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Trump officials reportedly weighed export controls weeks before Anthropic’s models went offline. Even as talks reopen, G7 access to Mythos reportedly will not be restored.
Anthropic says its senior leaders met Trump administration officials on Monday, didn't reach a resolution, and both sides are working to resolve things quickly
Anthropic senior leaders met with top Trump administration officials on Monday to discuss a resolution to a White House directive …
Fox says it is acquiring Roku in its largest deal yet, valued at ~$25B, giving it access to 100M+ streaming households globally; FOX closes down 15.22%
Acquisition gives Fox access to more than 100 million streaming households — Fox said it is acquiring streaming company Roku in a deal worth around $22 billion, including debt.
Sources: several Xbox studios, including Hellblade maker Ninja Theory, are in talks with Microsoft to buy themselves back and go independent to avoid closure
The studios, which include Compulsion Games and Double Fine, are in active negotiations with Xbox and may be given the chance to go independent.
SpaceX's stock closed up 19.6% on June 15, its first full day of trading; Musk said it “might be able to reach” ~$1T in revenue in 2030, up from $18.7B in 2025
SpaceX shares climbed 20% on Monday, the first full day of trading following a record-breaking debut last week on the Nasdaq.
Snap unveils $2,195 Specs, its first AR glasses that are “fully standalone” and have a 51-degree field of view, expected “this fall” in the US, UK, and France
The new Specs are priced at $2,195, and you can preorder them starting today.
Microsoft upgrades Surface Pro and Surface Laptop with Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 chips; Pro starts at $1,499 and Laptop at $1,599, both $100 higher than last-gen
New colors and high prices. New colors and high prices. … Microsoft is launching new Surface Laptops …
OpenRouter debuts Fusion, a tool that prompts multiple AI models in parallel, claiming it can “reach and surpass Fable-level performance on deep research tasks”
We've found that synthesizing the results of multiple models can significantly outperform what individual models are capable of.
Filing: the US DOJ asks the court to dismiss an NAACP lawsuit over xAI's gas turbines, saying xAI is integral to the US' military operations, like the Iran War
In a bid to dismiss a lawsuit over xAI's polluting gas turbines, the Justice Department claimed the company is integral to military operations—including the Iran War.
SpaceX agrees to acquire Cursor in a merger valuing the AI coding startup at $60B, set to close in Q3 2026, or pay a $4B to $10B termination fee
Elon Musk's SpaceX (SPCX.O) said on Tuesday it would acquire Anysphere, the software firm behind the popular AI coding agent Cursor, for $60 billion …
Sources: Microsoft is adding AWS capacity to GitHub after AI-driven growth strained its infrastructure and contributed to dozens of major GitHub outages in 2026
Microsoft is turning to its biggest cloud rival, Amazon, to help address capacity issues on its GitHub coding platform following a series of AI-driven outages …
Docs: OpenAI's net loss grew from $5B in 2024 to ~$39B in 2025, a source says due to a $30B non-cash accounting charge linked to its previous structure
Audited figures reveal mounting costs from model development, infrastructure and rapid expansion
Google launches Android 17 and Wear OS 7, first on Pixel devices, with support for the latest AI models, a bubble bar UI, and live updates on Wear OS
Google on Tuesday released the final version of its Android 17 operating system, as well as its counterpart for smartwatches, Wear OS 7.
A look at Roblox's biometric age-checking tool, which will help place its users into age-based accounts starting in June, amid controversy over user privacy
“Not everyone is going to be happy all the time,” the platform's head of safety product policy told NBC News …
Florida sues TikTok for allegedly violating its social media regulations for minors and state consumer protection laws by showing “X-Rated” content to minors
TikTok Inc. is violating Florida social media regulations for minors and state consumer protection laws by misrepresenting …
A US judge dismisses xAI's lawsuit alleging OpenAI stole trade secrets, saying xAI failed to show that OpenAI induced a former xAI engineer to divulge Grok info
A federal judge on Monday dismissed a lawsuit by Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company xAI that accused rival Sam Altman's OpenAI …
Sources say Anthropic struggles to speak the Trump administration's language; a White House official says Anthropic “screwed us” as it didn't “honor” a cyber EO
Anthropic has once again found itself in the Trump administration's crosshairs over an inability to communicate effectively, sources tell Axios.
Memo: CTO Andrew Bosworth said Meta did “an atrocious job” sharing Applied AI's vision, promising employees better communication, career growth, and more perks
In an internal memo seen by WIRED, Bosworth promised employees more stability, better communication …
Italy's competition regulator opens an investigation into Apple under the DMA over whether iOS and iPadOS interoperate with third-party consumer cloud services
Italy's competition regulator said on Tuesday it had opened an investigation into Apple (AAPL.O) over compliance with interoperability obligations, under the European Digital Markets Act.
