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Rashi Shrivastava / Forbes:
A profile of music AI startup Suno, valued at ~$2.5B with 2M+ paying users and $300M annualized revenue as of February, as it battles record labels and artists  —  The music AI startup is battling record labels and angry artists as it upends how millions of people create songs.
Michael Acton / Financial Times:
Apple's handling of vibe coding apps draws complaints from startups like Replit and Anything that iOS App Store rules for their apps are applied erratically  —  iPhone maker warns about security risks as new software floods its review process  —  Apple's handling of “vibe coding” …
Lauren Thomas / Wall Street Journal:
GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen says he is making an unsolicited ~$56B offer to buy eBay and will take the offer to shareholders if the company is not receptive  —  Cohen told The Wall Street Journal he wants to make eBay a ‘legit competitor to Amazon’  —  GameStop Chief Executive Ryan Cohen …
New York Times:
Chinese state media: AI-generated Chinese microdramas to be worth $3B+ in 2026, out of a $14B+ total microdrama market, boosted by tools like Seedance 2.0  —  This actor was just hitting his stride when A.I.-generated dramas took off and roles disappeared.  —  This director is thrilled …
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Wall Street Journal:
An analysis of 1.6M Polymarket accounts since November 2022: 0.1% of users take 67% of profits, with the highest-frequency traders seeing the most success  —  A WSJ analysis shows a small number of accounts on Polymarket and Kalshi—often pros using data-driven algorithmic trading—take home most of the winnings
Jason Lemkin / SaaStr:
A look at Atlassian and Twilio earnings beats, with early signs of Atlassian's AI response success and Twilio becoming a picks-and-shovels layer for AI agents  —  So this week two of the more important bellwether names in B2B software reported earnings.  And neither of them just “beat.”
Natsuki Yamamoto / Nikkei Asia:
Sources: SoftBank plans to make lithium- and cobalt-free data center batteries in Japan as soon as FY2027, as Japan tries to cut its reliance on Chinese metals  —  TOKYO — Japan's SoftBank Group will seek to make batteries that do not require expensive lithium and cobalt in Japan …
Chase DiBenedetto / Mashable:
Ask.com shutters, as its owner IAC “continues to sharpen its focus”; a dot-com era icon, Ask Jeeves launched in 1997, a year before Google  —  “As IAC continues to sharpen its focus, we have made the decision to discontinue our search business, which includes Ask.com.

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Erik Hayden / The Hollywood Reporter:
Vox Media sells The Verge, SB Nation, Thrillist, The Dodo, and more to Penske; Vox's Ryan Pauley will join Penske as president of PMX, the new media brands unit

Elsa Keslassy / Variety:
Netflix subscribers in France can now access TF1 broadcasts and TF1+ on-demand content within Netflix at no extra cost; TF1 handles ad sales and programming

Brandy Zadrozny / MS NOW:
The Onion plans to relaunch Infowars on July 2 and will route more than $100,000 to Sandy Hook families, as legal fights over the website continue

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Chavie Lieber / Wall Street Journal:
How Amazon's expansion into fashion helped Jeff Bezos enter fashion's inner circle, as he and Lauren Sánchez Bezos become underwriters for this year's Met Gala
Ben Cohen / Wall Street Journal:
A profile of BlackBerry's QNX division, whose operating system controls safety features in 275M cars and accounts for half of BlackBerry's revenue

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NIST:
An evaluation by NIST's CAISI says DeepSeek V4 Pro lags behind leading US AI models by about eight months and is the most capable Chinese AI model to date
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