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Arizona Public Service, the state's largest utility, proposes a 45% electricity-rate increase for data centers to ensure "that they are paying their fair share" (Jennifer Hiller/Wall Street Journal)

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Two House lawmakers unveil bipartisan AI legislation that would override some state AI laws and require top AI developers to implement risk-management plans (Politico)

Two House lawmakers unveil bipartisan AI legislati...

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Meta's Oversight Board says Meta's account deactivations lack due process, violations are flagged without clarity, and there's little support for appeals (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Meta's Oversight Board says Meta's account deactiv...

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Cloudflare acquires VoidZero, the company behind Vite, Vitest, Rolldown, Oxc, and Vite+ frameworks, and says the projects will stay open source (Cloudflare)

Cloudflare acquires VoidZero, the company behind V...

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Anthropic details its progress toward recursive self-improvement, and its implications, and says 80%+ of the code merged into its codebase is authored by Claude (Anthropic)

Anthropic details its progress toward recursive se...

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Coinbase and Better fund the first Fannie Mae-backed mortgage that uses bitcoin as collateral, with a nationwide rollout planned in the coming months (Yogita Khatri/The Block)

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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)

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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)

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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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