/r/technology
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Mark Zuckerberg Orders His Employees to Start Having Fun Again After Brutal Layoffs Culled Their Colleagues
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Leak Exposes Members of Peter Thiel’s Secretive ‘Dialog’ Society
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Leaked financial docs show OpenAI is losing billions of dollars a year
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Meta's CTO says morale is almost 'the worst it's ever been'
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It's time to dump Roku
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MIT Study Finds Gas Cars Aren't Secretly Better For The Planet Than EVs, Despite What Everyone On Facebook Says
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U.S President admin abandons fight against wind energy as clean energy output surges | Legal victories have dampened the U.S President admin’s efforts to halt wind and solar power.
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Rumour: Gaming Industry 'Bloodbath' Imminent, as Sony, Microsoft, and More Brace for Mass Layoffs
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DOJ claims xAI’s unpermitted gas turbines are a matter of ‘national, economic, and energy security’
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Millions of Copyrighted Songs Were Fed to AI Music Generators—Now There’s Proof.
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'The retail SSD market has almost disappeared,' says Silicon Motion exec — PC OEMs are buying third-party drives as direct NAND supply dries up
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Pentagon used Grok AI to fire 2,000 missiles at Iran, official says
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ICE Appears to Be Buying Immigrants’ Tax Identifiers from a Data Broker
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The fight against AI datacenters isn’t just about tech – it’s about democracy - Claims of nimbyism are a misunderstanding: the movement is about whether regular people have a say in fundamental decisions
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Pentagon boasts of using AI to write reports mandated by Congress | Pentagon also claims 1.5 million personnel are using generative AI tools.
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Google Chrome's Next Update Will Mark the End of Popular Ad Blockers - Slashdot
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Sony patents controller with buttons that get harder or softer when you use them
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Tech layoffs 2026: Nearly 153,000 jobs cut at Meta, LinkedIn, Salesforce, Robinhood and more
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SpaceX valuation balloons to $2.6T, briefly passes Amazon
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NPR: Most parents track their 18- to 25-year-old kids on their smartphones. Is it healthy?
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The UK CMA orders Google to provide greater transparency on how its search rankings work and to let users transfer their search data to authorized third parties (Muvija M/Reuters)
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Trace Finance, which provides stablecoin settlement infrastructure for cross-border payments across Latin America, raised a $32M Series A led by CoinFund (Yohan Yunstaff/Cointelegraph)
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XDOF, which is building data pipelines, collection tools, and annotation systems for robot training data, emerges from stealth with $70M (Tim Fernholz/TechCrunch)
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A look at chaos inside Anthropic after disabling Fable 5 and Mythos 5 with less than 90 minutes of notice, as some staff wonder if Trump is bullying the startup (New York Times)
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Shoe company Allbirds changes its name to Smartbird as it pivots to an AI infrastructure company and names ex-AWS exec Nadia Carlsten as CEO; BIRD jumps 20%+ (Anhata Rooprai/Reuters)
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Pramaana Labs, which uses the LEAN programming language to build a deterministic verification layer on top of LLMs, raised a $27M seed led by Khosla Ventures (Russell Brandom/TechCrunch)
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Convey, which is building AI "teammates" to automate manual work at clients like NBCUniversal, raised a $38M Series A led by a16z (Ben Bergman/Business Insider)
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Google's $99 Google Home Speaker, which is built for Gemini for Home and works as a Matter controller, will ship on June 29, nine months after it was announced (Jennifer Pattison Tuohy/The Verge)
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The UK says reports that Prime Minister Keir Starmer sought a carve-out to US export controls imposed on Anthropic's Claude Mythos 5 are "categorically untrue" (Politico)
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Andera, which uses AI to automate corporate audit and compliance testing, raised a $37M Series A led by Lightspeed (Ryan Lawler/Axios)
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EigenQ, which makes cybersecurity systems to protect devices from future attacks by quantum computers, plans to go public via a SPAC merger at a ~$3B valuation (Reuters)
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Conduct, which uses AI to let companies maintain, change, and modernize their legacy IT systems, raised a $60M Series A, bringing its total funding to $72M (Chris Metinko/Axios)
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Estonia says it will assign personal ID numbers to AI agents to give them "limited, controllable, and auditable authorizations" as they take actions for humans (Ott Tammik/Bloomberg)
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Twenty, which uses AI to help US military hackers penetrate adversary computer networks, raised a $100M Series B led by Accel at a $1B valuation (Colin Demarest/Axios)
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Nasdaq Private Market sues Hiive, claiming Hiive stole trade secrets and infringed on its IP, poaching two employees in part to access confidential information (Yazhou Sun/Bloomberg)