Tootfinder

Study: only 32 countries, mostly in the Northern Hemisphere, host AI data centers, with the US, China, and the EU controlling 50% of the world's top facilities (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com…

A.I. Computing Power Is Splitting the World Into Haves and Have-Nots
As countries race to power artificial intelligence, a yawning gap is opening around the world.

Will do a proper #FieldDiary tomorrow but suffice to say, today went even better than hoped. Instruments behaved, weather cooperated our local hunter friend got us smoothly into the field. Looking forward to seeing what it all means now...
(Background: http://sternaparadisaea.net/2025/05/20/falling-apart/)

Can you describe specific ways you have integrated Al tools into your development workflow? Please include any custom setups, automations, or use cases beyond simple prompt usage.
there is a monster in the forest and it speaks with a thousand voices. it will answer any question you pose it, it will offer insight to any idea. it will help you, it will thank you, it will never bid you leave. it will even tell you of the darkest arts, if you know precisely how to ask.…

1/2 Check this out this @… piece about the Altman/Ives “IO” startup being prosecuted for trademark by “iYo”, which I’d never heard of till today: https://daringfireball.net/…

Trademark Dispute Leads to the Disappearance of ‘io’, OpenAI and LoveFrom’s Secretive AI Collaboration
Link to: https://www.theverge.com/news/690858/jony-ive-openai-sam-altman-ai-hardware

Deepseek soll heimlich Chinas Volksarmee helfen
KI-Entwickler Deepseek aus China versucht laut einem Bericht, US-Sanktionen zu umgehen. Außerdem sollen chinesische Dienste die Userdaten bekommen.
https://www.

BIG KITTY!

Was nicht kontrolliert werden kann, wird zerstört. https://www.tagesschau.de/eilmeldung/us-regierung-harvard-auslaendische-studierende-100.html

Garcia on precipice of powerful Oversight post (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/06/23/congress/oversight-garcia-mfume-lynch-crockett-00419618
http://www.memeorandum.com/250623/p150#a250623p150

Dear Apple SwiftUI friends, this bug is killing the vibe of our users: FB16257334
Repro for those in the community:
https://github.com/feedback-assistant/reports/issues/594

FB16257334: Inspector view bug · Issue #594 · feedback-assistant/reports
Date: 2024-01-07 Resolution: Open Area: SwiftUI OS: iPadOS 18.1 Type: Incorrect/Unexpected Behavior Keywords: SwiftUI, split view, iPadOS, NavigationSplitView Description Simple NavigationSplitView...

Overall, 77% of Americans said they did not feel “completely financially secure,”
and 32% said they did not think they ever would.
Based on the latest census data, the median U.S. household income in 2023 was roughly $80,000,
but that is the midpoint on incomes, meaning half of U.S. households made even less.

This is how much Americans need to make in order to ‘feel comfortable,’ according to a survey
A new survey revealed how much money Americans need to make to feel "secure."

Why Young Men Care Less About Music and Why It Matters (A Lot)
https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2025/06/why-young-men-care-less-about-music-and-why-…

Why Young Men Care Less About Music and Why It Matters (A Lot)
Explore why young men care less about music and prefer video games, as trends in music consumption shift dramatically.

Filing: CBS calls Trump's 60 Minutes lawsuit against the network "meritless" and an attempt to "evade bedrock First Amendment principles" (Ted Johnson/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/06/trump-60-minutes-lawsuit-cbs-4-1236440025/

CBS Calls Donald Trump’s Lawsuit A “Meritless” Attempt To “Evade Bedrock First Amendment Principles” In Latest Filing In ’60 Minutes’ Case
The network made its latest filing in the president's lawsuit over "60 Minutes"

US enters first major heat wave of 2025 #UnitedStates #USA

US enters first major heat wave of 2025
The United States is experiencing its first significant heat wave of the year, beginning Friday across the Great Plains and expanding into parts of the Midwest and Great Lakes over the weekend, according to the National Weather Service (NWS).

