Trump says “We might have to put DOGE on Elon”, “DOGE is the monster that might have to go back and eat Elon”, and “We'll have to take a look” at deporting Musk
President Trump said Tuesday that DOGE could investigate Elon Musk, the latest indicator …
The Senate votes 99-1 to remove a Trump tax bill provision that would have barred states from regulating AI if they got funding from a $500M broadband program
The Senate killed a controversial effort to prevent US states from regulating artificial intelligence, marking a loss …
Cloudflare debuts “Pay per Crawl”, a marketplace that lets sites charge AI crawlers per crawl; new sites using Cloudflare will now block AI crawlers by default
Cloudflare, a cloud infrastructure provider that serves 20% of the web, announced Tuesday the launch of a new marketplace …
Sources: Mike Rockwell and Craig Federighi started a project to evaluate external models to power Siri; after testing, Anthropic's tech seemed most promising
Apple Inc. is considering using artificial intelligence technology from Anthropic PBC or OpenAI to power a new version of Siri …
Memo: Mark Zuckerberg announces Meta Superintelligence Labs and 11 new hires for the group; Nat Friedman will “partner” with Alexandr Wang to lead the new group
Zuckerberg wrote Monday to employees that Meta's AI efforts will fall under a new group called Meta Superintelligence Labs …
Grammarly acquires email startup Superhuman as part of a push to diversify and build an AI productivity suite; Superhuman was valued at $825M in August 2021
Grammarly has acquired email efficiency tool Superhuman as part of the company's push to build an artificial intelligence-powered productivity suite …
Filing: Apple sues Di Liu, a former senior product designer for the Vision Pro, for allegedly stealing a “massive volume” of its trade secrets to take to Snap
Di Liu allegedly told iPhone maker he needed family time — Di Liu of San Jose told Apple he was resigning …
Amazon says it has 1M+ robots in its warehouses, the most it's ever had and near the count of human workers, with ~75% of global deliveries assisted by robotics
The e-commerce giant now counts more than one million of the machines at its facilities — | Photographs and Videos by Desiree Rios for WSJ
Morgan Stanley says xAI raised $5B of equity in addition to $5B in debt; the startup raised $6B in December from a16z, BlackRock, Lightspeed, MGX, and others
Elon Musk's xAI raised $5 billion of equity in addition to $5 billion in debt, according to Morgan Stanley, which advised on the debt transactions.
American Bitcoin, a bitcoin mining and holding company backed by Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr. that is a subsidiary of publicly traded Hut 8, raised $220M
Eric Trump (left), Donald Trump Jr. (center), and Mike Ho, executive chairman and board member of American Bitcoin.
Circle applies for a US national trust bank license, which would let it act as a custodian for its own reserves and hold crypto for its institutional clients
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Google warns that the DMA is hampering innovation for EU users and asks regulators for more detailed guidance and critics to provide evidence to prove its case
Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) Google will on Tuesday warn EU antitrust regulators and its critics that landmark European Union rules aimed …
Kuo: Apple plans to launch a cheaper, ~13" MacBook powered by iPhone 16 Pro's A18 Pro chip, expected to enter mass production in late Q4 2025 or early Q1 2026
9to5mac.com/2025/06/30/f... [embedded post] Ernie Smith / @ernie.tedium.co : Interesting. I sort of struggle to see why Apple would want to ruin the separation between the M series and the A series ...
The latest version of the Senate's OBBB has a provision that removes the 6 GHz band's protection from spectrum auctions; Wi-Fi 6E and Wi-Fi 7 use the 6 GHz band
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/ ... [image] Corey Quinn / @quinnypig.com : I bet companies can't WAIT to bid on spectrum that currently has millions of devices using it, most of which will never see a f...
