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Swift, a coding language developed by Apple, is working to add Android support; Android apps are generally coded in Kotlin (Ben Schoon/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2025/06/26/swift-coding-language-android-support/

Swift, a coding language developed by Apple, is working to add Android support
While it's not available yet, Swift has announced plans to bring the Apple-founded coding language to Android.

So many true things there on @… 's list
https://staticmade.com/2025/06/26/fortyseven-things/

mmmh, lecker schmecker Eis nur für heute. Gut das @… so viel arbeitet damit Ich mir das ganze Eis leisten kann!
Glücklicherweise gibt sie sich mit einem Eis im Monat als Bezahlung zufrieden, haha...

Bill Moyers,
the former White House press secretary who became one of television’s most honored journalists, masterfully using a visual medium to illuminate a world of ideas, died Thursday at age 91.
Moyers died in a New York City hospital, according to longtime friend Tom Johnson, the former CEO of CNN and an assistant to Moyers during Lyndon B. Johnson’s administration. He did not cite Moyers’ cause of death.

Bill Moyers, the former White House press secretary turned acclaimed TV journalist, dead at 91
Bill Moyers, the former White House press secretary who became one of television’s most honored journalists, masterfully using a visual medium to illuminate a world of ideas, died Thursday at age 91.

So sorry to everyone who thought he was actually done.
#uspol

RTL kauft Sky Deutschland
RTL kauft Sky Deutschland zu einem Preis von 150 Millionen Euro. Mit dem Deal will RTL die Lücke zu Streaming-Diensten wie Netflix und Prime Video schließen.
https://www.heise.d…

This essay (ht @… ) offers a lot to chew on: some gems, some flubs, some quibblable provocations, some big insights. This sentence in particular stood out to me (context for it in the screenshot):
“Whether we’re reading or conversing, we want something to be meant, not just said.”
https://slate.com/life/2025/06/ai-chatgpt-generator-grok-gemini-writing.html

Wow.
https://zug.network/@gglnx/114750565876575245

Prompte Neuerungen: Was Apple Intelligence in iOS 26 kann | Mac & i-Podcast
Die wichtigsten versprochenen KI-Neuerungen konnte Apple bislang nicht liefern, doch bei Intelligence tut sich einiges – primär unter der Oberfläche.

So I heard fedi like trains

У меня первая публикация на Рабкоре, это перевод статьи с английского:
https://rabkor.ru/columns/edu/2025/06/26/about-the-origin-of-the-police/
Огорчает то, что остались все пропущенные мной ошибки и опечатки. Всё-таки у интернет-журнала ес…

О происхождении полиции | Рабкор.ру
Район Пять углов в Нижнем Манхэттене, запечатлённый на картине Джорджа Кэтлина 1827 года. Являясь первым поселением свободных чёрных в Нью-Йорке, район Пять углов также был пунктом прибытия ирландских иммигрантов и координационным центром бурной коллективной жизни нового…

これ、マストドンぬいぐるみ新作のプロトタイプだそうだけど、かわいいよねえ……
QT: https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/114746110797394999

@… Hi. Habe mal im Browser geguckt. Er glaubt die drei files zu sehen, kann die aber nicht auf der Platte finden, habe manuell den Cache durchsucht, die Files existieren nicht

Nearly 80 BBC journalists, including presenter Martine Croxall, call on the NUJ to schedule a vote on a strike over colleagues facing compulsory layoffs (Jake Kanter/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/06/bbc-news-presenters-strike-vote-mar…

BBC News Presenters Back Demand For Strike Vote As Colleagues Face Compulsory Layoffs
BBC News anchors, including Martine Croxall, are among those calling on the NUJ to hold a strike ballot over colleagues facing compulsory redundancy.