I believe this is the first coverage to acknowledge that Lurie’s budget seems to treat a “temporary” new jail as permanent
“representatives from the People’s Budget Coalition lined the second and third floor balconies of City Hall’s rotunda. They held yellow posters reading ‘No new jail! No cuts!’ referring to the continued funding for the jail annex in San Bruno.”

Hundreds protest S.F. budget cuts, packing City Hall chambers
Protesters unfurled banners in the San Francisco City Hall rotunda reading "Stop cuts" that were quickly taken down by sheriff's deputies.

To cross or not to cross, that's the question...
(One of the more intense streams — the outflow of a glacier — I had to cross in my life, that bridge looks a lot safer that it was IRL...)
#FootpathFriday #Hiking

Thermal label printers can make cheap black & white stickers…
#resist #noWar #protest

"Nigerian communities to take Shell to high court over oil pollution"
#Nigera #Shell #Pollution

Does anybody know why all RJ45s with integrated LEDs seem to be the old style yellow-green AlGaP and not the modern high efficiency InGaN?

Leavitt: Trump Coined "Peace Through Strength" Motto - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2025/06/leavitt-trump-coined-peace-through-strength-motto/

I don't know who uses #Citrix Netscalers any longer, but if you do, you've got some work to do to ensure that they are secure. The post describes the work you have to do -- in addition to applying the appropriate patches -- to address recent vulnerabilities. #cybersecurity

Checklist for NetScaler (Citrix ADC) CVE-2025-5777 – Deyda.net
Checklist for NetScaler (Citrix ADC) CVE-2025-5777 Deyda.net

HEY, EVERYONE! Now we're apparently '45 minutes from attack' again, I tell you who we should call, Dr David Kelly!
Oh, wait...
#BlairLiedMillionsDied #FuckKeirStarmer #DontAttackIran

👉 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_4QLVlTuUM

Cloudflare, CrowdStrike, and Ping Identity end a 2022 project offering free cybersecurity tools to critical infrastructure sectors at risk from Russian attacks (David DiMolfetta/Nextgov/FCW)
https://www.nextgov.com/cybersecurity/…

Cyber firms sunset free services meant to counter Russia-linked hacking threats
The 2022 initiative by Cloudflare, CrowdStrike and Ping Identity provided cybersecurity support to critical infrastructure sectors seen as potential targets of Russia-linked attacks.

Field Diary 2025
I very rarely have time to write a proper field diary, our time in the field is usually extremely hectic and filled with 12-18 hour working days that blend seamlessly together. I suspect this week is also going to be busy, but Nature has offered an olive branch in the shape of an early break-up of the sea ice, so I'm taking a moment to write a few things down.
http://sternaparadisaea.net/2025/05/24/field-diary-2025/

the system wants you numb
your feelings are resistence

Important Message

Investors brace for oil price spike, rush to havens after US bombs Iran nuclear sites (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/middle-east-tensions-put-investors-alert-weighing-worst-case-scenarios-2025-06-21/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250622/p44#a250622p44

If a sitting president can direct the IRS to investigate political enemies, revoke nonprofit status from dissenting institutions, or selectively enforce tax law to reward loyalty,
the agency no longer serves the public.
It serves power.
The slow hollowing of the IRS through funding cuts, staff attrition, and the erosion of norms yields the same result:
a weakened institution unable to enforce the law, uphold equity, or hold the powerful to account.
And when th…

The Fiscal State Under Siege: Why People Hate the IRS, and Why You Should Care
How Trump, DOGE, and Project 2025 Are Turning the IRS Into a Tool of Authoritarian Rule Editor’s Introduction: Hello readers, it's Nathan Tankus and I am very happy to bring to you the first in a long multi-part series on the IRS spearheaded by Anisha Steephen. Anisha worked for

