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Brody Ford / Bloomberg: Filing: Oracle's global workforce fell by 21,000 employees in the past 12 months to 141,000 as of May 31; the company says AI adoption has led to reductions — Oracle Corp. redu

Ben Fritz / Wall Street Journal: Google invests in independent movie studio A24 as part of a new AI partnership; sources say Google is investing ~75M, roughly equal to Thrive's 2024 investment — Searc

Zsana Hoskins / Bloomberg: Groq raised 650M led by Disruptive and Infinitum after its Nvidia deal, aiming to hit 200 MW in capacity by the end of 2027, following a 750M raise in 2025 — Groq Inc. raise

Sarah Basford Canales / The Guardian: In a rare joint statement, Five Eyes leaders warn AI models capable of taking down governments and businesses are mere months away, urging leaders to “act now” —

Katie Kilkenny / The Hollywood Reporter: Instagram is testing horizontal video on Instagram for TV, plans to experiment with longer-form storytelling and episodic series, and launches on Samsung TV —

Ian King / Bloomberg: Nvidia unveils Halos, a safety-focused OS developed from autonomous vehicle tech and designed to run on IGX Thor hardware for humanoid robots, and opens a lab — Nvidia Corp. is w

Lily Hay Newman / Wired: OpenAI unveils an updated GPT-5.5-Cyber model, launches the Patch the Planet initiative in partnership with Trail of Bits to fix open source bugs, and more — Amid concerns abo

Amrith Ramkumar / Wall Street Journal: President Trump signs two executive orders aimed at speeding the development of advanced quantum computers and mitigating the security threats they present — Adm

Gaby Del Valle / The Verge: Real estate professionals are increasingly using AI-powered virtual staging tools like Stuccco and BoxBrownie to create misleading house and apartment listings — “Virtual s

Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: Sakana AI launches Fugu, a multi-agent orchestration system accessible through a single model API, claiming Fugu Ultra matches Fable and Mythos on benchmarks — Last night,

Kerry Flynn / Axios: Sources: marketing tech startup AppsFlyer raised a 1B Series E at a 2.7B post-money valuation; Moloco, Google, Meta, and Unity acquire minority stakes — AppsFlyer has raised more

Wired: Sources: Meta internally exposed data from its employee-tracking program meant to help train its AI models, including full prompts and private conversations — Employees had previously raised co

Bloomberg: Sources: Qualcomm is in advanced talks to acquire Modular in a transaction valuing the AI chip startup at ~4B, up from a 1.6B valuation in September 2025 — Qualcomm Inc. is in advanced talk

Echo Wang / Reuters: Sources: Vimeo owner Bending Spoons seeks to raise ~1.62B in a US IPO, selling 58M shares at 26 to 28 apiece, at a valuation of 19B at the top of the range — Bending Spoons, an It

Samantha Subin / CNBC: SpaceX announces a senior unsecured notes offering and discloses that it has about 100.8B in cash; SPCX drops 8%+ — - SpaceX launched an inaugural bond sale days after its block

Deirdre Bosa / CNBC: SpaceX signs a computing deal worth up to 6.3B with Reflection AI for access to Nvidia GB300s at Colossus 2; Reflection will pay 150M per month through 2029 — SpaceX has signed a

Lily Mae Lazarus / Fortune: Upscale, which is building AI networking infrastructure to rival Cisco, raised a 190M Series A-1 at a 2B valuation, up from 1B after raising 200M in January — Every time co

Jay Peters / The Verge: Valve says Steam Machine, its new living room-friendly PC, will start at $1,049 for the 512GB base model, and go on sale starting June 29 — You can register your interest start

Sean Hollister / The Verge: Valve Steam Machine review: much smaller than PS5, surprisingly smooth, and navigable with any modern gamepad but very expensive and needs manual configuration — My first d

Financial Times: Analysis: Conservative and Reform UK MPs have increased their volume of posts on X since Elon Musk's takeover, while center-left politicians have reduced theirs — Majority of Labour a

Cheng Ting-Fang / Nikkei Asia: Applied Materials opens a 500M chip equipment manufacturing campus in Singapore, making the city-state home to ~50% of its production capacity alongside the US — SINGAPO

Moneycontrol: Opendoor says it is shutting down its India operations and laying off nearly 250 employees, replacing them with smaller, AI-enabled teams in the US — Affected employees will receive seve

