Sources: Germany's Neura Robotics, which builds AI-powered humanoid robots, raised $1.4B from Tether, Qualcomm, Amazon, Nvidia, and others at a ~$7B valuation (Financial Times)

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Google introduces DiffusionGemma, an experimental 26B-parameter open model that uses text diffusion for faster text generation compared to autoregressive models (The Keyword)

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Sources: Sam Altman told staff that OpenAI is expected to go public "within the next year" and OpenAI plans a tender offer "very soon" at a $687.69 share price (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)

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Anthropic secretly limiting Claude's usefulness for LLM development strengthens the argument that Anthropic is using AI safety to justify monopolistic behavior (Dean W. Ball/@deanwball)

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Dario Amodei says he doesn't know what role Claude played in a missile strike on an Iranian school, and its use in this instance didn't violate Anthropic's ToS (Bloomberg)

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Alex Karp says Palantir's enterprise customers are "unhappy" with how the frontier labs are operating, believing the labs only care about tokenmaxxing (Samantha Subin/CNBC)

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CameraMatics, which uses AI to help fleet operators improve safety, reduce operational risk, and lower carbon emissions, raised €49M (Joe Brennan/The Irish Times)

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WMG acquires AI attribution startup Sureel, as it seeks to track when its songs and recordings are used in the training of AI models or in AI-generated works (Kristin Robinson/Billboard)

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Tesla has just 59 vehicles in its robotaxi fleet and is limited to three Texas cities after almost a year, nowhere close to Elon Musk's big promises (Kara Carlson/Bloomberg)

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New York-based Jedify, whose platform connects to enterprises' knowledge sources via APIs to build a "context graph" for AI agents, raised a $24M Series A (Ram Iyer/TechCrunch)

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Dario Amodei has just one direct report, his COS Avital Balwit; Anthropic's executive team reports to Daniela Amodei, who handles much of day-to-day operations (Bloomberg)

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Pi, whose "security brain" AI agent helps companies assess vulnerabilities to prioritize and patch, raised $35M at a $100M valuation; sources: xAI is a customer (Thomas Brewster/Forbes)

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Aryon Security, whose platform lets companies set security strategy, which it translates into enforceable policies that can't be ignored, raised a $29M Series A (Chris Metinko/Axios)

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LinkedIn debuts its first creator marketplace, in North America, allowing some marketers to search for creators by topic and view "creators cards" with metrics (Krystal Scanlon/Digiday)

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Maneva, whose AI agents connect to existing camera infrastructure in factories to flag safety risks and measure worker productivity, raised a $27M Series A (Colin Campbell/Axios)

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A German court rules that Google is directly liable for what AI Overviews say after AI Overviews falsely tied two publishers to shady business practices (Matthias Bastian/The Decoder)

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Sources: Saudi Arabia's PIF and the Kuwait Investment Authority have placed share orders between $1B and $5B each for the SpaceX IPO (Dinesh Nair/Bloomberg)

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Sources: the CFTC will propose new prediction market rules, banning bets it finds aren't in the public interest or that seem highly susceptible to manipulation (Dylan Tokar/Wall Street Journal)

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Cyera, an Israeli startup focused on protecting companies' data from AI-based threats, raised $600M at a $12B valuation, bringing its total funding to $2.3B (Niko Gallogly/New York Times)

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Poetic, which aims to use AI to automate tasks like financial compliance, emerges from stealth with $50M in funding from OpenAI and others at a $500M valuation (Paayal Zaveri/Bloomberg)

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Hands-on with Siri AI: successfully executed multi-step prompts, understood context well, has strong guardrails, and is a bit more dispassionate than Gemini (Allison Johnson/The Verge)

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CrowdStrike: Chinese entities accounted for 58%+ of state-sponsored cyberattacks aimed at tech companies, especially AI assets, over the 12 months to March 31 (Evelyn Cheng/CNBC)

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Sources: Chinese companies like Moonshot are reconsidering "red-chip" structures, which made it easier to list overseas, after China blocked the Manus deal (Financial Times)

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Morgan Stanley forecasts global AI debt issuance will more than double to ~$570B in 2026, as hyperscalers seek alternative funding for AI capex needs (Kanishka Ajmera/Reuters)

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A look at Unitree's growth strategy, which mimics those used by BYD and DJI, and leverages its quadruped robot dominance to create and lead the humanoid market (SemiAnalysis)

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Las Vegas-based TensorWave, which offers AMD-powered cloud infrastructure, raised a $350M Series B led by AMD and Magnetar at a $1.55B post-money valuation (Robbie Whelan/Wall Street Journal)

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Sources: SpaceX has drawn more than $250B of investor demand for what is poised to be the largest-ever IPO, far beyond the $75B SpaceX is aiming to raise (Reuters)

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Sources: SK Hynix plans to list its shares in the US as soon as August, seeking to capitalize on AI stock demand and broaden its investor base (Reuters)

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Sources: Ant International is considering raising ~$1B at a $10B+ valuation, paving the way for a potential Hong Kong IPO as soon as this year (Bloomberg)

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Tata's chairman predicts AI agents will cut half the jobs at Tata Consultancy Services, and says TCS plans to reduce hiring in coming years as it ramps up AI (Sankalp Phartiyal/Bloomberg)

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Swedish autonomous truck company Einride will debut on the Nasdaq today after completing a SPAC merger at a pre-money valuation of $1.35B (Dominic Chopping/Wall Street Journal)

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Xbox chief strategy officer Matthew Ball said Game Pass lost "millions" of subscribers in the months following a 50% price hike announced in October 2025 (Eddie Makuch/GameSpot)

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Sixteen economists on what AI will mean for the US economy, workers, and workplaces: AI will boost productivity in the near term, but only two expect more jobs (Wall Street Journal)

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An expert panel with Daron Acemoglu, Dean Ball, Ethan Mollick, and Clara Shih discusses AI's impact on jobs and how to prepare for the future of work (New York Times)

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Walmart outlined a future where AI will change how people work, not necessarily how many work, at its annual Associates Week, as it accelerates AI adoption (Gregory Meyer/Financial Times)

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Microsoft's June 2026 Patch Tuesday fixes a record ~200 Windows security flaws, nearly three dozen of them critical, amid growing use of AI to find bugs (Brian Krebs/Krebs on Security)

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The crackdown on online scam centers in Cambodia is leading some gangs to relocate to Sri Lanka, where authorities say they have arrested 1,000+ people in 2026 (Bloomberg)

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Chinese investors are using tokenized stocks bought with stablecoins like USDT to bypass Beijing's capital controls and mimic bets on hot US IPOs like SpaceX (Financial Times)

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ASML's stock is up 64% YTD, but trails the broader US chip sector as the industry focuses spending on processes outside of lithography like advanced packaging (Bloomberg)

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Sources: the ECB temporarily barred Revolut from releasing new products in the European Economic Area last summer until the company had rectified "deficiencies" (Financial Times)

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Sources: OpenAI is in advanced talks to lease a proposed 10GW data center campus in Ohio as part of a deal that could include financial backing from Nvidia (Anissa Gardizy/The Information)