Der Terror und die #AfD: „Immer wenn eine radikale politische Richtung Rückenwind hat, dann entwickeln sich daran auch noch radikalere Flanken, die sich legitimiert fühlen, einen Schritt weiterzugehen.“

"Plastic bag bans help: Study finds up to 47% drop in shoreline bag litter"
#Plastic #Plastics #Environment

Plastic bag bans help: Study finds up to 47% drop in shoreline bag litter
Among the biggest culprits of plastic pollution in the ocean and along shorelines are thin plastic shopping bags, which have low recycling rates and often become litter when they blow away in the wind. Once there, they can entangle animals and break down into harmful microplastics. As awareness of this problem has grown, more than 100 countries have instituted bans or fees on plastic bags. But what effect those policies are having on the amount of plastic litter in the marine environment has no…

Little one has reached an interesting stage of personal hygiene. She wants to shower instead of taking baths, but can't do it fully by herself.
So i have to poke my head and arms around the shower curtain, soap up her head, rinse her hair without getting water in her eyes, and try not to get myself completely drenched in the process or fling too much water around the bathroom.

Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab reportedly raising $2B would be the largest seed round ever, far surpassing Yuga Labs' $450M seed round in 2022 (Joanna Glasner/Crunchbase News)
https://news.crunchbase.com/venture/biggest-seed-ro…

Thinking Machines Lab’s $2B Seed Round Is Biggest By A Long Shot
The $2 billion Andreessen Horowitz-led financing that Thinking Machines reportedly just closed at a $10 billion valuation is by far the largest seed round in the Crunchbase dataset. We take a look at that, as well as the runner's up in seed funding.

i am on the spectrum... the electromagnetic spectrum

And so to bed. Or maybe not. Always difficult to force myself to sleep with the midnight sun blazing away. So first, a nice cup of tea and some view appreciation...
/Fin #FieldDiary

Microsoft says it is testing a new aggregated gaming library in the Xbox PC app for Windows 11 with Xbox Insiders, integrating "leading PC storefronts" (Jez Corden/Windows Central)
https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/pc-g

Starting this week, the Xbox PC app will integrate 'leading PC gaming stores' for Xbox Insiders — with no mention of Steam
Although the blog post doesn't say which PC stores are going to be integrated, at the very least, you'll be able to access Battle.net games directly from the Xbox PC app from next week.

Die USA greifen den Iran an wegen „Massenvernichtungswaffen”
Trump und Co. behaupten der Angriff sei vorbei und alles sei erledigt.
Der Iran wird irgendeinen Gegenschlag umsetzen.
Daraufhin wird die U.S. Regierung sich unfair und „unprovoziert” angegriffen fühlen und ggf. einen langen Krieg eingehen.

So it's been an even more hectic afternoon than usual, preparing kit, including 2 new and rather complex instruments we've never used before, for departure tomorrow morning. We managed to get most things ready, but it's been quite the introduction for my colleague Abraham who has never been to Greenland before! But who seems very at home in the snow practicing with the EM which will measure sea ice thickness (we hope). #FieldDiary

Turns out life doesn’t just imitate art
— sometimes it borrows the script, reboots it with National Guard checkpoints and streams it live from Los Angeles.
Case in point:
A Day Without a Mexican,
the cheeky 2004 sci-fi satire from Mexican filmmakers Sergio Arau and Yareli Arizmendi,
in which California wakes up to find every person of Latino descent has vanished into a mysterious haze,
leaving Angelenos panicking over who’s going to mow the lawns and run …

The Outrageous 20-Year-Old Movie That Predicted Trump’s America
In 2004 ‘A Day Without a Mexican’ was intended to be a political satire. In 2025 it seems all too real. Plus, Joel Grey auctions off his old lederhosen (and some nudes!) TikTok star Khaby Lame demands $1.2 million to talk, and Chet Hanks is a no-show at his book reading.

