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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 …
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| 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 …
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| 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 … | 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 …
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| 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.
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| 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 …
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| 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
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| 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
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| Jesse Coghlan / Cointelegraph: |
The CFTC permanently bans Celsius founder Alex Mashinsky from trading in markets it oversees as part of a settlement resolving its 2023 lawsuit against him — Cointelegraph is committed to independent, transparent journalism. This news article is produced in accordance …
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| 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.| 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 …
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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 … | Liv McMahon / BBC: |
John Edwards, UK Information Commissioner and chair of the ICO, the country's data and AI regulator, resigned following a workplace investigation — John Edwards, the UK's information commissioner, has resigned following a workplace investigation. — “I have accepted that there have been occasions … | 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 … | Ana-Maria Stanciuc / The Next Web: |
Turkey approves Uber's $335M deal to buy Getir's delivery business, tied to a $500M investment pledge in Turkey; Uber is also paying $100M for a 15% Getir stake — The regulator's approval, tied to a $500m investment pledge, lets Uber fold Getir into its Turkish operation.
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| 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.| Matt Kapko / CyberScoop: |
How hacker group TeamPCP exploited the open source trust model and distribution method to compromise and inject malware into over 1,000 software packages — The threat group's remarkable success targeting open-source software was inevitable and fueled by the industry's decision to prioritize code shipping over security.| Bloomberg: |
Sources: about 200 companies accessing Mythos Preview through Project Glasswing have preserved their access despite a recent US government shutdown order — Some firms chosen early on by Anthropic PBC to test the Mythos AI model ahead of a wider release have preserved their access to a preview …
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