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Christine Wang / Axios: 3 hours ago
Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince said Google's ratio of pages crawled per visitor sent to a publisher fell from 2:1 10 years ago to 6:1 six months ago to 18:1 now
Financial Times: 4½ hours ago
In a letter to CEO Aravind Srinivas, the BBC says it has evidence Perplexity's default model used its content and seeks “a proposal for financial compensation”
Dia Rekhi / The Economic Times: 6 hours ago
Sources: Foxconn plans to make iPhone enclosures in India and is looking to set up a new unit in Tamil Nadu; only Tata is currently making enclosures in India
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Barbara Ortutay / Associated Press:
Trump extends the TikTok ban deadline for a third time; there is no legal basis for the extensions and it is unclear how many times the deadline can be extended
Angus Whitley / Bloomberg:
A government-backed tech trial in Australia finds user age checks are technologically possible, clearing the way for a social media ban for under-16s this year
Richard Waters / Financial Times:
Tesla's robotaxi service will launch in Austin with just ~10 cars that are geofenced to avoid complex intersections and monitored by backup teleoperators
Ellen O'Regan / Politico:
The Irish Data Protection Commission says Meta told it that WhatsApp ads “won't be launching” in the EU “until 2026”; WhatsApp says ads are coming “gradually”
Kate Rooney / CNBC:
Sources: Meta tried to buy Safe Superintelligence earlier this year; Zuckerberg moved to recruit SSI CEO Daniel Gross after Ilya Sutskever rebuffed the offer
Dia Rekhi / The Economic Times:
Sources: Foxconn plans to make iPhone enclosures in India and is looking to set up a new unit in Tamil Nadu; only Tata is currently making enclosures in India
Financial Times:
In a letter to CEO Aravind Srinivas, the BBC says it has evidence Perplexity's default model used its content and seeks “a proposal for financial compensation”
Peggy Corlin / Euronews:
The EU says Apple and Meta will not face sanctions immediately after their 60-day DMA grace period ends on June 26, following €500M and €200M fines in April
Christine Wang / Axios:
Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince said Google's ratio of pages crawled per visitor sent to a publisher fell from 2:1 10 years ago to 6:1 six months ago to 18:1 now
Bloomberg:
European satellite company Eutelsat raised €1.35B, including €717M from France, to build out its fleet of satellites to rival Starlink; France's stake is ~30%
Zach Vallese / CNBC:
Sources: Google is using its expansive library of YouTube videos to train Gemini and Veo 3; Google says it only uses a subset of videos for the training
Ryan Lawler / Axios:
Milan-based Jet HR, which provides all-in-one payroll and HR services to SMBs, raised €25M led by Base10 Partners, bringing its total funding to about €42M
Andrej Karpathy / Y Combinator on YouTube:
Andrej Karpathy's talk on “Software 3.0”, with LLMs enabling programming via natural language, the decade of agents, LLMs as “fallible people spirits”, and more
Ryan Lawler / Axios:
Miami-based Payabli, which provides software companies with an embedded payments platform, raised a $28M Series B led by Fika Ventures and QED Investors
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