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SoftBank says it is struggling to find startups in Latin America ready for major investments and has completed only two new deals over the past two years (Bloomberg)

Investigation: Polymarket is paying creators to make deceptive videos about winning bets, targeting users in the US, where its primary crypto platform is banned (Wall Street Journal)

Inside Palantir's fight to save its £330M, seven-year contract with NHS England, as public and political pressure grows to end the deal via a 2027 break clause (Financial Times)

Brazil takes its National Civil Defense warning platform offline after suspected hackers send an unauthorized alert to mobile phones in several states (Mariana Catacci/CNN)

A look at Jane Street's push to supercharge trading with AI and become a major AI investor; it invested $1B in CoreWeave in April and has a stake in Anthropic (Gregory Zuckerman/Wall Street Journal)

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A look at "humanizer" and "autotyper" apps that help students evade AI-detection software by slowly auto-typing essays and making AI text sound less robotic (Dana Goldstein/New York Times)

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A speculative scenario titled "Europe 2031" projects economic and political instability in the EU if it fails to keep pace with the US and China in the AI race (Aisha Down/The Guardian)

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How success of AI-related companies in South Korea, Taiwan, and Japan is driving stock gains, bigger bonuses, and a retail investing frenzy in Asian markets (Wall Street Journal)

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Granta says it will stop publishing short story contest winners or join publishing partnerships it doesn't control after AI use allegations against a winner (Ella Creamer/The Guardian)

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Claude Guillemot, co-founder of Ubisoft and chairman of gaming hardware company Guillemot Corporation, died at 69 after a plane crash in France (Angela Cullen/Bloomberg)

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An interview with Smartbird CEO Nadia Carlsten about the shoe company Allbirds becoming an AI infrastructure company, plans to deploy compute clusters, and more (Tim Fernholz/TechCrunch)

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A look at Russia's push to develop homegrown AI talent, as the country is hampered by scarce access to AI hardware and a brain drain of top technical talent (Nikita Ostrovsky/Time)

Q&A with Signal's Meredith Whittaker on why online child safety efforts risk mass surveillance, leaving the markets that demand weakening of encryption, more (Mishal Husain/Bloomberg)

Sources: the UK government is expected to consult as early as this month on rules to make public service news more prominent on social media and video platforms (Financial Times)

Sources: PC makers, including HP, are in talks with their supply-chain partners about using CXMT's memory chips in products bound for Asia as DRAM prices soar (Wall Street Journal)

Paris-based Kyber, which develops a low-latency remote device control SDK and is founded by VLC lead developer Jean-Baptiste Kempf, raised $5M led by Lightspeed (Anna Heim/TechCrunch)

Sources: Bain Capital stands to make $15B+ in profits on its 2018 Kioxia buyout, a ~20x return, as Kioxia's stock has surged 5,000%+ since its December 2024 IPO (Financial Times)

An interview with Roblox CEO Dave Baszucki on his early decision not to prioritize ad revenue, whether every mega platform becomes an everything app, and more (Tyler Cowen/Conversations with Tyler)

Nothing co-founder Akis Evangelidis says the phonemaker won't launch a new phone this year in its budget-focused CMF Phone series due to surging memory prices (Ben Schoon/9to5Google)

DOJ says two brothers pleaded guilty to robbing a Minnesota family of $8M+ in cryptocurrency after holding them at gunpoint for over eight hours in 2025 (Naga Avan-Nomayo/The Block)

Sources: Abu Dhabi's MGX is exploring buying Singapore-based data center operator DayOne; last month, sources said DayOne planned a US IPO at a $20B valuation (Reuters)

Docs: OpenAI burned through $3.7B in Q1, on revenue of $5.7B, and ended the quarter with $73B+ in cash and marketable securities vs. $40B at the end of December (Erin Woo/The Information)

The departure of John Jumper, a key member of Google's AI coding development team, further strains Google's efforts to compete with Anthropic and OpenAI (Bloomberg)

South Korean media: Hyundai plans to buy SoftBank's remaining 9.65% stake in Boston Dynamics for $325M to make the US robotics company a wholly owned subsidiary (Reuters)

Trump says he saw Anthropic last week as a national security threat, but signals relations have since improved because Dario Amodei was "nice" and "smart" at G7 (Maria Curi/Axios)

