Amazon plans to hold Prime Day 2025 from July 8 at 12:01am PT through July 11, lasting four days instead of the usual two and exclusive to Prime subscribers
Prime members will have even longer than usual to score some of the year's best tech deals.
Sources: OpenAI wants Microsoft to take a ~33% stake in exchange for foregoing future profit rights, and seeks to modify its exclusive cloud deal with Microsoft
Negotiations between Microsoft and OpenAI over the startup's plan to restructure its for-profit unit, which requires Microsoft's approval …
Nielsen: in May, Americans watched more TV on streaming than on cable and broadcast networks combined, the first time streaming was king of TV over a full month
In May, more Americans watched television on streaming than on cable and network television combined, Nielsen said.
Reuters 2025 Digital News Report: in a first, Americans' top news source is social media, at 54%, overtaking TV, at 50%, and news websites and apps, at 48%
Plus: The pivot to video is really happening, digital subscriptions may have peaked, and other findings from RISJ's 2025 Digital News Report.
Sources: OpenAI and Microsoft talks have become so fraught that OpenAI executives discussed accusing Microsoft of anticompetitive behavior before US regulators
The startup, growing frustrated with its partner, has discussed making antitrust complaints to regulators
The US Defense Department awards OpenAI a one-year $200M contract to develop prototype AI tools that address challenges in “warfighting and enterprise domains”
OpenAI has been awarded a $200 million contract to provide the U.S. Defense Department with artificial intelligence tools.
Memo: Intel's manufacturing VP says Intel plans to cut 15%-20% of factory staff from July “to meet our affordability challenges and current financial position”
Intel plans to lay off up to a fifth of its factory workers, an enormous cutback that will have a profound effect on one of the chipmaker's core businesses.
Sources: xAI is in talks to raise $4.3B via an equity investment on top of the $5B in debt it's trying to borrow; of its previously raised $14B, it has $4B left
Elon Musk's artificial intelligence startup xAI is in talks to raise $4.3 billion through an equity investment on top …
Shanghai-based MiniMax open sources MiniMax-M1, a model for complicated productivity tasks that supports 1M input tokens and it says beats DeepSeek's R1-0528
Chinese AI upstart MiniMax released a new large language model, joining a slew of domestic peers inspired to surpass DeepSeek in the field of reasoning AI.
The Meta AI app now shows a pop-up warning before users share to the public Discover feed, after reports showed accidentally shared chats with personal info
- Business Insider found that the Meta AI app's public feed was full of personal information that looked to be accidentally published.
[Thread] A US paper shows the best frontier LLM models solve 0% of hard coding problems from Codeforces, ICPC, and IOI, domains where expert humans still excel
This is really BAD news of LLM's coding skill. ☹️ The best Frontier LLM models achieve 0% on hard real-life Programming Contest problems, domains where expert humans still excel. LiveCodeBench Pro, a ...
Adobe debuts Firefly for iOS and Android, letting mobile users generate images and videos using text prompts and experiment with popular AI photo editing tools
The iPhone and Android Firefly app can sync AI image and video projects to desktops via Creative Cloud.
The Trump Organization teases the $499 “T1 Phone”, a gold phone “designed and built” in the US, and Trump Mobile, an MVNO that uses AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile
The President Launches a Mobile Carrier and a $500 ‘T1’ Android Phone Brandon Vigliarolo / The Register : Florida man expands crypto empire with new wireless service and phone Joseph Gedeon / The Guar...
German defense tech startup Helsing raised €600M led by Daniel Ek's Prima Materia, sources say at a ~€12B valuation, bringing its total funding to €1.37B
Defence start-up valued at €12bn to become one of Europe's most valuable tech groups
WhatsApp rolls out ads in its Updates tab, a first for the app, and Meta will collect some data to target the ads, but says it has no plans to put ads in chats
here's where you'll see them (and where you won't) Capital Brief : Meta to roll out ads on WhatsApp and offer paid subscriptions Katie Hicks / Marketing Brew : Ads are coming to WhatsApp Colin Kirklan...
