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Google says it is testing new ad formats in search results and AI Mode, including Conversational Discovery ads, Highlighted Answers, and AI-powered Shopping ads (Anu Adegbola/Search Engine Land)
https://searchengineland.com/google-tests-ne…

Google tests new conversational ad formats in AI Mode and Search
Google is rolling out Gemini-powered conversational ad formats across AI Mode and Search as it looks to make ads more contextual,

As the Trump administration conducted heavy-handed raids in Los Angeles and sent national guard troops and marines to respond to the ensuing protests,
two of the city’s soccer teams had put out statements of solidarity with immigrant families
– but not the Dodgers.
Juan also knew that Guggenheim Partners,
the multibillion-dollar ownership group behind the Dodgers franchise,
had a stake in the Geo Group,
a major private operator of immigration detention cen…

As Dodgers head to White House, loyal fans are conflicted: ‘Trump is tearing this city apart’
After ICE raids and protest crackdown, the LA team’s supporters are ambivalent about the World Series winners’ visit

Hive stock jumps 10% in premarket trading after announcing a $220M, three-year GPU cloud contract with Bell Canada and Cohere, as it pivots from bitcoin mining (James Van Straten/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2026/06/1

Hive gains 10% after securing Canada sovereign AI contract with Bell Canada
GPU cloud contract with Bell and Cohere strengthens HIVE's shift from bitcoin mining to high performance AI computing.

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#Radio3InConcert
- John Adams: Harmonielehre
The BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Elena Schwarz performs Adams's pulsating Harmonielehre, Du Yun's Hundred Heads and, with soloist Steven Banks, Billy Child's Diaspora.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002wmmf

RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/116605858023186072
Google Search rests on a social contract: their bots can crawl our sites, they can index our sites, and they can show excerpts of our sites because
and •only because•
they send people to our sites. •Our• sites, our words, with our design, with our links, with our context and our aesthetics, shared the way we want to share them.
Google is announcing — unambiguously and with great fanfare — that they are now fully breaking that already-ragged contract. We should reciprocate.
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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)
https://www.axios.com/pro/enterprise-software-deals/2026/06/17/conduct-en…

Exclusive: Conduct raises $60M to make software better
Index Ventures and ICONIQ led the round which will help Conduct move into the U.S.

The Pentagon has not formally briefed the press on the war since May,
reversing a series of triumphalist press conferences that Hegseth conducted earlier in the conflict.
Details of hidden American injuries come after a weekend of intense fighting between the U.S. and Iran.
The U.S. conducted strikes after an American service member was killed in Iraq during the “controlled detonation” of an Iranian drone, according to the Pentagon.

Trump caught hiding true carnage of Iran war
The Department of Defense withheld reporting dozens of injuries to military personnel, according to a new report.

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)
https://www.reuters.com/world/uk-regulator-sets-out…

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)
https://www.reuters.com/world/uk-regulator-sets-out…

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)
https://www.axios.com/pro/enterprise-software-deals/2026/06/17/conduct-en…