neoliberal
| Noah Smith / Noahpinion: |
Elon Musk calls the Senate tax bill “utterly insane” as it raises taxes on nuclear and geothermal energy and battery storage, which are crucial for AI training — Trump's “Big Beautiful Bill” is an attack on American energy production. — There are many things to despise …
More: Washington Post, New York Times, Reuters, implicator.ai, SiliconANGLE, CleanTechnica, Cryptopolitan, The Hill, and Politico
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LinkedIn: Shawn Kelly and Guido Palazzo
Forums: r/politics, r/NoShitSherlock, r/centrist, r/environment, and r/climate
| Anthony D'Alessandro / Deadline: |
The F1 movie gives Apple its first box office hit, opening to $144M worldwide and $55.6M in the US; it was pushed on Apple Music, Podcasts, Fitness+, and Wallet — It's a win for racing car movies. It's a win for Zack Van Amburg and Jamie Erlicht led Apple Original Films on the big screen …
More: Daring Fireball, Variety, The Express Tribune, Collider, Collider, Screen Rant, The Playlist, El Paso Inc., Flickering Myth, The Plunge Daily, Engadget, 9to5Mac, Forbes, New York Times, Oh No They Didn't!, The Hollywood Reporter, Los Angeles Times, MediaPost, Spyglass, Deadline, and UPI
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X: @mgsiegler, @maxwinebach, @naughtyrobot725, @buzzpatterson, @kfcbarstool, @calebcsw, @rollingstone, and @bendreyfuss. LinkedIn: Randy Greenberg
Forums: r/blankies, r/formula1, r/tvPlus, and r/boxoffice
| Wall Street Journal: |
A profile of OnlyFans' secretive founder Leo Radvinsky, as the platform's parent company is considering a sale for as much as $8B, according to sources — Leo Radvinsky is asking as much as $8 billion for the platform he popularized for sex workers and others producing explicit content, even as he personally avoids the spotlight
Forums: r/technology
| Bloomberg: |
GOP Senators agree to change a provision in the tax bill from a 10-year ban on state AI regulation to a 5-year ban with carve outs for issues such as copyrights — The Senate is poised to approve a controversial provision preventing some US states from regulating artificial intelligence …
More: Townhall
| Peter Whoriskey / Washington Post: |
Jim Chanos, who famously shorted Enron, calls Michael Saylor's bitcoin strategy “financial gibberish”, as Saylor inspires several copycats like Trump Media — Michael Saylor earned billions selling company stock to buy bitcoin. Jim Chanos, who famously shorted Enron, is suspicious.| New York Times: |
How India is carving out space for high-end manufacturing, including a $2.5B Foxconn iPhone factory in Devanahalli, near Bengaluru, aiming to create 40K jobs — India is carving out a new space for Foxconn and other high-end manufacturers, just as President Trump demands American companies do at home.| Yuliya Chernova / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Menlo Ventures targets ~$1.5B for new funds to invest in AI ventures, including $650M for early-stage startups, and $850M for later-stage companies — The investor in Anthropic and other artificial-intelligence companies is raising about $1.5 billion for new venture funds| Financial Times: |
Sensor Tower: Temu's US MAU fell 51% to 40.2M from March to June, while Shein's dropped 12% to 41.4M, amid the US' China tariffs and “de minimis” closure — Online retailers Temu and Shein have seen their once rapid user growth go into reverse in the US after President Donald … | Kevin Williams / CNBC: |
Baidu plans to open-source its Ernie LLM on June 30; some say this could cement China's AI leadership, while others doubt it will be a “DeepSeek moment” — On Monday, Chinese technology giant Baidu plans to make its Ernie generative AI large language model open source … Sponsor Posts
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