Survey: US employees using AI at work at least a few times/year grows from 21% in 2023 to 40% in 2025, and those using AI a few times/week is up from 11% to 19%
The use of AI at work is accelerating. In the past two years, the percentage of U.S. employees who say they have used AI …
At Cannes, Meta adds AI tools to its Advantage+ suite for advertisers and agencies, including turning images into videos, video highlights, and Virtual Try-On
The new features include the ability to transform still images into video. — With the advertising world congregating this week …
Google makes Gemini 2.5 Flash and Pro generally available and introduces 2.5 Flash-Lite, which it says is its most cost-efficient and fastest 2.5 model yet
Gemini 2.5 Flash and Pro are now generally available, and we're introducing 2.5 Flash-Lite, our most cost-efficient and fastest 2.5 model yet.
AI-powered virtual physical therapy startup Sword Health raised $40M led by General Catalyst at a $4B valuation, up from its $3B valuation from June 2024
Sword Health, an AI-powered digital health startup, has raised $40 million at a $4 billion valuation, a 33% jump from the $3 billion price tag it earned just a year ago.
Germany, Europol, and Eurojust take down Archetyp Market, a darknet drug marketplace active since May 2020 with 612K+ users and €250M+ in Monero transactions
Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer :
Grow a Garden, a simplistic farming simulator game within Roblox, hit 16.4M active players on June 14, beating Fortnite and other games' peak concurrent users
Kieran Press-Reynolds / New York Times :
Threads plans to let users hide text or images that spoil something, blurring the text or image that has been marked as a spoiler until a user selects the post
but I wish it wasn't necessary Isaiah Richard / Tech Times : Meta Threads Tests a Spoiler-Free Way to Enjoy Movies, Series Discussions on the Platform Cheryl Eddy / Gizmodo : Threads Will Now Let You ...
Tinder reintroduces Double Date, bringing the double dating feature back to the US after shelving it in 2017 over privacy concerns, rolling out globally in July
Natalie Lung / Bloomberg :
Sky, ITV, and Channel 4 plan to offer their streaming ad spaces in one marketplace, letting advertisers run campaigns across services, to combat Google and Meta
Mark Sweney / The Guardian :
Eigen Labs raised $70M via a token purchase by a16z and launched EigenCloud, which helps developers cryptographically prove what happens in off-chain apps
Liam Wright / Forbes :
Israeli observability startup Coralogix raised a $115M Series E led by NewView Capital at a $1B+ valuation, and plans to invest ~$100M in India over five years
Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch :
TheMinerMag: the median cost of mining bitcoin is set to rise 9.4% QoQ in Q2 2025 to $70K, up from $52K in Q4 2024, shrinking margins for less efficient miners
Brayden Lindrea / Cointelegraph :
Disney and Amazon partner to let media buyers using Amazon's DSP have better tools to target consumers on ad-tier programming across Disney+, Hulu, and ESPN+
Erik Hayden / The Hollywood Reporter :
Salesforce says it will increase prices on many products in August, including Slack; major product lines will see a 6% increase on average
Brody Ford / Bloomberg :
Self-driving simulation software maker Applied Intuition raised $600M co-led by BlackRock and Kleiner Perkins at a $15B valuation, up from $6B in March 2024
Katie Roof / Bloomberg :
The US Senate's draft tax bill would raise the CHIPS Act's tax credit for semiconductor factories from 25% to 30% until the tax break expires at the end of 2026
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Sources: Meta's Scale AI talks started in mid-April, with Mark Zuckerberg floating a $5B investment in early May, which Alexandr Wang later countered with $20B
Cory Weinberg / The Information :
Studies: women are 25% less likely than men to have basic digital skills, more likely to have automation-threatened jobs, and less likely to use ChatGPT at work
Isabel Berwick / Financial Times :
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