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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 …
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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
Kai Nicol-Schwarz / CNBC:
Intel's stock jumps 10.64% after Trump said “Apple has agreed to work with Intel to design and build its Chips in America”; INTC is up 520%+ in the past year  —  Intel's stock rose 10% on Thursday, after President Donald Trump said the semiconductor company had agreed to a deal …
Zack Zwiezen / Kotaku:
Take-Two's Rockstar Games announces that pre-orders for Grand Theft Auto VI will go live on June 25 for PS5 and Xbox Series consoles; TTWO closed up 4.93%  —  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.
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 …
Hayden Field / The Verge:
Barret Zoph leaves OpenAI again five months after rejoining in January; Zoph initially left OpenAI in 2024 to serve as Thinking Machines Lab co-founder and CTO  —  Five months after returning to OpenAI, Barret Zoph — the company's head of enterprise AI sales — has departed, The Verge has learned.
Juby Babu / Reuters:
Intel names former SK Hynix CEO Seok-Hee Lee as EVP of Intel Foundry; Naga Chandrasekaran will lead front-end technology development and front-end manufacturing  —  Intel (INTC.O) on Thursday named Seok-Hee Lee executive vice president of its contract chip-manufacturing division as it sharpens focus on its advanced packaging business.
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.
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.
Lucas Ropek / TechCrunch:
Snap plans to spin off an internal generative AI video team into Dotmo, a new company focused on AI models for interactive gaming experiences, citing high costs  —  Snap will be spinning off an internal generative AI video team into a separate company.  The new company — dubbed Dotmo …
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Marina Temkin / TechCrunch:
Source: Elastic has agreed to acquire the AI site reliability engineering startup Deductive AI for up to $85M; CRV led Deductive AI's $7.5M seed round in 2025  —  DeductiveAI, a startup that uses AI to catch and resolve bugs in software, has agreed to be sold to enterprise software company Elastic …
Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch:
Appfigures: daily downloads of major VPN apps in India rose 49% on June 16 after India announced its Telegram ban; Proton and Turbo recorded largest increases  —  As India cut off access to messaging app Telegram for a week over concerns about exam-related fraud, users turned to virtual private networks …
Nate Raymond / Reuters:
A US circuit court overturned an injunction against Ohio, allowing the state to implement a law forcing platforms to seek parental consent if a user is under-16  —  A U.S. appeals court on Thursday cleared the way for Ohio to implement a law that requires social media companies …

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Thomas Buckley / Bloomberg:
Sources: Disney eyes laying off thousands, asking some managers to target 20% in annual cost savings, which could come from job cuts and expense reductions

Blake Brittain / Reuters:
The NYT, the New York Daily News, and others sue browser maker Brave for allegedly scraping their articles for AI training and letting users bypass paywalls

Rohan Goswami / Semafor:
Sources: Fox's $22B Roku acquisition is poised to clear DOJ scrutiny and proceed under a consent decree, despite Newsmax CEO Chris Ruddy's efforts to block it

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Ashley Gold / Axios:
Former Trump AI adviser Dean Ball is joining OpenAI to lead a new team called Strategic Futures, focused on frontier AI policy and internal governance

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Anhata Rooprai / Reuters:
Accenture says it will buy a majority stake in Dragos and fully acquire runZero and NetRise in a combined deal for the cybersecurity startups valued at $4.18B
Galit Altstein / Bloomberg:
Dream, co-founded by ex-NSO Group CEO Shalev Hulio with a focus on protecting critical infrastructure, raised $260M at a $3B valuation, up from $1B in 2025
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
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