Hegseth says congressional leaders told of US attack on Iran after planes 'were safely out' (Annabella Rosciglione/Washington Examiner)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/defense/3450202/hegseth-congress-leadership-informed-us-attack-iran-after-planes-safely-out/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250622/p43#a250622p43

„Immer mehr Anleger sehen in Agrarflächen einen sicheren Hafen und einen wirksamen Schutz gegen eine inflationäre Geldpolitik. Land ist nicht beliebig vermehrbar, und die Nachfrage danach steigt kontinuierlich, ob durch Siedlungsbau, Verkehr oder die Energiewende. Seit der Finanzkrise ist das Interesse an stabilen Sachwerten stark gewachsen und neben Gold rückt dabei Ackerland zunehmend in den Fokus.“

"Turning closed coal mines into solar farms could power a country the size of Germany, report finds"
#Germany #CoalMine #SolarPower

Report reveals huge solar power potential of abandoned coal mines
“The same ground that powered the industrial era can help power the climate solutions we now urgently need,” analysts say of the 300 GW solution.

Sources: Revolut CEO Nik Storonsky could get a multibillion-dollar payout if he drives the fintech's valuation to ~$150B, under an Elon Musk-style pay deal (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/c93e33ad-450d-446f-b9c5-e877e3b07b25

Revolut chief in line for Musk-style payday at $150bn valuation
Nik Storonsky struck deal before SoftBank funding round that awards him more shares if valuation clears set hurdles

THIS ACCOUNT 100% ENDORSES ZOHRAN MAMDANI FOR MAYOR OF NEW YORK CITY ❤️❤️❤️

As promised yesterday, an update from fieldwork day 1.
I'm experimenting a bit by making a #FieldDiary, no idea of it's interesting or useful, but hopefully someone will like it...
http://sternaparadisaea.net/2025/05/24/field-diary-2025/

„Seit dem 28. April beteiligen sich die Bananenarbeiter an einem Streik verschiedener Gewerkschaften gegen eine Rentenreform. Gemeinsam mit Lehrern, Indigenen und Bauarbeitern protestieren sie auch gegen ein jüngst unterzeichnetes Sicherheitsabkommen zwischen Panama und den USA, das eine verstärkte US-Militärpräsenz am Panamakanal ermöglicht.“

Security Alert - U. S. Embassy Stockholm (June 23, 2025) (U.S. Embassy in Sweden)
https://se.usembassy.gov/security-alert-u-s-embassy-stockholm-june-23-2025/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250623/p156#a250623p156

The Republican Majority on the Senate Banking Committee released a press release Friday confirming that they were intentionally eliminating
the “duplicative Office of Financial Research (OFR)”.
According to sources I’ve talked to in the Senate, Republican committee members have shown little concern with the elimination of the Office of Financial Research.
They also seem aware of the concerns over SOFR, because both their “one pager” and “section by section” documents clai…

The “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” Eliminates the Office of Financial Research—Threatening the Stability of the Treasury Market
Early last week I started working on a piece on why the Federal Reserve didn’t step in during the Trump Tariff Financial Panic. The basic idea of that piece is simply that “repo rates”- the interest rate at which you can, in essence, borrow funds with treasury securities

please lose andrew cuomo, nobody likes you

Amsterdam-based Finom, a neobank targeting SMBs, raised a €115M Series C led by AVP after raising €92.7M from General Catalyst in May (Anna Heim/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/23/smb-focused-finom-closes-e115m-as-european-…

SMB-focused Finom closes €115M as European fintech heats up | TechCrunch
Finom, an Amsterdam-based challenger bank for SMBs that claims to have doubled its revenue in 2024, closed a €115 million Series C equity round (around $133 million).

Die neue Platte von Marc Ribot ist wieder so politisch und traurig - und er zitiert Gramsci

Sen. Mike Lee is trying to shoehorn a provision into
Trump’s Tax Bill that would bring
🆘 federal public land sales for hundreds of thousands of acres.
If passed, this bill would give radicals in the Trump administration the power to declare our land “excess” 
and sell it to private developers and fossil fuel interests.
⭐️Public Lands Warriors is trying to bring attention to Mike Lee and his billionaire buddies attempts to sneak this crap into the Senate bill.

