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Sources say Anthropic struggles to speak the Trump administration's language; a White House official says Anthropic “screwed us” as it didn't “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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| Leo Schwartz / The Information: |
Anthropic says its senior leaders met Trump admin officials on June 15, but no resolution was reached and both sides are working to resolve things quickly — Anthropic senior leaders met with top Trump administration officials on Monday to discuss a resolution to a White House directive …
| Washington Post: |
Sources: Trump officials weighed Anthropic export controls weeks before forcing its models offline, after a dispute over Mythos access for a China-linked firm — The Trump administration weighed export controls on Anthropic weeks before forcing its AI model offline, after a dispute …
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| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
Anthropic's origin story is rooted in OpenAI not taking safety seriously enough, so only Anthropic can control AI and everyone else, including the US government — I'm sympathetic to the cynics who consistently characterize Anthropic's public statements, particularly those surrounding their model releases …
More: Daring Fireball and Anthropic
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| Sam Sabin / Axios: |
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| Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: |
SpaceX's stock closed up 19.6% on June 15, its first full day of trading; Musk said it “might be able to reach” ~$1T in revenue in 2030, up from $18.7B in 2025 — SpaceX shares climbed 20% on Monday, the first full day of trading following a record-breaking debut last week on the Nasdaq.
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Sources: several Xbox studios, including Hellblade maker Ninja Theory, are in talks with Microsoft to buy themselves back and go independent to avoid closure — The studios, which include Compulsion Games and Double Fine, are in active negotiations with Xbox and may be given the chance to go independent.
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| Molly Taft / Wired: |
Filing: the US DOJ asks court to dismiss an NAACP suit over xAI's gas turbines, saying xAI is integral to US' military operations, including the Iran War — In a bid to dismiss a lawsuit over xAI's polluting gas turbines, the Justice Department claimed the company is integral to military operations—including the Iran War.| Ashley Stewart / Business Insider: |
Sources: Microsoft is adding AWS capacity to GitHub after AI-driven growth strained infrastructure and triggered a series of reliability issues — Microsoft is turning to its biggest cloud rival, Amazon, to help address capacity issues on its GitHub coding platform following a series of AI-driven outages … | Financial Times: |
Sources: audited financial figures show OpenAI spending hit $34B in 2025, including $19B on research and development and nearly $6B on sales and marketing — Audited figures reveal mounting costs from model development, infrastructure and rapid expansion
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| Brian Thomas / OpenRouter Blog: |
OpenRouter debuts Fusion, a tool that prompts multiple AI models in parallel, claiming it can “reach and surpass Fable-level performance on deep research tasks” — We've found that synthesizing the results of multiple models can significantly outperform what individual models are capable of.
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| NBC News: |
A look at Roblox's biometric age-checking tool, which will help place its users into age-based accounts starting in June, amid controversy over user privacy — “Not everyone is going to be happy all the time,” the platform's head of safety product policy told NBC News … | Cristina Carlevaro / Reuters: |
Italy's AGCM opens a probe into Apple under the DSA, saying rival cloud providers should get free iOS and iPadOS interoperability and iCloud-equivalent access — Italy's competition regulator said on Tuesday it had opened an investigation into Apple (AAPL.O) over compliance … | Joseph De Avila / Wall Street Journal: |
Fox says it is acquiring Roku in its largest deal yet, valued at ~$25B, giving it access to 100M+ streaming households globally; FOX closes down 15.22% — 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.
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| Yasutaka Tamura / Bloomberg: |
Taxi-hailing app Go's shares grew 21% in its Tokyo debut, after it raised ~$553M in Japan's largest IPO in 2026, giving the company a market value of ~$1.16B — Taxi-hailing app provider Go Inc.'s shares advanced 10% in its trading debut on the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Tuesday …
More: The Next Web
| Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: |
A US judge dismisses xAI's lawsuit alleging OpenAI stole trade secrets, saying xAI failed to show that OpenAI induced a former xAI engineer to divulge Grok info — A federal judge on Monday dismissed a lawsuit by Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company xAI that accused rival Sam Altman's OpenAI … | Steven Rosenbush / Wall Street Journal: |
Arcade, which helps companies manage which actions AI agents are authorized to take, raised a $60M Series A led by SYN Ventures, following a $12M seed in 2025 — The startup aims to help companies manage the challenge of determining which actions AI agents are authorized to take
More: Arcade, SiliconANGLE, and PYMNTS
| Wired: |
Memo: CTO Andrew Bosworth said Meta did “an atrocious job” sharing Applied AI's vision, promising employees better communication, career growth, and more perks — In an internal memo seen by WIRED, Bosworth promised employees more stability, better communication …
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| The Information: |
Sources: DeepSeek closed a $7.4B round at a $50B valuation under an unusual structure requiring investors to put capital into an LP run by CEO Liang Wenfeng — Chinese AI lab DeepSeek has closed its first funding round that raised more than 50 billion yuan ($7.4 billion) under an unusual deal structure …
More: Reuters
| The Information: |
Source: Qualcomm is in talks to acquire AI chip designer Tenstorrent for $8B to $10B; in 2025, Tenstorrent had discussed raising $800M at a ~$3.2B valuation — Qualcomm has been in talks to buy Tenstorrent, a startup that designs chips for AI, according to a person with direct knowledge of the deal.
More: Reuters
| Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch: |
Meta debuts new AI features, including an “AI Mode” that uses Meta AI to search for answers pulled from public posts across Facebook, including Groups and Reels — As Meta tries to catch up in the AI race and boost engagement with its AI bot, the company announced Monday …
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| Business Insider: |
A profile of Cursor, including its hiring process and testy relationship with Anthropic, which told Cursor that Claude Code was a research effort, per a source — How the world's hottest AI coding company hitched its fate to Elon Musk's rocket ship — I n 2019, Michael Truell, a shy … | A.J. Vicens / Reuters: |
Google says a Chinese-linked hacking group targeted US and Canadian academic, medical, and military research institutions from September 2023 to November 2025 — A Chinese-linked hacking group spent more than a year secretly stealing data from U.S. and Canadian academic …
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