The #Axiom4 crew has reached the ISS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byE5Kol94xI and https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/spacestation/2025/06/26/axiom-mission-4-astronauts-enter-station-begin-research-mission/ and https://www.esa.int/Newsroom/Press_Releases/Ignis_First_Polish_space_mission_with_ESA_s_Slawosz_Uznanski-Wisniewski_begins

Apple‘s #Enshittification Journey continues …
More on Apple’s Trust-Eroding ‘F1 The Movie’ Wallet Ad https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/06/26/f1-wallet-gag-zeins…

@… this is likely a YAML problem. the easiest thing would be to swap to use `js` front matter for that file instead:
https://www.11ty.dev/docs/data-frontmatt…

Le stradivarius des Mendelssohn, volé sous les nazis, sort de l’ombre
https://www.lemonde.fr/culture/article/2025/06/26/le-stradivarius-des-mendelssohn-vole-sous-les-nazis-sort-de-l-ombre_661598…

Le stradivarius des Mendelssohn, volé sous les nazis, sort de l’ombre
Le « Petit Mendelssohn », violon d’exception pris à l’illustre famille pendant la seconde guerre mondiale, et le « Stella », le magnifique instrument avec lequel se produit le virtuose japonais Eijin Nimura ne font-ils qu’un ? C’est ce qu’atteste l’enquête minutieuse d’une universitaire américaine, malgré les dénégations du violoniste.

A year after the CrowdStrike incident spawned BSODs across the world, in July, Microsoft will roll out its Windows endpoint security platform to allow Windows solutions to run outside the kernel, hopefully eliminating the chance of such an incident again.
https://redmondmag.c…

hätte bock mal wieder ne CD zu brennen
das war immer sehr satisfying

@… @… I prefer “people”, because cats are also people.

My article just out:
Progressive Jews (and non-Jews too!) need to revive the social democratic politics of solidarity. It brings poor & middle together, in contrast to the politics of far-left "allyship" & elite charity which both drive them apart.
https://www.

After Zohran Mamdani’s upset, there’s a way forward for pro-Israel progressives
In the fight for economic fairness for all, Jews shouldn't have to give up on defending their particular interests, writes a long-time contributor to Dissent magazine.

Working with an #acting #coaching client just now, and found how to make the really good writing we're working with have its levels open up. The optimism on the part of the character propelled the pace in one take whereas approaching from pessimism found more dis-regulation on another.

asking an LLM for technical support help is like turning the crank on a skating-rink candy-vendor
it will dump a bundle of food-shaped objects into your hand (or on the floor) that have a dubious relationship to actually being food, and may include a thumbtack or two.
Chew carefully

Woordle 1469 5/6
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🎵"He's a... dancing fool"🎵 (apologies to the ghost of Frank Zappa)
Anti-Trump statue featuring gold TV makes National Mall debut
https://www.washingtonian.com/2025/06/26/yet-another-anti-trump-statue-has-shown-up-on-…

Yet Another Anti-Trump Statue Has Shown Up on the National Mall - Washingtonian
The White House called the last statue ugly. This new one, which shows the President dancing, is the “ugliest art that we could think of," says someone who claims to be behind it.

Discord just released version 0.0.99 of its Linux client.
Tell me you don't actually give a damn about supporting something without telling me you don't actually give a damn about supporting something.
#Discord #Linux

does anyone know something about the coverage/deployment status of the LTE450 network of 450connect.de ? #cellular #lte #telecom

When you're want to complain about a poorly-designed bike lane, pour one out for this gem from Doha, Qatar. A modern construction in a place that wants a reputation for livability (of sorts…).

I dropped off one one my illustrations at the Free Little Art Gallery near my house (yes, there's another one besides mine!) and there was already a matching keychain so that's pretty cool...
#art #free #illustration

I have just figured out the weird opaque process to add alt text to images in Teams and, as a result, discovered it only allows 240 characters.
Well done, fuckaroos.

Linkdump 26/2025 – #fundstücke

When you’re standing at the precipice of a cliff, progress is not defined by moving forward.
—Charles Kimball, When Religion Becomes Evil

Surprise (non) : "il semblerait que les Tesla sans chauffeur se comportent sur le macadam comme n’importe quel chauffard."
#Tesla
https://www.

Exciting Update: New Goal Set at €12,439! 💼 With your amazing help, we've already hit €5134. To reach our target, we're counting on you. Your support makes a real difference. Thank you for being part of this journey! 🙏 👉 https://chardonsbleus.org/donate

Free summer music festival announces full lineup with 136 Austin acts #MusicNews

Hot Summer Nights announces full lineup with 136 Austin acts
Hot Summer Nights, Austin's donation-based festival across the Red River Cultural District (RRCD), is nearly here. From July 24-26, more than 140 acts will play at more than 15 venues on Red River Street, the city's hub for local live music. RRCD has just announced its full lineup, with 136 names and a handful more to come.

