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  • Fri Jun 5

xAI rebrands to SpaceXAI and debuts a new logo (Kelsey Vlamis/Business Insider)

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Anthropic researchers detail J-space, a small set of neural patterns in Claude that reveals internal thoughts that don't appear in the model's output (Anthropic)

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BonkDAO, which oversees the Bonk memecoin, says it was the target of a "malicious governance proposal" that resulted in a loss of $20M worth of Bonk tokens (Daniel Kuhn/The Block)

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Sources: Vista Equity and Quinti made a takeover bid for Criteo that values the French ad tech company at a 50%+ premium to its stock price in recent weeks (Bloomberg)

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Source: Thrive Capital spinoff Thrive Holdings seeks to raise around $2B from SoftBank, Altimeter, D1, and others, after previously raising $1B (Julia Hornstein/The Information)

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Sources: CISA's Attack Surface Evaluation team is using Mythos to audit government code repositories and has already uncovered a large number of vulnerabilities (Raphael Satter/Reuters)

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SCOTUS declines to block a Texas law requiring app stores and developers to verify the age of mobile device users, and for minors to obtain parental consent (Andrew Chung/Reuters)

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Sources: the US considers housing the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve at Commerce instead of Treasury amid concerns over Treasury's legal authority to manage it (Bloomberg)

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Xbox appoints Helen Chiang as its first COO; Chiang was previously corporate vice president for the Minecraft Franchise and the studio head of Minecraft (Sam Smith/GamesBeat)

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Source: Xbox Game Pass currently has about 30M subscriptions; document: Microsoft had projected Game Pass subscriptions would reach around 77M this year (Ben Fritz/Wall Street Journal)

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A term sheet shows Tencent is seeking to raise as much as $1.55B in a selldown of part of its stake in short-video app operator Kuaishou through a block trade (Julia Fioretti/Bloomberg)

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Tencent releases Hy3, a 295B-parameter model that it says is competitive with GLM-5.1 and 5.2, under the Apache 2.0 license, following a preview launch in April (Sam Witteveen/VentureBeat)

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Source: Mercor hit over $2B in gross revenue run rate in June, double its pace in April, and is profitable on a free cash flow basis (Julia Hornstein/The Information)

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Illinois Governor JB Pritzker signs SB 315, a bill requiring annual third-party safety audits of leading AI companies; OpenAI and Anthropic backed the bill (Adam Harrington/CBS News)

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Nintendo plans to stop selling the original Switch, Lite, and OLED in Europe from mid-February 2027 and update the Switch 2 to comply with new EU battery rules (Andrew Webster/The Verge)

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Filing: Strategy sold 3,588 bitcoin for ~$216M between June 29 and July 5 to replenish its USD reserve; its holdings have an $11.4B paper loss at current prices (James Hunt/The Block)

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Microsoft's Xbox unit plans to cut 3,200 jobs over the next year, including 1,600 on Monday, and divest up to five studios, including Ninja Theory, in a "reset" (Bloomberg)

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Microsoft is laying off ~4,800 employees, or ~2.1% of its workforce; most are in sales or Xbox, where ~20% of jobs are set to be cut by the end of FY 2027 (Tom Warren/The Verge)

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Reddit says its AI-powered content moderation systems caught 25K "spammy posts and comments" per day in Q1, reducing users' exposure to such content by 20% YoY (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)

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Broadcom agrees to expand its Apple partnership through 2031 to develop and supply custom chips; in 2023, the companies announced a multibillion-dollar 5G deal (Akash Sriram/Reuters)

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Anthropic signs a 20-year, ~$19B lease to use a TeraWulf data center in Kentucky, set to have a ~400MW capacity and to start delivering power in H2 2027 (CNBC)

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AI agent training platform Bespoke Labs raised $40M across a seed led by 8VC and a Series A led by Wing, saying the funding gives it almost two years of runway (Natalie Breymeyer/Axios)

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Filing: Brookfield-backed data center company Csquare seeks to raise up to $1.35B in an IPO, selling 50M shares at $23 to $27 each for an up to $4.18B valuation (Ryan Vlastelica/Bloomberg)

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How Masayoshi Son is remaking SoftBank in his own image, betting on AI; SoftBank trades at a ~50% discount to its net asset value, as some question his strategy (David Keohane/Financial Times)

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A profile of Samsung union leader Choi Seung-ho, who helped win a ~$26B bonus package for chip employees, as he tries to resolve the rift over bonus gaps (Yoolim Lee/Bloomberg)

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An interview with Agility Robotics CEO Peggy Johnson on why the startup is going public via a SPAC, the physical layer as its core advantage, safety, and more (Connie Loizos/TechCrunch)

