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In first, California city overwhelmingly votes to permanently ban datacenters
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Caught on camera: Shelbyville mayor insinuates citizens opposing data centers are poor renters in ‘sh***y houses’
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SpaceX is worth less than half of its $1.75 trillion IPO target, Morningstar says
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Americans Have Grown Dramatically Anti-Data Center in Just Months, Survey Finds
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It’s official: More money is now spent building data centers than the government spends on transportation
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Amazon-owned Ring should pay Americans for scanning their faces, lawsuit says
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AI Billionaires Are Starting to Get Scared
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A CEO told employees they won't get raises in 2026 because the budget is going to AI
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Demand Is Booming for New No Tech, Repairable Tractor
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Alphabet’s $80 billion stock sale leaves Wall Street in ‘unprecedented territory,’ says Goldman’s Gutman
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GoPro is in serious financial trouble. Action camera giant is at risk for potential bankruptcy
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Failing grades soar as professors see greater AI usage, dwindling math skills in UC Berkeley computer science classes
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‘Bots have now passed human traffic online,’ Cloudflare boss laments — says agentic traffic wasn’t expected to eclipse real people until next year
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Colorado Governor Vetoes Surveillance Pricing Ban as Public Backlash Against the Tech Grows
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GitHub just switched Copilot to metered billing, and developers are watching months of credits vanish in a single day
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Palantir Systems’ Potential for Enshittification Has Become an ‘Unacceptable’ Risk, UK Politicians Say
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Amazon’s search bar will invent AI-generated products you can’t buy
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Former Tesla employees say full self-driving is nowhere near as capable as Elon Musk claims
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AI Could Use as Much Water as 1.3 Billion People by 2030, U.N. Report Warns
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Microsoft CEO says new AI data centers use as little water annually as a restaurant — closed-loop cooling system aims to slash consumption from millions of gallons as AI infrastructure faces mounting environmental scrutiny
Techmeme
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SCOTUS sides with the FCC in its clash with wireless carriers, upholding the agency's in-house system for levying fines for regulatory violations (John Kruzel/Reuters)
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Robinhood plans to route some 2026 soccer World Cup bets to Rothera, shifting away from Kalshi as it seeks to diversify its prediction markets providers (Emily Nicolle/Bloomberg)
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Public First: 26% of Americans support increased data center construction, the lowest share among 15 large countries, such as Brazil, Japan, the UK, and Canada (Financial Times)
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Robotics startup Generalist, which released its GEN-1 model to complete short physical tasks in April, raised $400M led by Radical Ventures at a $2B valuation (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)
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London- and NY-based Airspeed, which aims to use AI agents to replace sales software like traditional CRM dashboards, raised a $20M Series A led by DN Capital (Mike Butcher/Pathfounders)
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Q&A with Satya Nadella on Microsoft's competitive position, MAI models, OpenAI, the software business, GitHub Copilot, Project Solara, data centers, and more (Ben Thompson/Stratechery)
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Sam Altman says he has no plans to put money into the 2026 US midterms; OpenAI has tried to distance itself from the Greg Brockman-backed Leading the Future PAC (Emily Birnbaum/Bloomberg)
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Revolut co-founder and CTO Vlad Yatsenko plans to step down in July, to be replaced by Head of Technology Donato Lucia; Yatsenko was Revolut's first employee (Aisha S Gani/Bloomberg)
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Flourish, which is building Cortex AI, a brain-like synthetic intelligence system that uses less power than LLMs, raised $500M, including $100M from Jeff Bezos (Steven Levy/Wired)
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Challenger: US tech companies announced cuts to 38,242 jobs in May, the most since August 2024, taking 2026's total so far to 123,653 cuts, up 65%+ YoY (Julia Fanzeres/Bloomberg)
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Amazon unveils its next-gen Proteus warehouse robot, adding AI-powered language capabilities that let workers assign it tasks, rolling out in Europe in H1 2027 (Robert Hart/The Verge)
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Corporate spending management platform Ramp raised $750M at a $44B valuation led by Iconiq, Singapore's GIC, and the OTPP, taking its total funding to $3B (Bloomberg)
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France secured €110B+ of proposed AI and data center investments this week, amounting to ~10 GW of new computing capacity, equivalent to ~10 nuclear reactors (Sarah White/Financial Times)
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Foxconn says it will work with Intel to jointly develop and deploy next-gen AI infrastructure, including server racks with Intel Xeon processors and AI chips (Wen-Yee Lee/Reuters)
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TSMC CEO C.C. Wei says the company won't be able to fulfill the demand led by US customers even as more capacity comes online in the US over the next few years (Debby Wu/Bloomberg)