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Bloomberg:
Sources: Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick questioned ASML leaders on concerns China acquired one of its EUV machines, violating US-led export restrictions  —  Dutch chip-equipment giant ASML Holding NV is contending with its biggest challenge yet under the Trump administration …
Anton Shilov / Tom's Hardware:
ASML says claims that one of its EUV lithography systems has ended up in China are inaccurate, after a report on Howard Lutnick's questions to ASML's leadership  —  ASML denies it has ever shipped an EUV scanner to China. … It follows a report that Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick …
More: Bloomberg
Terje Solsvik / Reuters:
Norway imposes a near ban on gen AI use by elementary school children and restricts its use in older kids' education, to prevent a negative impact on learning  —  Norway is imposing a near ban on the use of generative AI tools by elementary school pupils while also restricting their use …
Variety:
Amazon MGM Studios drops Luca Guadagnino's mostly finished movie on Sam Altman; Amazon struck a major deal with OpenAI in February, including a $50B investment  —  The film, starring Andrew Garfield as the controversial OpenAI CEO, will be shopped to other studios.
Financial Times:
Sources: SpaceX plans to raise $20B in a bond sale as soon as next week; the funds would be used to pay back a $20B bridge loan taken out after the xAI merger  —  AI and rocket group is tapping debt markets after raising $86bn in stock market debut  —  SpaceX is planning to raise $20bn …
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 …
Peter Walker / The Guardian:
Sources: England and Wales' attorney general tells his office to stop posting on X, a first for the UK government, amid worries about X inciting violence  —  Exclusive: Richard Hermer's office understood to be first in government to restrict use after recent riots
Wall Street Journal:
Sources detail how Google is using Nvidia's playbook to build an AI chip business, including providing $3.2B to fund a NY data center renting TPUs to Anthropic  —  Wielding its war chest to win data-center customers for its silicon, the world's second-biggest company is taking a page from No. 1
John Jumper / @johnjumpersci:
John Jumper, who won the Nobel Prize “for protein structure prediction”, says he is leaving Google DeepMind after nearly nine years to join Anthropic  —  A bit of news: After nearly 9 years, I have decided to leave Google DeepMind and join Anthropic (after taking some time to recharge). I am incredibly grateful for my time at GDM. @demishassabis took a real chance letting me lead the AlphaFold team just six months after finishing
Jiahui Huang / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Chinese autonomous driving company Momenta has reached a ~$9B valuation as it gears up to raise ~$1B in an upcoming Hong Kong IPO  —  The company has also been backed by Toyota and SAIC Motor  —  Chinese autonomous-driving company Momenta's valuation has reached around $9 billion …
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.
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 …
Bloomberg:
The US FERC approves new orders to fast-track data center power requests, aiming to handle them in 90 days, while bringing new requirements for AI hyperscalers  —  US regulators have taken their biggest step yet to speed the connection of data centers to the country's grids while simultaneously attempting …
Priyanka Salve / CNBC:
Filing: Jio Platforms, India's largest wireless operator with 526M+ subscribers, files for an IPO; the deal is expected to be one of India's biggest IPOs ever  —  Billionaire Mukesh Ambani's Jio Platforms, India's largest wireless operator and digital service provider, filed draft papers for an initial public offering on Friday.
Marilen Martin / Bloomberg:
Siemens expects Xcelerator revenue to more than double in 2026, aiming to make the platform an industrial app store integrating software and hardware offerings  —  Siemens AG expects revenue from its online store to more than double this year, though the maker of industrial software and trains …

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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

More News

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
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
Yueqi Yang / The Information:
Sources: Kalshi is generating $2B+ in annualized revenue, up about three times from November, and has held informal talks with banks about an eventual IPO

Earlier Picks

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
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
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
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
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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