Oura Ring 5 review: impressive thinness, live activity tracking, and conversational AI, but not very durable, LEDs are distracting, and the app is confusing (Samantha Kelly/Bloomberg)

John Jumper, who won the Nobel Prize "for protein structure prediction", says he is leaving Google DeepMind after nearly nine years to join Anthropic (John Jumper/@johnjumpersci)

ASML says claims that one of its EUV lithography systems has ended up in China are inaccurate, after a report on Howard Lutnick's questions to ASML's leadership (Anton Shilov/Tom's Hardware)

Norway imposes a near ban on gen AI use by elementary school children and restricts its use in older kids' education, to prevent a negative impact on learning (Terje Solsvik/Reuters)

Amazon MGM Studios drops Luca Guadagnino's mostly finished movie on Sam Altman; Amazon struck a major deal with OpenAI in February, including a $50B investment (Variety)

John Edwards, UK Information Commissioner and chair of the ICO, the country's data and AI regulator, resigned following a workplace investigation (Liv McMahon/BBC)

Sources: England and Wales' attorney general tells his office to stop posting on X, a first for the UK government, amid worries about X inciting violence (Peter Walker/The Guardian)

The US FERC approves new orders to fast-track data center power requests, aiming to handle them in 90 days, while bringing new requirements for AI hyperscalers (Bloomberg)

Siemens expects Xcelerator revenue to more than double in 2026, aiming to make the platform an industrial app store integrating software and hardware offerings (Marilen Martin/Bloomberg)

Turkey approves Uber's $335M deal to buy Getir's delivery business, tied to a $500M investment pledge in Turkey; Uber is also paying $100M for a 15% Getir stake (Ana-Maria Stanciuc/The Next Web)

Filing: Jio Platforms, India's largest wireless operator with 526M+ subscribers, files for an IPO; the deal is expected to be one of India's biggest IPOs ever (Priyanka Salve/CNBC)

Sources: Chinese autonomous driving company Momenta has reached a ~$9B valuation as it gears up to raise ~$1B in an upcoming Hong Kong IPO (Jiahui Huang/Wall Street Journal)

How hacker group TeamPCP exploited the open source trust model and distribution method to compromise and inject malware into over 1,000 software packages (Matt Kapko/CyberScoop)

Sources detail how Google is using Nvidia's playbook to build an AI chip business, including providing $3.2B to fund a NY data center renting TPUs to Anthropic (Wall Street Journal)

Barret Zoph leaves OpenAI again five months after rejoining in January; Zoph initially left OpenAI in 2024 to serve as Thinking Machines Lab co-founder and CTO (Hayden Field/The Verge)

Sources: about 200 companies accessing Mythos Preview through Project Glasswing have preserved their access despite a recent US government shutdown order (Bloomberg)

The CFTC permanently bans Celsius founder Alex Mashinsky from trading in markets it oversees as part of a settlement resolving its 2023 lawsuit against him (Jesse Coghlan/Cointelegraph)

Sources: Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick questioned ASML leaders on concerns China acquired one of its EUV machines, violating US-led export restrictions (Bloomberg)

Source: Elastic has agreed to acquire the AI site reliability engineering startup Deductive AI for up to $85M; CRV led Deductive AI's $7.5M seed round in 2025 (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)

Appfigures: daily downloads of major VPN apps in India rose 49% on June 16 after India announced its Telegram ban; Proton and Turbo recorded largest increases (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)

Sources: SpaceX plans to raise $20B in a bond sale as soon as next week; the funds would be used to pay back a $20B bridge loan taken out after the xAI merger (Financial Times)

Doc: SpaceX says the EU's plan to reserve satellite spectrum for European operators risks disrupting connectivity, including for emergency services in Ukraine (Financial Times)

A US circuit court overturned an injunction against Ohio, allowing the state to implement a law forcing platforms to seek parental consent if a user is under-16 (Nate Raymond/Reuters)

A profile of Meta President Dina Powell McCormick, who has become one of Silicon Valley's top power brokers as she helps oversee Meta's AI infrastructure push (Financial Times)

Intel names former SK Hynix CEO Seok-Hee Lee as EVP of Intel Foundry; Naga Chandrasekaran will lead front-end technology development and front-end manufacturing (Juby Babu/Reuters)