Let Congress know you OPPOSE the MAGA land grab »

Anthony Pompliano's ProCap raised $750M , including $235M in convertible debt, and is going public via a SPAC; the new firm aims to hold up to $1B in bitcoin (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/23/pompliano-procap-spac-bitcoin.html…

Pompliano’s ProCap raises over $750 million, goes public via SPAC as bitcoin treasury bubble grows
Led by investor and podcast host Anthony Pompliano, ProCap raised more than $750 million in its funding round, including $235 million in convertible debt.

Murkowski leaves door open to scenario of caucusing with Democrats (Stef W. Kight/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/24/murkowski-book-democrats-alaska-senate
http://www.memeorandum.com/250623/p152#a250623p152

"Journalism screwed itself over by betting
on Meta and its profit-over-society peers.
Now, nobody trusts “the media” and
everyone is going bankrupt. The next bet
is on generative AI, with its inability to
distinguish truth from “hallucinations” –
fabrications that on the page become lies.
The Continent is an attempt to prove
journalism can be done differently.
Expect more of this in what our team
has decided to call our “serious era”.
We’re no longer a start-up. We’re going
to empower more people with quality
journalism. We’re going to help others
launch newspapers. We’re going to
stay sane. And we’re going to prove
that African excellence can set global
standards."
@… reaches 5 years and 200 issues. If you're not already receiving their copy via @… (or email, telegram or WhatsApp if you must) then it's really worth signing up to remind yourself just how big and diverse the world ist.
This weeks highlights are an extraordinary story about how Zanu-PF in Zimbabwe directly interfered with Mozambique's election. Plus a frankly beautiful photo piece on Addis Ababa

Amazon launches its second batch of 27 Kuiper satellites to low Earth orbit via a ULA rocket, taking the total in orbit to 54 of its planned 3,236 constellation (Annie Palmer/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/23/amazon-kuiper-satellites-musk-starlink.h…

Amazon launches second batch of Kuiper internet satellites, taking on Elon Musk's Starlink
Amazon has sent more Kuiper craft into space as it looks to deploy a satellite constellation that rivals Starlink, a service operated by Elon Musk's SpaceX.

Merz weiter auf Linksparteikurs. Wenn das die FDP mitbekommt!
From: @…
https://ard.social/@tagesschau/114557819526529491

This is sickening…
It’s ⭐️Jordan Wood,
Susan Collins’ only Democratic opponent.
When Susan Collins confirmed RFK Jr. and Tulsi Gabbard
after expressing her *deepest concerns*
she left Mainers stunned.
But now, I’m learning that days before the votes:
…Susan Collins jetted down to Mar-a-Lago
…she DINED with Donald Trump 
…the MAGA establishment vowed 💥over $400 MILLION would be spent on her race
I won’t mince words:
👉 Susan Col…

Chip in now to elect Jordan Wood >>
Help Jordan defeat Susan Collins

I was in fact very doubtful about if it can happen but the local hunter who will take us out is extremely knowledgeable and is sure it can work. We'll see, its hard to beat that kind of knowledge experience, which we can supplement with satellite photos analysis from my @… colleagues in the ice service. And in fact we could watch another sled navigate the same route while we discussed #Fielddiary

The MTV Reality Star in Trump's Cabinet Who Wants You to Have More Kids (Caroline Kitchener/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/23/us/politics/sean-duffy-reality-television.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250623/p158#a250623p158

Source: the US House's CAO informed congressional staffers that WhatsApp is now banned on their government devices as the app is deemed "a high-risk to users" (Andrew Solender/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/23/whatsapp-house-cong…

Scoop: WhatsApp banned on House staffers' devices
The House's cybersecurity office deemed the messaging app "high risk" due to its treatment of user data.

