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SEC filing: SpaceX agrees to acquire Cursor in a merger valuing the AI coding startup at $60B, expected to close in Q3 2026 — Elon Musk's SpaceX (SPCX.O) said on Tuesday it would acquire Anysphere, the software firm behind the popular AI coding agent Cursor, for $60 billion …
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A profile of Cursor, including its hiring process and testy relationship with Anthropic, which told Cursor that Claude Code was a research effort, per a source — How the world's hottest AI coding company hitched its fate to Elon Musk's rocket ship — I n 2019, Michael Truell, a shy …
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| Washington Post: |
Sources: Trump officials weighed Anthropic export controls weeks before forcing its models offline, after a dispute over Mythos access for a China-linked firm — The Trump administration weighed export controls on Anthropic weeks before forcing its AI model offline, after a dispute …
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| Leo Schwartz / The Information: |
Anthropic says its senior leaders met Trump admin officials on June 15, but no resolution was reached and both sides are working to resolve things quickly — Anthropic senior leaders met with top Trump administration officials on Monday to discuss a resolution to a White House directive …
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Filing: the US DOJ asks court to dismiss an NAACP suit over xAI's gas turbines, saying xAI is integral to US' military operations, including the Iran War — In a bid to dismiss a lawsuit over xAI's polluting gas turbines, the Justice Department claimed the company is integral to military operations—including the Iran War.
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Sources: audited financial figures show OpenAI spending hit $34B in 2025, including $19B on research and development and nearly $6B on sales and marketing — Audited figures reveal mounting costs from model development, infrastructure and rapid expansion
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Sources: several Xbox studios, including Hellblade maker Ninja Theory, are in talks with Microsoft to buy themselves back and go independent to avoid closure — The studios, which include Compulsion Games and Double Fine, are in active negotiations with Xbox and may be given the chance to go independent.
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| Ashley Stewart / Business Insider: |
Sources: Microsoft is adding AWS capacity to GitHub after AI-driven growth strained infrastructure and triggered a series of reliability issues — Microsoft is turning to its biggest cloud rival, Amazon, to help address capacity issues on its GitHub coding platform following a series of AI-driven outages …
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Sources: DeepSeek closed a $7.4B round at a $50B valuation under an unusual structure requiring investors to put capital into an LP run by CEO Liang Wenfeng — Chinese AI lab DeepSeek has closed its first funding round that raised more than 50 billion yuan ($7.4 billion) under an unusual deal structure …
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| Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: |
SpaceX's stock closed up 19.6% on June 15, its first full day of trading; Musk said it “might be able to reach” ~$1T in revenue in 2030, up from $18.7B in 2025 — SpaceX shares climbed 20% on Monday, the first full day of trading following a record-breaking debut last week on the Nasdaq.
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Meta says Threads now has 500M MAUs, adds a “Your Algo” tool that lets users control what they see in their feed, and brings 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.| Cristina Carlevaro / Reuters: |
Italy's competition regulator opens a probe into Apple under the DMA over the interoperability of iOS and iPadOS with alternative cloud services — Italy's competition regulator said on Tuesday it had opened an investigation into Apple (AAPL.O) over compliance with interoperability obligations, under the European Digital Markets Act.| Wired: |
Memo: CTO Andrew Bosworth said Meta did “an atrocious job” sharing Applied AI's vision, promising employees better communication, career growth, and more perks — In an internal memo seen by WIRED, Bosworth promised employees more stability, better communication …
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| Brian Thomas / OpenRouter Blog: |
OpenRouter debuts Fusion, a tool that prompts multiple AI models in parallel, claiming it can “reach and surpass Fable-level performance on deep research tasks” — We've found that synthesizing the results of multiple models can significantly outperform what individual models are capable of.
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| NBC News: |
A look at Roblox's biometric age-checking tool, which will help place its users into age-based accounts starting in June, amid controversy over user privacy — “Not everyone is going to be happy all the time,” the platform's head of safety product policy told NBC News …
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| Andrew Jack / Financial Times: |
Study: Mistral and other open-source AI models are among the weakest at filtering Russian disinformation; Mistral's top model ranks 47 out of 60 tested models — Open-source generative models are worse at removing false news than others, according to Estonian researchers
More: The Decoder and The Record
| Yasutaka Tamura / Bloomberg: |
Taxi-hailing app Go's shares grew 21% in its Tokyo debut, after it raised ~$553M in Japan's largest IPO in 2026, giving the company a market value of ~$1.16B — Taxi-hailing app provider Go Inc.'s shares advanced 10% in its trading debut on the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Tuesday …
More: The Next Web
| Alex Ebert / Bloomberg Law: |
Florida sues TikTok for allegedly violating its social media regulations for minors and state consumer protection laws by showing “X-Rated” content to minors — TikTok Inc. is violating Florida social media regulations for minors and state consumer protection laws by misrepresenting …
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| Wency Chen / South China Morning Post: |
Alibaba's AI unit Tongyi Lab launches the Qwen Robot Suite, its first family of AI models for robots, in pilot testing with some enterprise clients — Alibaba unveils Qwen robot models to push AI beyond chatbots, as embodied intelligence becomes the next frontier in global AI
More: Blockonomi, The Next Web, Reuters, and MarketWatch
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India blocks Telegram until June 22 citing its use by organized “cheating rackets” to “defraud candidates” taking a national medical entrance examination — India has blocked the Telegram messaging app until June 22, saying the platform has been used to “defraud candidates” … | Yuri Kageyama / Associated Press: |
SoftBank announces an OpenAI-powered “patching service” to secure Japan's top 3,000 companies behind crucial infrastructure from cyberattacks — Japanese technology giant SoftBank Group Corp. is launching a service using OpenAI technology to protect against the looming threat of cyberattacks, both companies said Tuesday.Sponsor Posts
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