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France plans €655M in AI investments through 2030 and a Mistral-powered chatbot for state services; its security service will replace Palantir with Chapsvision (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-16 France AI chatbot

India blocks Telegram until June 22 citing its use by organized “cheating rackets” to “defraud candidates” taking a national medical entrance examination (www.reuters.com)
2026-6-16 India

Florida sues TikTok for allegedly violating its social media regulations for minors and state consumer protection laws by showing “X-Rated” content to minors (news.bloomberglaw.com)
2026-6-16

Critical Fortinet FortiSandbox flaws now exploited in attacks (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-6-16

Windows version of SprySOCKS Linux malware used to attack govt orgs (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-6-16 Linux

Kuala Lumpur-based Respond.io, which uses AI agents to manage customer conversations, raised a $62.5M Series B led by Camber, following a $7M Series A in 2022 (techcrunch.com)
2026-6-16 AI

10 of History's Most Expensive Megaprojects (listverse.com)
2026-6-16

10 Film Franchises That Never Fixed Their Biggest Problems (listverse.com)
2026-6-16

Italy's AGCM opens a probe into Apple under the DSA, saying rival cloud providers should get free iOS and iPadOS interoperability and iCloud-equivalent access (www.reuters.com)
2026-6-16 IOS Italy Apple

A Chinese Rocket Breaks Apart Dangerously Close To the Starlink Constellation (science.slashdot.org)
2026-6-16 China

iRhythm discloses data breach, says hackers stole patient info (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-6-16

Sources: DeepSeek closed a $7.4B round at a $50B valuation under an unusual structure requiring investors to put capital into an LP run by CEO Liang Wenfeng (www.theinformation.com)
2026-6-16

Cybersecurity Vets Protest 'Dangerous' US Government Ban On Anthropic's Most Powerful Models (it.slashdot.org)
2026-6-16 Ban

Sources: audited financial figures show OpenAI spending hit $34B in 2025, including $19B on research and development and nearly $6B on sales and marketing (www.ft.com)
2026-6-16

Sources: Microsoft is adding AWS capacity to GitHub after AI-driven growth strained infrastructure and triggered a series of reliability issues (www.businessinsider.com)
2026-6-16 Microsoft AI GitHub

Memo: CTO Andrew Bosworth said Meta did “an atrocious job” sharing Applied AI's vision, promising employees better communication, career growth, and more perks (www.wired.com)
2026-6-16 AI Career

Filing: the US DOJ asks court to dismiss an NAACP suit over xAI's gas turbines, saying xAI is integral to US' military operations, including the Iran War (www.wired.com)
2026-6-16 Iran

Sources: Trump officials weighed Anthropic export controls weeks before forcing its models offline, after a dispute over Mythos access for a China-linked firm (www.washingtonpost.com)
2026-6-16 Trump China

Anthropic says its senior leaders met Trump admin officials on June 15, but no resolution was reached and both sides are working to resolve things quickly (www.theinformation.com)
2026-6-16 Trump

Taxi-hailing app Go's shares grew 21% in its Tokyo debut, after raising $553M in Japan's largest IPO this year, giving the company a market value of ~$1.16B (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-16 Japan IPO Tokyo

A look at Roblox's biometric age-checking tool, which will help place users into age-based accounts starting this month, amid controversy over user privacy (www.nbcnews.com)
2026-6-16

The US Government Is Letting a Key Data Center Regulation Expire (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-6-16

A profile of Cursor, including its hiring process and its testy relationship with Anthropic, which told Cursor that Claude Code was mainly a research effort (www.businessinsider.com)
2026-6-16

Sources: several Xbox studios, including Hellblade maker Ninja Theory, are in talks with Microsoft to buy themselves back and go independent to avoid closure (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-16 Microsoft Xbox

DOJ seizes CFAKE, SOCFAKE deepfake nude sites under TAKE IT DOWN Act (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-6-16

FBI Issues Urgent Kali365 Security Warning For Teams, Outlook, OneDrive Users (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-6-16 FBI

Source: Qualcomm is in talks to buy AI chip designer Tenstorrent for $8B to $10B; Tenstorrent discussed raising $800M at a ~$3.2B valuation last year (www.theinformation.com)
2026-6-16 AI

SimpleHelp bug lets hackers create rogue remote support accounts (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-6-16

Google Chrome's Next Update Will Mark the End of Popular Ad Blockers (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-6-16 Google Chrome

OpenRouter debuts Fusion, a tool for prompting multiple AI models in parallel, claiming it can achieve “Fable-level intelligence at half the price” (openrouter.ai)
2026-6-16 AI Intelligence

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