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| Reuters: |
SpaceX agrees to acquire Cursor in an all-stock deal valuing the AI coding startup at $60B, set to close in Q3 2026, or pay a $4B to $10B termination fee — Elon Musk's SpaceX (SPCX.O) is buying the startup behind the popular AI coding agent Cursor, Anysphere, for $60 billion in an all-stock deal …
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Snap unveils $2,195 Specs, its first “fully standalone” AR glasses, which have a 51-degree field of view, set to ship “this fall” in the US, the UK, and France — The new Specs are priced at $2,195, and you can preorder them starting today.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google launches Android 17 and Wear OS 7, available first on Pixel devices, with support for the latest AI models, a bubble bar UI, and live updates on Wear OS — Google on Tuesday released the final version of its Android 17 operating system, as well as its counterpart for smartwatches, Wear OS 7.| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple's AirPods with cameras for AI are scheduled to launch in 2027 alongside the 20th anniversary pro iPhones and a second-generation foldable iPhone — Apple Inc.'s upcoming camera-equipped AirPods, a product meant to vault the company into the AI device market …
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| Z.ai: |
Z.ai debuts GLM-5.2, saying the open-weights AI model brings improvements to agentic coding and long-horizon tasks, with a 1M context window and an MIT license — We're introducing GLM-5.2, our latest flagship model for long-horizon tasks. It marks a substantial leap in long-horizon task capability …
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| Ed Zitron / Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At: |
Docs: audited financial figures show OpenAI spent $34B in 2025, up 172% YoY, including $19B on research and development and nearly $6B on sales and marketing — Today, I can exclusively report, based on audited financial documents viewed by this publication that have been independently verified …
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| James Franey / New York Post: |
Sources: the Trump administration won't let G7 countries regain access to Mythos 5 as doing so would be “completely illogical”; the UK requested a “carve-out” — ÉVIAN-LES-BAINS, France — The Trump administration won't allow G7 member countries to regain access … | Reuters: |
Sources: Binance is set to lose permission to serve EU clients from July as its license application, made to Greece's market regulator, is about to be rejected — Binance, the world's largest crypto exchange, is set to lose permission to offer services to European Union clients within weeks … | Kyle Orland / Ars Technica: |
Anthropic pauses its plan to move Claude Agent SDK to token-based billing from June 15, saying “Nothing changes for now”, giving power users a pricing reprieve — On Monday, though, Anthropic abruptly announced it had paused those pricing changes just as they were set to take effect … | Helen Partzstaff / Cointelegraph: |
Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev says the company is “proactively” reducing its full-time workforce by ~10%, or ~290 employees, in a “flattening” of its org structure — Cointelegraph is committed to independent, transparent journalism. This news article is produced … | Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Meta says Threads now has 500M MAUs, adds a “Your Algo” tool that lets users privately control what they see in their feed, and launches Communities out of beta — Nearly three years after launching as a competitor to Twitter (now X), Threads has reaches 500 million monthly active users, the company announced Tuesday.
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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Sensor Tower: ChatGPT's market share fell to 46.4% at the end of May, as Gemini rose to 27.7% and Claude to 10.3%; Grok, Meta AI, and others have less than 5% — More than three and a half years after ChatGPT's initial release, AI assistants are now used by millions of people worldwide, and the competitive landscape is changing fast.
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| Politico: |
Many US lawmakers said this week they had not been briefed on Trump's Fable 5 move, including Ted Cruz, whose commerce committee has jurisdiction over AI policy — Members of both parties said they now see an opening to mobilize their colleagues around legislation that would reclaim congressional authority …
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| Mitchell Armentrout / Chicago Sun Times: |
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker signs a state budget with new taxes on social media giants, digital ads, and prediction and crypto markets, all likely facing lawsuits — The eighth state spending plan of Pritzker's tenure includes additional funding for food assistance in the wake of deep federal funding cuts under President Donald Trump.| Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge: |
Microsoft upgrades Surface Pro and Surface Laptop with Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 chips; Pro starts at $1,499 and Laptop at $1,599, both $100 higher than last-gen — New colors and high prices. New colors and high prices. … Microsoft is launching new Surface Laptops …
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| Ben Weiss / Fortune: |
Sources: PayPal plans to close its 10-year-old PayPal Ventures arm amid new CEO Enrique Lores' shakeup and has hired Jefferies to explore selling some positions — PayPal is shuttering its 10-year-old venture team amid a broader corporate shakeup, according to five sources familiar with the matter.| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Microsoft is moving Copilot Cowork to usage-based pricing as it expands its access and is considering a Microsoft-hosted version of DeepSeek as a cheaper option — Microsoft is moving Copilot Cowork to usage-based pricing as it expands access to the enterprise AI tool …
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| Benoit Berthelot / Bloomberg: |
France plans €655M in AI investments through 2030 and a Mistral-based chatbot for state workers; its spy service will drop Palantir for French firm ChapsVision — France's domestic intelligence agency, DGSI, will replace Palantir Technologies Inc. data tools with a local alternative …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Amazon faces a possible FTC lawsuit alleging it misled advertisers; multiple state AGs are involved and the case could seek billions in civil penalties — Amazon.com Inc. is facing a possible lawsuit from the US Federal Trade Commission that may lead to billions of dollars in civil penalties …
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| Karen Freifeld / Reuters: |
Sources: the US has held off adding DeepSeek, CXMT, and 100+ other flagged companies to its Entity List, last updated in October, the longest gap in 10+ years — The U.S. has held off adding China's AI startup DeepSeek, memory chipmaker CXMT and more than 100 other companies flagged … | David Heaney / UploadVR: |
Qualcomm announces Snapdragon Reality Elite, its new flagship XR chipset, and says it will debut in the compute puck of Xreal's Aura Android XR device this fall — Qualcomm just announced Snapdragon Reality Elite, its new flagship XR chipset, and it will debut in the compute puck of Xreal's Aura Android XR device this fall.
| Tegan Jones / SmartCompany: |
Melbourne-based Everlab, which is building an AI-powered preventive healthcare platform, raised a AU$65M Series A led by Airtree Ventures — Melbourne healthtech startup Everlab has raised $65 million in Series A funding led by Airtree Ventures as it expands its preventative healthcare platform into global markets.
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| Jeffrey Dastin / Reuters: |
Databricks agrees to acquire Panther Labs, its third cybersecurity acquisition; Panther was valued at $1.4B when it raised a $120M Series B in 2021 — Databricks on Tuesday said it agreed to buy the startup Panther Labs, as the U.S. data analytics provider pushes deeper into the cybersecurity business.
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| Emele Onu / Bloomberg: |
Ripple acquires a stake in Flutterwave as part of the African payments startup's Series E, valuing Flutterwave at $3.2B — Flutterwave Inc., one of Africa's most valuable financial-technology startups, sold an equity stake to Ripple, as it seeks to accelerate growth through payments expansion and strategic partnerships.
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