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President Trump signs two executive orders aimed at speeding the development of advanced quantum computers and mitigating the security threats they present — Administration set an ambitious new 2028 target for a system that can conduct scientific research
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| Financial Times: |
OpenAI debuts at Cannes Lions, pitching its new ChatGPT ad business and Codex to marketers, as it tries to build a multibillion-dollar business ahead of an IPO — Lossmaking AI group is presenting at Cannes Lions advertising conference for the first time — OpenAI is making its debut … | Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Valve says Steam Machine, its new living room-friendly PC, will start at $1,049 for the 512GB base model, and go on sale starting June 29 — You can register your interest starting today, and the first emails letting people buy one will go out on June 29th.
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| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
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| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
OpenAI unveils an updated GPT-5.5-Cyber model, launches the Patch the Planet initiative in partnership with Trail of Bits to fix open source bugs, and more — Amid concerns about AI models' cybersecurity capabilities, OpenAI revealed an improved version of GPT-5.5-Cyber and its “Patch the Planet” … | Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
Sakana AI launches Fugu, a multi-agent orchestration system accessible through a single model API, claiming Fugu Ultra matches Fable and Mythos on benchmarks — Last night, the increasingly enterprise-focused AI startup Sakana launched Fugu, a multi-agent orchestration system …
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| Samantha Subin / CNBC: |
SpaceX announces an offering of senior unsecured notes and discloses it has ~$100.8B in cash; SPCX closes down 16.43% in its third consecutive losing session — SpaceX on Monday announced a senior unsecured notes offering and disclosed about $100.8 billion in cash.| Deirdre Bosa / CNBC: |
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| Ben Fritz / Wall Street Journal: |
Google invests in independent movie studio A24 as part of a new AI partnership; sources say Google is investing ~$75M, roughly equal to Thrive's 2024 investment — Search giant is putting about $75 million into the film company as part of an artificial-intelligence research partnership
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| Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: |
Meta invests $900M into Indian fintech Cred for a ~20% stake, and plans to appoint Cred founder Kunal Shah as the leader of WhatsApp, replacing Will Cathcart — Meta Platforms Inc. is investing $900 million into Indian fintech startup Cred, with plans to appoint its founder, Kunal Shah, the new leader of WhatsApp.
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| Wired: |
Meta says it is pausing its employee input tracking program after internal security issues exposed potentially sensitive data meant to train AI models — Employees had previously raised concerns about the initiative, which involves collecting workers' keystroke data to train AI models.
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| Kerry Flynn / Axios: |
Sources: marketing tech startup AppsFlyer raised a $1B Series E at a $2.7B post-money valuation; Moloco, Google, Meta, and Unity acquire minority stakes — AppsFlyer has raised more than $1 billion in Series E funding at a $2.7 billion post-money valuation, Axios has learned from sources familiar with the financing.
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| Echo Wang / Reuters: |
Sources: Vimeo owner Bending Spoons seeks to raise ~$1.62B in a US IPO, selling 58M shares at $26 to $28 apiece, at a valuation of $19B at the top of the range — Bending Spoons, an Italian technology company that acquires and revamps software businesses, is seeking to raise as much as $1.62 billion … | Gaby Del Valle / The Verge: |
Real estate professionals are increasingly using AI-powered virtual staging tools like Stuccco and BoxBrownie to create misleading house and apartment listings — “Virtual staging” might be able to cram a six-seater dining table into a studio apartment, but tenants can't.| Josh Eidelson / Bloomberg: |
A US NLRB judge ruled that Amazon violated federal law by not recognizing the Teamsters union at a SF warehouse and must collectively bargain with the workers — A US labor board judge ruled that Amazon.com Inc. must collectively bargain with California warehouse workers …
| Brody Ford / Bloomberg: |
Filing: Oracle's global workforce fell by 21,000 employees in the past 12 months to 141,000 as of May 31; the company says AI adoption has led to reductions — Oracle Corp. reduced its workforce by 21,000 employees in the past 12 months, a wider scale than previously known …
More: The Economic Times, Gizmodo, The Indian Express, BBC, Reuters, and Barchart.com. Forums: r/technology
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Qualcomm is in advanced talks to acquire Modular in a transaction valuing the AI chip startup at ~$4B, up from a $1.6B valuation in September 2025 — Qualcomm Inc. is in advanced talks to acquire Modular Inc. in a transaction valuing the artificial intelligence chip startup at about $4 billion …
More: Benzinga, Reuters, Gizchina, and Blockchain.News
| Katie Kilkenny / The Hollywood Reporter: |
Instagram is testing horizontal video on Instagram for TV, plans to experiment with longer-form storytelling and episodic series, and launches on Samsung TV — The Meta-owned company is going decidedly retro by experimenting with time-honored video formats with its creators.
More: Meta Newsroom, TechCrunch, BMI, Neowin, WeRSM, PYMNTS, Digital Trends, iThinkDifferent, The Next Web, and The Wrap
| Allyson Versprille / Bloomberg: |
Air Space Intelligence won an $875M, 12-year FAA contract to develop AI tools that map flight trajectories and identify areas of congestion to reduce delays — Air Space Intelligence Inc. won a US government contract to develop artificial intelligence technologies for managing flight traffic … Sponsor Posts
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