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In an internal message, Satya Nadella rebuked an internal memo that said Microsoft needs to "make people addicted" to its new AI agent product called Scout (Aaron Holmes/The Information)
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Allen Control Systems, which makes AI-powered gun turrets for shooting down drones, raised a $200M Series B led by Smash Capital at a $2.2B post-money valuation (Dan Primack/Axios)
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Blackstone-backed data center operator AirTrunk commits to investing $30B in India by 2030, with plans to develop 5GW of new data center capacity in the country (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
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What to expect at WWDC 2026: an overhauled Siri, a Siri app, a slew of new AI capabilities, OS updates focused on reliability and responsiveness, and more (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
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Sources: US officials discussed the US taking stakes in major AI companies after Sam Altman pitched the idea in 2025; Altman met Bernie Sanders on Wednesday (Wall Street Journal)
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A research team that includes Huawei says it successfully used Huawei's Ascend 910C chips for DeepSeek V4 Pro model's post-training, amid increased US sanctions (Coco Feng/South China Morning Post)
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FCC Chair Brendan Carr says the agency will review E-Rate, a $3B annual program subsidizing school and library internet access, amid kids' screen time concerns (Finya Swai/The Hill)
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Chinese regulator CSRC tightens oversight of the country's ~$3.4T private fund industry; the CSRC says it will encourage tech-focused VC investments and more (Reuters)
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Sources say a months-long dispute between the White House and Anthropic is showing signs of easing across the US government as the startup prepares for its IPO (Reuters)
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Illinois Governor JB Pritzker plans to temporarily halt tax breaks for data centers from July 1, calling on state lawmakers to create a development framework (Natasha Korecki/NBC News)
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India-based Innefu Labs, which builds AI-powered software for national defense and enterprise security infrastructure, raised a $30M Series B led by Panthera (The Economic Times)
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University of Cambridge researchers say they have developed the first vaccine with a key component entirely designed by AI and subsequently trialed it in humans (James Gallagher/BBC)
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OpenAI confirms it will comply with President Trump's EO that asks AI companies to allow the US government to assess their models' capabilities before release (Michael Considine/CNBC)
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Apple-funded study: the App Store had $1.4T in billings and sales globally in 2025; apps with consumer AI features saw 4x more billings growth than other apps (Ryan Christoffel/9to5Mac)
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SpaceX says Starlink now has 12M+ "active customers with high-speed internet" across 160+ countries, territories, and other markets, up from 9M in December 2025 (@starlink)