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Weird Al Yankovic Turned Down âNice Pile Of Moneyâ For AI Ad: âI Canât Be The Poster Boy For AIâ
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Companies Are Throttling Employeesâ AI Use Because Itâs Too Expensive
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Virginia county asks all employees, including schools, to conserve power due to AI-driven electricity price hikes â state's 400-plus data centers steadily increasing demand, grid expansion, and pricing
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Spanish government âquietly bans use of Palantirâ in critical state systems over fears of national security leaks
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âWe are screwedâ: People near data centers dread heat wave pollution.
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Andy Burnham set to ditch Palantir from NHS
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PlayStationâs Physical Media-Free Future Isnât Just Concerning, Itâs Offensive / You cannot trust digital purchases, and you cannot trust the corporations that offer them
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4Chan trolls UK government with another AI hamster as fines hit $800k
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Wonka Netflix show faces backlash for AI-generated Gene Wilder voice
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Google slapped with record $4.7 billion fine by EU
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CEO Says Heâll Fire Any Employee Who Sends Him More AI Slop
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Cheap Chinese chips could offer way out of RAM price crisis, Apple suggests
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Mark Zuckerberg Just Got Rather Badly Humiliated
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Tesla Suddenly Plunges 8%âDespite Beating Expectations on Deliveries
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Right-to-Repair Just Got Its Biggest Boost From the EPA â and Automakers Are Furious
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Scientists Asked AI to Impersonate 112 Public Figures. What Happened Next Is a âDireâ Warning | Researchers discovered that people found AI impersonators to be more authentic, coherent, and relevant than the real politicians, raising alarm bells around the potential for public deception.
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Factories Attach Cameras to Workers, in Hopes of Replacing Them With Robots
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U.K. Likely to Intervene in Paramount's Takeover of Warner Bros.
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Google loses fight against record âŹ4.1 billion EU antitrust fine
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BitTorrentâs disastrous, legendary, and controversial story | The file-sharing app launched 25 years ago and unleashed a wave of piracy that would shake Hollywood to its core
Techmeme
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At a town hall, Mark Zuckerberg said Meta's AI agent development has not accelerated as expected and its reorganization was not as "clean" as it could have been (Katie Paul/Reuters)
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Source: crypto payments and settlement startup Mesh is raising funding led by Binance at a ~$2B valuation, six months after raising $75M at a $1B valuation (Lucinda Shen/Axios)
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Travel app Hopper agrees to a $35M FTC settlement over allegations the company misled users by imposing hidden fees and misrepresenting the total costs (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch)
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Internal memo: Tesla plans to impose a $200-per-week limit for staff's AI spending beginning July 6; the tally excludes beta versions of xAI products (Grace Kay/The Information)
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Sources: ElevenLabs held early talks with investors on a secondary share sale for staff that would value the startup at ~$22B; it was valued at $11B in February (Bloomberg)
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UK-based StirlingX, which develops secure data intelligence systems for defense and critical infrastructure, raised a $20M Series A, following a $11M seed (Cate Lawrence/Tech.eu)
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Memo: Microsoft is merging the consumer and enterprise versions of its Copilot chatbots into a single app featuring coding tools and AI agents dubbed AutoPilot (The Information)
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Tripo AI, which is developing 3D foundation models and world models for use in games, raised $150M, a month after it said it raised $200M (Dean Takahashi/GamesBeat)
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Emails disclosed in a court filing detail the uneasy back-and-forth between Dario Amodei and DOD's Emil Michael and how Anthropic's relationship with DOD soured (Wall Street Journal)
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Sources: Palmer Luckey's Erebor Bank is in talks to raise money at an $8B+ valuation, up from $4.35B in 2025; its deposits are up from $1.1B in March to $4.05B (Bloomberg)
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Kling AI, the Kuaishou AI video generator spin-off, raised $2B at a $15B pre-money valuation and says the round could extend to as much as $3B (Zheping Huang/Bloomberg)
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Sources: Anthropic has initiated early-stage development of a custom AI server chip and held preliminary discussions with Samsung about manufacturing the chip (Qianer Liu/The Information)
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Global VC funding hit a record $510B in H1 2026, with OpenAI and Anthropic accounting for $217B, or 43% of the total; in Q2, VCs put $205B into 5,000+ startups (Gené Teare/Crunchbase News)
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Microsoft invests $2.5B and forms the Microsoft Frontier Company to embed 6,000 forward-deployed engineers with customers to help deploy AI systems (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)
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Sam Altman proposes a "US-led international forum" to establish AI standards, provide analysis of capabilities and risks, and make AI models available to allies (Sam Altman/Financial Times)