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A survey of US adults: 49% reported using chatbots in 2026, up from 33% in 2024, 24% said that they use chatbots on a daily basis, and 44% said they use ChatGPT (Pew Research Center)

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Sources: the White House's move to restrict Mythos 5 came after it ordered Anthropic to revoke South Korea-based SK Telecom's access over alleged ties to China (Wired)

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Filing: Roelof Botha has joined the board of SpaceX as an independent director, seven months after stepping down as Sequoia steward (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)

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Google confirms it has ended production of the Nest Mini and Nest Audio, but existing devices will continue to be fully supported (Chris Martin/Tech Advisor)

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Noam Shazeer leaves Google to join OpenAI as lead for architecture research; he rejoined Google in 2024 as part of the Character.AI deal and was Gemini co-lead (The Information)

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At AWS Summit, AWS announced Continuum, which uses AI to find and fix code vulnerabilities, Context, which organizes company data for AI agents, and more (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)

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Frontier, a group including Stripe, Google, Salesforce, and newly joined Anthropic, commits $915M to buy carbon-removal credits, on top of $1B already pledged (Yusuf Khan/Wall Street Journal)

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Trump administration officials say Anthropic must ensure Fable 5's guardrails can't be circumvented before rerelease; experts say that may not be possible (Hugo Lowell/Wired)

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Apple's planned move of Hide My Email aliases to private.icloud.com will let services easily distinguish them from normal iCloud email addresses and block them (Arseniy Shestakov)

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Mastodon adds email newsletters, letting writers send their posts directly to subscribers' inboxes, even to readers without a Mastodon account (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

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In an interview, Tim Cook says Apple price hikes are "unavoidable" to offset surging memory and storage chip costs, and "the situation has become unsustainable" (Rolfe Winkler/Wall Street Journal)

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Snap's stock closed down 8.14% on Wednesday, after the company launched the $2,195 Specs AR glasses on Tuesday; SNAP is down ~41% YTD (Lucas Ropek/TechCrunch)

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Bernie Sanders proposes legislation to create a sovereign wealth fund financed via a one-time 50% stock tax on AI companies that reach $200M in annual AI sales (Joey Cappelletti/Associated Press)

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Sources: Apple is testing a second-generation iPhone Air, planned for spring 2027, with a second rear camera for ultrawide-angle photos and better battery life (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

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Anthropic updates Claude Design with design system imports, bidirectional integration with Claude Code, lower token consumption, and more export destinations (Michael Nuñez/VentureBeat)

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Epic says Unreal Engine 6, planned for early access in late 2027, will unify UE5 and Unreal Editor for Fortnite, add integrations with Claude and Gemini, more (Andy Robinson/Video Games Chronicle)

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Sources: Amodei, Altman, and Hassabis called for US-led collaboration on AI rules at the G7 summit; Macron and Modi raised concerns over the US block on Mythos (Financial Times)

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CEOs of Anthropic and Google DeepMind call for U.S.-led AI coalition in meeting at G7 (Kai Nicol-Schwarz/CNBC)

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A newly discovered data leak has exposed what appears to be a collection of Fortinet and FortiGate VPN credentials for 73,932 firewall URLs across 194 countries (Lawrence Abrams/BleepingComputer)

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Joshua Baer, the founder and CEO of Texas accelerator Capital Factory, died on Tuesday night in a business jet crash in Laredo, Texas (Ryan Merket/RuntimeWire)

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Paris-based Comand AI, which is developing AI-based command-and-control software for military operations, raised a €32M Series A led by Blossom Capital (Ingrid Lunden/Resilience Media)

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Studies: Mira, an AI medical tool developed by researchers in Germany, and Google's Amie matched or surpassed doctors on diagnostic and treatment decisions (Michael Peel/Financial Times)

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Q&A with Luciana Lixandru, who co-leads Sequoia's global early-stage investment business, on why it is time for "act two" for Europe's tech sector, AI, and more (Tim Bradshaw/Financial Times)

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The UK CMA orders Google to provide greater transparency on how its search rankings work and to let users transfer their search data to authorized third parties (Muvija M/Reuters)

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Trace Finance, which provides stablecoin settlement infrastructure for cross-border payments across Latin America, raised a $32M Series A led by CoinFund (Yohan Yunstaff/Cointelegraph)

