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Jamie Crawley / CoinDesk: Japanese financial giant SBI Holdings agrees to acquire Bitbank, a top 10 Japanese crypto exchange by trading activity, for ~289M, set to close in October — Japanese financia

Reuters: LSEG: tech companies have raised $3.1B from mainland China stock market listings YTD, up 5x+ from a year earlier, as AI and chip companies drive onshore IPOs — China's onshore technology IPOs

Scharon Harding / Ars Technica: Netflix has been gradually requiring each profile under a Netflix subscription to use a unique email address; the rule doesn't apply to children's profiles — Recently,

Tripp Mickle / New York Times: Source: Intel has promised to deliver SpaceX and Apple a toolkit this fall to test its 14A node before they make final commitments to produce chips with Intel — At a tec

Wency Chen / South China Morning Post: Sources: Meituan, Baidu, Xiaomi, and other Chinese tech giants have been trimming their workforces, fueling Chinese workers' concerns of being replaced by AI — W

Laura Bratton / The Information: Sources: Salesforce staff worry Anthropic's Claude Tag could cannibalize Slackbot and give the AI firm more leverage over the enterprise software industry — When Anthr

Lillian Rizzo / CNBC: Sports clips' rise on platforms like YouTube has left broadcasters debating whether to use them to attract younger viewers or protect their subscription revenue — As the New York

Scharon Harding / Ars Technica: Streaming services must comply with a California law that bans playing ads louder than the content being watched from July 1, but its implementation is unclear — On Jul

Bloomberg: The rapid pace of AI progress has created a pervasive fear of missing out across Silicon Valley, fueling anxiety among founders, executives, employees, and VCs — Claude Code is cutting into

Kate Park / TechCrunch: Tokyo-based Sakana AI's Fugu and China-based 360's cybersecurity model Tulongfeng claim to rival Anthropic's banned Mythos and Fable 5 amid the US export ban — On Wednesday, Ch

Anna Bawden / The Guardian: A study of 408 teens in Australia finds 80%+ were still using social media three months after a ban came into force, citing inadequate age verification checks — Experts say

@anthropicai: Anthropic says the US government is allowing Mythos 5 to be redeployed to critical infrastructure operators, and is working to restore general access to Fable 5 — Since June 12, we've be

Catherine Perloff / The Information: AWS hikes prices for Nvidia GPUs in its EC2 Capacity Blocks service, which let businesses rent AI compute in advance, by 20%; Trainium chip pricing is unchanged —

Financial Times: Binance tells EU customers that it will stop providing services for them from July 1, after Greece rejected its application for a bloc-wide license last week — World's biggest crypto

Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: Despite the “DeepMind mafia” pulling billions into London AI startups, none of Demis Hassabis' former lieutenants is building a homegrown UK frontier AI model — The tec

OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Sol matches Mythos Preview on ExploitBench, adds Ultra mode with subagents for complex workflows, and max reasoning for deep problem-solving — We're beginning a limited preview of the

Stephen Foley / Financial Times: How AI-native law firms use “management services organization” structures to access capital historically barred from US law firms, including PE and VC funds — Interest

Dean W. Ball / Hyperdimensional: How US federal AI policy has gone from implausibly libertarian to increasingly draconian and opaque, and how to fix it, including using independent auditors — 35 thoug

Giulia Segreti / Reuters: Italy is investigating Microsoft 365's price hike, saying Microsoft failed to inform users that AI tools like Copilot were being integrated into the service — Italy's antitru

Semafor: Letter: the US lifts its block on Mythos 5, allowing Anthropic to release it to more than 100 US institutions; sources: talks about Fable 5 are ongoing — THE SCOOP — The US government Friday

Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: OpenAI appoints ex-Uber India head Prabhjeet Singh as its first managing director for India, to scale its presence in its second-largest market after the US — OpenAI is mak

Amrith Ramkumar / Wall Street Journal: OpenAI hopes to make GPT-5.6 generally available in the coming weeks and says “this kind of government access process” should not become the long-term default —

Axios: OpenAI releases three versions of GPT-5.6, called Sol, Terra, and Luna, as a limited preview to ~20 companies, with participants disclosed to the US government — OpenAI is rolling out GPT-5.6 F

Thomas Claburn / The Register: OpenAI says 97.9% of its employees are now using Codex, up from ~40% in August 2025; non-developer usage of Codex has risen 137x for individual users — Codex, it's not j