Keir Starmer says the UK will ban social media for under-16s in an “Australia-plus model” to “give kids their childhood back”, set to take effect in spring 2027
Sources: Apple's AirPods with cameras for AI are scheduled to launch in 2027 alongside the 20th anniversary pro iPhones and a second-generation foldable iPhone
Apple Inc.'s upcoming camera-equipped AirPods, a product meant to vault the company into the AI device market …
Meta debuts new AI features, including an “AI Mode” that uses Meta AI to search for answers pulled from public posts across Facebook, including Groups and Reels
As Meta tries to catch up in the AI race and boost engagement with its AI bot, the company announced Monday …
Meta says Threads now has 500M MAUs, adds a “Your Algo” tool that lets users privately control what they see in their feed, and launches Communities out of beta
Nearly three years after launching as a competitor to Twitter (now X), Threads has reaches 500 million monthly active users, the company announced Tuesday.
Taxi-hailing app Go's shares grew 21% in its Tokyo debut, after it raised ~$553M in Japan's largest IPO in 2026, giving the company a market value of ~$1.16B
Taxi-hailing app provider Go Inc.'s shares advanced 10% in its trading debut on the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Tuesday …
Docs: audited financial figures show OpenAI spent $34B in 2025, up 172% YoY, including $19B on research and development and nearly $6B on sales and marketing
Today, I can exclusively report, based on audited financial documents viewed by this publication that have been independently verified …
Ripple acquires a stake in Flutterwave as part of the African payments startup's Series E, valuing Flutterwave at $3.2B
Flutterwave Inc., one of Africa's most valuable financial-technology startups, sold an equity stake to Ripple, as it seeks to accelerate growth through payments expansion and strategic partnerships.
SpaceX closed up 4.8% on Tuesday with a $2.65T market cap, just above Amazon's, after popping ~12% intraday and briefly overtaking Microsoft's $2.93T market cap
SpaceX shares popped about 12% on Tuesday, as Elon Musk's rocket builder continued its meteoric rise following a record-breaking IPO on Friday.
India blocks Telegram until June 22, citing its use by organized “cheating rackets” to “defraud candidates” taking a national medical entrance exam on June 21
India has blocked the Telegram messaging app until June 22, saying the platform has been used to “defraud candidates” …
SoftBank announces an OpenAI-powered “patching service” that aims to protect Japan's top 3,000 companies behind crucial infrastructure against cyberattacks
Japanese technology giant SoftBank Group Corp. is launching a service using OpenAI technology to protect against the looming threat of cyberattacks, both companies said Tuesday.
Sources: DeepSeek closed a ~$7.4B round at a $50B+ valuation under an unusual structure requiring investors to put capital into an LP run by CEO Liang Wenfeng
Chinese AI lab DeepSeek has closed its first funding round that raised more than 50 billion yuan ($7.4 billion) under an unusual deal structure …
France plans €655M in AI investments through 2030 and a Mistral-powered chatbot for state services; its security service will replace Palantir with Chapsvision
France's domestic intelligence agency, DGSI, will replace Palantir Technologies Inc. data tools with a local alternative …
Roblox rolls out Roblox Kids accounts for ages 5 to 8 and Roblox Select accounts for ages 9 to 15, globally, after unveiling them alongside age checks in April
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Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev says the company is “proactively” reducing its full-time workforce by ~10%, or ~290 employees, in a “flattening” of its org structure
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Sensor Tower: ChatGPT's market share fell to 46.4% by the end of May, as Gemini rose to 27.7% and Claude to 10.3%; Grok, Meta AI, and others have less than 5%
More than three and a half years after ChatGPT's initial release, AI assistants are now used by millions of people worldwide, and the competitive landscape is changing fast.
Kuala Lumpur-based Respond.io, which uses AI agents to manage customer conversations, raised a $62.5M Series B led by Camber, following a $7M Series A in 2022
In 2017, Respond.io set out to solve a simple problem: businesses couldn't keep up with customers who had moved to messaging apps.
Fox says it obtained a $12B loan for the ~$22B Roku deal; existing Fox shareholders are expected to own ~73% of the combined company and Roku shareholders ~27%
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An interview with SBF about life in prison, his serialized prison memoir titled Manfred, and more, as he praises Trump, becomes a Republican, and seeks a pardon
Sam Bankman-Fried is incarcerated at a federal prison in Lompoc, California, which sits northwest of Santa Barbara and is dubbed “the City of Arts and Flowers.”
