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Ripple acquires a stake in Flutterwave as part of the African payments startup's Series E, which values the company at $3.2B (Emele Onu/Bloomberg)

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An interview with SBF about life in prison, his serialized prison memoir titled Manfred, and more, as he praises Trump, becomes a Republican, and seeks a pardon (Simon van Zuylen-Wood/New York Magazine)

An interview with SBF about life in prison, his se...

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Atom Computing, one of the nine quantum computing startups backed by the US, raised a $100M Series C led by Third Point, bringing its total funding to $300M (Lucinda Shen/Axios)

Atom Computing, one of the nine quantum computing ...

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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 (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)

Meta says Threads now has 500M MAUs, adds a "Your ...

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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 (Wency Chen/South China Morning Post)

Alibaba's AI unit Tongyi Lab launches the Qwen Rob...

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SEC filing: SpaceX agrees to acquire Anysphere in a merger valuing the Cursor-developer at $60B, expected to close in Q3 2026 (Reuters)

SEC filing: SpaceX agrees to acquire Anysphere in ...

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SoftBank announces an OpenAI-powered "patching service" to secure Japan's top 3,000 companies behind crucial infrastructure from cyberattacks (Yuri Kageyama/Associated Press)

SoftBank announces an OpenAI-powered "patching ser...

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Florida sues TikTok for allegedly violating its social media regulations for minors and state consumer protection laws by showing "X-Rated" content to minors (Alex Ebert/Bloomberg Law)

Florida sues TikTok for allegedly violating its so...

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France plans €655M in AI investments through 2030 and a Mistral-powered chatbot for state services; its security service will replace Palantir with Chapsvision (Benoit Berthelot/Bloomberg)

France plans €655M in AI investments through 2030 ...

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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 (Reuters)

India blocks Telegram until June 22 citing its use...

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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 (Andrew Jack/Financial Times)

Study: Mistral and other open-source AI models are...

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Kuala Lumpur-based Respond.io, which uses AI agents to manage customer conversations, raised a $62.5M Series B led by Camber, following a $7M Series A in 2022 (Kate Park/TechCrunch)

Kuala Lumpur-based Respond.io, which uses AI agent...

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Italy's AGCM opens a probe into Apple under the DSA, saying rival cloud providers should get free iOS and iPadOS interoperability and iCloud-equivalent access (Cristina Carlevaro/Reuters)

Italy's AGCM opens a probe into Apple under the DS...

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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 (The Information)

Sources: DeepSeek closed a $7.4B round at a $50B v...

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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 (Financial Times)

Sources: audited financial figures show OpenAI spe...

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Sources: Microsoft is adding AWS capacity to GitHub after AI-driven growth strained infrastructure and triggered a series of reliability issues (Ashley Stewart/Business Insider)

Sources: Microsoft is adding AWS capacity to GitHu...

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Memo: CTO Andrew Bosworth said Meta did "an atrocious job" sharing Applied AI's vision, promising employees better communication, career growth, and more perks (Wired)

Memo: CTO Andrew Bosworth said Meta did "an atroci...

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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 (Molly Taft/Wired)

Filing: the US DOJ asks court to dismiss an NAACP ...

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