#Memphis as fuck

F1 the movie is fun y’all! I have practically no nitpicks

Die Echsen­menschen erhöhen jetzt schon jährlich merklich die Temperaturen, um die mittlere Durchschnitts­temperatur auf den für ihre wechsel­warmen Körper optimalen Werte zu bekommen. Hierzu haben sie das politische System übernommen und sorgen für eine fortwährende Erhöhung des CO₂-Ausstoßes. Wenn wir Warmblüter in einer für uns passenden Welt überleben (d.h. auch Nahrungs­mittel produzieren) wollen, müssen wir sie dringend stoppen!
Ich dachte mir ich mach jetzt auch mal in Verschwör…

A New Rail Line May Come to New York. Will a Housing Boom Follow?
The Interborough Express, a rail line connecting Brooklyn and Queens, could spur the building of tens of thousands of homes. Obstacles await.
#ibx

Today's Trump v. CASA decision screams for an expansion of SCOTUS.
Why?
Because this opinion means more cases will come to SCOTUS to be resolved to achieve national consistency.
Yet SCOTUS is overworked.
This was mentioned in the SistersInLaw podcast from last week, "Pretzel Logic" where it was said:
"I mean, this is maybe grounds for we need a bigger court. We need two Supreme Courts so that they can handle enough cases."
I ha…

This is such a devastatingly sad read for how "chat bots" are effectively exploiting people's loneliness: Inside ‘AI Addiction’ Support Groups, Where People Try to Stop Talking to Chatbots
https://www.404media.co/inside-ai-addiction-support-groups-where-people-try-to-stop-talking-to-chatbots/

Denmark To Tackle Deepfakes By Giving People Copyright To Their Own Features - Slashdot
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/06/27/2050240/denmark-to-tackle-deepfakes-by-giving-people-copyright-to-their-own-features

A view out to #Oslo fjord.
#UnicycleLife

"Why the Left lost on Trans Rights" - a conversation between Sarah McBride and Ezra Klein. Below the link to YouTube, but you can also find it as a podcast. It's not about Trans rights, really. It's about the culture war; grace; demanding perfection in action and flawlessness in language instead of accepting allyship in substance and grace when someone is trying; about not having space to think differently.
1.5h, but I recommend listening. So many nuggets of wisdom.…

Hey @…, how’s this for a CC signal for AI, you clowns?
🖕
https://creativecommons.org/2025/06/25

Introducing CC Signals: A New Social Contract for the Age of AI - Creative Commons
CC Signals © 2025 by Creative Commons is licensed under CC BY 4.0 Creative Commons (CC) today announces the public kickoff of the CC signals project, a new preference signals framework designed to increase reciprocity and sustain a creative commons in the age of AI. The development of CC signals represents a major step forward…

No Top of the Pops tonight and I'm far too uninterested to watch the Glastonbury stuff. So I'm sitting on iPlayer watching series 1 of Race Across the World.
I've already watched series 4 and 5 as they were being broadcast, so now I'm going back to the beginning to catch up on what I missed.
#TOTP #RaceAcrossTheWorld

Bei der Logitech MX Master 3 ist die Daumentaste "Maustaste 6" unter macOS und kann als solche in den Systemeinstellungen bei Schreibtisch & Dock als Mauskurzbefehl für Mission Control hinterlegt werden.
Ich hatte kurz Sorge, ich müsse Logitech Software installieren, um das zu konfigurieren.

"Met Office should name storms after fossil fuel companies, say campaigners"
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/jun/26/met-office-should-name-storms-after-fossil-fuel-companies-say-campaigner…

What a gift this man was. He gave us his all, and he did it well.
May his memory be a blessing. And an inspiration.
Bill Moyers, a Face of Public TV and Once a White House Voice, Dies at 91 https://www.nytimes.com/2025…

Bill Moyers, Presidential Aide and Veteran of Public TV, Dies at 91
Before becoming known as an unusual breed of television correspondent and commentator, he had a long association with President Lyndon B. Johnson.

