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| Kai Nicol-Schwarz / CNBC: |
Intel's stock jumps 10%+ after Trump said “Apple has agreed to work with Intel to design and build its Chips in America”; INTC is up 500%+ in the past year — Intel's stock rose 10% on Thursday, after President Donald Trump said the semiconductor company had agreed to a deal with Apple to design and build chips in the U.S.
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| Richard Lawler / The Verge: |
Midjourney unveils its first hardware product, the Midjourney Scanner, an ultrasound-based full-body scanner; it is unclear how AI fits into the medical effort — The AI image generator says this side project will be ‘in many ways superior to even MRI machines.’
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Bluesky: @aerialeverything …, @iamstan.dev, @ernie.tedium.co, and @philpax.me. Threads: @ericflo. Mastodon: @yiningkarlli@mastodon …
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| Sean O'Kane / TechCrunch: |
Filings: Waymo pulls its ~4K robotaxis from highways after finding 13+ instances of the cars driving into highway sections under construction — Waymo has recalled its fleet of nearly 4,000 robotaxis to restrict them from driving on highways while it figures out how to make the vehicles behave around construction zones.
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| Hugo Lowell / Wired: |
New book: Trump mocked Zuckerberg and Bezos by showing associates their fawning texts, saying they were “kissing my ass”; Musk called it “First-class groveling” — “You would not believe the texts I got from these tech guys,” NYT reporters Maggie Haberman … | Wired: |
Sources: the White House's move to restrict Mythos 5 came after it ordered Anthropic to revoke South Korea-based SK Telecom's access over alleged ties to China — Days before Anthropic took its most advanced AI models offline, the White House ordered the company to revoke SK Telecom's access …
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Bluesky: @katie-drummond and @lmatsakis
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| Marcus Mendes / 9to5Mac: |
Apple opens iOS to alternative app marketplaces in Brazil and changes App Store commission structure following a settlement with competition watchdog CADE — Starting today, app developers will be able to distribute apps through alternative app marketplaces in Brazil, as part of a broader set …
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| The Information: |
Noam Shazeer leaves Google to join OpenAI as lead for architecture research; he rejoined Google as a Gemini co-lead in 2024 during the $2.7B Character.AI deal — Noam Shazeer, the Google DeepMind researcher whose work underpinned the generative AI boom, is joining OpenAI, the AI firm told staff on Wednesday.| Artificial Analysis: |
GLM-5.2 is the leading open weights model on Artificial Analysis' Intelligence Index, scoring 51, only behind Fable 5's 60, Opus 4.8's 56, and GPT-5.5's 55 — Z ai's GLM-5.2 is the new leading open weights model on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index scoring 51 and it sits on the Pareto frontier of Intelligence vs Cost per Task
More: Pulse 2.0 and Artificial Analysis
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Forums: Hacker News and r/LocalLLaMA
| Zack Zwiezen / Kotaku: |
Rockstar Games announces that pre-orders for Grand Theft Auto VI will go live on June 25; TTWO jumps 5%+ — If you were worried about another delay, you can probably stop worrying … Some of you might roll your eyes at the seeming certainty of that statement, and understandably so.
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| Gergely Orosz / The Pragmatic Engineer: |
An in-depth look at Meta's AI-fueled rampage through its engineering organization, 30% to 50% of engineers on core teams reassigned to data labeling, and more — Hi - this is Gergely with a free issue of the Pragmatic Engineer Newsletter. In every issue, I cover challenges at Big Tech …
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| Angel Au-Yeung / Wall Street Journal: |
AI inference startup Baseten is raising $1.5B in a dual-tiered deal, with some investors putting in money at an $11B valuation and others at a $13B valuation — Baseten, part of a growing Silicon Valley ecosystem offering services to enable low-cost AI models, is raising $1.5 billion in a new round
More: PYMNTS, Forbes, The Next Web, and DatacenterDynamics
| Mark Bergen / Bloomberg: |
Amazon's AI chief Peter DeSantis says the company is in talks to sell its custom Trainium AI chips for use in third-party data centers — Amazon.com Inc. is in talks to sell its custom-made artificial intelligence chips for use in other companies' data centers, a key expansion of its efforts to cut into Nvidia Corp.'s dominance.