#Wikipedia steht unter Beschuss wie noch nie
https://www.rnd.de/wirtschaft/us-angriff-auf-wiki…

Time for a #FieldDiary update. We made it to #Qaanaaq, 1000 km north of Ilulissat it's a wonderful sunny "evening". The ice has started to break in big flakes close to town, so we made decision to do sea ice programme tomorrow as probably a last chance.

Katie Porter for California Governor
Deadline June 30
https://katieporter.com
https://www.instagra…

Katie Porter for Governor | Official Campaign Website
What California needs is a little bit of hope and a whole lot of grit. Join our team today to help Katie Porter stand up to Donald Trump and lower costs for Californians.

Samsung unveils the Exynos 2500 chipset, built on a 3nm GAA node and featuring the 4th-gen Xclipse 950 GPU and an NPU with up to 59 TOPS of AI performance (Will Sattelberg/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2025/06/23/samsung-unveils-exynos-2500-chipset/

Samsung unveils its Exynos 2500 chipset, just in time for the Galaxy Z Flip 7’s launch
Months later than expected, Samsung unveiled its latest flagship Exynos 2500 processor, rumored to power the Galaxy Z Flip 7 globally

Senate GOP to include rural hospital fund amid Medicaid pushback (Jordain Carney/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/06/23/congress/senate-hospital-fund-medicaid-00418648
http://www.memeorandum.com/250623/p155#a250623p155

Ich möchte auch ein Containerschiff in meinem Vorgarten haben!

Court filings from in-ear hardware startup iyO's trademark dispute lawsuit against OpenAI detail OpenAI and io's early work on in-ear hardware devices (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/23/court-filing…

Court filings reveal OpenAI and io's early work on an AI device | TechCrunch
Court filings in a trademark case against OpenAI reveal some of the company's early work on developing AI devices.

A look of the AI landscape and its impact on Apple, Google, Meta, Microsoft, and Amazon, as well as the foundation model makers, including OpenAI and Anthropic (Ben Thompson/Stratechery)
https://stratechery.com/2025/checking-in-on-ai-and-the-big-five/

Checking In on AI and the Big Five
A review of the current state of AI through the lens of the Big Five tech companies.

Gibt es eine Übersicht, wie sich AI-Projekte unterscheiden? Irgendeine kategoriale Systematik? Bei „Library“ reagiere ich positiv, bei AI nicht. Sicherlich helfen aber Tools und haben nichts mit dem CO2-Datenfresser-LLM-Quatsch zu tun.
From: @…

How Walmart, seeking to compete with e-commerce rivals like Amazon, built a multibillion-dollar HQ in Bentonville, aiming to attract workers and woo shoppers (Kevin Draper/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/21/business/walmart-rebrand-hea…

Walmart Tries to Shed a Stodgy Vibe to Battle Digital-Native Rivals
The retailing giant is spending billions to attract workers to a new headquarters and woo shoppers with drone delivery and a broader range of items (like Louis Vuitton handbags).

Legal AI startup Harvey raised a $300M Series E co-led by Kleiner Perkins and Coatue at a $5B valuation and says it serves 337 clients like KKR and PwC globally (Alexandra Sternlicht/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/06/23/harvey-

Harvey raises $300 million at $5 billion valuation to be legal AI for lawyers worldwide
Legal LLM Harvey has raised a $300 million Series E at a $5 billion valuation.

A profile of Katie Haun, a former federal prosecutor turned a16z partner who later founded Haun Ventures and believes the GENIUS Act will make stablecoins safer (Connie Loizos/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/22/the-stab…

The stablecoin evangelist: Katie Haun's fight for digital dollars | TechCrunch
In 2018, when Bitcoin was trading around $4,000 and most Americans, at least, thought cryptocurrency was a fad, Katie Haun found herself on a debate stage in Mexico City opposite Paul Krugman, the Nobel Prize-winning economist. As Krugman focused on Bitcoin's wild price swings, Haun steered the conversation toward something else — stablecoins.

