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NFT marketplace Magic Eden and the TRUMP memecoin team announce the “Official $TRUMP Wallet” and open a waitlist; Trump's sons deny any involvement or knowledge — UPDATE, June 3 at 3:00pm: Following publication of this story, Magic Eden pushed out its announcement for the Trump Wallet at 1:35pm.
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AI coding startups are at risk of being disrupted by Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI; a source says Microsoft's GitHub Copilot grew to $500M+ in revenue in 2024 — Two years after the launch of ChatGPT, return on investment in generative AI has been elusive, but one area stands out: software development.
More: Tech in Asia and Cryptopolitan
| Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog: |
OpenAI updates its coding agent Codex with internet access, turned off by default, and expands availability to ChatGPT Plus users — Codex agent internet access. Sam Altman, just now: … This is the Codex “cloud-based software engineering agent”, not the Codex CLI tool or older 2021 Codex LLM.
More: The Hans India, Neowin, and Maginative
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| Sam Sabin / Axios: |
Source: ~1,000 people have left CISA during the second Trump administration, including 750+ taking a buyout, cutting CISA's workforce by nearly a third — Roughly 1,000 people have already left the nation's top cybersecurity agency during the second Trump administration …
More: Infosecurity, Nextgov/FCW, Cybersecurity Dive, and ComputerWeekly.com
| Jaspreet Singh / Reuters: |
Deel CEO Alex Bouaziz says Deel crossed $1B annual revenue run rate in Q1 2025 and has allocated an M&A budget of between $200M and $500M in 2025 — Payroll startup Deel said on Tuesday it crossed $1 billion annual revenue run rate in the first quarter and has earmarked up to $500 million …
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Google's NotebookLM now lets users share notebooks publicly; people can interact with a public notebook by asking questions or exploring generated content — Viewers can't edit the notebook, but they can interact with AI audio overviews, ask questions, and read FAQs.| Sophia Fox-Sowell / StateScoop: |
A bipartisan group of over 260 US state legislators sign a letter opposing a federal budget bill provision that bans states from enforcing AI laws for 10 years — More than 260 state legislators from all 50 states have signed a letter opposing a provision in the federal budget reconciliation bill … | Harshita Mary Varghese / Reuters: |
CrowdStrike reports Q1 revenue up 20% YoY to $1.1B, in line with est., forecasts Q2 revenue below est., approves a $1B share buyback; CRWD drops 6%+ — CrowdStrike (CRWD.O) forecast second-quarter revenue below estimates, signaling soft enterprise spending on cybersecurity products … | Théophane Hartmann / Euractiv: |
TikTok bans the hashtag #SkinnyTok globally, saying it is “linked to unhealthy weight loss content”, following pressure from the French government — The decision raises questions over the European Commission's credibility as a tech enforcer.
More: New York Times, Engadget, ChannelX, Tubefilter, Politico, and Public Citizen
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| Kate Payne / Associated Press: |
A US federal judge temporarily blocks Florida from enforcing a law banning social media accounts for kids under 14, saying the law is “likely unconstitutional” — A federal judge has barred state officials from enforcing a Florida law that would ban social media accounts for young children … | Shannon Cuthrell / IEEE Spectrum: |
A look at Australian startup Cortical Labs' CL1, billed as the first code-deployable biological computer, with 115 units shipping this summer at $35K each — World-first biocomputing platform hits the market — Shannon Cuthrell is a freelance journalist covering business and technology.| Blockworks: |
Sources: Pump.fun plans to raise $1B via a token sale at a $4B valuation; Pump.fun has generated over $700M in cumulative revenue since its launch in early 2024 — Pump.fun's own token is coming soon, sources tell Blockworks — Pump.fun plans to raise $1 billion via a token sale … | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: |
Qualcomm releases patches to fix a series of vulnerabilities in dozens of chips, including three zero-days that “may be under limited, targeted exploitation” — Chipmaker giant Qualcomm released patches on Monday fixing a series of vulnerabilities in dozens of chips …
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| Thomas Brewster / Forbes: |
The Trump administration announces plans to reorganize the US AI Safety Institute into the new Center for AI Standards and Innovation — The Trump administration has announced plans to reorganize the U.S. AI Safety Institute (AISI) into the new Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI).
More: U.S. Department of Commerce. Bluesky: @thomasbrewster and @justinhendrix. Mastodon: @mikarv@someone.elses.computer
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: Toronto-based AI startup Cohere is seeking to raise $500M+ at a $5.5B+ valuation, after raising a $500M Series D at a $5.5B valuation in July 2024 — Canadian group seeks valuation of up to $6.5bn but rivals have soared far higher in comparison — Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT … | Vildana Hajric / Bloomberg: |
NYSE Arca files with the SEC to list a Bitcoin ETF linked to Trump Media and Technology Group, the parent company of Truth Social and Truth.fi — NYSE Group Inc. filed regulatory paperwork on Tuesday to list the Truth Social Bitcoin ETF, using the name of President Donald Trump's social network.
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Epic Games launches MetaHuman, its game developer tool to quickly create realistic digital human characters, now embedded as part of Unreal Engine 5.6 — The MetaHuman creator is now built right into Unreal Engine. … Epic Games' hyperrealistic MetaHuman characters are seriously impressive … | Melissa Heikkilä / Financial Times: |
An interview with Gaia Marcus, director of the UK-based think tank Ada Lovelace Institute, on AI regulation in the UK and Europe, AI safety, bias, and more — The head of the UK-based think-tank talks about her hopes and fears for future oversight of AI — Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT …
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| Lulu Yilun Chen / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Thrive and Capital Group visited China to study its AI scene, joining a wave of US investors rekindling interest in China after DeepSeek's advances — Joshua Kushner's Thrive Capital and investment firm Capital Group have in recent months visited China to learn about its AI industry …
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