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Sources: Trump officials discussed how to structure government equity stakes in AI companies, with Commerce Secretary Lutnick preferring a sovereign wealth fund — Senior Trump administration officials had weighed how to structure potential government equity stakes in major AI companies … | New York Times: |
A look at chaos inside Anthropic after disabling Fable 5 and Mythos 5 with less than 90 minutes of notice, as some staff wonder if Trump is bullying the startup — Workers at the artificial intelligence company have been puzzled and increasingly concerned by the administration's move to limit their latest A.I. models.| Wall Street Journal: |
A profile of Anthropic researcher Nicholas Carlini, who warned about Mythos in March and is now part of an Anthropic team briefing the White House on safeguards — Nicholas Carlini recently rang the alarm about the dangers of AI—and now he's part of a team arguing for the latest models to be released| Yohan Yunstaff / Cointelegraph: |
Trace Finance, which provides stablecoin settlement infrastructure for cross-border payments across Latin America, raised a $32M Series A led by CoinFund — Cointelegraph is committed to independent, transparent journalism. This news article is produced in accordance with Cointelegraph's Editorial Policy …
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| Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge: |
Google's $99 Google Home Speaker, which is built for Gemini for Home and works as a Matter controller, will ship on June 29, nine months after it was announced — The Google Home Speaker is designed for Gemini for Home and its more conversational smart home assistant.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
WordPress survey: 60% of US consumers say “AI” in a brand's messaging is a turnoff, and 86% always or sometimes check the source after receiving an AI summary — Getting cited by AI is easier than earning consumers' trust, according to a new report from WordPress VIP …
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Sources: Samsung is seeing a rise in advanced chip production requests from BYD, Google, AMD, Tesla, and other companies as AI demand strains TSMC's capacity — TAIPEI/HONG KONG/SEOUL — BYD, Google, AMD, Tesla and others are looking increasingly to Samsung Electronics for contract chipmaking services …
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| Russell Brandom / TechCrunch: |
Pramaana Labs, which uses the LEAN programming language to build a deterministic verification layer on top of LLMs, raised a $27M seed led by Khosla Ventures — As enterprises struggle to turn AI pilot programs into functional parts of their business, reliability has taken center stage.| Nikhil Pahwa / @nixxin: |
India's Telegram ban until June 22 over exam paper leak concerns is a terrible look for the country, sets a precedent, and could happen again if unchallenged — A few additional thoughts on the Telegram ban in India: 1. Is this a permanent ban? It's unusual for the Indian government to issue a press release about the telegram ban: the precedence that I remember is when Chinese apps were banned in India in June 2020 including tiktok. A
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| Anhata Rooprai / Reuters: |
Shoe company Allbirds changes its name to Smartbird as it pivots to an AI infrastructure company and names ex-AWS exec Nadia Carlsten as CEO; BIRD jumps 20%+ — Allbirds (BIRD.O) changed its name to Smartbird on Wednesday and appointed former Amazon Web Services (AMZN.O) …
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World models startup Odyssey raised $310M from Amazon and others at a $1.45B valuation and will use AWS as its preferred cloud partner, deploying Trainium chips — Company joins investment arms of Nvidia and AMD in $310mn funding round for Odyssey ML — Amazon is partnering with a start …
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Convey, which is building AI “teammates” to automate manual work at clients like NBCUniversal, raised a $38M Series A led by a16z — Convey, a startup founded last year that builds AI “teammates,” has raised $38 million in Series A funding led by Andreessen Horowitz, with participation from Khosla Ventures and Pear VC.
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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.
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Uber says it will expand its premium robotaxi service from San Francisco to Houston by mid-2027, in partnership with EV maker Lucid and AV startup Nuro — Uber plans to launch a premium robotaxi service in Houston by mid-2027, making it the second U.S. market under its partnership …
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Estonia says it will assign personal ID numbers to AI agents to give them “limited, controllable, and auditable authorizations” as they take actions for humans — Estonia plans to assign personal identification numbers to AI assistants that would give the bots legal rights …
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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 …
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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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XDOF, which is building data pipelines, collection tools, and annotation systems for robot training data, emerges from stealth with $70M — Two weeks ago, OpenAI said it would relaunch the robotics program it shuttered in 2021 — the latest signal that the biggest AI labs are racing to teach machines to operate in the physical world.| Financial Times: |
Sources describe Huawei's efforts to rebuild its chip business seven years after the US cut Huawei off from advanced US chips, as it bets on logic-stacking tech — Seven years after being written off the Chinese tech giant is making technical advances that appear to sidestep Washington curbs.| Yazhou Sun / Bloomberg: |
Nasdaq Private Market sues Hiive, claiming Hiive stole trade secrets and infringed on its IP, poaching two employees in part to access confidential information — Trading platform Nasdaq Private Market alleged that its Vancouver-based competitor Hiive has stolen trade secrets and infringed on its intellectual property in a lawsuit.| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Databricks says its annualized revenue rose 80%+ YoY to $6.9B, up from $5.4B in Q4; CEO Ali Ghodsi says AI agent usage is increasing costs and lowering margins — Databricks has a unique role in the AI boom. Revenue continues to soar as businesses swarm to the company's data analytics tools.
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The UK says reports that Prime Minister Keir Starmer sought a carve-out to US export controls imposed on Anthropic's Claude Mythos 5 are “categorically untrue” — EVIAN-LES-BAINS, France — Prime Minister Keir Starmer has not sought a carve-out to U.S. export controls imposed …
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Dealogic: investors have poured $58B across 42 data center deals YTD; Oxford Economics says nearly 850 data centers worth ~$7T are under construction globally — Sector remains hot despite some investors' wariness about tenants such as ByteDance — Data centre deals are weathering a storm … | Ryan Lawler / Axios: |
Andera, which uses AI to automate corporate audit and compliance testing, raised a $37M Series A led by Lightspeed — Andera, which uses AI to automate corporate audit and compliance testing, raised $37 million in Series A funding, CEO Aryo Patel tells Axios exclusively.| Chris Metinko / Axios: |
Conduct, which uses AI to let companies maintain, change, and modernize their legacy IT systems, raised a $60M Series A, bringing its total funding to $72M — Enterprise IT startup Conduct raised a $60 million Series A co-led by Index Ventures and ICONIQ, CEO Jan Philipp Haas tells Axios Pro exclusively.
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| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Nauk Nauk, which runs an AI video app that turns photos of toys into short animated videos, raised $20M and is coming out of beta; it claims to have 1M+ users — Nauk Nauk has raised $20 million to expand its AI video app that turns photos of toys into short animated videos, co-founder Daniel Liu tells Axios.
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