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The Senate votes 99-1 to remove a Trump tax bill provision that would have barred states from regulating AI if they got funding from a $500M broadband program — The Senate killed a controversial effort to prevent US states from regulating artificial intelligence, marking a loss …
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LinkedIn: Leah Frazier and Ben Colman
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Cloudflare debuts “Pay per Crawl”, a marketplace that lets sites charge AI crawlers per crawl; new sites using Cloudflare will now block AI crawlers by default — Cloudflare, a cloud infrastructure provider that serves 20% of the web, announced Tuesday the launch of a new marketplace …
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Mastodon: @ricmac@mastodon.social, @kaiserkiwi@corteximplant.com, @nixCraft@mastodon.social, @carnage4life@mas.to, and @arch@floofy.tech
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LinkedIn: Sam Jacobs, Kate Knibbs, and Björn Rudling
Forums: r/webscraping and r/CloudFlare
| Zoë Schiffer / Wired: |
Sam Altman said in a memo to staff, “missionaries will beat mercenaries” and “I believe there is much, much more upside to OpenAI stock than Meta stock” — “What Meta is doing will, in my opinion, lead to very deep cultural problems,” said CEO Sam Altman in a leaked memo sent to OpenAI researchers.
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Forums: Hacker News, r/singularity, r/OpenAI, r/artificial, and r/technology
| Zoë Schiffer / Wired: |
Source: Mark Zuckerberg has, on 10+ occasions, offered to pay AI research talent up to $300M over four years, with $100M+ in compensation for the first year — The Meta CEO is leading a hiring blitz, offering top talent at OpenAI eye-watering pay packages and endless access to cutting-edge chips.
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Figma files for an IPO, plans to trade on the NYSE under FIG, and reports Q1 revenue increased 46% YoY to $228.2M and net income grew from $13.5M to $44.9M YoY — Design software company Figma filed for an IPO on Tuesday, and plans to trade on the New York Stock Exchange under ticker symbol “FIG.”
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| Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: |
X will start to publish Community Notes written by AI agents; developers will soon be able to submit their own “fact-checking” AI agents for review — Elon Musk's X will start to publish Community Notes written by artificial intelligence agents, a move to increase the speed …
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| Krystal Hu / Reuters: |
Grammarly acquires email startup Superhuman as part of a push to diversify and build an AI productivity suite; Superhuman was valued at $825M in August 2021 — Grammarly has acquired email efficiency tool Superhuman as part of the company's push to build an artificial intelligence-powered productivity suite …
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Threads launches DMs for users aged 18 and older, without support for E2EE, and announces a “highlighter” feature to emphasize trending topics — For now, you can only send DMs to your followers on Threads or mutual followers on Instagram. … Threads has officially launched direct messaging for everyone.
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Nothing unveils the $799 Phone 3, with a 6.7" AMOLED display, Snapdragon 8s Gen 4 chip, three 50MP rear cameras, and the $299 Headphone 1, both shipping July 15 — The five-year-old company, known for its bold designs, unveiled the Phone 3 and a pair of similarly quirky headphones.
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| Tabby Kinder / Financial Times: |
Sources: Palmer Luckey is preparing to launch Erebor, a US bank backed by Joe Lonsdale and other tech investors to serve startups, including crypto businesses — Start-up named after the dragon's mountain in ‘Lord of the Rings’ — A group of tech billionaires led by Palmer Luckey … | Blake Brittain / Reuters: |
A California jury rules Google is liable in a 2019 class action lawsuit over collecting information from users' devices without permission and must pay $314.6M+ — A jury in San Jose, California, said on Tuesday that Google misused customers' cell phone data and must pay more than $314.6 million …
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| The Information: |
Sources: Anthropic's revenue hit a pace of $4B/year, up almost 4x from the beginning of 2025; Cursor maker Anysphere has poached two of Claude Code's leaders — Anysphere, the maker of Cursor, an artificial intelligence-powered coding app, has hired two leaders of Anthropic's competing coding product …
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| Avery Lotz / Axios: |
Trump says “We might have to put DOGE on Elon”, “DOGE is the monster that might have to go back and eat Elon”, and “We'll have to take a look” at deporting Musk — President Trump said Tuesday that DOGE could investigate Elon Musk, the latest indicator …
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Bluesky: @eliothiggins, @rmac, @atrupar.com, @lorak, @techaltar, and @joshtpm. Truth Social: @realDonaldTrump …
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Forums: r/politics and r/goodnews
| Ethan Baron / SiliconValley.com: |
Filing: Apple sues Di Liu, a former senior product designer for the Vision Pro, for allegedly stealing a “massive volume” of its trade secrets to take to Snap — Di Liu allegedly told iPhone maker he needed family time — Di Liu of San Jose told Apple he was resigning … | Miles Kruppa / The Information: |
Morgan Stanley says xAI raised $5B of equity in addition to $5B in debt; the startup raised $6B in December from a16z, BlackRock, Lightspeed, MGX, and others — Elon Musk's xAI raised $5 billion of equity in addition to $5 billion in debt, according to Morgan Stanley, which advised on the debt transactions.
More: CNBC, SiliconANGLE, TechCrunch, Bloomberg, New York Post, CoinGape, Cryptopolitan, and Reuters
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