Fiserv aims to launch its own stablecoin by 2025's end, and partners with PayPal and Circle to develop new products for financial institutions and merchants (Emily Mason/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Sources: Mark Zuckerberg discussed a possible acquisition with Runway AI; the deal talks never reached a formal offer level (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-23/meta-held-deal-talks-with-st…

Super Micro plans to raise $2B from the sale of convertible bonds to repurchase shares, as well as to fund growth and business expansion (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-23/super-micro-seek…

Videos captured by riders appear to show Tesla's self-driving taxis violating traffic laws, including entering the opposite lane and exceeding speed limits (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-0…

Sanmai, which wants to build an AI-powered ultrasound device that costs less than $500 to help treat mental health conditions, raised $12M led by Reid Hoffman (Bloomberg)

TechInsights: Huawei's MateBook Fold uses SMIC's 7nm chip, like the Mate 60 Pro that stunned the US two years ago, suggesting export rules are hampering Huawei (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Samsung schedules its next Galaxy Unpacked event for July 9 at 10am ET in Brooklyn, where AI updates, the Galaxy Z Fold 7, and Galaxy Z Flip 7 are expected (Chris Welch/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Decagon, which offers AI-powered customer service agents for enterprises, raised a $131M Series C co-led by Accel and a16z at a $1.5B valuation (Anna Tong/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/customer-service-ai-startup-…

Internal memo: Goldman Sachs launches a generative AI assistant firmwide to boost productivity; around 10,000 employees are already using the GS AI Assistant (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/goldman-sachs-launches-ai-a…

Snowcap Compute, which is working on building AI computing chips using superconducting tech, raised a $23M seed and says Pat Gelsinger will join its board (Stephen Nellis/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/snowcap-comp…

A senior US official says DeepSeek is aiding China's military and intel operations, going beyond open-source AI model access, and evading US export controls (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/deepse

Wealthfront, which uses AI to build investment portfolios, confidentially files for a US IPO; it was valued at $1.4B in 2022 during a failed acquisition by UBS (Prakhar Srivastava/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/wealthf

The FTC approves Omnicom's $13.5B acquisition of rival Interpublic on the condition that the new company does not boycott platforms over political content (Jody Godoy/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boa

The Senate parliamentarian rules that a Republican effort blocking US states from enforcing AI laws for 10 years will remain in Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-…

Sources: Mira Murati has told investors Thinking Machines Lab plans to develop customized AI models based on business KPIs, and also plans a consumer product (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/ex-openai-cto-m…

How Ex-OpenAI CTO Murati’s Startup Plans to Compete With OpenAI and Others
The thinking behind Thinking Machines Lab, a high-profile but mysterious artificial intelligence startup led by former OpenAI Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati, is becoming clearer. After raising an astonishing $2 billion at a $10 billion valuation from investors including Andreessen Horowitz ...

Microsoft unveils Mu, an on-device small language model used in Copilot PCs, mapping natural language queries in the Settings app to function calls (Paul Thurrott/Thurrott)
https://www.thurrott.com/windows/windows-11/322465…

The Settings Agent in Windows 11 Has Its Own AI Model
Microsoft today detailed Mu, its latest small language model (SML) for Copilot+ PCs, which maps NL queries to Settings function calls.

Elliptic: Tudou Guarantee and other Telegram-based crypto scam marketplaces have grown rapidly since Telegram banned the two most popular ones a month ago (Andy Greenberg/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/telegram-purged-chinese-cryp…

Telegram Purged Chinese Crypto Scam Markets—Then Watched as They Rebuilt
Last month, Telegram banned black markets that sold tens of billions of dollars in crypto scam-related services. Now, as those markets rebrand and bounce back, it’s done nothing to stop them.