Drew Friedman / Federal News Network: US OPM awards a ~400M, 10-year IT contract to Oracle to develop a single, government-wide system for agencies to manage their HR capabilities — The nearly 400 mil

Samantha Subin / CNBC: Alex Karp says Palantir's enterprise customers are “unhappy” with how the frontier labs are operating, believing the labs only care about tokenmaxxing — - Palantir CEO Alex Karp

Bloomberg: Amazon secures a 17.5B loan from Citigroup and other banks, after selling CA14B in bonds on Monday, the largest corporate debt offering in Canadian dollars — Soon after selling the biggest

Dario Amodei: An essay on policy responses to AI's exponential progress across regulation and public safety, macroeconomics and taxes, science, civil liberties, geopolitics — In one of the side plots

Maxwell Zeff / Wired: Anthropic backtracks on a policy limiting Claude Fable 5's ability to develop other AI models, after significant backlash from the AI research community — The company changed cou

Anthropic: Anthropic releases two policy proposals on how governments should address catastrophic risks and manage labor market disruption from advanced AI systems — AI is advancing at exponential spe

Dean W. Ball / @deanwball: Anthropic secretly limiting Claude's usefulness for LLM development strengthens the argument that Anthropic is using AI safety to justify monopolistic behavior — My last obs

Sarah Guo: As AI commoditizes benchmarkable work, an organization's lasting moats lie in tasks that are verifiable through its private data and judgment — The mid-2026 investor's version of AI psychos

Bloomberg: ASML's stock is up 64% YTD, but trails the broader US chip sector as the industry focuses spending on processes outside of lithography like advanced packaging — ASML Holding NV's ascent to

Joe Brennan / The Irish Times: CameraMatics, which uses AI to help fleet operators improve safety, reduce operational risk, and lower carbon emissions, raised €49M — Tech focuses on accident preventio

Maria Cheng / Reuters: Canada introduces the Safe Social Media Act, a bill that would ban social media for children under 16 and establish safety standards for AI chatbots — The Canadian government in

Laurie Chen / Reuters: Chinese companies are implementing “quiet” AI-driven layoffs to avoid labor laws that require government approval for job cuts exceeding 10% of a workforce — Liu, a Hangzhou-bas

Financial Times: Chinese investors are using tokenized stocks bought with stablecoins like USDT to bypass Beijing's capital controls and mimic bets on hot US IPOs like SpaceX — Manoeuvres highlight th

Raphael Satter / Reuters: CISA shortens the deadline for US agencies to fix the most critical vulnerabilities in their networks to three days, citing hackers' use of AI — The U.S. cyber defense agency

Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: Cybersecurity researchers complain that Claude Fable's guardrails are too strict, rejecting “innocuous tasks” like reading blog posts or performing code rev

Dario Amodei / @darioamodei: Dario Amodei says frontier models should face mandatory third-party testing for cyber, bio, and autonomy risks, in addition to overall transparency requirements — In addit

Bloomberg: Dario Amodei says he doesn't know what role Claude played in a missile strike on an Iranian school, and its use in this instance didn't violate Anthropic's ToS — Anthropic PBC's boss said h

The Keyword: Google introduces DiffusionGemma, an experimental 26B-parameter open model that uses text diffusion for faster text generation compared to autoregressive models — Our newest open experime

J.D. Capelouto / Semafor: Google Quantum AI COO says the company declined funding from the $2B Trump administration grant because “conditions” attached would have slowed its work — Google didn't take

Jay Peters / The Verge: Instagram expands Your Algorithm to its main feed, letting users choose topics they want to see, and is working to support requests for people, moods, and more — Adam Mosseri w

Andrey Lemeshko / Bloomberg: Interfax: Russia restored access to Roblox after concluding the company had complied with local legal requirements; Russia had banned Roblox in December — Russia restored

The Texas Tribune: Letter: Texas Governor Greg Abbott released regulatory recommendations for state lawmakers to ensure that data centers shoulder the costs of their growth — The recommendations for l

Meta Newsroom: Meta partners with Reliance to lease its first AI data center in India, with 168 MW capacity; separately, Meta says it has contracted ~1GW of renewable energy — Takeaways — Meta has ent

Ram Iyer / TechCrunch: New York-based Jedify, whose platform connects to enterprises' knowledge sources via APIs to build a “context graph” for AI agents, raised a $24M Series A — AI vendors promote t