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Amazon Web Services Inc. is no longer accepting new customers for its decades-old Mechanical Turk service, in what is likely a death knell for the pioneering crowdsourcing marketplace. Launched in 200

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

Financial Times: 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 — Nasdaq listing caps

Patricia Kowsmann / Wall Street Journal: 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 —

Sejal Sharma / Hindustan Times: 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 — The Mi

Sofia Chesnokova / Tech Funding News: 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 — -

Most Americans don't trust AI. It's proven that it doesn't know what safe toppings for pizza are. People don't even want to listen to AI music. But none of that matters for some of America's wealthy,

Kieran Smith / Financial Times: 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 — Ride-ha

Financial Times: A look at the troubled rollout of the EU's automated biometric entry/exit border system, as airport operators warn of severe delays ahead of the summer holidays — Automated system fir

Robert P Baird / The Guardian: A profile of Google DeepMind philosopher Iason Gabriel, whose work has tracked, and in many cases predicted, the ethical challenges posed by the success of LLMs — Since

Data center builder Crusoe Inc. is reportedly in talks to raise a 3 billion funding round. Bloomberg on Thursday cited sources as saying that the deal could value the company at 30 billion. That’s abo

Simon Sharwood / The Register: AWS says Mechanical Turk will no longer accept new customers and that it is placing the crowdsourcing service in maintenance, signaling its future retirement — Workers w

Marcel Thee / Nikkei Asia: Indonesia's enforcement of social media restrictions for under-16s has been patchy, with tech companies ignoring the rules and youth still accessing platforms — JAKARTA — An

Mari Kiyohara / Bloomberg: Micron breaks ground on its ~9.3B Hiroshima factory expansion, part of its global ramp-up to meet AI demand, and plans to start HBM shipments from summer 2028 — Micron Techn

Bloomberg: Official data shows Hong Kong accounted for 50%+ of China's 239B in chip imports in the first five months of 2026, a record share, up from ~33% a decade ago — Hong Kong has become a vital c

Anna Heim / TechCrunch: Prague-based EquiLibre, which offers AI for quant hedge funds and is founded by three ex-Google DeepMind researchers, raised a Series A at a $500M valuation — Three former Deep

Supergirl follows Kara Zor-El on a protective quest across alien worlds that helps the young Kryptonian discover her identity and purpose . The origin story leans into the emotional fallout of grief w

Aisha Down / The Guardian: Source calls UK- and OpenAI-touted plans in 2025 for Stargate's ~£20B Cobalt site a PR stunt; OpenAI and Nscale failed to visit Cobalt or lodge planning forms — Exclusive: £

A loss of smell can be an early sign of disease, while in other circumstances it may directly contribute to disorders. Smell helps parents and children bond, warns of environmental dangers, and anchor

Bloomberg: A look at the quant fund frenzy in China, as assets under management have more than doubled to ~$384B in less than a year amid rapid AI adoption — Quant funds in China have become so popula

Anthropic PBC is reportedly in talks with Samsung Electronics Co. to produce a custom artificial intelligence chip. The Information today cited sources as saying that the discussions are in an early s

Reuters: Filing: GoDaddy challenges a New Delhi court ruling requiring domain sellers to stop offering privacy by default, saying it could expose website owners globally — The world's biggest internet

Wall Street Journal: How Jeff Bezos' changing relationship with President Trump has helped Amazon and Blue Origin, such as more federal contracts awarded during Trump's second term — Space company has

Reuters: India's IT secretary said the country is investigating a data breach at Apple supplier Tata, which exposed files that included photos of iPhone 18 Pro models — India is investigating a data b

Divya Arya / BBC: Instagram has been running ads promoting child sexual abuse material in India, with terms like “rape video” and “child video” and linking to Telegram channels — Warning: This story c

Jeremie Eliahou Ontiveros / SemiAnalysis: Meta could use its compute for its own models, ad scaling, SpaceX-like neocloud deals, and hosting 3rd-party models; it may be close to an Anthropic deal — Zu

M.G. Siegler / Spyglass: Meta getting into the cloud business has been inevitable for a long time, as it seeks to diversify beyond ad revenue and monetize its AI buildout — Their need to diversify the

Gene Maddaus / Variety: Midjourney wants Disney, Universal, and Warner Bros. to reveal in court how they use AI across their companies; studios sued Midjourney in 2025 for infringement — The studios s

Declan Harty / Politico: Pitch document: Chris Larsen and Palmer Luckey invested an undisclosed amount in APEC, a derivatives exchange founded by the son of Senator Kirsten Gillibrand — Democratic meg

Financial Times: Sources: Anthropic moves to close loopholes that let Chinese firms like Ant use its models via workarounds including cloud providers and overseas subsidiaries — Engineers are still fi

Giles Turner / Bloomberg: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton opens an investigation into StubHub following complaints of last-minute ticket cancellations for FIFA World Cup 2026 matches — Texas Attorne

Bloomberg: A look at the CSOP SK Hynix Leveraged ETF, which trades in Hong Kong and has ballooned into a $13B fund, becoming the world's largest single-stock leveraged ETF — A Hong Kong fund tied to S

Pew Research Center: A survey of US adults finds 56% support banning social media for under-16s, while 21% oppose; majorities across demographic and partisan groups support a ban — Nearly six-in-ten U

Ugandan health authorities confirmed an isolated case of Marburg virus disease, a highly infectious hemorrhagic fever, while conducting surveillance for an ongoing Ebola outbreak. No contacts of the M

Prague-based artificial intelligence developer EquiLibre Technologies Inc. has raised funding at a valuation exceeding 500 million. The company stated late Tuesday that the Series A round was led by C

Thomas Ricker / The Verge: Amazon says Leo reached 396 satellites in low-Earth orbit following a recent launch, which is “enough to support continuous service across initial latitudes” — Early adopter

Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: An interview with Amazon SVP of Devices Panos Panay on designing custom chips for Echo and Fire TV devices, experimenting with AI-enabled gadgets, and more — Amazon is focusing o

Researchers at the University of Minnesota have created the world's first synthetic cell called SpudCell that can feed, grow, and reproduce, built entirely from non-living chemical components . SpudCe

Samantha Elkins / NBC News: Cloudflare sets a September 15 deadline for AI companies to differentiate their web crawlers into search, AI training, and AI agents or face being blocked — Cloudflare gave

The FAA proposed noise standards for civilian supersonic aircraft, moving to lift the decades-old ban on flights exceeding Mach 1 over U.S. land due to sonic booms. The proposal establishes a noise-ba

Fable, a platform or service, has made a return or comeback according to reporting from Ben's Bites, a newsletter covering AI and tech developments. The article likely discusses the relaunch or reviva

Anna Heim / TechCrunch: Finnish quantum computing company IQM closed up 2% in its Nasdaq debut Thursday after going public via a SPAC merger at a ~1.9B valuation — IQM, a full-stack quantum company ou

Jim Tankersley / New York Times: German software giant SAP says it is encouraging workers to invent new, more valuable jobs aided by AI, in a bid to avoid layoffs; SAP cut ~10K staff in 2024 — The Ger

Yazhou Sun / Bloomberg: Germany-based Quantum Systems, which sells surveillance drones used by Ukraine, raised 1.2B led by Blackstone, Noteus, Airbus, and Advent at an ~8B valuation — Quantum Systems

Startups worldwide raised a record 510 billion in the first half of 2026, according to a new report out today from market intelligence company Crunchbase Inc. The figure was more than investors put in

Google LLC has disrupted NetNut, one of the largest residential proxy networks in operation, degrading a service that had turned more than 2 million home devices worldwide into relays for other people