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| Lydia Beyoud / Bloomberg: |
The SEC and CFTC issue guidance on which digital assets are securities, carving out stablecoins, digital collectives, and digital commodities as non-securities — The Securities and Exchange Commission issued a long-awaited “token taxonomy” on Tuesday, a key step forward laying out which types …
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| Karen Freifeld / Reuters: |
Source: Beijing has approved multiple Chinese companies to purchase H200 chips from Nvidia; a Chinese spokesperson said they are “not aware of specifics” — Chinese authorities have granted approval for multiple Chinese companies to purchase H200 AI chips from Nvidia, according to a person familiar with the situation.| Ina Fried / Axios: |
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Brian Lynch, Apple's senior director in charge of home devices since 2022, leaves for Oura, a setback for a unit already contending with product delays — Apple Inc.'s top hardware engineering executive overseeing home devices is leaving for smart ring maker Oura Health Oy …
More: MacRumors, Digit, The Mac Observer, 9to5Mac, iClarified, AppleInsider, Pulse 2.0, and Gizmodo
| David Gewirtz / ZDNET: |
OpenAI launches GPT-5.4 mini and nano, aimed at agents, coding, and multi-modal workflows, and offering near GPT-5.4-level performance at a much lower cost — ZDNET's key takeaways — GPT-5.4 mini runs more than twice as fast as GPT-5 mini. — New models aim at agents, coding, and multi-modal workflows.
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| Paresh Dave / Wired: |
Filing: the DOD said it designated Anthropic a supply chain risk over concerns the AI company could disable its tech if the Pentagon crossed its “red lines” — In response to Anthropic's lawsuit, the government said it lawfully penalized the company for trying to limit …
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| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
A US judge rules Apple can remove apps “with or without cause”, a loss for Musi, a streaming app removed from the App Store that used YouTube to source music — Musi, a free music streaming app that had tens of millions of iPhone downloads and garnered plenty of controversy …
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| Riley Griffin / Bloomberg: |
Meta says Quest users will lose access to Meta Horizon Worlds on the headsets on June 15; access will continue on the Meta Horizon mobile app — Meta Platforms Inc. said that users of its Quest headsets will lose access to Horizon Worlds, a virtual destination where cartoon versions of people …
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Microsoft says former Snap executive Jacob Andreou will lead Copilot for commercial and consumers; Mustafa Suleyman will focus on building new AI models — Microsoft said Tuesday that it's bringing together the engineering groups for its commercial and consumer Copilot assistants, which have yet to gain broad adoption.
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| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Google expands Personal Intelligence, which lets Gemini tailor its responses by connecting to Gmail and other Google services, from paid users to all US users — Google announced on Tuesday that it's expanding Personal Intelligence, its feature that allows its AI assistant to tailor …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: a JPMorgan-led bank group halted a $5.3B debt deal for Qualtrics, whose existing $1.5B loan trades at 86 cents on the dollar, on weak investor interest — A group of banks led by JPMorgan Chase & Co. halted a $5.3 billion debt deal for software firm Qualtrics International Inc …
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| Anna Washenko / Engadget: |
Arizona sues Kalshi for allegedly operating an illegal gambling business and unlawfully facilitating betting on elections; Kalshi faces a similar suit in Nevada — It's also facing a similar lawsuit in Nevada. — Kalshi has been sued by Arizona's attorney general for operating …
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| TechCrunch: |
Mistral announces Mistral Forge to help enterprises build custom models actually trained on their own data, using Mistral open-weight models as a starting point — Most enterprise AI projects fail not because companies lack the technology, but because the models they're using don't understand their business.| Katherine Bindley / Wall Street Journal: |
Companies start to track employees' AI token use, tallying the costs to measure their return on AI investments and to prevent unauthorized uses of tokens — Companies that now regularly use artificial intelligence are starting to track their workers' use of tokens, AI's unit of measurement| CoinDesk: |
Robinhood Ventures Fund I discloses its first investments, buying $14.6M of Stripe shares and $20M of ElevenLabs' preferred stock in March — The closed-end fund aims to give everyday investors exposure to private firms before they go public. — What to know:
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| Blake Brittain / Reuters: |
A US appeals court puts on hold an earlier ruling that had blocked Perplexity from using its agentic shopping tool to shop on Amazon's marketplace — A U.S. appeals court has put a California judge's ruling on hold that had blocked Perplexity AI from using its artificial-intelligence-powered …
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| Arvelisse Bonilla Ramos / Bloomberg: |
AI drone software company Swarmer closed up 520% in its Nasdaq debut, valuing it at $380M+; its tech has been deployed in 100K+ combat missions in Ukraine — Swarmer Inc. shares skyrocketed as much as 700% on Tuesday, making the artificial intelligence drone software company's debut …
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| Esther Fung / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Amazon, which has long been USPS' biggest customer, plans to cut packages it ships via the service by at least 60% this fall, when its contract expires — The e-commerce giant wants to reduce its postal volume by at least two-thirds by this fall — Amazon.com is planning … | The San Francisco Standard: |
Founders are increasingly leasing multimillion-dollar mansions in San Francisco's wealthy neighborhoods as corporate HQs and hacker houses, amid the AI boom — When Zach Dive completed his stint at the startup accelerator Y Combinator last summer, he began thinking about where to put his company's first office.| Luz Ding / Bloomberg: |
Alibaba raises prices for its T-Head AI computing chips, including the Zhenwu 810E, by 5% to 34%, and its Cloud Parallel File Storage by 30%, after demand soars — Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. is raising prices for its AI computing and storage products by as much as 34% …
More: The Economic Times
| Eduardo Baptista / Reuters: |
A mystery 1T-parameter AI model called Hunter Alpha, which appeared on OpenRouter on March 11, sparks speculation that DeepSeek is quietly testing its V4 model — A powerful artificial intelligence model that appeared anonymously on a developer platform last week has sparked speculation …
More: The Independent
| Reuters: |
The UK FCA says Meta has repeatedly failed to stop illegal ads for high-risk financial products running on its platforms, despite committing to block them — U.S. tech giant Meta (META.O) has repeatedly failed to stop illegal ads for high-risk financial products running on its platforms in Britain …
More: MediaPost
| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Chartbeat: over two years, search traffic fell by 60% for small publishers with 1K-10K daily page views, 47% for medium-sized publishers, and 22% for large ones — Smaller web publishers, with 1,000-10,000 daily page views, are experiencing the most precipitous traffic declines in the AI era … | Financial Times: |
Banks start offloading $18B debt tied to the $55B buyout of EA; sources say EA told potential investors AI could let gaming companies cut engineering workforces — Wall Street banks have started offloading $18bn of debt tied to the $55bn leveraged buyout of video game maker Electronic Arts …
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