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Canada unveils its AI strategy that it says will help create 250,000 jobs by 2031, with a CA$500M tech fund to invest in homegrown AI startups (Nivedita Balu/Reuters)

Canada unveils its AI strategy that it says will h...

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Honeycomb, which offers an AI-powered insurance platform for multi-unit residential properties, raised $40M led by Zeev, bringing its total funding to $95M (Lily Mae Lazarus/Fortune)

Honeycomb, which offers an AI-powered insurance pl...

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SCOTUS sides with the FCC in its clash with wireless carriers, upholding the agency's in-house system for levying fines for regulatory violations (John Kruzel/Reuters)

SCOTUS sides with the FCC in its clash with wirele...

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Robinhood plans to route some 2026 soccer World Cup bets to Rothera, shifting away from Kalshi as it seeks to diversify its prediction markets providers (Emily Nicolle/Bloomberg)

Robinhood plans to route some 2026 soccer World Cu...

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Public First: just 26% of Americans support increased data center construction, the lowest share among 15 large countries, including the UK, Japan, and Canada (Financial Times)

Public First: just 26% of Americans support increa...

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Robotics startup Generalist, which released its GEN-1 model to complete short physical tasks in April, raised $400M led by Radical Ventures at a $2B valuation (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)

Robotics startup Generalist, which released its GE...

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London- and NY-based Airspeed, which aims to use AI agents to replace sales software like traditional CRM dashboards, raised a $20M Series A led by DN Capital (Mike Butcher/Pathfounders)

London- and NY-based Airspeed, which aims to use A...

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Q&A with Satya Nadella on Microsoft's competitive position, MAI models, OpenAI, the software business, GitHub Copilot, Project Solara, data centers, and more (Ben Thompson/Stratechery)

Q&A with Satya Nadella on Microsoft's competitive ...

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Sam Altman says he has no plans to put money into the 2026 US midterms; OpenAI is seeking to distance itself from Greg Brockman-backed Leading the Future PAC (Emily Birnbaum/Bloomberg)

Sam Altman says he has no plans to put money into ...

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Revolut co-founder and CTO Vlad Yatsenko plans to step down in July, replaced by executive Donato Lucia; Yatsenko joined as Revolut's first employee (Aisha S Gani/Bloomberg)

Revolut co-founder and CTO Vlad Yatsenko plans to ...

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Flourish, which is building Cortex AI, a brain-like synthetic intelligence system that uses less power than LLMs, raised $500M, including $100M from Jeff Bezos (Steven Levy/Wired)

Flourish, which is building Cortex AI, a brain-lik...

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Challenger: US tech companies announced cuts to 38,242 jobs in May, the most since August 2024, taking 2026's total so far to 123,653 cuts, up 65% YoY (Julia Fanzeres/Bloomberg)

Challenger: US tech companies announced cuts to 38...

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Amazon unveils its next-gen Proteus warehouse robot, adding AI-powered language capabilities to let workers assign tasks, rolling out in Europe in H1 2027 (Robert Hart/The Verge)

Amazon unveils its next-gen Proteus warehouse robo...

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Corporate spending management platform Ramp raised $750M at a $44B valuation led by Iconiq, Singapore's GIC, and the OTPP, taking its total funding to $3B (Bloomberg)

Corporate spending management platform Ramp raised...

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France secured €110B+ of proposed AI and data center investments this week, amounting to ~10 GW of new computing capacity, equivalent to ~10 nuclear reactors (Sarah White/Financial Times)

France secured €110B+ of proposed AI and data cent...

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Foxconn says it will work with Intel to jointly develop and deploy next-gen AI infrastructure, including server racks with Intel Xeon processors and AI chips (Wen-Yee Lee/Reuters)

Foxconn says it will work with Intel to jointly de...

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TSMC CEO C.C. Wei says the company won't be able to fulfill demand led by US customers even as more capacity comes online in the US over the next few years (Debby Wu/Bloomberg)

TSMC CEO C.C. Wei says the company won't be able t...

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A look at debates over AI consciousness; LLM conversations are cleverly disguised examples of sentence continuation, without denying how impressive LLMs can be (Ted Chiang/The Atlantic)

A look at debates over AI consciousness; LLM conve...

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