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Appfigures: daily downloads of major VPN apps in India rose 49% on June 16 after India announced its Telegram ban; Proton and Turbo recorded largest increases (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)

Appfigures: daily downloads of major VPN apps in I...

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Sources: SpaceX plans to raise $20B in a bond sale as soon as next week; the funds would be used to pay back a $20B bridge loan taken out after the xAI merger (Financial Times)

Sources: SpaceX plans to raise $20B in a bond sale...

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Doc: SpaceX says the EU's plan to reserve satellite spectrum for European operators risks disrupting connectivity, including for emergency services in Ukraine (Financial Times)

Doc: SpaceX says the EU's plan to reserve satellit...

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A US circuit court overturned an injunction against Ohio, allowing the state to implement a law forcing platforms to seek parental consent if a user is under-16 (Nate Raymond/Reuters)

A US circuit court overturned an injunction agains...

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A profile of Meta President Dina Powell McCormick,...

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Intel names former SK Hynix CEO Seok-Hee Lee as EVP of Intel Foundry; Naga Chandrasekaran will lead front-end technology development and front-end manufacturing (Juby Babu/Reuters)

Intel names former SK Hynix CEO Seok-Hee Lee as EV...

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Sources: Kalshi is generating $2B+ in annualized revenue, up about three times from November, and has held informal talks with banks about an eventual IPO (Yueqi Yang/The Information)

Sources: Kalshi is generating $2B+ in annualized r...

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Snap plans to spin off an internal generative AI video team into Dotmo, a new company focused on AI models for interactive gaming experiences, citing high costs (Lucas Ropek/TechCrunch)

Snap plans to spin off an internal generative AI v...

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Sources: Meta is under contract to buy roughly 1.6 GW of computing capacity from Crusoe across two data centers in Texas and Missouri (Bloomberg)

Sources: Meta is under contract to buy roughly 1.6...

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Unsealed docs: Google lost a court fight against a 2023 US warrant in a Jan. 6 pipe bomb probe seeking info of 300+ users who searched for the RNC and DNC HQs (Zoe Tillman/Bloomberg)

Unsealed docs: Google lost a court fight against a...

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Sources: the White House and Anthropic are working on a framework that would assess the severity of AI security flaws, a sign that negotiations are progressing (Politico)

Sources: the White House and Anthropic are working...

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Sources: APEC, a derivatives exchange founded by the 22-year-old son of pro-crypto Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, raised $30M led by Lux at a $300M valuation (Ben Weiss/Fortune)

Sources: APEC, a derivatives exchange founded by t...

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GLM-5.2 is the leading open weights model on Artificial Analysis' Intelligence Index, scoring 51, only behind Fable 5's 60, Opus 4.8's 56, and GPT-5.5's 55 (Artificial Analysis)

GLM-5.2 is the leading open weights model on Artif...

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New book: Trump mocked Zuckerberg and Bezos by showing associates their fawning texts, saying they were "kissing my ass"; Musk called it "First-class groveling" (Hugo Lowell/Wired)

New book: Trump mocked Zuckerberg and Bezos by sho...

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Rockstar Games announces that pre-orders for Grand Theft Auto VI will go live on June 25; TTWO jumps 5%+ (Zack Zwiezen/Kotaku)

Rockstar Games announces that pre-orders for Grand...

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Apple opens iOS to alternative app marketplaces in Brazil and changes App Store commission structure following a settlement with competition watchdog CADE (Marcus Mendes/9to5Mac)

Apple opens iOS to alternative app marketplaces in...

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Former Trump AI adviser Dean Ball is joining OpenAI to lead a new team called Strategic Futures, focused on frontier AI policy and internal governance (Ashley Gold/Axios)

Former Trump AI adviser Dean Ball is joining OpenA...

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Sources: General Intuition, which trains AI agents in spatial reasoning, is in talks to raise $300M from Jeff Bezos and others at a $2B+ valuation (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)

Sources: General Intuition, which trains AI agents...

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