Sources: Binance is set to lose permission to offer services to EU clients from the start of July as its application for a license is about to be turned down
Binance, the world's largest crypto exchange, is set to lose permission to offer services to European Union clients within weeks …
Qualcomm announces Snapdragon Reality Elite, its new flagship XR chipset, debuting in the compute puck of Xreal's Aura Android XR device this fall
Qualcomm just announced Snapdragon Reality Elite, its new flagship XR chipset, and it will debut in the compute puck of Xreal's Aura Android XR device this fall.
Source: Qualcomm is in talks to acquire AI chip designer Tenstorrent for $8B to $10B; in 2025, Tenstorrent had discussed raising $800M at a ~$3.2B valuation
Qualcomm has been in talks to buy Tenstorrent, a startup that designs chips for AI, according to a person with direct knowledge of the deal.
Arcade, which helps companies manage which actions AI agents are authorized to take, raised a $60M Series A led by SYN Ventures, following a $12M seed in 2025
The startup aims to help companies manage the challenge of determining which actions AI agents are authorized to take
Microsoft is moving Copilot Cowork to usage-based pricing and is considering a Microsoft-hosted version of DeepSeek as a cheaper option
Microsoft is moving Copilot Cowork to usage-based pricing as it expands access to the enterprise AI tool — and is considering a Microsoft-hosted version of DeepSeek as a cheaper model option.
Letter: US cybersecurity leaders urge the White House to lift the ban on Anthropic's Mythos 5 and Fable 5, arguing the move hurts defenders more than attackers
Sam Sabin /Axios:
Google says a Chinese-linked hacking group targeted US and Canadian academic, medical, and military research institutions from September 2023 to November 2025
A profile of Cursor, including its hiring process and testy relationship with Anthropic, which told Cursor that Claude Code was a research effort, per a source
How the world's hottest AI coding company hitched its fate to Elon Musk's rocket ship — I n 2019, Michael Truell, a shy …
Z.ai debuts GLM-5.2, saying it has significant improvements for coding, agentic, and long-horizon tasks, with a 1M context window and MIT-licensed open weights
We're introducing GLM-5.2, our latest flagship model for long-horizon tasks. It marks a substantial leap in long-horizon task capability …
Atom Computing, one of the nine quantum computing startups backed by the US, raised a $100M Series C led by Third Point, bringing its total funding to $300M
Quantum company Atom Computing raised a $100 million Series C led by Third Point Ventures, it tells Axios exclusively.
Melbourne-based Everlab, which is building an AI-powered preventive healthcare platform, raised a AU$65M Series A led by Airtree Ventures
Melbourne healthtech startup Everlab has raised $65 million in Series A funding led by Airtree Ventures as it expands its preventative healthcare platform into global markets.
Alibaba's AI unit Tongyi Lab launches the Qwen Robot Suite, its first suite of AI models for robots, in pilot testing with some Alibaba Cloud enterprise clients
Alibaba unveils Qwen robot models to push AI beyond chatbots, as embodied intelligence becomes the next frontier in global AI
Salesforce agrees to acquire AI customer service platform Fin, formerly known as Intercom, for ~$3.6B, in a deal expected to close in Q4 of its 2027 fiscal year
Hydra Host, a marketplace for developers and enterprises to procure GPUs pooled from data center operators, raised a $100M Series A led by Kindred Ventures
Data center infrastructure startup Hydra Host Inc. said today it has bagged $100 million in a Series A round of funding led by Kindred Ventures.
