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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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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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| 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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| 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 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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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 … | 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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| Matt G. Southern / Search Engine Journal: |
Kapwing: in tests, ~60% of the first 500 TikTok For You videos shown to a new account were AI slop, ~3x the slop shown to a new YouTube user via YouTube Shorts — In a fresh-account test, Kapwing found 59% of TikTok For You videos were AI slop, roughly three times the rate on YouTube.| 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 … | Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Chinese social media app Xiaohongshu targets a Hong Kong IPO as early as year-end at a $70B+ valuation, up from $50B in recent private secondary trades — Known as Rednote, the company's net profit could surpass $3 billion this year — Chinese lifestyle and video-sharing platform Xiaohongshu … | Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: |
Sources: Jeff Bezos is investing in Cambridge, UK-based CuspAI, which applies generative AI to material sciences, as part of a $400M round at a $2.6B valuation — New financing will more than quadruple the two-year-old AI company's valuation to $2.6bn — Jeff Bezos is investing in UK start … | Financial Times:NEW |
Dealogic: investors have poured $58B across 42 data center deals YTD; Oxford Economics says ~850 data centers worth some $7T are under construction globally — Sector remains hot despite some investors' wariness about tenants such as ByteDance — Data centre deals are weathering a storm … | 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 … | Mitchell Armentrout / Chicago Sun Times: |
Illinois Governor JB Pritzker signs a state budget that levies taxes on social media giants, digital advertising, and prediction and crypto markets — 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.| Politico: |
Sources: Meta decided to support KOSA after it was packaged with language preempting state AI laws and a bill requiring app stores to verify users' ages — A children's online safety bill at the center of the White House's push to preempt state regulations on artificial intelligence has an unlikely new ally: Meta.
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| Bloomberg: |
Kazakhstan signs accords with Firebird on Nvidia-related computing projects that could bring up to $10B in investment, as it seeks to build a Data Center Valley — Kazakhstan signed accords with the startup Firebird Inc. on computing projects involving Nvidia Corp. that could bring …
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| David Voreacos / Bloomberg: |
A look at Wyoming's Frontier Stable Token, which launched in January and currently has a market value of ~$1M, as other states explore “white labeling” the tech — The state, home of Yellowstone and a refuge of the rich, has become the first in the US to issue its own cryptocurrency.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
WordPress survey: 60% of US consumers say “AI” in a brand's messaging is a turnoff, 86% always or sometimes check the original source after seeing an AI summary — Getting cited by AI is easier than earning consumers' trust, according to a new report from WordPress VIP … | The Information:NEW |
Sources: a new AI lab founded by Junyang Lin, former lead of Alibaba's Qwen models, has raised several hundred million dollars at a ~$2B post-money valuation — Tencent Holdings has backed a new AI lab founded by Junyang Lin, former lead researcher of Alibaba Group's Qwen models …
| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Databricks says annualized revenue rose 80%+ YoY to $6.9B, up from $5.4B in Q4; CEO Ali Ghodsi says higher AI agent usage is increasing costs, 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.
More: SiliconANGLE
| 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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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 … | 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 … | 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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