OpenAI: OpenAI says GPT-5.6 Sol and Terra were capable of identifying vulnerabilities but were unable to execute autonomous, end-to-end attacks against hardened targets — GPT-5.6 is a new family of th

Jordan Novet / CNBC: Oracle's stock fell 19% this week, the steepest weekly drop since a 20% plunge in August 2001, amid concerns about its debt load and AI investments — Oracle just wrapped up its wo

Kevin Breuninger / CNBC: President Trump threatens to impose a 100% tariff on any country that imposes a digital services tax on US companies — President Donald Trump on Friday threatened to impose a

Tim Clark / PC Gamer: Q&A with Tim Sweeney on his vision for a cross-platform gaming social system, Unreal Engine 6, AI's PR challenges, the state of AAA game development, and more — The Epic Games CE

Sam Nussey / Reuters: Shares of Japanese NAND flash maker Kioxia slid 12% on Friday after a report that OpenAI was considering delaying its IPO sparked a selloff in AI-related shares — Shares of Japan

Bloomberg: Sources: Anthropic and the White House are moving closer to an agreement to lift US restrictions on Fable 5 and Mythos 5 — Anthropic PBC and the Trump administration are moving closer to an

Financial Times: Sources: Apple is lobbying the Trump admin for clearance to buy memory chips from US-blacklisted Chinese company CXMT to ease pressure from rising chip prices — The iPhone maker wants

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: Apple's 14' and 16' OLED touch screen MacBook Pros will be powered by the existing M5 Pro and M5 Max chips and have an updated industrial design — Apple Inc.'s first-

The Information: Sources: DeepSeek's $7.4B raise was prompted by the release of Mythos as CEO Liang Wenfeng realized DeepSeek couldn't compete without a massive war chest — Up until two months ago, De

George Steer / Financial Times: Sources: Donald Trump Jr. got ~300K in Kalshi equity after becoming a strategic adviser in 2025, when Kalshi was valued at ~2B; now it's worth $22B+ — Privately owned c

Tyler Katzenberger / Politico: Sources: Meta lobbyists are urging California lawmakers to exempt social media platforms from legislation that would increase penalties in child-harm cases — Meta's plea

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: Paul Meade, Apple's top executive in charge of Vision Pro and smart glasses efforts, is leaving for OpenAI to work on the company's AI-powered devices — Apple Inc.'s

Financial Times: Sources: Revolut told new hires they'll have to work in office at least three days a week from next year, retreating from its long-held remote-first approach — Europe's most valuable

New York Times: Sources: Russian hackers were behind a 2025 ransomware attack on Jaguar Land Rover that used “mind-blowing” encryption and cost UK's economy an estimated $2.5B — A loose collective of

Kelcee Griffis / Bloomberg: Sources: SpaceX and Charter have held executive-level talks on a consumer mobile phone offering, which would help SpaceX become a DTC mobile phone provider — SpaceX and Cha

Financial Times: Sources: SpaceX COO Gwynne Shotwell told investors during an IPO roadshow SpaceX may launch a Starlink mobile product and build its own terrestrial US network — Move would test whethe

New York Times: Sources: the CFTC began an extensive investigation of Polymarket earlier this year; the agency's former acting head killed a separate investigation in July 2025 — Last year, the Commod

Mike Isaac / New York Times: Sources: Zuckerberg urged execs to explore Polymarket and Kalshi partnerships, as the Arena prediction app targets 100M monthly active “predictors” aged 18-34 — Mr. Zucker

Alistair Gray / Financial Times: Swiss watchmaker Swatch seeks $170M from Samsung in a London trial over 26 digital watch face apps that allegedly cloned luxury brand designs, including Omega — Swiss

Bloomberg: The FTC fast-tracks approval for SpaceX to acquire Mesh, which raised a $50M Series A in February to make high-efficiency optical transceivers for data centers — Elon Musk received a regula

Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: Uber expands the list of criminal convictions that disqualify US drivers and expands the background-check timeline, possibly removing ~0.5% of active US drivers — Uber Techno

Gianluca Lo Nostro / Reuters: Anthropic hires French telecom group Orange's Chief AI Officer Steve Jarrett to help Anthropic “better understand and adapt” its products to Europe and Africa — The artif