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Stevie Bonifield / The Verge:
Rockstar sets the release date for GTA VI for November 19 and says it will cost $79.99, or $99.99 for the Ultimate Edition; preorders start at midnight tonight  —  The game is set to launch on November 19th. The game is set to launch on November 19th.
Tom Phillips / IGN:
Rockstar says physical GTA 6 copies will contain a download code, not a disc; physical copies will be available from November 12, before the November 19 launch  —  Keep it on the download.  —  Rockstar will sell physical copies of Grand Theft Auto 6 — though you'll only get a box containing a digital download code.
New York Times:
Sources: the NSA was red-teaming with Mythos 5 before losing access amid the Anthropic dispute; the tests showed Mythos can identify 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 internally called Arena, which would probably use video game-like points instead of money wagers  —  The experimental app, internally called “Arena,” would be independent of Facebook and Instagram.
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.
Britney Nguyen / MarketWatch:
Micron and Sandisk led a tech selloff on June 23, falling 13%+ each; 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 …
Ben Kamisar / NBC News:
Alex Bores, a New York congressional candidate who argued for AI safeguards, lost to Micah Lasher in the Democratic primary that had 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.
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.
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.
Carl Franzen / VentureBeat:
AI creative tools startup Krea, which has raised $83M and claims it has 30M+ users, releases the open weights for its Krea 2 image models under a custom license  —  While many enterprises have already begun integrating AI-generated images, visuals, graphics and videos into their production workflows …
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+, acquiring Pixar, AI tools, and more  —  For two decades, Hollywood's most indispensable executive has been synonymous with Disney.  Can he really tear himself away?
Mistral AI Blog:
Mistral debuts OCR 4, a model offering structured document extraction with bounding boxes, block classification, and inline confidence scores, for 170 languages  —  Today, we're releasing Mistral OCR 4, featuring bounding boxes, block classification, and inline confidence scores alongside extracted text.
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 …
Samantha Kelly / Bloomberg:
The US FDA drops an enforcement complaint against Whoop over its blood pressure tracking tool, reversing a July 2025 warning letter; Whoop is updating the tool  —  The US Food and Drug Administration dropped its complaint against fitness tracker brand Whoop Inc. over its blood-pressure tracking tool …
More: Baller Alert
Jeanne Whalen / Wall Street Journal:
How Chicago is betting on quantum computing, including turning the site of the former US Steel mill into a campus, after largely missing the digital revolution  —  Illinois is betting on a promising—but commercially unproven—technology  —  CHICAGO—The Lake Michigan docks that once received iron ore …
Forums: r/chicago
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 …
David Cendon Garcia / EU-Startups:
London-based Isometric, which develops AI agents that work with human verifiers to automate industrial certification, raised a €34M Series A led by AVP  —  Isometric has closed a €34 million ($40 million) Series A to expand its AI certification platform across the €305 billion …
More: Isometric and The Times

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From Mediagazer

Barbara Moens / Financial Times:
Sources: the EU is set to approve Paramount's $111B WBD takeover provided the company accepts certain remedies, the details of which are still being worked out

Max Tani / Semafor:
Documents: The Daily Wire, founded by conservative podcaster Ben Shapiro in 2015, seeks to raise at least $100M in a round that would value the company at $750M

Perry Stein / Washington Post:
Source: the US DOJ sought to force WaPo and WSJ reporters to testify before a grand jury but withdrew the subpoenas this month after the outlets challenged them

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Bloomberg:
SK Hynix says it is seeking to raise ~$29.4B in a US listing, expects trading to start on July 10, and intends to use the funds for building additional capacity

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Sarah Nassauer / Wall Street Journal:
Walmart acquires Vibe.co, which lets businesses create and buy ads on CTVs, sources say for $1.4B cash; top executives get $180M to stay for four years
Bloomberg:
Alibaba sues the DOD, seeking removal from a blacklist of companies supporting China's military, says the decision is a violation of constitutional due process
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
Amrith Ramkumar / Wall Street Journal:
President Trump signs two executive orders aimed at speeding the development of advanced quantum computers and mitigating the security threats they present
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