More: TechCrunch, Benzinga, CNBC, The Tech Portal, Yahoo Finance, and Financial Times
| Robert McMillan / Wall Street Journal: |
Nation-state hackers are increasingly using preinstalled software on low-cost home devices to create residential proxy networks for masking cyberattack traffic — Nation-state cyberattackers are increasingly using residential proxy networks to mask their traffic, turning everyday electronics into a massive global threat| Natalia Kniazhevich / Bloomberg: |
Prem AI, a Swiss startup that lets hedge funds and law firms run AI models on their own infrastructure, is raising a $100M Series A, targeting a $500M valuation — Prem AI, a Swiss startup that helps companies including hedge funds and law firms run artificial intelligence models …
More: Washington Technology, The Next Web, RuntimeWire, Pulse 2.0, Tech Funding News, and Startup.eu
| Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: |
Sources: General Intuition, which trains AI agents in spatial reasoning, is in talks to raise $300M from Jeff Bezos and others at a $2B+ valuation — General Intuition, the New York-based startup building a foundation model that trains AI agents how to move through space and time …
More: The Next Web
| Pew Research Center: |
A survey of US adults: 49% reported using chatbots in 2026, up from 33% in 2024, 24% said that they use chatbots on a daily basis, and 44% said they use ChatGPT — More Americans are using chatbots, and some are adopting AI summaries and smart speakers. But views about AI …
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| Saritha Rai / Bloomberg: |
A PwC study suggests that AI is rewarding companies that use it to enhance human skills, while leaving those that use it merely to cut costs further behind — Artificial intelligence is pulling the global labor market in two opposite directions, rewarding companies that use AI to enhance human skills … | Jeremy Hsu / Ars Technica: |
Nvidia researchers unveil ENPIRE, an agent harness framework that develops robotic self-improvement strategies for physical tasks with minimal human supervision — What happens when you give AI coding agents a lab full of robotic arms, some compute resources, and a “generous token budget” for teaching the robots various tasks?
More: NVIDIA, Tech Times, Decrypt, The Decoder, and Tom's Hardware
| Ben Weiss / Fortune: |
Sources: APEC, a derivatives exchange founded by the 22-year-old son of pro-crypto Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, raised $30M led by Lux at a $300M valuation — The 22-year-old son of a crypto-friendly senator plans to launch his own exchange for a type of derivative popularized by digital asset traders.| Bloomberg: |
Sources: as early as next week, the EU is set to unveil its preliminary findings that AWS and Azure seem to meet the criteria for regulation under the DMA — Microsoft Corp.'s Azure and Amazon Web Services are on a collision course with the European Union's tough digital competition rulebook …
More: DatacenterDynamics, The Next Web, The Hindu, and Yahoo Finance
| James Van Straten / CoinDesk: |
Hive's stock jumps 5%+ after the company announced a $220M, three-year GPU cloud contract with Bell Canada and Cohere, as it pivots away from bitcoin mining — HIVE Digital Technologies (HIVE) shares jumped 10% in pre-market trading on Thursday after the company announced a $220 million …
More: HIVE Digital Technologies Ltd, Decrypt, Cointelegraph, The Block, Blockonomi, and TheEnergyMag
| Financial Times: |
Sources: JPMorgan Chase has stopped its staff in Hong Kong from accessing Anthropic's AI models internally, after a similar move by rival Goldman Sachs in April — Bank follows Goldman Sachs in preventing use of Claude in Asian financial hub — JPMorgan Chase has stopped its staff …
More: Reuters, American Banker, HealthcareInfoSecurity.com, The Next Web, crypto.news, and Blockonomi. Forums: r/business
| New York Times: |
Guardrails Alliance, a super PAC that has raised $5M, debuts to advocate for AI safety legislation and counter pro-industry lobbying, running ads for Alex Bores — The Guardrails Alliance, which has raised $5 million, is positioning itself as a populist effort that will take on the pro … | Rolfe Winkler / Wall Street Journal: |
In an interview, Tim Cook says Apple price hikes are “unavoidable” to offset surging memory and storage chip costs, and “the situation has become unsustainable” — The CEO tells the Journal in an exclusive interview that soaring costs make price increases ‘unavoidable’
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| The Information: |
Sources: the early Chinese backers of Manus, including HSG, ZhenFund, and Tencent, plan to buy the AI startup back from Meta at the $2B price Meta paid — The early Chinese backers of AI firm Manus are planning to buy the firm back from Meta Platforms at the $2 billion price Meta paid … | Bloomberg: |
Sources: ByteDance has been Microsoft's biggest AI customer in recent years, largely using OpenAI models, and is on track to spend $1B+ a year on Azure services — Microsoft Corp. has built a big business selling AI models to Chinese companies despite the growing rivalry between the US and China over artificial intelligence.
More: Proactive, Blockchain.News, The Next Web, Motley Fool, AI News, Blockonomi, and Memeburn. LinkedIn: Brody Ford
| Kerry Flynn / Axios: |
Seattle-based Gradial, which makes AI agents that automate enterprise marketing workflows, raised a $65M Series C led by Insight Partners at a $675M valuation — Gradial, a Seattle-based startup that deploys AI agents to automate enterprise marketing workflows, has raised $65 million in Series C funding …
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