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AI-driven drops in labor income and gains in capital income could hit Ireland's tax base, with 6%+ of its workforce in tech and heavy exposure to US companies (Olivia Fletcher/Bloomberg)

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Some US voters are using AI tools as nonpartisan researchers, seeing them as a viable alternative to traditional news coverage, voter guides, and social media (Jennifer Medina/New York Times)

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Ripple secures CASP authorization from Luxembourg's financial regulator, making it fully MiCA-compliant to offer crypto services across 30 EEA countries (Brian Danga/The Block)

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Shenzhen-based Even Realities, a startup that makes smart glasses without cameras, raised a $150M pre-Series B led by Meituan and Tencent (Kate Park/TechCrunch)

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SK Hynix launches a US share sale on the Nasdaq to raise ~$28B, selling 17.79M new shares; the final listing price is due Thursday before trading starts Friday (Reuters)

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Document: a draft US Treasury Department report is set to warn about the AI market's risks, likening some key aspects to the dotcom crash in the early 2000s (Eric Katz/NOTUS)

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Claude Opus 4.8 and Sonnet 5 seem worse at tool calls than older models, likely due to post-training that assumes Claude Code-like harnesses as targets (Armin Ronacher/Armin Ronacher's Thoughts and Writings)

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SemiAnalysis: Nvidia delays its next-gen AI rack system Kyber NVL144 by 12+ months to 2028 due to PCB manufacturing issues, and cancels its NVL72x2 architecture (Anniek Bao/CNBC)

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Shanghai-based AI chipmaker Biren raises ~$892.5M in a new share sale to boost GPU production; Biren's stock is up 150%+ since its January Hong Kong IPO (Ann Cao/South China Morning Post)

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Researchers document JadePuffer, the first known "agentic ransomware", which adapts in real time and retries steps to execute an end-to-end extortion operation (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer)

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A US federal judge orders the DOD to shield Alibaba from a law that led lobbyists to drop it as a client while she weighs the measure's constitutionality (Kate O'Keeffe/Bloomberg)

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How companies like Nvidia and Neura Robotics are building safety systems for humanoid robots to minimize risks like a bipedal robot losing stability (John Keilman/Wall Street Journal)

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A look at Threads and an interview with Head of Threads Connor Hayes, as the platform passes 500M MAUs and increasingly resembles Reddit with a community focus (Eli Tan/New York Times)

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Kuo: Apple suppliers plan to ship <1M iPhone fold units in Q3 2026, which may push the start of device pre-orders and sales to Q4, with weeks of delivery delays (Ming-Chi Kuo)

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Tesla rolls out its Robotaxi service without a safety monitor in Miami, its fifth city, as it aims to expand to a dozen US states by the end of 2026 (Grace Kay/The Information)

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ByteDance's Doubao and Alibaba's Qwen will disable humanlike and user-created agents before July 15, as China's anthropomorphic AI interaction rules take effect (Wency Chen/South China Morning Post)

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Data centers offer US a chance to get ahead in the next key technologies and to build domestic supply chains based on demand rather than subsidies and tariffs (Josh Zoffer/Financial Times)

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Chainalysis: addresses linked to Iran, Russia, North Korea, and other US-sanctioned entities received $100B+ in crypto last year, almost 8x the amount in 2024 (Patricia Kowsmann/Wall Street Journal)

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Analysis: ~1M $TRUMP retail buyers lost a combined $3.81B, while ~500K mostly-early wallets captured $4B in gains, a textbook memecoin wealth transfer (New York Times)

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A profile of Kaley Glenn-Mills, the plaintiff in K.G.M. v. Meta et al., who was awarded $6M in damages in a landmark LA jury trial over social media addiction (Olivia Carville/Bloomberg)

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Bending Spoons' Nasdaq IPO caps its 50+ deals across 10+ years that transformed the Italian startup into a highly leveraged internet company with ~$4.4B in debt (Financial Times)

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NY-based LinqAlpha, which provides AI-powered market research tools for hedge funds, raised a $22M Series A co-led by AVP, Atinum Investment, and GFT Ventures (Sofia Chesnokova/Tech Funding News)

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Sources: Uber halts plans to launch food delivery in five of the seven European countries it had targeted for expansion as it pursues a Delivery Hero takeover (Kieran Smith/Financial Times)

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India issues a notice to Telegram, asking it to curb the spread of pirated films and other copyrighted content, and seeks an action-taken report within 15 days (Sejal Sharma/Hindustan Times)

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Entries updated Jul 6, 2026 02:12:20 PM PDT

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