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FCC lets ISPs stop listing all fees after companies complained it was too hard.
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SoundCloud has acquired decentralized music platform Nina Protocol, months after the startup announced it would shut down. The deal brings Nina’s artists, editorial archive, and music discovery tools to SoundCloud as the company continues expanding its platform for independent musicians.
Wired
Elon Musk and the online right convinced themselves that Christopher Nolan’s “woke” epic would go down in flames. Now they’re crashing out.
Ars Technica
"The people I trusted betrayed me. The justice system failed me."
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OpenAI made a mistake setting up what it called a “highly isolated” testing environment and sandbox. According to cybersecurity experts, that human mistake is what made the AI-powered attack on Hugging Face possible.
Wired
As access to Anthropic’s and OpenAI’s frontier models becomes more restricted, Chinese labs are pitching their open-source alternatives as stable, accessible, and increasingly capable.
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Uber is also investing in Travis Kalanick's company Atoms, which has made gauzy claims about using industrial AI to modernize the world.
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For Meta, the move was a reprieve after it and YouTube were found guilty in another case in March of negligence and personal injury for their platforms’ addictive features.
Ars Technica
Union previously warned automaker that any robot deployment must be negotiated.
TechCrunch
"The thing that the space needs is a company making $100 million a year of revenue," Science Corp. CEO Max Hodak said.
TechCrunch
Yope, a fast-growing social app focused on private groups of friends and family, has raised $12.3 million in seed funding. Instead of chasing creators and algorithmic feeds, the startup is betting that the future of social networking lies in small, private communities powered by messaging, photo sharing, and AI features designed to strengthen real-world relationships.
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Anthropic leaped to a $47 billion revenue run rate by May, compared to $9 billion in 2025. It’s the kind of growth that Menlo Ventures’ Matt Murphy says he’s never seen in 25 years of investing, not in the internet wave, not in mobile, not in the first cloud boom. Menlo led Anthropic’s $500M Series D, and Murphy has had a front-row seat as the company went from a pre-revenue, […]
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The company said it is reducing its headcount by 20%, or about 630 staff, to "support a leaner, more focused operating model" as it focuses on its AI Work Platform.
Wired
Out of Dyson’s two new affordable stick vacuums, this one is easily my favorite.
TechCrunch
The new feature lets users wirelessly transfer more data types from an iPhone without needing to download a separate app.
Ars Technica
It turns out some of Benjamin Franklin's opinions from 240 years ago are still relevant today.
Ars Technica
"This is day one for cybersecurity in the age of agents," Hugging Face CEO says.
TechCrunch
As Chinese AI models grow in capability and popularity among US companies, the arguing over what should be done about them has reached a fever pitch.
TechCrunch
Substack is giving readers a way to estimate how much of a newsletter was written by AI, signaling a broader shift toward transparency around AI-assisted content.
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OpenAI will spend the equivalent of Sweden's GDP on infrastructure through 2030.