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Memo: Intel's manufacturing VP said Intel plans to cut 15%-20% of staff, starting in July, "to meet our affordability challenges and current financial position" (Mike Rogoway/Oregonian)
https://www.oregonlive.com/silicon-forest/…

Intel will lay off 15% to 20% of its factory workers, memo says
Next month’s layoffs will take place at Intel factories around the world but could have an especially big effect in Oregon.

Mastodon updates its terms to prohibit AI model training starting July 1, and enforces a new age limit of 16 for users globally (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/17/mastodon-updates-its-terms-to-prohibit-ai-model-tra…

Mastodon updates its terms to prohibit AI model training | TechCrunch
Days after Elon Musk-owned X updated its terms to explicitly prohibit AI model training, decentralized social network Mastodon updated its own rules to bar any kind of model training, as well.

Facebook renames its Videos tab as the Reels tab and says all videos on its platform will soon be shared as reels, regardless of their length or orientation (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/17/face

Facebook announces that all videos on its platform will soon be shared as reels | TechCrunch
Facebook announced on Tuesday that all videos on its platform will soon be shared as reels, regardless of their length or orientation.

A profile of LA-based Whatnot, a livestream marketplace valued at ~$5B, which has raised $700M since 2019 and expects its GMV to grow 100% YoY to $6B in 2025 (Jason Del Rey/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/06/16/whatnot

Inside the rise of Whatnot, the wildly-entertaining, FOMO-inducing, $5 billion shopping app you’ve never heard of
Inside the rapid rise of Whatnot, the wildly-entertaining, FOMO-inducing, most popular shopping app you’ve never heard of

Waymo expands its coverage area in San Francisco and LA by 80 square miles each, bringing its total coverage area in California to 250 square miles (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/688202/waymo-sf-la-service-area-expand-robo…

Waymo is gradually expanding its borders in California
The company’s robotaxis are now operating across 250 square miles of San Francisco and Los Angeles.

An interview with Samsung SVP Dr. Hon Pak on the Galaxy Watch adding its first-ever blood analysis feature, AI health tools, and a potential subscription (Vanessa Hand Orellana/CNET)
https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/samsung-g

Inside Samsung's Plan to Help Us Defy Aging with the Galaxy Watch
With a first-ever blood analysis feature and four new AI-powered health tools, the Galaxy Watch is shaping up to be a smarter ally for long-term health as part of the upcoming One UI 8 Watch update.

On a podcast, Sam Altman said Meta made "giant offers to a lot of people on our team", like $100M signing bonuses, and "none of our best people" have accepted (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/17/sam-

Sam Altman says Meta tried and failed to poach OpenAI's talent with $100M offers | TechCrunch
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said that Meta tried to poach its employees with nine-figure offers, but failed to recruit OpenAI's best people.

Sources: OpenAI wants Microsoft to take a ~33% stake in exchange for giving up future profit rights, and seeks to revise its exclusive cloud deal with Microsoft (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/opena…

OpenAI Seeks New Financial Concessions From Microsoft, a Top Shareholder
Negotiations between Microsoft and OpenAI over the startup’s plan to restructure its for-profit unit, which requires Microsoft’s approval, have entered their eighth month with no end in sight and new conflicts emerging. OpenAI wants Microsoft, the startup’s biggest outside shareholder, to have a ...

AWS says Anthropic's Claude Opus 4 launched on its Trainium2 GPUs, and Project Rainier, AWS' supercomputer built for Anthropic, uses 500K Trainium2 chips (Kristina Partsinevelos/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/17/aws-chips-nvidia-ai.html

AWS' custom chip strategy is showing results, and cutting into Nvidia's AI dominance
Anthropic's Claude Opus 4 launched on Trainium2 GPUs, according to AWS, and Project Rainier is powered by over half a million of its own.

The European Commission accuses Chinese marketplace AliExpress of failing to tackle illegal products on its platform, in preliminary findings under the DSA (Gian Volpicelli/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20