Ent Security, which wants to build a new layer of workspace security that reads the intent behind what users and AI agents do, launches with $100M in funding
Intent-aware endpoint security startup Ent Security launched today with $100 million in funding to build what it calls a new layer …
Study: Mistral and other open-source AI models are among the worst at filtering out Russian disinformation; Mistral's top model ranks 47 out of 60 tested models
Open-source generative models are worse at removing false news than others, according to Estonian researchers
Nvidia sold $25B of high-grade bonds, after an initial target of ~$20B, in its first corporate bond sale since 2021; source: investor demand hit as much as $85B
Source: Anthropic was given 90 minutes to comply and wasn't provided with detailed concerns before the Commerce Department imposed export controls on its models
Financial Times:
Radical Numerics, which is developing AI models that learn directly from biological data, raised a $50M seed led by Emergence Capital
Canadian payments company Nuvei agrees to acquire NY-based cross-border payments company Payoneer for ~$2.75B in cash; the deal is expected to close in mid-2027
A US judge rejects Meta's bid to dismiss a lawsuit from Strike 3, which owns porn production companies, that alleges Meta torrented its videos for AI training
American Express agrees to acquire restaurant booking platform TheFork from Tripadvisor for $700M in cash; in October, Starboard Value pushed for TheFork's sale
Anthropic's origin story is rooted in OpenAI not taking safety seriously enough, so only Anthropic can control AI and everyone else, including the US government
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Limitless Labs, which is developing an AI platform to automate CNC manufacturing, raised a $20M Series A led by Dell Technologies Capital and Square Peg
Israeli startup targets automation of CNC manufacturing workflows. — Limitless Labs (formerly LimitlessCNC) has raised $20 million …
Sources: the US government plans to let the Federal Data Center Enhancement Act, which details standards for data center use and operations, expire in September
NewCore, which helps companies manage both human and AI agent identities in a single system, emerges from stealth with a $66M seed led by Cyberstarts
Docs: Tesla sent Swedish and Dutch regulators Full Self-Driving safety data that traffic-safety researchers called misleading; Dutch RDW approved FSD in April
Letter: Hightouch, an ad tech startup recently valued at $2.75B, offers to buy LiveRamp's identity business from Publicis for $800M to $1.2B in cash and stock
Hightouch, an ad tech startup recently valued at $2.75 billion, has offered to buy LiveRamp's identity business from ad holding group Publicis …
Databricks agrees to acquire Panther Labs, its third cybersecurity acquisition; Panther was valued at $1.4B when it raised a $120M Series B in 2021
Databricks on Tuesday said it agreed to buy the startup Panther Labs, as the U.S. data analytics provider pushes deeper into the cybersecurity business.
Electronic Arts launches EA Advertising, which lets brands integrate directly into gameplay through dynamic, real-time placements, including stadium signage
Anthropic pauses its anticipated move to token-based billing for Claude Agent SDK that it planned to implement on June 15, saying “Nothing changes for now”
On Monday, though, Anthropic abruptly announced it had paused those pricing changes just as they were set to take effect …Forums:Ars OpenForumForums:Ars OpenForum:Anthropic “pauses” token-based billin...
SpaceX's IPO raised a total of $85.7B as underwriters exercised their overallotment of shares; the additional money is bigger than almost all tech IPOs to date
A look at Specs, which have a battery life of up to four hours per charge, and an interview with Snap CEO Evan Spiegel about the AR glasses
for $2,195Akshay Gangwar /Android Authority:Snap launches Specs AR glasses, featuring crazy tech and crazier priceNadeem Sarwar /Digital Trends:Snap reveals SPECS AR glasses. They look surprisingly st...
Sources: PayPal to shutter its 10-year-old PayPal Ventures arm amid a broader shakeup under a new CEO and has hired Jefferies to explore selling some positions
PayPal is shuttering its 10-year-old venture team amid a broader corporate shakeup, according to five sources familiar with the matter.
Sources: Trump officials weighed Anthropic export controls weeks before forcing its models offline, after a dispute over giving China-linked firm Mythos access
The Trump administration weighed export controls on Anthropic weeks before forcing its AI model offline, after a dispute …
Copia, an industrial code management and recovery provider, raised $26M co-led by AE Ventures and Squadra Ventures, after previously raising $16.4M
Copia, an industrial code management and recovery provider, raised $26 million co-led by AE Ventures and Squadra Ventures, CEO Adam Gluck tells Axios Pro exclusively.
Bland, which uses proprietary, in-house-built voice models to process calls for 250+ enterprise clients, raised a $50M Series C led by Dell Technologies Capital
Indian AI startup Sarvam raised $234M in the first close of a $300M Series B at a $1.5B valuation, with HCLTech acquiring a 10.5% stake for ~$150M in cash
Cybersecurity startup Chainguard, Cisco, Cloudflare, JPMorgan Chase, and others launch Athena, a coalition to secure open-source software using AI
Zhipu's shares closed up 33% on June 15 after JPMorgan raised the stock's price target and picked it as a winner against rival MiniMax, whose stock closed up 7%
SailPoint is acquiring Entro Security, which develops a cybersecurity platform for managing non-human identities, a source says in a deal valued at ~$200M
1Password acquires Apono, which operates an AI-powered platform for managing permissions and access to cloud infrastructure, sources say for $250M to $300M
A look at a few proposals for sharing AI wealth with the public: government stakes in AI companies, a tax on AI token use, a global capital income tax, and more
Sources: the Trump administration won't allow G7 countries to regain access to Mythos 5 as doing so would be “completely illogical”; UK requested a “carve-out”
James Franey /New York Post: