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US Bureau of Labor Statistics data: employment in 18 AI-exposed occupations fell 0.2% between May 2024 and May 2025, while the broader US labor market rose 0.8% — Several US occupations expected to be impacted by artificial intelligence saw heavy job losses for a second year in 2025 … | Bloomberg: |
Filings: YouTube, Snap, and TikTok reach agreements to settle a lawsuit, set for trial in June, over claims social media addiction disrupted kids' learning — Snap Inc., Google's YouTube and ByteDance Ltd.'s TikTok reached agreements to settle the first lawsuit headed to trial over claims …
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| Maxwell Zeff / Wired: |
OpenAI memo: Greg Brockman says he will lead product strategy as part of a reorg, folding ChatGPT, Codex, and developer-facing API into one core product team — OpenAI is once again reorganizing its executive ranks as part of its effort to unify ChatGPT and Codex into one core product experience.
More: MacRumors, Benzinga, The Verge, CNET, Daring Fireball, Implicator.ai, The Information, TechRadar, WinBuzzer, Semafor, iThinkDifferent, PCMag, Android Authority, The Indian Express, Digital Trends, Business Today, Business Standard, Neowin, Digit, Pulse 2.0, The Mac Observer, and iClarified
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Forums: r/ChatGPTcomplaints, r/technology, r/OpenAI, and r/ChatGPT
| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
Sources: OpenAI acquired Weights.gg, which offered AI tools to create clones of people's voices, earlier this year; PitchBook: Weights.gg had raised roughly $4M — The acquisition, Weights.gg, was a sort of social network for creating and sharing artificial intelligence algorithms.| Samantha Cole / 404 Media: |
ArXiv, the repository of preprint academic research, says it will ban authors for a year if their papers have “incontrovertible evidence” of AI-generated work — The change comes as arXiv and others struggle to manage an influx of AI-generated materials masquerading as rigorous science.
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| Mia Sato / The Verge: |
YouTube expands its AI likeness detection program to all users over the age of 18, after rolling it out to select creators, politicians, journalists, and others — Likeness detection, which scans YouTube for facial matches, will now be available to anyone 18 years or older with a YouTube account.| Kwanwoo Jun / Wall Street Journal: |
South Korea's Hana Bank agrees to acquire a 6.55% stake in Dunamu, which runs South Korea's largest crypto exchange Upbit, for $672.5M from Kakao — The deal would make Hana Bank the fourth largest shareholder in Dunamu — Hana Bank will buy a roughly $670 million stake …
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| Zinnia Lee / Forbes: |
Shenzhen-listed RoboTechnik, which claims to be the largest silicon photonics tool maker and whose stock is up 340% over the past year, files for a HK listing — RoboTechnik Intelligent Technology's Shenzhen-listed shares soared 340% over the past year, propelling founder Dai Jun's net worth to $2.4 billion.| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI debuts personal finance tools for US ChatGPT Pro users, partnering with Plaid to give access to 12K+ financial institutions to analyze spending and more — On Friday, OpenAI launched a new set of personal finance tools in preview for ChatGPT Pro subscribers in the U.S. …
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| Anirban Sen / Reuters: |
Sources: Kalshi has probed and flagged 400+ suspicious trades YTD, more than 2x the number it investigated in all of 2025; Polymarket has seen a similar uptick — Top prediction market platforms Kalshi and Polymarket have witnessed a surge in suspicious trades this year … | Reuters: |
Sources: SpaceX aims to make its IPO prospectus public by next week, targeting a June 12 listing on Nasdaq, driven by a faster-than-expected SEC review — Elon Musk's rocket and satellite maker SpaceX is planning to price its blockbuster initial public offering as early as June 11 … | John Ainger / Bloomberg: |
Power prices on the largest electric grid in the US, operated by PJM, jumped 76% YoY to an average of $136.53/MWh in Q1 due to rampant demand from data centers — Power prices on the largest electric grid in the US jumped 76% in the first quarter due to rampant demand from data centers …
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| Krisztian Sandor / CoinDesk: |
LA-based Fasset, which offers stablecoin-powered banking and cross-border payments services across Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, raised a $51M Series B — The Shariah-compliant digital bank is part of a growing wave of fintech startups building banking and payments services on top of blockchain and stablecoin rails.
More: Crowdfund Insider, Fasset, crypto.news, TNGlobal, DealStreetAsia, FinTech Global, PYMNTS, and FinTech Global. LinkedIn: Daniel Ahmed
| Bill Gurley / Bill's Substack: |
How tech companies are using open source initiatives to achieve critical strategic goals and how such efforts are reshaping industries like AI, AVs, and more — How the Smartest Executives Are Using Open Source Techniques to Optimize Corporate Strategy — Nearly 27 years ago, on July 12 …
More: Implicator.ai and Yahoo Finance
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