Tech

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

Bernie Sanders proposes legislation to create a sovereign wealth fund financed via a one-time 50% stock tax on AI companies that reach $200M in annual AI sales (apnews.com)
2026-6-18 Tax AI

Anthropic updates Claude Design with design system imports, bidirectional integration with Claude Code, lower token consumption, and more export destinations (venturebeat.com)
2026-6-18

Sources: Apple is testing a second-generation iPhone Air, planned for spring 2027, with a second rear camera for ultrawide-angle photos and better battery life (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-18 iPhone Apple Battery

Epic says Unreal Engine 6, planned for early access in late 2027, will unify UE5 and Unreal Editor for Fortnite, add integrations with Claude and Gemini, more (www.videogameschronicle.com)
2026-6-18

Anthropic Employees Accuse Trump Administration of Targeting Them (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-6-18 Trump

Sources: Amodei, Altman, and Hassabis called for US-led collaboration on AI rules at the G7 summit; Macron and Modi raised concerns over the US block on Mythos (www.ft.com)
2026-6-18 AI

Sources: Dario Amodei and Demis Hassabis called for a US-led coalition to shape AI rules and standards at a closed-door meeting at the G7 summit on Wednesday (www.cnbc.com)
2026-6-18 AI

AI Will Lead To Labor Shortages, Bezos Says In Optimistic Talk (slashdot.org)
2026-6-18 AI

This refurbished Apple Watch Series 11 is on sale for $325 while stock lasts (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-6-18 Apple

Epic Games Announces Lore Open-Source Version Control System (news.slashdot.org)
2026-6-18

A look at chaos inside Anthropic after disabling Fable 5 and Mythos 5 with less than 90 minutes of notice, as some staff wonder if Trump is bullying the startup (www.nytimes.com)
2026-6-18 Trump Startup

Paris-based Comand AI, which is developing AI-based command-and-control software for military operations, raised a €32M Series A led by Blossom Capital (resiliencemedia.co)
2026-6-18 AI Paris

Joshua Baer, the founder and CEO of Texas accelerator Capital Factory, died on Tuesday night in a business jet crash in Laredo, Texas (runtimewire.com)
2026-6-18 Texas

Studies: Mira, an AI medical tool developed by researchers in Germany, and Google's Amie matched or surpassed doctors on diagnostic and treatment decisions (www.ft.com)
2026-6-18 Germany Google AI

Q&A with Luciana Lixandru, who co-leads Sequoia's global early-stage investment business, on why it is time for “act two” for Europe's tech sector, AI, and more (www.ft.com)
2026-6-18 Europe AI

Hacking Group Claims Major Hack of Novo Nordisk, Attempted $25 Million Extortion (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-6-18

The UK CMA orders Google to provide greater transparency on how its search rankings work and to let users transfer their search data to authorized third parties (www.reuters.com)
2026-6-18 Google

FortiBleed leak exposes Fortinet VPN credentials for 73,000 devices. (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-6-18 VPN

10 Things That Exist (But Not in the Way You Think) (listverse.com)
2026-6-18

Trace Finance, which provides stablecoin settlement infrastructure for cross-border payments across Latin America, raised a $32M Series A led by CoinFund (cointelegraph.com)
2026-6-18 U.S. Latin America

XDOF, which is building data pipelines, collection tools, and annotation systems for robot training data, emerges from stealth with $70M (techcrunch.com)
2026-6-18 Robot

OpenAI Losses Increased Nearly 8X In 2025, With Spending Hitting $34 Billion (slashdot.org)
2026-6-18

A look at chaos inside Anthropic after disabling Fable 5 and Mythos 5 with less than 90 minutes of notice, as some staff wonder if Trump is bullying them (www.nytimes.com)
2026-6-18 Trump

Pramaana Labs, which uses the LEAN programming language to build a deterministic verification layer on top of LLMs, raised a $27M seed led by Khosla Ventures (techcrunch.com)
2026-6-18 programming

Shoe company Allbirds changes its name to Smartbird as it pivots to an AI infrastructure company and names ex-AWS exec Nadia Carlsten as CEO; BIRD jumps 20%+ (www.reuters.com)
2026-6-18 AI

Google's $99 Google Home Speaker, which is built for Gemini for Home and works as a Matter controller, will ship on June 29, nine months after it was announced (www.theverge.com)
2026-6-18 Google

Convey, which is building AI “teammates” to automate manual work at clients like NBCUniversal, raised a $38M Series A led by a16z (www.businessinsider.com)
2026-6-18 AI

Why Account Takeovers Are Rising and How to Stop Them (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-6-18

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