AI researcher salaries are steadily rising, with mid to senior level scientists' total pay packages of $500K to $2M at Big Tech, up from $400K to $900K in 2022
OpenAI says it will review its compensation to high-profile engineers after being targeted by Meta
A US judge denies Apple's motion to dismiss the DOJ antitrust lawsuit, filed in March 2024, that accuses Apple of unlawfully dominating the US smartphone market
not because it is competing on the merits. These actions are anticompetitive and illegal. https://oag.ca.gov/... [image] @sherman1890 : Apple court aligns itself with U.S. Airways, 2022 WL 874945 (SDN...
CoinMarketCap: bitcoin's share of crypto market value grew to 64% in 2025, the highest since January 2021, and altcoins lost $300B+, as investors buy BTC ETFs
On the face of it, 2025 looks like a banner year for crypto: Bitcoin hitting a record, an industry-boosting US president whose family …
Canada rescinds the Digital Services Tax targeting US companies, set to go into effect on June 30, “in anticipation of” a US trade deal, as trade talks resume
It's using trade to forcing governments into policies that would never pass their national legislatures. Julie S. Lalonde / @julieslalonde : The fact that we had to spend the last week looking at foot...
Q&A with Matt Mullenweg on licensing deals with AI companies, putting Tumblr's backend migration to WordPress “on hold”, fediverse, content moderation, and more
In honor of Automattic's 20th anniversary, and also since it's been a few years … Bluesky: Nilay Patel / @reckless : Lots and lots from Matt Mullenweg on Decoder, including some deep discussion of the...
X hires Nikita Bier, the serial entrepreneur who sold polling startup TBH to Facebook and teen-focused social network Gas to Discord, as its new head of product
Nikita Bier, a co-founder of tbh (acquired by Meta … Jason Nelson / Decrypt : Solana Advisor Nikita Bier Joins Elon Musk's X, Reigniting Crypto Payments Speculation Andrew Hutchinson / Social Media To...
Genesis AI, which generates synthetic data for training an AI model meant to power robots, emerges from stealth with a $105M seed co-led by Eclipse and Khosla
Genesis AI, a startup that aims to build a foundational model for powering all kinds of robots, has emerged from stealth …
Huawei open sources its 7B and 72B Pangu AI models and some of its model reasoning tech to incentivize the use of its other products, like its Ascend AI chips
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Rapid7 finds eight flaws, including a remotely exploitable one that can't be fixed by patching the firmware, affecting 689 Brother printer models and 59 others
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US chipmaker Wolfspeed files for Chapter 11 to enact a creditor-backed plan to slash $4.6B in debt and expects to emerge out of bankruptcy by the end of Q3
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The US takes down a North Korean operation that, from 2021 to 2024, impersonated 80+ people to get remote jobs at 100+ US firms, using “laptop farms” in the US
The workers stole proprietary data, cryptocurrency, and laundered money for the regime, using laptop farms and other techniques to hide their provenance. … Forums: r/technology : US government takes d...
Sources: data labeling company Surge AI aims to raise up to $1B, targeting a $15B+ valuation; Surge AI had $1B+ in 2024 revenue, vs. Scale AI's reported $870M
Surge AI, a data-labeling firm that competes with Scale AI, has hired advisors to raise as much as $1 billion in the first capital raising …
An interview with Claude AI product lead Scott White on Claude Code writing 90% of its own code, MCP, coding being accessible to non-technical workers, and more
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Investigation: three major US Treasury hacks over the past five years were due to a failure to deploy security measures, as DOGE cuts further weaken the agency
Bloomberg :
Canada-based Clio, which makes cloud tools for law firms, agrees to acquire Miami-based vLex, which offers a regulatory database and an AI assistant, for $1B
The man told no lies. …
Levelpath, which offers AI-powered procurement software for enterprises, raised a $55M Series B led by Battery Ventures, bringing its total funding to $100M
Marina Temkin / TechCrunch :
Mexico City-based digital bank Klar raised a $190M Series C led by General Atlantic, including $170M in equity and $20M in debt, valuing the startup at $800M+
Bloomberg :
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