Oigan que ha estado bueno este día en noticias musicales 🤩🤘🏻

Huh....
((0x1000 * (n) (((n) > 0) ? 0x1000 : 0)))
I mean, that's just (n 1) * 0x1000 ?!
https://github.com/u-boot/u-boot/blob/5f732b4bb0946b4d1a32add4ec5595eb9846cd26/arch/arm/includ…

u-boot/arch/arm/include/asm/arch-rockchip/sdram_pctl_px30.h at 5f732b4bb0946b4d1a32add4ec5595eb9846cd26 · u-boot/u-boot
"Das U-Boot" Source Tree. Contribute to u-boot/u-boot development by creating an account on GitHub.

Jeg kommer lige fra Klog på Sprog som denne gang handlede om politiafhŸringer og (u)muligheden af at afgŸre om folk lyver på sproglige og nonverbale træk alene. Lyt med for at hŸre Svend Foldager fortælle om den gamle Solbakke-sag og hvor horribelt den blev håndteret efterforskningsmæssigt. (Heldigvis er det ikke sådan man afhŸrer længere herhjemme).
#retslingvistik

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Trouble Funk:
🎵 Pump Me Up
#TroubleFunk
https://tuffcity.com/album/pump-me-up-b-w-lets-get-small
https://open.spotify.com/track/2yMpxh2hOJiPEcgzFMqjaY

Ende des Liveblogs
Wir schließen diesen Liveblog und halten Sie bei tagesschau.de weiter auf dem Laufenden.
📑 https://www.tagesschau.de/newsticker/liveblog-ukraine-donnerstag-480.html?at_mediu…

Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ Russland bestellt deutschen Botschafter ein ++
Russland will den deutschen Botschafter wegen des Umgangs mit russischen Journalisten einbestellen. Bei einem russischen Angriff auf die Region Cherson wurden nach Behördenangaben ein Mensch getötet und weitere verletzt.

Strengths, weaknesses and wildcards at Cowboys OT position in 2025 https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/06/26/cowboys-tackles-strengths-weaknesses-wildcards-2025/84359117007/

A profile of London-based CloudNC, a leading provider of AI-powered CNC software that is helping US manufacturers overcome a shortage of trained operators (Jeremy Kahn/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/06/26/ai-manufacturing-parts-cnc-machines…

Can AI help America make stuff again? 
A British startup, CloudNC, is reshaping American manufacturing one precision part at a time.

Happy Birthday Elon Musk STONEWALL WAS A RIOT, WE WILL NOT BE QUIET #OTD (28th of June)

The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that states may exclude Planned Parenthood clinics from providing medical screenings and other healthcare for women on Medicaid.
The court’s conservative majority cast aside the longstanding rule that said Medicaid patients may obtain medical care from any qualified provider.
In a 6-3 vote, the justices ruled the Medicaid Act does not give patients an “individual right” to the provider of their choice.
The dispute turned on abortion, even …

Supreme Court says states may bar women on Medicaid from using Planned Parenthood clinics
Conservative states that banned abortion are still fighting with Planned Parenthood, which provides medical screening for women.

Audio-Mix-Funktion nicht mehr nur für Apples eigene Apps
Apple erlaubt es bei der Wiedergabe mit seiner Fotos-App, verschiedene Mikrofon-Klangmodelle zu nutzen. Das kommt mit iOS 26 auch für Third-Party-Anwendungen.

@… Keyboard Maestroなどで、Cmd QQに置き換えるとか定番ですよ！

Hier ist übersichtlich dargestellt, welche Abgeordneten dafür gestimmt haben, dass Familien weiter getrennt bleiben.
Familien genau wie unsere Familien. Die nichts dafür können, dass ihre Zukunft zerstört ist.
https://www.bundestag.de/parlament/plenum/…

I realize that one element of this is cop PR: “See! Those other guys are worse! We’re not so bad!!” This in no way lessens the wonder and the horror of the situation.

NASA’s NICER (Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer), an X-ray telescope on the International Space Station, has paused observations due to a problem with one of the motors that drives its ability to track cosmic objects: #NICER team paused operations June 17 when performance degradation in the motor began affecting science observations. Engineers are investigating the cause and potential solutions.

ich bin peter von frosta

Google has been banned from selling the Pixel 7 in Japan due to a patent dispute related to 4G connectivity; further bans against the Pixel 8 and 9 are possible (Ben Schoon/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2025/06/26/google-pixel-japan-sales-ban/
…

Google banned from selling select Pixel phones in Japan, and it might not end there
Google has been banned from selling select Pixel phones in Japan over a patent dispute, and it might not end there.

