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July 1, 2025, 2:35 PM

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Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch:
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 …
Bloomberg:
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 …
Avery Lotz / Axios:
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 …
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.
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.
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.
Ben Weiss / Fortune:
American Bitcoin, a bitcoin mining and holding company backed by Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr. that is a subsidiary of publicly traded Hut 8, raised $220M  —  Eric Trump (left), Donald Trump Jr. (center), and Mike Ho, executive chairman and board member of American Bitcoin.
Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
The passed version of the Senate's OBBB has a provision that removes the 6 GHz band's protection from spectrum auctions; Wi-Fi 6E and Wi-Fi 7 use the 6 GHz band  —  Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) has a plan for spectrum auctions that could take frequencies away from Wi-Fi and reallocate them for the exclusive use of wireless carriers.

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