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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 (Politico)

Sources: Meta decided to support KOSA after it was...

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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 (Politico)

Sources: Meta decided to support KOSA after it was...

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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 (Matt G. Southern/Search Engine Journal)

Kapwing: in tests, ~60% of the first 500 TikTok Fo...

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Sources: the US has held off adding DeepSeek, CXMT, and 100+ other flagged companies to its Entity List, last updated in October, the longest gap in 10+ years (Karen Freifeld/Reuters)

Sources: the US has held off adding DeepSeek, CXMT...

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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 (Bloomberg)

Sources: Amazon faces a possible FTC lawsuit alleg...

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Many US lawmakers said this week they had not been formally briefed on Trump's Fable 5 move, including Ted Cruz, whose commerce committee can shape AI policy (Politico)

Many US lawmakers said this week they had not been...

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Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker signs a state budget with new taxes on social media giants, digital ads, and prediction and crypto markets, all likely facing lawsuits (Mitchell Armentrout/Chicago Sun Times)

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker signs a state budget wit...

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Anthropic pauses its anticipated move to token-based billing for Claude Agent SDK that it planned to implement on June 15, saying "Nothing changes for now" (Kyle Orland/Ars Technica)

Anthropic pauses its anticipated move to token-bas...

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SpaceX closed up 4.8% on Tuesday with a $2.65T market cap, just above Amazon's, after popping ~12% intraday and briefly overtaking Microsoft's $2.93T market cap (CNBC)

SpaceX closed up 4.8% on Tuesday with a $2.65T mar...

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Sources: PayPal to shutter its 10-year-old PayPal Ventures arm amid a broader shakeup under a new CEO and has hired Jefferies to explore selling some positions (Ben Weiss/Fortune)

Sources: PayPal to shutter its 10-year-old PayPal ...

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Melbourne-based Everlab, which is building an AI-powered preventive healthcare platform, raised a AU$65M Series A led by Airtree Ventures (Tegan Jones/SmartCompany)

Melbourne-based Everlab, which is building an AI-p...

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Sensor Tower: ChatGPT's market share fell to 46.4% by the end of May, as Gemini rose to 27.7% and Claude to 10.3%; Grok, Meta AI, and others have less than 5% (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

Sensor Tower: ChatGPT's market share fell to 46.4%...

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Zhipu launches GLM-5.2, says it markedly improves coding and agentic tasks, with strong long-horizon capabilities and a 1M context window, under an MIT license (Z.ai)

Zhipu launches GLM-5.2, says it markedly improves ...

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Google launches Android 17 and Wear OS 7, first on Pixel devices, with support for the latest AI models, a bubble bar UI, and live updates on Wear OS (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Google launches Android 17 and Wear OS 7, first on...

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Qualcomm announces Snapdragon Reality Elite, its new flagship XR chipset, debuting in the compute puck of Xreal's Aura Android XR device this fall (David Heaney/UploadVR)

Qualcomm announces Snapdragon Reality Elite, its n...

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Letter: Hightouch, an ad tech startup recently valued at $2.75B, offers to buy LiveRamp's identity business from Publicis for $800M to $1.2B in cash and stock (Sara Fischer/Axios)

Letter: Hightouch, an ad tech startup recently val...

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A look at Specs, which have a battery life of up to four hours per charge, and an interview with Snap CEO Evan Spiegel about the AR glasses (Harry McCracken/Fast Company)

A look at Specs, which have a battery life of up t...

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Snap unveils $2,195 Specs, its first AR glasses that are "fully standalone" and have a 51-degree field of view, expected "this fall" in the US, UK, and France (Jay Peters/The Verge)

Snap unveils $2,195 Specs, its first AR glasses th...

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