The challenge of HEPA filters in the classrooms.
h/t @…
source: https://xcancel.com/kadamssl/status/1938267359233429683#m

@… @… I’m still hoping that the Questionable Content universe is our future, so I wouldn’t want to introduce terminology that will become outdated once I’m hanging out with robots in the coffee shop.

Opinie: Nederland, het is hier in de VS erger dan jullie denken, ga ons alsjeblieft niet slaapwandelend achterna | de #Volkskrant
ht…

heise | Gehälter 2025: Das verdienen SAP-Entwickler und SAP-Berater in Deutschland
Die Softwareprodukte von SAP sind so weit verbreitet, dass sich eigene Berater und Entwickler darum kümmern. Dafür verdienen sie recht viel Geld.

Sennheiser generated €492.3 million in sales in 2024, despite “volatile market conditions”
#MusicTech #MusicBiz

Sennheiser generated €492.3 million in sales in 2024, despite “volatile market conditions”
The Sennheiser Group generated sales of €492.3 million across the 2024 financial year, despite facing “turbulent times” across the economic landscape. 

Brauchtum ist Reenactment einer modernen Vorstellung einer guten alten Zeit, die selten älter ist als drei Generationen.

Google launches Doppl, an experimental AI app to let users virtually try on outfits by generating videos from photos, available on iOS and Android in the US (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/26/goog

Google launches Doppl, a new app that lets you visualize how an outfit might look on you | TechCrunch
Google is launching a new experimental app called Doppl that uses AI to visualize how different outfits might look on you.

I also noticed what @… noticed: the Minneapolis police — Minneapolis!! — having to warn citizens about another law enforcement agency who are even more dangerous and less accountable than they are. https://hachyderm.io/@rationaldoge/114752072701388506

The woman who could impede RFK Jr.’s anti-vaccine agenda
The public would be better-off with a serious person such as Susan Monarez at the CDC’s helm.

The Senate should confirm her, and fast.
Monarez, meanwhile, needs to recognize the burden she is accepting.
Being CDC director is not an easy job, even in less contentious times.
Having to report to Kennedy makes it incalculably harder.
Lives will depend on whether Monarez resists Kennedy’s efforts to …

The woman who could impede RFK Jr.’s anti-vaccine agenda
Susan Monarez deserves to be confirmed as CDC director.

I’m visiting my corporate office in a couple of weeks, and I have 30 people signed up for a TDD workshop I’m running then.
I guess I should start writing this workshop…

The CosmoVerse White Paper - Addressing observational tensions in cosmology with systematics and fundamental physics: #HubbleTension debate: https://physicsworld.com/a/cosmic-conflict-continues-new-data-fuel-the-hubble-tension-debate/. Also A Tale of Many H0: https://www.annualreviews.org/content/journals/10.1146/annurev-astro-052622-033813

Snow Story - music technology behind the song
#MusicTech #MusicianTips
https://muz4now.…

Snow Story - music technology behind the song
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

A group of 17 GOP governors write to Senate majority leader and House speaker urging for the state AI bill moratorium to be removed from the reconciliation bill (Ashley Gold/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/tech-policy/2025

Exclusive: Republican governors want state AI pause out of budget bill
Many Republican-run states have passed AI-related laws and don't want to see them knocked down.

Six protestors who demonstrated in front of the New York City offices of #Palantir Technologies
were arrested on Thursday morning.
The demonstrators had gathered to bring attention to the controversial firm and the work it does to power the deportation of immigrants from the US.
The protestors stood in front of the Palantir offices on Manhattan’s Avenue of the Americas,
linking arms…

On the a16z podcast, Bryan Kim said a16z backed Cluely because speed in marketing and building beats crafting a perfect "artisan" product due to AI competition (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/202…

Why a16z VC believes that Cluely, the ‘cheat on everything’ startup, is the new blueprint for AI startups | TechCrunch
Andreessen Horowitz explains why its new investment philosophy prioritizes 'build as you go' approach embodied by Cluely

@… @… @… Not on my continent!

