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Joseph De Avila / Wall Street Journal:
Fox says it is acquiring Roku in its largest deal yet, valued at ~$22B including debt, giving it access to 100M+ streaming households globally; FOX drops 10%+  —  Acquisition gives Fox access to more than 100 million streaming households  —  Fox said it is acquiring streaming company Roku …
Lillian Rizzo / CNBC:
Fox says it obtained a $12B loan for the ~$22B Roku deal; existing Fox shareholders are expected to own ~73% of the combined company and Roku shareholders ~27%  —  Fox Corp. has reached an agreement to acquire Roku for roughly $22 billion, marking another chapter in media consolidation …
Reuters:
Keir Starmer says the UK will ban social media for under-16s in an “Australia-plus model” to “give kids their childhood back”, set to take effect in spring 2027  —  British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Monday he would ban social media sites for under-16s …
Liv McMahon / BBC:
The UK's social media ban will cover Snapchat, TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, X, and more, and will require platforms to stop children from livestreaming  —  The UK has announced it is going to ban social media for under-16s.  —  Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer said that the ban would take effect in early 2027.
Axios:
Sources say Anthropic struggles to communicate effectively with the Trump administration; an official says it “screwed us” after failing to “honor” a cyber EO  —  Anthropic has once again found itself in the Trump administration's crosshairs over an inability to communicate effectively, sources tell Axios.
Maria Curi / Axios:
Sources: senior Anthropic technical staff flew to DC to meet WH officials over the Mythos 5 dispute, with both sides saying they are eager to resolve the issue  —  Senior technical Anthropic staff are in Washington to meet with White House officials to try to fix a dispute that has taken …
Samantha Subin / CNBC:
Salesforce agrees to acquire AI customer service platform Fin, formerly Intercom, for ~$3.6B, in a deal expected to close in Q4 of its 2027 fiscal year  —  Salesforce on Monday said it is buying AI customer service platform Fin for about $3.6 billion as businesses accelerate their agentic offerings for enterprises.
James Franey / New York Post:
President Trump says he warned Emmanuel Macron to drop France's 3% digital services tax on US tech giants, or face a 100% tariff on French champagnes and wines  —  See more of our coverage in your search results.  —  Add The New York Post on Google  —  President Trump warned that France …
Reuters:
Docs: Tesla sent Swedish and Dutch regulators Full Self-Driving safety data that traffic-safety researchers called misleading; Dutch RDW approved FSD in April  —  In its efforts to secure European approval of its “Full Self-Driving” (FSD) system, Tesla (TSLA.O) has presented self-published safety statistics …
Ernesto Van der Sar / TorrentFreak:
A US judge rejects Meta's bid to dismiss a lawsuit from Strike 3, which owns porn production companies, that alleges Meta torrented its videos for AI training  —  To keep their piracy lawsuit alive, adult film producers Strike 3 Holdings and Counterlife Media don't have to prove Meta used their films for AI training.
More: 404 Media.  Forums: r/Piracy
Assiatou Hann / CNBC:
Electronic Arts launches EA Advertising, letting brands integrate directly into gameplay through dynamic, real-time placements, including stadium signage  —  Electronic Arts announced EA Advertising, a new way for brands to connect with fans through its portfolio of games …
Emily Shugerman / The San Francisco Standard:
Inside the Signal group chat where Sergey Brin, Marc Andreessen, Garry Tan, and other tech elites toss out strategies to oppose a proposed California wealth tax  —  The billionaires of California had a problem.  —  It was the fall of 2025, and a proposed ballot initiative to tax 5% …
Urvi Dugar / Reuters:
Indian AI startup Sarvam raised $234M in the first close of a $300M Series B at a $1.5B valuation, with HCLTech acquiring a 10.5% stake for ~$150M in cash  —  India's HCLTech (HCLT.NS) said on Monday it will acquire a 10.5% stake in domestic generative AI startup Sarvam AI for 14.27 billion rupees …
New York Times:
A profile of UC Berkeley professor Hany Farid, the world's leading digital forensics expert for 20+ years, who says he is now struggling to identify deepfakes  —  The emails began to arrive on a Sunday morning, as the worst ones often did.  Hany Farid opened the first message at his home …
Allison Pohle / Wall Street Journal:
Court reporting shows AI's limits in replacing human skill, as reporters remain crucial for capturing gestures and working through noise, amid a worker shortage  —  Court reporters outmatch the technology in skill, but the profession faces another crisis: a shortage of workers

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Savannah Walsh / Vanity Fair:
A profile of Wren Woodson and Mabel Kabani, ex-60 Minutes staffers whose Gen Z news startup Newsgirls has ~500K followers across Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok

Julia Moskin / New York Times:
A profile of Tini Younger, 24, TikTok's top woman chef with 12.5M followers, who is publishing a cookbook for Gen Z, the age group least likely to cook at home

Ted Johnson / Deadline:
Kevin Delaney, co-founder of Quartz and Charter, has been tapped by NBC News to be head of digital content and subscription, a newly created role

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Zain Khan / New York Post:
Sundar Pichai faced a walkout at his Stanford commencement speech, as 100+ students left while chanting “Free, free Palestine” over Google's Israel contract
Satya Nadella / @satyanadella:
Satya Nadella says companies must own their AI “learning loops” that compound human capital and token capital, or risk ceding all value to a few frontier models
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