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June 15, 2026, 11:15 AM
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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 …
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| 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 …
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| 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.
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| Bloomberg: |
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| 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 …
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| 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.| 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.
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| Bloomberg: |
Source: Nvidia is seeking to raise $20B+ from its first corporate bond sale since 2021, marketed in seven tranches, with maturities spanning two to 30 years — Chipmaking giant Nvidia Corp. is looking to sell at least $20 billion of bonds on Monday, joining a wave of companies that are borrowing … | 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 …
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| Peter Coy / New York Times: |
A look at a few proposals for sharing AI wealth with the public: government stakes in AI companies, a tax on AI token use, a global capital income tax, and more — Bernie Sanders, President Trump and even A.I. companies say they would like the public to share the wealth. But their solutions are very different.| 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% …
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| 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 …
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| CNBC: |
SpaceX IPO raised a total of $85.7B as underwriters exercised their overallotment of shares, after raising an initial $75B on June 11 — Choose CNBC as your preferred source on Google and never miss a moment from the most trusted name in business news. — CNBC Councils — Join the CNBC Panel
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| 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 … | Meir Orbach / CTech: |
1Password acquires Apono, which operates an AI-powered platform for managing cloud access, sources say in a deal valued at $250M to $300M — AI-era identity security startup joins the Canadian cybersecurity giant as it expands beyond password management into access governance.
More: BetaKit, SiliconANGLE, Globes, Pulse 2.0, Business Wire, and InfoRiskToday.com
| Meir Orbach / CTech: |
SailPoint is acquiring Entro Security, which develops a cybersecurity platform for managing non-human identities, a source says in a deal valued at ~$200M — Acquisition strengthens SailPoint's push into the fast-growing market for securing non-human identities.| Wall Street Journal: |
As AI “nudify” tools proliferate, unleashing a new form of bullying among kids, parents and schools struggle to protect young victims from explicit deepfakes — As ‘nudify’ tools proliferate online, parents and schools are struggling to protect young victims| 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 …
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| 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 workersSponsor Posts
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