Salesforce launches Agentforce 3 with an observability tool called Command Center and MCP support, and says 8,000 customers have signed up to deploy Agentforce (Larry Dignan/Constellation Research)
https://www.constellationr.com/blog-news/i

Salesforce launches Agentforce 3, Command Center for visibility
Salesforce launched Agentforce 3, which features Agentforce Command Center, support for Model Context Protocol (MCP), and updated Atlas architecture to speed up reasoning and performance. The rollout maintains Salesforce's Agentforce cadence, which includes updates every few months as the company learns from enterprise use cases. In addition, Salesforce has added more than 30 partners to AgentExchange including AWS, Box, Cisco, Google Cloud, IBM and payments players such as PayPal and Stripe.

Filing: Elon Musk's lawyers say he "does not use a computer" after OpenAI accused Musk of not complying with the discovery process in his lawsuit against OpenAI (Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-computer-sam-altman/

Elon Musk’s Lawyers Claim He ‘Does Not Use a Computer’
The claim appeared in a court filing related to Elon Musk’s ongoing lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI. The Tesla and xAI owner has posted about his laptop numerous times in the past year.

Sources: Google reduces its Google TV and Android TV budget by 10% and cuts Android TV and Google TV's ~300 employees by up to 25%, as it focuses on YouTube (Sahil Patel/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/google-cuts-sm…

Google Cuts Smart TV Budget as It Doubles Down on YouTube
Google has cut its smart TV budget and trimmed its team—marking the most concrete signs yet of the company’s waning interest competing with the likes of Samsung and Roku as it centers its TV business around YouTube. The company has reduced the budget for Google TV and Android TV 10%, according ...

Google unveils Gemini AI features, like select to search, for Chromebook Plus laptops like Lenovo's new $649 14" flagship with MediaTek's Kompanio Ultra chip (Antonio G. Di Benedetto/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/690885/googl

Chromebook Plus laptops like Lenovo’s sleek, new 14-incher are getting free Gemini AI features
Google adds new Gemini features like select to search to Chromebook Plus laptops. Lenovo’s Chromebook Plus 14 also debuts with a new processor for on-device AI.

DHL, UPS, FedEx, and Walmart are using robots to boost warehouse efficiency and cut costs, including automating the physically demanding task of loading trucks (Esther Fung/Wall Street Journal)
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Sources: Apple is locked in last-minute EU negotiations over App Store changes to avoid fines set for this week, and is expected to offer "steering" concessions (Barbara Moens/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/b5d51870-e864-4aa5-b998-c0d2994a7e2…

Apple locked in last-minute App Store negotiations to avoid Brussels fines
Tech group must make concessions to comply with Digital Markets Act or be hit by escalating levies from Thursday

Tesla quietly launches its robotaxi service in Austin, with ~10 vehicles and a human safety driver; Elon Musk says customers will pay "a $4.20 flat fee" (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/5aefc191-d3de-4e6b-a2eb-08defd0678ee

Tesla launches robotaxi service in Austin
Self-driving technology on which Elon Musk has staked future of his company debuts in Texas

The music industry is developing tools to detect AI-generated music across the music pipeline, with a focus on licensing and control rather than takedowns (Jack Buehrer/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-int

The music industry is building the tech to hunt down AI songs
With no way to stop the onslaught of AI music, the industry is taking a different approach: figuring out how to make money off of it.

Texas becomes the third US state to approve a public crypto reserve, allowing direct purchases of assets averaging $500B in market cap over 24 months (Vince Dioquino/Decrypt)
https://decrypt.co/326427/texas-us-states-bitcoin-reserves

Texas Joins Growing List of US States With Bitcoin Reserves
Texas has become the third U.S. state to approve a public Bitcoin reserve, with new legislation allowing direct crypto purchases.

Q&A with Hinge CEO Justin McLeod on why AI companionship is like junk food, plans for a Hinge mobile payment system to avoid App Store fees, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/decoder-podcast-w

Hinge CEO Justin McLeod says dating AI chatbots is ‘playing with fire’
The head of Hinge doesn’t want us dating AI chatbots anytime soon.