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- A look at the proposals to share the AI wealth with the public: government stakes in AI labs, a tax on AI token use, a global capital income tax, and more (Peter Coy/New York Times) [41m]
- Fox says it obtained a $12B loan for the Roku deal; existing Fox shareholders are expected to own ~73% of the combined company and Roku shareholders ~27% (Lillian Rizzo/CNBC) [1h]
- Source: Nvidia is marketing its first corporate bond sale since 2021, seeking to raise $20B+ across seven tranches with maturities ranging from two to 30 years (Brian W Smith/Bloomberg) [1h]
- Sources: the US government plans to let the Federal Data Center Enhancement Act, which details standards for data center use and operations, expire in September (Wired) [2h]
- Docs: Tesla sent Swedish and Dutch regulators Full Self-Driving safety data that traffic-safety researchers called misleading; Dutch RDW approved FSD in April (Reuters) [2h]
- Court reporting shows AI's limits in replacing human skill, as reporters remain crucial for capturing gestures and working through noise, amid a worker shortage (Allison Pohle/Wall Street Journal) [2h]
- Fox says it is acquiring Roku in a deal worth around $22B, including debt, giving it access to more than 100M streaming households (Joseph De Avila/Wall Street Journal) [2h]
- Tencent-backed Enflame receives approval for a Shanghai IPO and plans to raise ~$888M; Enflame is the last of China's four leading AI chipmakers to go to market (April Ma/Bloomberg) [4h]
- The FBI dismantles Outsider Enterprise, an AI-powered Chinese phishing operation, and seizes $100K in Tether in joint effort with Google and Black Lotus Labs (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer) [4h]
- The UK social media ban will apply to Snapchat, TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, and X, and will require platforms to stop children from livestreaming (Liv McMahon/BBC) [4h]
- Letter: US cybersecurity leaders urge the White House to lift the ban on Anthropic's Mythos and Fable 5, arguing the move hurts defenders more than attackers (Sam Sabin/Axios) [5h]
- UK PM Keir Starmer says the UK will ban social media for under-16s and restrict gaming and livestreaming platforms, aiming for regulation by the end of 2026 (Reuters) [5h]
- President Trump says he warned Emmanuel Macron to drop France's 3% digital services tax on US tech giants, or face a 100% tariff on French champagne and wine (James Franey/New York Post) [5h]
- As "nudify" tools proliferate, unleashing a new form of bullying among kids, parents and schools are struggling to protect young victims from AI deepfakes (Wall Street Journal) [6h]
- A profile of UC Berkeley professor Hany Farid, the world's leading digital forensics expert for 20+ years, who says he is now struggling to identify AI fakes (New York Times) [8h]
- Sources: Alibaba is in talks to buy Chinese fresh grocery delivery platform Pupu for $1.5B, in a bid to better compete with food delivery rivals like Meituan (Cathy Chan/Bloomberg) [9h]
- Madrid-based Orbio, which uses AI agents to help businesses interview, onboard, and manage frontline workers, raised a $21M Series A led by Dawn Capital (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch) [9h]
- Inside the Signal group chat where Sergey Brin, Marc Andreessen, Garry Tan, and other tech elites toss out strategies to oppose a proposed California wealth tax (Emily Shugerman/The San Francisco ...) [9h]
- Sources: ByteDance is in talks with Shanghai-based Iluvatar CoreX to purchase AI inference GPUs, and is also considering a deal to buy Baidu's Kunlunxin chips (Reuters) [10h]
- Health wearables are booming, with both Oura and Whoop eyeing IPOs, but investors remain cautious after Fitbit's struggles and low consumer hardware margins (David Wainer/Wall Street Journal) [10h]
- Rylo, which develops real-time speech and sign-language translation tools for deaf and hard-of-hearing users, raised $85M led by General Catalyst and Canaan (Sophie Shulman/CTech) [11h]
- Hypha, which extracts data from private-market documents to create workflows for underwriting, portfolio monitoring, and asset management, raised a $50M seed (Ryan Lawler/Axios) [12h]
- Sandstone, which builds AI-powered workflow automation tools for legal teams at small and mid-sized businesses, raised a $30M Series A led by Lightspeed (Russell Brandom/TechCrunch) [13h]
- Sundar Pichai faced a walkout at his Stanford commencement speech, as 100+ students left amid chants of "Free, free Palestine" over Google's ties with Israel (Zain Khan/New York Post) [13h]
- Sources: Frank founder Charlie Javice, sentenced in September 2025 to 85 months for defrauding JPMorgan Chase, has been seeking a presidential pardon from Trump (Wall Street Journal) [14h]
- A profile of Kalshi COO Luana Lopes Lara, who has overseen a tremendous pace of growth over the past year as the company faces political and regulatory backlash (Emily Nicolle/Bloomberg) [15h]
- Chinese Tesla drivers are using tiny plastic heads to fool Tesla's distracted-driving controls, which appear unable to distinguish figurines from real people (Zeyi Yang/Wired) [16h]
