Techmeme
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AI executives and lobbyists say they are seeking regulatory clarity from the Trump administration but are wary of pressing for answers, fearing retaliation (Politico)
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A look at South Korea's four vocational "meister" schools that train students to work in semiconductor manufacturing, leading to jobs at Samsung and SK Hynix (Max Kim/New York Times)
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Source: the Trump administration is close to allowing Anthropic to restore access to Fable 5; limits could be lifted as soon as this coming week (Axios)
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Polymarket says its annualized revenue is now $1B+; Dune Analytics: daily volume on Polymarket's US platform rose from ~$50M in mid-May to $200M+ by June 20 (Davis Giangiulio/CNBC)
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Streaming services must comply with a California law that bans playing ads louder than the content being watched from July 1, but its implementation is unclear (Scharon Harding/Ars Technica)
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A look at advanced chip packaging, now more reliant on TSMC and its partners in Taiwan than ever, and the efforts to address this bottleneck in the US (Don Clark/New York Times)
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Sources: Meituan, Baidu, Xiaomi, and other Chinese tech giants have been trimming their workforces, fueling Chinese workers' concerns of being replaced by AI (Wency Chen/South China Morning Post)
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Japanese financial giant SBI agrees to acquire Bitbank, a top 10 Japanese crypto exchange by trading activity, for ~$289M, with the deal set to close in October (Jamie Crawley/CoinDesk)
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Source: Intel has promised to deliver SpaceX and Apple a toolkit this fall to test its 14A node before they make final commitments to produce chips with Intel (Tripp Mickle/New York Times)
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Insurance tech startup Corgi denies accusations that it used Papermark's open source software code to develop its software and present it as its own (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)
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Sources: the CFTC began an extensive investigation of Polymarket earlier this year; the agency's former acting head killed a separate investigation in July 2025 (New York Times)
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Sources: Apple is lobbying the Trump admin for clearance to buy memory chips from US-blacklisted Chinese company CXMT to ease pressure from rising chip prices (Financial Times)
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Sources: SpaceX and Charter have held executive-level talks on a consumer mobile phone offering, which would help SpaceX become a DTC mobile phone provider (Kelcee Griffis/Bloomberg)
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Anthropic says the US government is allowing Mythos 5 to be redeployed to critical infrastructure operators, and is working to restore general access to Fable 5 (@anthropicai)
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Sources: Meta lobbyists are urging California lawmakers to exempt social media platforms from legislation that would increase penalties in child-harm cases (Tyler Katzenberger/Politico)