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Sam Altman and Arianna Huffington announce Thrive AI Health, a new startup backed by OpenAI and Thrive Global to build a “hyper-personalized AI health coach”  —  A staggering 129 million Americans have at least one major chronic disease—and 90% of our $4.1 trillion …
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Australia, backed by the US, the UK, Japan, and other allies, accuses a Chinese state-backed hacking group of targeting government and private sector networks  —  US, UK, Germany and Japan back report alleging APT40 conducted ‘malicious’ cyber espionage activities
Annie Palmer / CNBC:
Amazon announces an updated $79 Echo Spot alarm clock, with a revamped design and improved audio quality, the first update to the device since its 2017 launch  —  Amazon on Monday announced a new $79 Echo Spot alarm clock with a revamped design and improved audio quality.
Rachyl Jones / Fortune:
Self-driving cars from WeRide, AutoX, Didi, and other Chinese companies have driven 1.8M miles on California roads, collecting data while facing little scrutiny  —  ON FEB. 1 LAST YEAR, Montana residents gawked upwards at a large white object hovering in the sky that looked to be another moon.
Rachel Metz / Bloomberg:
Captions, which uses AI to let people create and edit videos, raised $60M led by Index Ventures at a $500M valuation, taking its total funding to $100M  —  Index Ventures, Jared Leto are among the backers in the $60 million financing for Captions.  —  Captions, a startup that uses artificial intelligence …
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Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:
Sources: New York Sun owner Dovid Efune is launching a new “British bid” to buy The Telegraph with backing from Brexit backer Jeremy Hosking and Nadhim Zahawi

Financial Times:
Sources: BT is in advanced talks to sell its 50% stake in TNT Sports UK to WBD, its joint venture partner, and could announce the deal as early as next week

Washington Post:
More than 500 Voice of America contractors are expected to lose their jobs by June 30; Kari Lake says 584 total employees were terminated across USAGM

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Nilay Patel / The Verge:
Q&A with Canva CEO Melanie Perkins on the startup's history, its 4,500 headcount, going global, trust and safety, Adobe, attracting enterprise clients, and more

Earlier Picks

Craig Silverman / ProPublica:
Investigation: the US Cyber Safety Review Board didn't investigate, for unclear reasons, the weaknesses in Microsoft tools that the SolarWinds hack exploited
Mark Tyson / Tom's Hardware:
Microsoft quietly adds spellchecking and autocorrect to Notepad in Windows 11, after testing the features in March 2024; Windows Notepad first launched in 1983
Julian Chokkattu / Wired:
Nothing unveils the $199 CMF Phone 1, with swappable parts, a 6.67" AMOLED, a MediaTek SoC, and Nothing OS, plus the $69 CMF Watch Pro 2 and $59 CMF Buds Pro 2
Bloomberg:
Memo: Microsoft tells staff in China they must use iPhones for work from September, saying that Google services like the Play Store are not available in China
Heekyong Yang / Reuters:
The National Samsung Electronics Union goes on a three-day strike for better pay; analysts say the strike is unlikely to have an impact due to low participation
Anton Shilov / Tom's Hardware:
A Sequoia Capital analyst estimated on June 20 that companies developing AI models must collectively generate ~$600B per year to pay for their AI infrastructure
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