- A government crackdown on online casinos operating in the Isle of Man has led to a major tax revenue loss, accelerating the island's slide toward a fiscal cliff (Jack Adamović Davies/Bloomberg) [17h]
- Satya Nadella says companies must build both human capital and token capital, with human judgment guiding AI systems that learn and improve over time (Satya Nadella/@satyanadella) [18h]
- Sources: senior Anthropic technical staff are in DC to meet WH officials and try to fix the Mythos 5 dispute; both sides say they are eager to resolve the issue (Maria Curi/Axios) [19h]
- Canadian PM says the Anthropic ban shows the dangers of "over-reliance on certain models", and compares the risks to those that led to the 2008 financial crisis (Bloomberg) [20h]
- Sources: UK plans an "Australia plus" social media ban for under-16s, including restrictions on chatting with strangers on gaming apps, under-18 curfews, more (The Guardian) [21h]
- EU says it is looking at the practical consequences of US restricting Anthropic's models, notes such measures "should not be discriminatory against partners" (Reuters) [22h]
- Siri AI is good enough to ease Apple's AI crisis; sources: the ability to tap third party AI models beyond OpenAI's is already active in internal iOS 27 builds (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg) [22h]
- Since Russia ratcheted up control over the internet this year, some Russians are turning to solutions like using multiple phones and VPNs to evade restrictions (Andrew Osborn/Reuters) [23h]
- Making AI usable for UK business leaders [12m]
- 'This is the pinnacle, and I'm just thrilled to be here' — The new voice of Lara Croft on taking on her 'biggest' role yet for upcoming Tomb Raider games [21m]
- Nigel Farage says UK's teen social media ban is 'unlikely to work' — but will VPNs really help children get around the restrictions? [55m]
- What is the release date for Cape Fear episode 4 on Apple TV? [58m]
- Most businesses say they've been caught out by unexpected high AI bills [1h]
- ‘How to describe it, other than slime or puke?’: another World Cup player dons unreleased Beats headphones and that’s got to be a custom colorway… right? [1h]
- How to watch Spain vs Cape Verde: Free Streams, TV Channels & Kick-Off time as World Cup favorites begin their tournament [1h]
- Early Prime Day deals just dropped at Amazon UK — get up to 65% off Ring, Blink, Ninja, Apple, Sonos, and more [1h]
- FBI takes out huge AI-powered phishing service: Outsider Enterprise was using over a million phishing URLs to steal credit card data and passwords [1h]
- 'Set picture mode to Sport': Gemini on Google TVs is getting its most useful upgrade yet — you can now tell it to change picture settings instantly, or even just tell it what's wrong with the picture and it'll (try to) fix it for you [1h]
- Dutton Ranch episode 6 killed off yet another unhinged character — but it's this unexpected survivor that fans of the Taylor Sheridan Yellowstone spinoff are most worried about [2h]
- AMD denies researcher $10,000 bug bounty reward — despite spotting critical-severity issue [2h]
- AMD's Radeon RX 9070 XT GPU is more popular than you may think — at least according to Steam's latest survey [2h]
- ‘Apple could never make something this cute’ — I went hands-on with the Honor 600 Pro Molly Limited Edition, and it's the most Gen Z phone I've ever used [2h]
- Google just undercut OpenAI with a $4.99 Gemini plan — here’s what’s included [2h]
- 'How is that even a question?' — 007 First Light actors reveal whether the game's Bond could do the job on film [2h]
- I tried the ‘turn this into a game’ prompt to make ChatGPT fix boring chores — and my son couldn't wait to play [2h]
- Fed up with constantly installing various updates for Windows 11? Microsoft is making monthly multiple reboots a thing of the past [2h]
- The Lincoln Lawyer being canceled by Netflix isn't as straightforward as it looks — and there's a good reason why you don't have to worry about its ending [3h]
- Stop thinking of AI data centers as compute systems [3h]
- The toy camera I loved to hate is back with a Y2K-inspired upgrade — the Kodak Charmera Millennium Edition adds new photo filters and frames, and comes in six new looks [3h]
- This ‘personal sun intelligence system’ offers a high-tech way to protect your skin from UV rays [3h]
- ‘I think we'll see a separate subscription’: Apple could lock the best parts of Siri AI behind a ChatGPT-style paywall, tipster predicts [3h]
- I transformed photos — and how I see the world — with iOS 27 Dev Beta Apple Intelligence Photo tools, and with this kind of power comes great responsibility [3h]
- Want a Nespresso-style capsule coffee maker without the waste? Lavazza's new all-coffee pucks could be exactly what you're looking for — with one small caveat [3h]
- Why AI guardrails need common sense built around defensibility [3h]
- Why your help desk is still your biggest security risk [3h]
- Who needs hot water? Researchers made an ultrasonic espresso machine that brews coffee without heat, and drinkers couldn't notice any difference [3h]
- 'People thought it would be really difficult for me': Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai dodges AI at Stanford graduation speech — but hundreds of students walk out in protest at Google's Palestine policies [4h]
