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In recent months, UnitedHealth has targeted traditional journalists and news outlets, a prominent investor, a Texas doctor and activists like Ms. Strause and her father, who complained about a UnitedHealth subsidiary.
In legal letters and court filings, UnitedHealth has invoked last year’s murder of Brian Thompson, the chief executive of the company’s health insurance division,
to argue that intense criticism of the company risks inciting further violence.

UnitedHealth’s Campaign to Quiet Critics
The company has invoked the murder of an executive last year to complain about coverage in news outlets, on streaming services and on social media.

Tubi announces plans to distribute 20 films funded on Kickstarter, starting in the fall, and to invest in Kickstarter's FilmStream Collective Fund (Charles Pulliam-Moore/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/684374/tubi-kickstarter-initiative

Kickstarter-funded films are coming to Tubi
Tubi and Kickstarter are partnering to bring a selection of crowdfunded movies to the upstart streamer.

VerIF: Verification Engineering for Reinforcement Learning in Instruction Following
Hao Peng, Yunjia Qi, Xiaozhi Wang, Bin Xu, Lei Hou, Juanzi Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09942 …

VerIF: Verification Engineering for Reinforcement Learning in Instruction Following
Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) has become a key technique for enhancing large language models (LLMs), with verification engineering playing a central role. However, best practices for RL in instruction following remain underexplored. In this work, we explore the verification challenge in RL for instruction following and propose VerIF, a verification method that combines rule-based code verification with LLM-based verification from a large reasoning model (e.g., QwQ-32B). …

Filing: Disney and NBCUniversal sue Midjourney in California, accusing it of direct and secondary copyright infringement; they say talks with Midjourney failed (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/11/disney-nbcu-midjourney-copyright
…

Disney, NBCU sue Midjourney over copyright infringement
It's the first legal action from major Hollywood studios against a generative AI company.

YES!
GDP growth is effectively dead.The motor is broken.
Now it's time to face reality and share the wealth that is so evidently present.
An economy for life!
#degrowth
Blow to Chancellor as UK economy shrank unexpectedly in May

Blow to Chancellor as UK economy shrank unexpectedly in May
The UK economy contracted unexpectedly in May, marking the second month in a row of falling output and heaping further pressure on Chancellor Rachel Reeves. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said gross domestic product (GDP) contracted by 0.1% in May, following a 0.3% drop in April. Most economists had expected the economy to rebound […]

Former ABC News correspondent and anchor Terry Moran launches a Substack channel following his ouster from the news network (Glenn Garner/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/06/terry-moran-launches-substack-abc-news-dismissal-1236431503/…

Terry Moran Launches Substack Channel To Continue “Important Work” After ABC News Dismissal
Following Terry Moran's unceremonious ousting from ABC News, the Emmy-winning anchor and reporter has already moved onto his next platform.

Ukraine's security service says AI allowed its drones to keep flying "along a pre-planned route" even after losing signal in Russia during "Operation Spiderweb" (Fabrice Deprez/Financial Times)

How AI guided Ukraine’s drones to hit Russian airfields
Artificial intelligence took over the steering of unmanned quadcopters after losing signal

The Wikimedia Foundation pauses an experiment that showed Wikipedia users AI-generated summaries at the top of some articles, following an editor backlash (Emanuel Maiberg/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/wikipedia-pauses-ai-generated-summa…

Wikipedia Pauses AI-Generated Summaries After Editor Backlash
“This would do immediate and irreversible harm to our readers and to our reputation as a decently trustworthy and serious source,” one Wikipedia editor said.

Sources: Meta's Scale AI deal was motivated by Mark Zuckerberg's desire to find new leadership for Meta's AI efforts, relationship with Alexandr Wang, and more (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/meta-betting-n…

Why Meta is Betting Nearly $15 Billion on Alexandr Wang
Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg has tried to fix a seemingly existential problem in recent months. His company’s large language model, Llama, was falling behind competitors and struggling to perform as well as models from OpenAI, particularly on complex tasks. Increasingly, Zuckerberg turned ...

Sources: Scale AI plans to promote Chief Strategy Officer Jason Droege to CEO, replacing Alexandr Wang, who is set to join Meta after its investment in Scale AI (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Scale AI Picks New CEO as Alexandr Wang Set to Join Meta After Investment
Scale AI plans to promote Chief Strategy Officer Jason Droege to serve as its next chief executive officer following a multibillion-dollar investment from Meta Platforms Inc., according to two people familiar with the matter.