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How US federal AI policy has gone from implausibly libertarian to increasingly draconian and opaque, and how to fix it, including using independent auditors (Dean W. Ball/Hyperdimensional)

How US federal AI policy has gone from implausibly...

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Sources: DeepSeek's $7.4B raise was prompted by the release of Mythos as CEO Liang Wenfeng realized DeepSeek couldn't compete without a massive war chest (The Information)

Sources: DeepSeek's $7.4B raise was prompted by th...

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Sources: Donald Trump Jr. got ~$300K in Kalshi equity after becoming a strategic adviser in 2025, when Kalshi was valued at ~$2B; now it's worth $22B+ (George Steer/Financial Times)

Sources: Donald Trump Jr. got ~$300K in Kalshi equ...

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Q&A with Tim Sweeney on his vision for a cross-platform gaming social system, Unreal Engine 6, AI's PR challenges, the state of AAA game development, and more (Tim Clark/PC Gamer)

Q&A with Tim Sweeney on his vision for a cross-pla...

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Italy is investigating Microsoft 365's price hike, saying Microsoft failed to inform users that AI tools like Copilot were being integrated into the service (Giulia Segreti/Reuters)

Italy is investigating Microsoft 365's price hike,...

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A study of 408 teens in Australia finds 80%+ were still using social media three months after a ban came into force, citing inadequate age verification checks (Anna Bawden/The Guardian)

A study of 408 teens in Australia finds 80%+ were ...

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Binance tells EU customers that it will stop providing services for them from July 1, after Greece rejected its application for a bloc-wide license last week (Financial Times)

Binance tells EU customers that it will stop provi...

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Despite the "DeepMind mafia" pulling billions into London AI startups, none of Demis Hassabis' former lieutenants is building a homegrown UK frontier AI model (Tim Bradshaw/Financial Times)

Despite the "DeepMind mafia" pulling billions into...

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Shares of Japanese NAND flash maker Kioxia slid 12% on Friday after a report that OpenAI was considering delaying its IPO sparked a selloff in AI-related shares (Sam Nussey/Reuters)

Shares of Japanese NAND flash maker Kioxia slid 12...

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Sources: SpaceX COO Gwynne Shotwell told investors during an IPO roadshow SpaceX may launch a Starlink mobile product and build its own terrestrial US network (Financial Times)

Sources: SpaceX COO Gwynne Shotwell told investors...

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Swiss watchmaker Swatch seeks $170M from Samsung i...

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OpenAI says 97.9% of its employees are now using Codex, up from ~40% in August 2025; non-developer usage of Codex has risen 137x for individual users (Thomas Claburn/The Register)

OpenAI says 97.9% of its employees are now using C...

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Warp, a startup using AI to automate payroll compliance and employee management, raised a $60M Series B led by Battery, bringing its total funding to $85M (Lucinda Shen/Axios)

Warp, a startup using AI to automate payroll compl...

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Utah-based ecommerce tech company Redo raised an $81M Series B at a $1.25B valuation led by Smash Capital, with participation from Pelion and Cervin (David Politis/Utah Money Watch)

Utah-based ecommerce tech company Redo raised an $...

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SoftBank shares fell 12% after reports that OpenAI may delay its IPO until 2027; expectations of a windfall from OpenAI's debut helped support Softbank's stock (Aya Wagatsuma/Bloomberg)

SoftBank shares fell 12% after reports that OpenAI...

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California launches a tool to serve as an "early warning system" for widespread AI-driven job loss, linking AI exposure with unemployment insurance claims (Jo Constantz/Bloomberg)

California launches a tool to serve as an "early w...

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Upside, which provides social workers with AI-powered housing insights, raised a $20M Series A led by Aquiline with Flare Capital, 645, and others participating (Cailey Gleeson/Fierce Healthcare)

Upside, which provides social workers with AI-powe...

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How the US AI build-out is pushing up prices for electricity, software, and more; in a survey, 81% of economists say it will add to inflation over the next year (Justin Lahart/Wall Street Journal)

How the US AI build-out is pushing up prices for e...

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