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June 15, 2026, 9:40 AM
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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.
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 …
Reuters:
The EU says it's assessing the practical consequences of the US' Anthropic export controls, noting such measures “should not be discriminatory against partners”
Bloomberg:
Canada's PM says the Anthropic ban shows the dangers of “over-reliance on certain models”, and compares the risks to those that led to the 2008 financial crisis
Joseph De Avila / Wall Street Journal:
Fox plans to acquire Roku in a deal worth ~$22B, including debt, giving it access to 100M+ streaming households; FOX drops 12%+ pre-market  —  Acquisition gives Fox access to more than 100 million streaming households  —  Fox said it is acquiring streaming company Roku in a deal worth around $22 billion, including debt.
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 …
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% …
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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Katie Robertson / New York Times:
Bedford Media plans to relaunch Life magazine in November as a print quarterly, following its closure in 2000, and will expand into short-form video and more

Andrew Hutchinson / Social Media Today:
YouTube is testing an option that would enable creators to cash out their Partner Program earnings at $20, rather than the longstanding $100 minimum

Peter Kafka / Business Insider:
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