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

Bengaluru-based ShopOS, whose AI agents help automate content creation, marketing, and site management for e-commerce brands, raised $20M from 3State Ventures (Moneycontrol)
https://www.moneycontrol.com/n…

AI-generated images of fake, otherworldly-looking houseplants are proliferating online and misleading consumers, as AI slop extends to plant care advice (Nicole Froio/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intellige…

AI is ruining houseplant communities online
AI-generated images and chatbot misinformation plague plant collectors.

SCOTUS upholds a Texas law that requires porn websites to verify that their visitors are 18 or older, rejecting a First Amendment challenge to the law (Josh Gerstein/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2…

SCOTUS upholds a broadband subsidy program for low-income users, schools, and others, rejecting claims that its funding mechanism is unconstitutional (Lauren Feiner/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/689176/supreme-court-universal-service…

Low-income broadband fund can keep running, says Supreme Court
The Supreme Court rejected claims that the way the Universal Service Fund is implemented is unconstitutional.

Denmark plans to clamp down on AI-generated deepfakes by changing copyright law to give its citizens rights to their own body, facial features, and voice (Miranda Bryant/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/202

Sources: mass production of Microsoft's next AI chip is delayed to 2026 and is expected to underperform Nvidia's Blackwell chip, released in late 2024 (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/microsofts-ai-chip-effort-falls-b…

Microsoft’s AI Chip Effort Falls Behind
Microsoft has spent years designing its own artificial intelligence chips, in part to reduce its dependence on Nvidia. It isn’t going so well. The software giant, which Nvidia employees say was its largest customer by revenue last year, is taking much longer than expected to design its ...

Sources: Mark Zuckerberg and his lieutenants have discussed "de-investing" in Llama in favor of AI models from competitors like OpenAI and Anthropic (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/technology/mark-zuckerberg-meta-ai.html

Mark Zuckerberg Ramps Up Meta’s A.I. Spending as Competition Heats Up
Unhappy with his company’s artificial intelligence efforts, Meta’s C.E.O. is on a spending spree as he reconsiders his strategy in the contest to invent a hypothetical “superintelligence.”

South Korea becomes Asia's best-performing stock market in H1 2025, as shares rise following President Lee Jae-myung's pledge to allow won-based stablecoins (Song Jung-a/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/4b19bf90-4202-4fe7-8caf-d7db6deeb768…

Crypto-crazy investors make South Korea the best-performing market in Asia
New president’s pledge to allow won-based stablecoins has led to huge gains in related shares this month