Investigation: California colleges and universities continue to renew Turnitin subscriptions despite the cost, faulty anti-plagiarism tech, and privacy issues
Colleges and universities renew Turnitin subscriptions year after year even though its flawed detectors are expensive …
Meta offering $100M signing bonuses may be an exaggeration by Altman, but $100M overall compensation packages are plausible given Meta's need to catch up in AI
A couple weeks back, Sam Altman made headlines for saying that Meta was approaching OpenAI talent and offering “$100M signing bonuses” …
Report: Swiss deep tech startups have created over $100B in total enterprise value, with 60% of VC funding in Switzerland from 2019 to 2025 going to deep tech
With 60 per cent of venture capital now flowing into deeptech, the country outpaces global peers and redefines what a small market can achieve. .
South Korea becomes Asia's best-performing stock market in H1 2025, as shares rise following President Lee Jae-myung's pledge to allow won-based stablecoins
New president's pledge to allow won-based stablecoins has led to huge gains in related shares this month
MCP has promise beyond AI, and could serve as a “universal plugin system” that connects disparate data sources and tools together to enable new capabilities
Or: The Day My Toaster Started Taking Phone Calls — There's this thing about USB-C that nobody really talks about.
Call center agents in Australia, Canada, Greece, and the US say they've been repeatedly mistaken for AI, as the industry rapidly integrates AI alongside humans
As more workers are asked by strangers if they're bots, surreal conversations are prompting introspection in the industry about what it means to be human.
Synthesia says it has over 65K customers and serves more than 70% of the Fortune 100, with its AI avatars mainly used for training and internal communications
Constructing an avatar of myself is even weirder than I expected. — It's a choreographed experience that made me feel …
AI-generated images of fake, otherworldly-looking houseplants are proliferating online and misleading consumers, as AI slop extends to plant care advice
'It's disconnecting us further from reality, relationships with nature, and also our community.' — “Maybe you could organize … Bluesky: @wavesblog , @sarahjeong , @sarahjeong , @zackzwiezen.com , @n...
As top reporters continue to flock to Substack, subscription fatigue and challenges with building a wide audience pose threats to its long-term success
While star reporters continue to flock to Substack, subscription fatigue is only getting worse. — Before June 8, the skilled …
Bengaluru-based ShopOS, whose AI agents help automate content creation, marketing, and site management for e-commerce brands, raised $20M from 3State Ventures
The Flipkart co-founder is betting on a new AI-native OS for brands, built by his former team at Scapic and Flipkart Labs
San Diego-based Clearspeed, which offers AI-driven voice-based risk assessment tech for 60+ languages, raised a $60M Series D, taking its total funding to $110M
Voice risk assessment startup Clearspeed Corp. today announced that it has raised $60 million in new funding to scale …
Nordic Semiconductor acquires US startup Memfault, a cloud-based IoT lifecycle management and observability service that supports secure OTA updates, for $120M
Nick Flaherty / eeNews Europe :
Nvidia executives, including Jensen Huang, have sold $1B+ worth of company stock in the past 12 months, with $500M+ in share sales occurring in June 2025 alone
Chief executive Jensen Huang leads wave of insider selling as AI demand boosts stock to record high
OpenAI is expanding its consulting-like service to refine its models and build bespoke apps for large enterprise and government clients spending at least $10M
As OpenAI pitches its artificial intelligence to big companies and government agencies, it's taking a page from the playbook … X: @amir X: Amir Efrati / @amir : New: OpenAI now does Forward Deployed E...
[Thread] Cluely unveils a desktop AI assistant that it says can help users cheat on meetings, sales, lectures, interviews, learning new software, and more
call it “noclue” — market size = the entire workforce X: Yuvraj / @yuvicodes : https://cluely.com/ is a huge security threat I don't know if people trusting it But it literally asks for screen permi...
Walmart's Flipkart says about 200M Indian users engaged with social videos and livestreams promoting products on the platform in H1 2025, up from 75M a year ago
Satviki Sanjay / Bloomberg : X: @businessline and @business X: @businessline : Flipkart is betting big on video commerce to win Gen-Z shoppers. With 200M+ users engaging via videos in H1 2025, livest...
A look at efforts by Coinbase, Kraken, Robinhood, and other crypto companies to tokenize stocks amid regulatory hurdles and questions about product demand
First, they came for the currency market. Then, the money market. Now, crypto's big disruptors are targeting the multi-trillion-dollar heart …
As Reddit turns 20, a look at its AI efforts, including the Reddit Answers chatbot, while it battles unauthorized scraping of user data for AI training
Even citing reputable sources, Google's AI listed the rare adverse reactions to my cat's pain medication as the common side effects. … James / @whitewaterlawyer : Facebook is unusable because of “enga...
Niural, whose AI agents help companies automate payroll, benefits, vendor payments, and compliance, raised a $31M Series A led by Marathon Management Partners
Ryan Lawler / Axios :
Hands-on with seven coding agents tasked with building a website: Claude Code performed best, OpenAI's Codex lacked polish, and Replit failed to build the site
Timothy B. Lee / Understanding AI :
How the Center for Investigative Reporting is handling the lawsuit against OpenAI as one of the few nonprofits with the resources to take on a yearslong suit
This story isn't just about copyright. It's about the imbalance between tech giants and the public interest — and how journalism is being mined, not supported. — 🔗 www.niemanlab.org/2025/06/what......
Meta and Anthropic prevailed in copyright suits against them, but the rulings have major caveats and don't address when AI output might infringe copyright
Adi Robertson / The Verge :
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