- Workers are spending hours every week 'botsitting' to make sure AI does its job properly [4h]
- Measuring AI ROI at tool level is missing the point [4h]
- What is the release date for Dutton Ranch episode 7 on Paramount+? [4h]
- Bambu Lab's 'most impressive 3D printer' gets a big price cut in the sales — and it smashed all expectations in our workshop tests [4h]
- How emerging tech is rewriting cyberwarfare [5h]
- 'Shadow AI becomes a massive enterprise liability': New study claims most of us are now using unauthorized AI tools at work [5h]
- Why AI pilots stall — and what organizations must fix to scale AI successfully [5h]
- UK bans social media ban for under-16s — all the latest news live and what it means for Snapchat, TikTok, Instagram and more [5h]
- Nintendo's Switch 2 price is increasing to AU$769.95 come Sep 1 — which makes this AU$629 deal for EOFY all the more tempting [7h]
- Bose, Apple, Sonos & Sennheiser: 6 EOFY headphone deals I'd actually recommend as an audio-gear expert [7h]
- Is using a VPN legal in the USA, Canada and Mexico? What World Cup travelers need to know [14h]
- NYT Strands hints and answers for Monday, June 15 (game #834) [15h]
- Quordle hints and answers for Monday, June 15 (game #1603) [15h]
- How to watch Sweden vs Tunisia: Free Streams & TV Channels for FIFA World Cup 2026 [15h]
- NYT Connections hints and answers for Monday, June 15 (game #1100) [15h]
- EOFY sales will end in two weeks — grab these 65+ handpicked deals on TVs, laptops, headphones, vacuums and more before they disappear [16h]
- "Our mobile phones have become the greatest spy on the planet" - quote of the day by antivirus pioneer John McAfee [16h]
- I heard a 9.4.6-channel Dolby Atmos system in Denon and Marantz's elite reference listening room in their Japan factory — here's what a best-in-class system with tech from Bowers & Wilkins, Oppo, and Sony can do [17h]
- How to watch Ivory Coast vs Ecuador: Free Streams, TV Details and Kick-Off time for World Cup 2026 [18h]
- Many new AI data centers will be built on US drought-hit areas — raising questions over water and power supply [18h]
- Creative Assembly had ideas about an Alien: Isolation sequel before it finished developing the first game — 'Take what we love, what people love, and evolve with it' [18h]
- This travel hair dryer is so good, I gave away my full-size one and never looked back [18h]
- With the second-gen Ring Battery Video Doorbell Plus, the head-to-toe doorbell finally goes 2K [19h]
- UFC White House live stream: how to watch Topuria vs Gaethje, start time, preview, full card [20h]
- How to watch Netherlands vs Japan: Free Streams, TV Channels & Kick-Off time for FIFA World Cup 2026 [21h]
- 'Every day, a child is exposed to two pieces of inappropriate or harmful content': I've spent hours researching the best phone for my son — here are the safest options I've found, from iPhones to 'dumbphones' [21h]
- I installed this brilliant peephole camera in 10 minutes, and it's a great subscription-free alternative to a video doorbell for renters and apartment-dwellers [22h]
- I tested a budget RGB TV and equivalent mini-LED TV side by side — and while RGB gets us closer to OLED performance, it still needs to learn a few things from its old-school counterpart [22h]
- Best Buy is slashing Fitbit devices for Father's Day — shop my 5 favorite deals starting at $79.95 [22h]
- Wedding gift inspiration: heritage brands, forever homeware, and unusual appliances that'll make any newlywed's day [23h]
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- Kraken debuts U.S. perpetual futures as crypto derivatives move onshore [8m]
- Coinbase's Brian Armstrong says bitcoin may have bottomed at $60,000 [46m]
- XRP rockets 8% above $1.20 in first major breakout since June selloff [49m]
- CoinDesk 20 performance update: Bittensor (TAO) surges 31.9%, leading index higher [56m]
- Bitmine adds another $136 million of ether after raising $274 million in preferred stock sale [1h]
- Strategy deploys $100 million from USD reserves to acquire 1,587 BTC [2h]
- Markets cheer U.S.-Iran Breakthrough though Middle East risks, Fed remain in focus [2h]
- U.S.-Iran deal lifts equities, sends oil lower, while crypto stays wary [2h]
- Middle East ceasfire, Fed interest-rate decision: Crypto Week Ahead [4h]
- Trump-linked stablecoin used for bonus payouts at White House UFC contest [6h]
- Ark Invest bought more than $500 million worth of SpaceX shares on IPO day [6h]
- Bitcoin traders have a reason to watch Tuesday's BOJ rate decision. Yen shorts are at a nine-year high [7h]
- Live markets: Bitcoin not fully out of danger as Trump warns of further Iran strikes [8h]
- XRP climbs 4% above $1.18 as traders test next resistance zone [9h]
- Bitcoin hits a two-week high above $65,500 as the US-Iran deal sends oil sliding [10h]
- Bitcoin shoots higher on Iran peace deal, with Strait of Hormuz set to open [14h]
- Bitcoin could crash to $48,000, if this historical pattern is triggered [18h]
- Summer of crypto (regs): State of Crypto [19h]
- Aerodrome is turning liquidity into a prediction market with its biggest upgrade yet [23h]
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