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June 24, 2026, 6:15 AM

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New York Times:
Sources: the NSA was red-teaming Mythos 5 before losing access amid the Anthropic dispute; the tests showed Mythos identified flaws in classified systems  —  A recent episode underscored the Trump administration's increasing reliance on advanced A.I. systems for cybersecurity even as it battles a leading U.S. developer.
New York Times:
Sources: Meta is building a standalone prediction markets app called Arena, which would probably rely on video game-like points instead of money wagers  —  The experimental app, internally called “Arena,” would be independent of Facebook and Instagram.  It could compete for attention …
David Gewirtz / ZDNET:
Anthropic launches Claude Tag, an agentic AI coworker for Slack that can learn context, give suggestions, and more, in beta for Claude Team and Enterprise tiers  —  ZDNET's key takeaways  — Claude Tag puts an always-on AI coworker inside Slack.  — Each Slack channel can get its own isolated Claude identity.
Britney Nguyen / MarketWatch:
Micron and Sandisk led a tech selloff on Tuesday, falling more than 13%; Western Digital fell 8%, Marvell 9%, Seagate 5%, Qualcomm 8%, and Applied Materials 8%  —  One analyst says investors are merely taking a ‘breather’ from buzzy tech stocks, following sharp year-to-date gains and ahead …
New York Times:
Sources: the Trump administration is pressing Meta to submit its AI models for voluntary review; Meta is the only major US AI developer without an agreement  —  Federal officials are urging the lone major tech company holdout to allow government safety evaluations, weeks after ordering Anthropic to pull its latest model.
Geoff Weiss / Business Insider:
Superhuman acquires AI detection startup GPTZero, which has 19M+ registered users and $30M in annual recurring revenue; PitchBook: GPTZero is valued at $88M+  —  As AI-generated content storms the internet, productivity company Superhuman is acquiring GPTZero, an AI detection startup cofounded by Edward Tian and Alex Cui in 2023.
Ben Kamisar / NBC News:
Alex Bores, a NY congressional candidate who argued for AI safeguards, lost to Micah Lasher in the Democratic primary, which drew millions in AI PAC spending  —  NBC News projects that Lasher, who was backed by retiring Rep. Jerry Nadler, emerged from a crowded field in the Manhattan-based 12th District.
Mistral AI Blog:
Mistral debuts OCR 4, a model featuring structured document extraction with bounding boxes, block classification, and inline confidence scores, in 170 languages  —  Today, we're releasing Mistral OCR 4, featuring bounding boxes, block classification, and inline confidence scores alongside extracted text.
Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:
An interview with Bob Iger on stepping down as Disney's CEO, his legacy, new CEO Josh D'Amaro, Bob Chapek, Apple, Disney+, purchasing Pixar, AI, and more  —  For two decades, Hollywood's most indispensable executive has been synonymous with Disney.  Can he really tear himself away?
Meta Newsroom:
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Carl Franzen / VentureBeat:
AI creative tools startup Krea, which has raised $83M and claims to have 30M users, releases the open weights for its image model Krea 2 under a custom license  —  While many enterprises have already begun integrating AI-generated images, visuals, graphics and videos into their production workflows …
Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch:
LastPass notifies customers that their personal information and customer support case records were stolen during a hack at Canadian market research company Klue  —  Password manager maker LastPass is notifying customers that their personal information and customer support case records …
Jordan Novet / CNBC:
Cerebras reports Q1 revenue up 94% YoY to $193.4M, net loss down 41% YoY to $14M, and forecasts core gross margin to shrink in Q2; CBRS drops 8%+ pre-market  —  - Cerebras reported financials for the first time since its IPO in May. … Cerebras said revenue almost doubled in the AI chipmaker's …
Moneycontrol:
Sources: India drives 50%+ of WhatsApp's revenue, generating $1B+ annually, largely via business messaging, likely helping Kunal Shah get WhatsApp's top job  —  A prolific angel investor known for conducting deals over WhatsApp, Shah has spent the past 15 years building products across digital payments …
Lauren Thomas / Wall Street Journal:
Humanoid robot maker Agility plans to go public via a merger with Michael Klein's SPAC, in a deal valuing it at ~$2.5B and listing under ticker symbol AGLT  —  Agility's humanoid robot, Digit, is used by companies including Amazon  —  Agility Robotics, a startup that makes humanlike robots used …
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