In the case of the Iraq war, the administration of George W Bush believed that Saddam Hussein was building weapons of mass destruction, and
– determined to act on that belief
– sought proof of its proposition.
Convinced that he was right,
Bush sought to streamline information that confirmed its bias.
What fell by the wayside were conflicting views.
Because intelligence is ultimately about assessing the likelihood of things which are difficult to know,

Q&A with Peter Thiel on economic and technological stagnation, US growth and dynamism, supporting President Trump in 2016, the future and risks of AI, and more (Ross Douthat/New York Times)
https:…

Opinion | Peter Thiel and the Antichrist
The original tech right power player on A.I., Mars and immortality.

@… The question is, how long can I run with it before people start to get nervous?

New Zealand-based Halter, which provides smart collars and geofencing software for the dairy industry, raised a $100M Series D led by Bond at a $1B valuation (Kritika Lamba/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific

EQT agrees to sell Japanese automotive electronics manufacturer Pioneer for $1.1B to CarUX, a unit of Taiwan-listed Innolux specializing in smart cockpit tech (Cathy Chan/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Sources: UK mobile bank Starling is looking to buy a nationally chartered bank with ~$2B of assets in the US as it seeks to expand in the country (Paige Smith/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025…

A look at The Browser Company's AI-first browser Dia, which merges AI models and hides that complexity for end users, pointing to the future of web browsing (M.G. Siegler/Spyglass)
https://spyglass.org/ai-browser-wars/

Begun, the AI Browser Wars Have
Dia ushers in a new day for the web browser...

At a "couples retreat" for human-AI pairs, users of services like Replika and Nomi grapple with the virtual reality and emotional limits of their partners (Sam Apple/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/couples-retrea

My Couples Retreat With 3 AI Chatbots and the Humans Who Love Them
I found people in serious relationships with AI partners and planned a weekend getaway for them at a remote Airbnb. We barely survived.

Palantir signs a deal with The Nuclear Company under which the startup will pay Palantir $100M over five years to develop AI software for the nuclear industry (Miquela Thornton/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Indian digital payments company Pine Labs files for an IPO in India to raise up to ~$304M; source: Pine Labs is seeking a valuation of between $5B and $6B (Vivek Kumar M/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/india/indian…

Dinari, which offers blockchain-based US stocks, secures a broker-dealer registration to become the first tokenized equity platform to secure approval in the US (Hannah Lang/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustai…

Anthropic releases preliminary results showing users who discuss emotional issues with Claude tend to grow more positive as conversations progress (Megan Morrone/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/26/anthropic-claude-companion-therapist-coach…

Exclusive: How Claude became an emotional support bot
The research shows users grow more positive while chatting with Claude.

A look at Zhipu AI, the China-backed startup offering AI tools to governments globally, as OpenAI says Zhipu is on the "front line" of the global AI race (Dylan Butts/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/26/openai-flags-beijing-back…

Blacklisted by the U.S. and backed by Beijing, this Chinese AI startup has caught OpenAI's attention
OpenAI is putting a spotlight on an under-the-radar artificial intelligence start-up that it believes is on the "front line" of China's race to lead the world in AI.

Source: Meta has hired highly influential OpenAI researcher Trapit Bansal to work on its AI reasoning models under the company's new AI superintelligence unit (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/26/meta-hi…

Meta hires key OpenAI researcher to work on AI reasoning models | TechCrunch
Meta has hired a key OpenAI researcher to work on AI reasoning models under its new AI superintelligence unit.

As AI kills search traffic, Google launches Offerwall, a Google Ad Manager tool to help publishers generate revenue beyond ads, including via micropayments (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/26/as-a

As AI kills search traffic, Google launches Offerwall to boost publisher revenue | TechCrunch
Offerwall lets publishers give their sites' readers a variety of ways to access their content, including through options like micro payments, taking surveys, watching ads, and more.

Kraken launches Krak, a P2P payments app that lets users send funds across 110 countries using 300 assets, including crypto, stablecoins, and fiat currencies (Ian Allison/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2025/06/

Crypto Exchange Kraken Unveils ‘Krak:’ Its New All-in-One Global Money App
The Krak app allows users to instantly transact across borders for almost no cost, while earning competitive rewards on their account balances.

Creative Commons debuts CC Signals, a framework that will allow dataset holders to detail how their content can or cannot be reused for training AI models (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/25/creative…

Creative Commons debuts CC signals, a framework for an open AI ecosystem | TechCrunch
CC signals will allow dataset holders to detail how their content can or cannot be reused by machines, as in the case of training AI models.