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June 25, 2026, 6:25 AM
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Maggie Eastland / Bloomberg:
Sources: in a letter to US officials, Anthropic accused Alibaba of adversarial distillation, accessing Claude 28.8M times from April to June via ~25K accounts  —  Anthropic PBC accused Chinese technology giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. of waging a large-scale effort to “illicitly” …
Jeanny Yu / Bloomberg:
Alibaba falls ~5% in Hong Kong after Anthropic accused it of “illicitly” accessing its AI models, taking its YTD fall to 33%; Xiaomi and Baidu fell 3%+  —  Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. shares slid to a 16-month low in Hong Kong after Anthropic PBC accused the Chinese technology giant of …
Kif Leswing / CNBC:
Qualcomm unveils Dragonfly C1000, a new data center CPU built for agentic AI, and says Meta will use the chip when production starts in 2028
Reuters:
Qualcomm expects $15B in data center chip sales by 2029, raises its non-handset chip revenue forecast to $40B by 2029, up from $22B; QCOM jumps 13%+ pre-market
Lauren Goode / Wired:
Qualcomm says it will acquire Modular, which builds a chip software platform and has a proprietary coding language, in a nearly $4B deal set to close in H2 2026
Kif Leswing / CNBC:
Micron reports Q3 revenue up 346% YoY to $41.46B, above $35.84B est., gross margin above est., and forecasts Q4 revenue above est.; MU jumps 14%+ pre-market  —  Micron's revenue more than quadrupled in the fiscal third quarter, the company said on Wednesday, as the memory maker continued …
Tina Li / Wall Street Journal:
Mirendil, founded by former Anthropic researchers and seeking to build self-improving AI for open-source developers, raised a $200M seed at a $1B valuation  —  Mirendil raises $200 million from Andreessen Horowitz and Kleiner Perkins to make AI that can do the job of an AI engineer
Bloomberg:
Sources: Google AI researchers Jonas Adler and Alexander Pritzel, both viewed internally as key contributors to Gemini, are planning to leave for Anthropic  —  Two leading artificial intelligence researchers at Alphabet Inc.'s Google are planning to leave for rival Anthropic PBC …
Cheng Ting-Fang / Nikkei Asia:
Arm EVP Mohamed Awad says its chip architecture now accounts for 50%+ of the hyperscale cloud computing market, as AI demand transforms the data center industry  —  TAIPEI — SoftBank-backed chip designer Arm says it has hit a milestone in its decades-long challenge to Intel and AMD …
Wall Street Journal:
How Larry Ellison's $45M donation to a group supporting President Trump brought Ellison deeper into Trump's circle, helping Oracle and his son's WBD acquisition  —  The billionaire's private friendship with the president has helped Oracle's business and his son's media conglomerate
Mateo Quiros / The Keyword:
Google says computer use is now a built-in tool supported in Gemini 3.5 Flash, available via the Gemini API and Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform  —  Computer use is now a built-in tool in Gemini 3.5 Flash to build agents that can interact across platforms.
Brock E.W. Turner / Axios:
Trase, which is building an operating system and infrastructure layer for AI agents in industries like health care and defense, raised a $107M seed led by Arch  —  Trase, an AI operating system company, has raised $107 million in seed funding led by Arch Venture Partners, CEO Grant Verstandig tells Axios Pro exclusively.

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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

New York Times:
A profile of NFL reporter Dianna Russini, who resigned from The Athletic after photos of her with the coach of New England Patriots prompted an internal probe

Jonathan Abrams / New York Times:
Fox, Bravo, BET, and other major networks are embracing microdramas; Omdia says the short-form video format made $11B in global revenue in 2025

More News

Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch:
Hang Ten Systems, led by former Infosys CEO Vishal Sikka, launches with a $32M seed led by Mayfield to help enterprises use AI to run software at a lower cost
Jack Healy / New York Times:
Utah Senate President J. Stuart Adams, who championed a huge data center beside the Great Salt Lake, lost his Republican primary on Tuesday after voter backlash
Bobby Allyn / NPR:
Documents: Meta's planned prediction markets app will use Meta AI models to generate questions from trending topics, make recommendations, and resolve markets
Reuters:
Binance says it will make a fresh push for permission to operate in the EU after its MiCA license application in Greece failed ahead of the June 30 deadline

Earlier Picks

Jeremy Kahn / Fortune:
Seltz, which is building a web search engine that can be used by AI agents, raised a $12.5M seed led by Speedinvest and B Capital
Thomas Claburn / The Register:
Nature publishes a peer-reviewed paper alleging that Microsoft's 2025 quantum breakthrough claims were based on “basic Python errors” and data cherry-picking
Katherine Doherty / Bloomberg:
Ornn, which plans to launch a marketplace for GPU capacity designed to function like an exchange to trade oil contracts, raised a $33M seed led by a16z
Lorelei Smillie / Bloomberg:
Microsoft's Digital Crimes Unit says AI helped it link two separate hacking tools, Amadey and StealC, and file a single civil lawsuit to help take them down
OpenAI:
OpenAI and Broadcom unveil Jalapeño, an LLM-optimized inference chip developed from design to manufacturing tape-out in nine months, aided by OpenAI's models
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