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CNBC : SpaceX IPO raised a total of $85.7B as underwriters exercised their overallotment of shares, after raising an…
Sam Sabin / Axios : Letter: US cybersecurity leaders urge the White House to lift the ban on Anthropic's Mythos and…
Liv McMahon / BBC : The UK social media ban will apply to Snapchat, TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, and X, and…
Reuters : UK PM Keir Starmer says the UK will ban social media for under-16s and restrict gaming and livestreaming…
Wall Street Journal : As “nudify” tools proliferate, unleashing a new form of bullying among kids, parents and schools…
Sophie Shulman / CTech : Rylo, which develops real-time speech and sign-language translation tools for deaf and…
Zain Khan / New York Post : Sundar Pichai faced a walkout at his Stanford commencement speech, as 100+ students left…
Russell Brandom / TechCrunch : Sandstone, which builds AI-powered workflow automation tools for legal teams at small…
The Guardian : Sources: UK plans to announce an “Australia plus” under-16 social media ban, including restrictions on…
Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch : US export controls on Anthropic reignite debate in India over the country's AI ambitions,…
Casey Newton / Platformer : Q&A with labor researcher Molly Kinder on her recent, widely discussed “Messy Middle”…
Robert Armstrong / Financial Times : How the AI boom is revolutionizing US stock markets, as hyperscalers cut buybacks…
Reed Albergotti / Semafor : Source: the White House imposed export controls on Mythos partly over suspicions a…
New York Times : US barring foreign nationals, including Anthropic staffers in the US, from using Fable 5 and Mythos 5…
Ananya Palyekar / Reuters : Anthropic says it believes the US government's export control order for Mythos 5 and Fable…
Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer : A Ukrainian extradited from Ireland to the US pleads guilty to conspiracy to…
Anthropic : Anthropic says it is disabling Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all customers after the US government issued an…
Vicky Ge Huang / Wall Street Journal : Crypto-data provider Blockworks says it has acquired its rival Messari; source:…
New York Times : How Chinese manufacturers are dominating the humanoid robot supply chain, even as the industry…
Christina Kyriasoglou / Bloomberg : Infineon plans to open a €5B chip factory in Germany backed by EU subsidies, its…
Associated Press : Zelle owner EWS says it plans to expand the payment service to India later this year, its first…
Carl Franzen / VentureBeat : Xiaomi releases MiMo Code V0.1.0, an open-source AI coding assistant that it says…
Wall Street Journal : Sources: BlackRock put in an order to buy at least $5B worth of SpaceX shares; SpaceX received…
Dan Primack / Axios : Jeff Bezos' Prometheus, which is building AI models for physical tasks, raised a $12B Series B…
Bloomberg : Sources: SpaceX's IPO has attracted $70B+ in orders from retail investors, who are expected to be…
Bloomberg : Alibaba stock fell ~6.5% and JD.com fell ~6% after China reprimanded e-commerce players over alleged false…
Clare Duffy / CNN : Sen. Maggie Hassan's report: Spotify removed 3,500 podcast accounts and 57,000 episodes promoting…
Zoltan Simon / Bloomberg : Hungary plans to decriminalize crypto trading in a reversal of restrictions, which prompted…
Terrence O'Brien / The Verge : Deezer launches an AI music detection tool for users of 20 services, including Spotify…
Abner Li / 9to5Google : YouTube rolls out a new in-app messaging system for sharing videos and having 1:1…
Anthropic : Anthropic releases two policy proposals on how governments should address catastrophic risks and manage…
Dean W. Ball / @deanwball : Anthropic secretly limiting Claude's usefulness for LLM development strengthens the…
Bloomberg : Dario Amodei says he doesn't know what role Claude played in a missile strike on an Iranian school, and…
Financial Times : Sources: Germany's Neura Robotics, which builds AI-powered humanoid robots, raised $1.4B from…
Wall Street Journal : Sixteen economists on what AI will mean for the US economy, workers, and workplaces: AI will…
Davis Giangiulio / CNBC : Edge Markets, which provides banking tools for gambling and prediction markets, including…
Michael Peel / Financial Times : The EU warns that AI-boosted chemical synthesis is helping European drug gangs…
Greg Kim / The Seattle Times : Seattle City Council votes 9-0 to enact a one-year moratorium on new large data centers…
Ryan Lawler / Axios : Vinyl Equity, an SEC-registered transfer agent that has launched a payments platform earlier…
Bloomberg : New York-based Standard Bots, which wants to make AI-powered robotic arms in the US, raised $200M led by…
Inti Landauro / Reuters : The EU says Apple decided not to roll out Siri AI in the EU after it had unsuccessfully…
Ingrid Lunden / Resilience Media : Finland-based Iceye, whose small satellites help countries with real-time location…
Michael Kan / PCMag : The US FCC waives its deadline for Amazon to deploy half of its Leo satellites by July; Amazon…
Bloomberg : FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried formally applies for a presidential pardon; he was sentenced to 25 years…
Jaspreet Singh / Reuters : Meta says it's filing a federal court contempt order against NSO for violating a permanent…
Eddie Makuch / GameSpot : Xbox EVP Matt Booty clarifies Microsoft's new exclusivity strategy, saying new games will be…
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