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SpaceX's all-stock Cursor deal illustrates the power of public markets, which could help SpaceX narrow the gap with Anthropic and OpenAI through acquisitions (www.nytimes.com)
2026-6-18 SpaceX

South Korean and Taiwanese tech companies that helped build China's hardware sector during the smartphone boom now reap the AI boom as US curbs sideline China (www.nytimes.com)
2026-6-18 China Korea Taiwan AI

Nation-state hackers are increasingly using preinstalled software on low-cost home devices to create residential proxy networks and mask cyberattack traffic (www.wsj.com)
2026-6-18

NeuralTrust, which offers tech that lets enterprises discover, monitor, govern, and secure AI agents, raised a $20M seed led by Alstin Capital (tech.eu)
2026-6-18 AI

A Blackstone-led consortium agrees to take control of software company Medallia from Thoma Bravo, which will lose the entire $5B it invested in Medallia (www.ft.com)
2026-6-18

Tesco Moving 40,000 Server Workloads Off VMware Amid Broadcom's 'Abusive Conduct' (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-6-18 VMware

Sources: JPMorgan Chase has stopped its staff in Hong Kong from accessing Anthropic's AI models, following a similar move by rival Goldman Sachs (www.ft.com)
2026-6-18 Hong Kong AI JPMorgan Goldman

Sources: ByteDance has been Microsoft's biggest AI customer in recent years, largely using OpenAI models, and is on track to spend $1B+ a year on Azure services (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-18 Microsoft AI

Midjourney unveils its first hardware product, the Midjourney Scanner, an ultrasound-based full-body scanner; it is unclear how AI fits into the medical effort (www.theverge.com)
2026-6-18 AI

Nvidia researchers unveil ENPIRE, an agent harness framework that develops robotic self-improvement strategies for physical tasks with minimal human supervision (arstechnica.com)
2026-6-18 Robot Nvidia

Leak confirms OpenAI is testing a ChatGPT for Science subscription (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-6-18

A survey of US adults: 49% reported using chatbots in 2026, up from 33% in 2024, 24% said that they use chatbots on a daily basis, and 44% said they use ChatGPT (www.pewresearch.org)
2026-6-18 chatbot

Sources: the White House's move to restrict Mythos 5 came after it ordered Anthropic to revoke South Korea-based SK Telecom's access over alleged ties to China (www.wired.com)
2026-6-18 China Korea

Snap unveils $2,195 Specs, its first “fully standalone” AR glasses, which have a 51-degree field of view, set to ship “this fall” in the US, the UK, and France (www.theverge.com)
2026-6-18 France AR

Filing: Roelof Botha has joined the board of SpaceX as an independent director, seven months after stepping down as Sequoia steward (fortune.com)
2026-6-18 SpaceX

Google confirms it has ended production of the Nest Mini and Nest Audio, but existing devices will continue to be fully supported (www.techadvisor.com)
2026-6-18 Google

Noam Shazeer leaves Google to join OpenAI as lead for architecture research; he rejoined Google in 2024 as part of the Character.AI deal and was Gemini co-lead (www.theinformation.com)
2026-6-18 Google AI

At AWS Summit, AWS announced Continuum, which uses AI to find and fix code vulnerabilities, Context, which organizes company data for AI agents, and more (www.geekwire.com)
2026-6-18 AI

Frontier, a group including Stripe, Google, Salesforce, and newly joined Anthropic, commits $915M to buy carbon-removal credits, on top of $1B already pledged (www.wsj.com)
2026-6-18 Google Salesforce

Microsoft Working To Patch 'RoguePlanet' Zero-Day (it.slashdot.org)
2026-6-18 Microsoft

Trump administration officials say Anthropic must ensure Fable 5's guardrails can't be circumvented before rerelease; experts say that may not be possible (www.wired.com)
2026-6-18 Trump

Study: Mistral and other open-source AI models are among the worst at filtering out Russian disinformation; Mistral's top model ranks 47 out of 60 tested models (www.ft.com)
2026-6-18 Russia AI

Smartphone Market To Shrink 15% This Year Due To Memory Crisis (mobile.slashdot.org)
2026-6-18

Apple's planned move of Hide My Email aliases to private.icloud.com will let services easily distinguish them from normal iCloud email addresses and block them (arseniyshestakov.com)
2026-6-18 Apple

Google to use UK and EU user IP addresses for ad personalization (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-6-18 Google

Mastodon adds email newsletters, letting writers send their posts directly to subscribers' inboxes, even to readers without a Mastodon account (techcrunch.com)
2026-6-18

Carvana Is Turning Dealerships Into 'Playgrounds,' Test-Drive Centers With Sales All Online (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-6-18

In an interview, Tim Cook says Apple price hikes are “unavoidable” to offset surging memory and storage chip costs, and “the situation has become unsustainable” (www.wsj.com)
2026-6-18 Interview Apple Tim Cook

Snap's stock closed down 8.14% on Wednesday, after the company launched the $2,195 Specs AR glasses on Tuesday; SNAP is down ~41% YTD (techcrunch.com)
2026-6-18 AR

Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI Back Linux Foundation's Appia AI Standards Initiative (linux.slashdot.org)
2026-6-18 Linux Google Microsoft AI

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