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Anthropic details Project Deal, a marketplace experiment where Claude models bought, sold, and negotiated personal belongings on behalf of Anthropic employees (Anthropic)
http://anthropic.com/features/project-deal

Project Deal: our Claude-run marketplace experiment | Anthropic
We created a marketplace for employees in our San Francisco office, with one big twist. We tasked Claude with buying, selling and negotiating on our colleagues’ behalf.

A look at DeepSeek's model optimization to reduce HBM use, potentially enabling domestic memory, ASIC, and CPU makers to create a Chinese AI hardware ecosystem (@bookwormengr)
https://x.com/bookwormengr/status/2057909493250539891

GDP (@bookwormengr) on X
DeepSeek's 10 trillion USD grand strategy

Cyera agrees to acquire Ryft, an Israeli startup building automated data access and governance tools for enterprise AI deployment, sources say for $100M-$130M (Meir Orbach/CTech)
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/rjni88wawl

AI security unicorn Cyera acquires two-year-old startup Ryft in $100-$130 million deal
Ryft, founded in 2024, raised $8 million before the deal and has built tools for automated data access and governance in AI environments.

China executes a man called Xu Yao for killing Yoozoo Games founder Lin Qi in 2020; Lin reportedly sidelined Xu, who helped land the 3 Body Problem Netflix deal (Koh Ewe/BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cg5ppg50gplo

China executes man for murdering prominent gaming tycoon
The court said the man poisoned the tycoon for sidelining him after he helped secure a deal with Netflix for the 3 Body Problem.

How US federal AI policy has gone from implausibly libertarian to increasingly draconian and opaque, and how to fix it, including using independent auditors (Dean W. Ball/Hyperdimensional)
https://www.hyperdimensional.co/p/what-should-be-done

What Should Be Done
How to get past improvised model licensing

GPT-5.6 Sol matches Mythos Preview on ExploitBench, adds Ultra mode with subagents for complex workflows, and max reasoning for deep problem-solving (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/previewing-gpt-5-6-sol/

President Trump threatens to impose a 100% tariff on any country that imposes a digital services tax on US companies (Kevin Breuninger/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/26/trump-tariff-trade-tech-tax.html

Trump threatens 100% tariff on countries putting 'Digital Services Tax on American Companies'
"This TARIFF will supersede Trade Deals made with the Country, whether implemented, signed, or not," Trump wrote in a Truth Social post.

How AI startups like Altur are using chatbots to help automate debt collection; YC incubated six debt collection and settlement startups in the past six years (Kate Knibbs/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/ai-takes-over-debt-collection/

AI Is Taking Over the Most Cursed Job in the World
There’s a mad dash to automate the world’s most hated calls. Have an unpaid bill? You’ll hear from an AI debt collector sometime soon.

Apple stock closed down 6.15% on Thursday after the company raised some product prices, its worst fall since April 2025 (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/25/apple-macbook-ipad-price-hike-memory.html

Apple stock drops 6% on MacBook and iPad price hikes due to memory crunch
Tim Cook said last week that Apple would hike prices due to surging memory and storage costs.