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XDOF, which is building data pipelines, collection tools, and annotation systems for robot training data, emerges from stealth with $70M (Tim Fernholz/TechCrunch)

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A look at chaos inside Anthropic after disabling Fable 5 and Mythos 5 with less than 90 minutes of notice, as some staff wonder if Trump is bullying the startup (New York Times)

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Shoe company Allbirds changes its name to Smartbird as it pivots to an AI infrastructure company and names ex-AWS exec Nadia Carlsten as CEO; BIRD jumps 20%+ (Anhata Rooprai/Reuters)

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Pramaana Labs, which uses the LEAN programming language to build a deterministic verification layer on top of LLMs, raised a $27M seed led by Khosla Ventures (Russell Brandom/TechCrunch)

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Convey, which is building AI "teammates" to automate workflows for clients like NBCUniversal, Samsara, and TelevisaUnivision, raised a $38M Series A led by a16z (Ben Bergman/Business Insider)

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Google's $99 Google Home Speaker, which is built for Gemini for Home and works as a Matter controller, will ship on June 29, nine months after it was announced (Jennifer Pattison Tuohy/The Verge)

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The UK says reports that Prime Minister Keir Starmer sought a carve-out to US export controls imposed on Anthropic's Claude Mythos 5 are "categorically untrue" (Politico)

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Andera, which uses AI to automate corporate audit and compliance testing, raised a $37M Series A led by Lightspeed (Ryan Lawler/Axios)

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EigenQ, which makes cybersecurity systems to protect devices from future attacks by quantum computers, plans to go public via a SPAC merger at a ~$3B valuation (Reuters)

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Conduct, which uses AI to let companies maintain, change, and modernize their legacy IT systems, raised a $60M Series A, bringing its total funding to $72M (Chris Metinko/Axios)

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Estonia says it will assign personal ID numbers to AI agents to give them "limited, controllable, and auditable authorizations" as they take actions for humans (Ott Tammik/Bloomberg)

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Twenty, which uses AI to help US military hackers penetrate adversary computer networks, raised a $100M Series B led by Accel at a $1B valuation (Colin Demarest/Axios)

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Nasdaq Private Market sues Hiive, claiming Hiive stole trade secrets and infringed on its IP, poaching two employees in part to access confidential information (Yazhou Sun/Bloomberg)

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OpenAI's Chief Strategy Officer messaged staff that OpenAI "strongly" told the US government that building AI "requires the best talent from around the world" (The Information)

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The US government awards $500M under the CHIPS Act to SandboxAQ to use AI models to develop new chemicals and materials for domestic semiconductor manufacturing (Stephen Nellis/Reuters)

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Uber says it will expand its premium robotaxi service from San Francisco to Houston by mid-2027, in partnership with EV maker Lucid and AV startup Nuro (Kirsten Korosec/TechCrunch)

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Nauk Nauk, which runs an AI video app that turns photos of toys into short animated videos, raised $20M and is coming out of beta; it claims to have 1M+ users (Ina Fried/Axios)

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Sources: Trump officials discussed how to structure government equity stakes in AI companies, with Commerce Secretary Lutnick preferring a sovereign wealth fund (Eleanor Mueller/Semafor)

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Sources describe Huawei's efforts to rebuild its chip business seven years after the US cut Huawei off from advanced chips, as it bets on logic-stacking tech (Financial Times)

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World models startup Odyssey raised $310M from Amazon and others at a $1.45B valuation and will use AWS as its preferred cloud partner, deploying Trainium chips (Financial Times)

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A profile of Anthropic researcher Nicholas Carlini, who warned about Mythos in March and is now part of an Anthropic team briefing the White House on safeguards (Wall Street Journal)

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Sources: Samsung is seeing a rise in advanced chip production requests from BYD, Google, AMD, and others as TSMC's capacity remains constrained by AI demand (Nikkei Asia)

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India's Telegram ban until June 22 over exam paper leak concerns is a terrible look for the country, sets a precedent, and could happen again if unchallenged (Nikhil Pahwa/@nixxin)

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Sources: a new AI lab founded by Junyang Lin, former lead of Alibaba's Qwen models, has raised several hundred million dollars at a ~$2B post-money valuation (The Information)

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Dealogic: investors have poured $58B across 42 data center deals YTD; Oxford Economics says ~850 data centers worth some $7T are under construction globally (Financial Times)

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Entries updated Jun 17, 2026 06:00:26 PM PDT

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