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Sources: Founders Fund's ~3% stake in SpaceX is now worth $50B+, after investing $600M; a16z will get the biggest return in its history, with a $10B+ stake (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-12 SpaceX

Coinbase Launches Tool To Let AI Agents Manage Trading and Payments (slashdot.org)
2026-6-12 AI Coinbase

Euro-Office 1.0 Arrives To Open-Source Infighting: 'Compatibility Is Not Sovereignty' (news.slashdot.org)
2026-6-12

SpaceX raises $75B in the biggest-ever IPO, after selling 555.6M shares at $135 each, giving it a market value of $1.77T (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-12 IPO SpaceX

Oracle mitigates PeopleSoft zero-day exploited in data theft attacks (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-6-12 Oracle

ACLU Sues After Facial Recognition Falsely Identifies Florida Man As a Child Abductor (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-6-12 Facial Recognition

Polish lawmakers pass legislation imposing prison sentences of up to five years for “trash streaming” of violent crimes, gambling promotion, and more (www.reuters.com)
2026-6-12 Poland

Some investors question SpaceX's projected $1.77T valuation, citing its $4.3B loss on $4.7B in revenue in Q1, concerns over space data centers, and more (www.nytimes.com)
2026-6-12 SpaceX

Skip overpriced earbuds — these open-box JBL noise-canceling ones are $30 (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-6-12

OpenAI Mulls Slashing Prices As It Competes With Anthropic For Users (slashdot.org)
2026-6-12

Former a16z GP John O'Farrell criticizes the AI industry and his ex-partners for spending hundreds of millions to fight regulation, calling it “a huge mistake” (www.nytimes.com)
2026-6-12 AI

Coinbase launches an AI agent that can execute trades and pay for premium research; users can give it access to their main account or have it operate separately (techcrunch.com)
2026-6-12 AI Coinbase

Opendoor Ends India Operations, Fueling a Bigger Conversation About AI and Outsourcing (slashdot.org)
2026-6-12 India AI

Sources: Anthropic signed 12+ initial agreements for direct data center leases, a first for the company, with Google potentially providing a financial guarantee (www.theinformation.com)
2026-6-12 Google

[Webinar] Device code phishing in 2026: live demos, real kits, and where it's headed next (pushsecurity.com)
2026-6-12

Authorities dismantle 'AudiA6' ransomware crypto-laundering service (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-6-12

PhoenixAI, formerly CelerData, which is building what it calls an agentic AI-ready analytical database, raised an $80M Series B led by Sky9 (siliconangle.com)
2026-6-12 Database AI

Barcelona-based Theker, which is building AI-powered robots for industrial environments, raised $85M led by CRV, with Samsung, LVMH, and others participating (economictimes.indiatimes.com)
2026-6-12 Samsung AI Robot

Waymo launches a $30 per month membership program called Waymo Premier, with perks including 10% cashback and five free ride cancellations per month (techcrunch.com)
2026-6-12

Sources: BlackRock put in an order to buy at least $5B worth of SpaceX shares; SpaceX received an over $1B request from a single family-office investor (www.wsj.com)
2026-6-12 SpaceX

Xbox CEO Says Current Margins 'Cannot Continue' (games.slashdot.org)
2026-6-12 Xbox

Product head Alex Benzer says Bluesky in 2026 plans to add “communities”, smaller spaces to “go deeper and hang out with people who care about the same stuff” (www.theverge.com)
2026-6-12

Citigroup launches a blockchain-based platform for wealthy and institutional clients to trade tokenized shares of private firms, initially for foreign investors (www.wsj.com)
2026-6-12 Blockchain

OpenAI Says China Launched Influence Campaign To Shape US Attitudes On AI Datacenters (slashdot.org)
2026-6-12 China AI

OpenAI acquires Ona, which offers cloud services to support AI agents, and plans to bring Ona's team into its Codex effort (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-12 AI

The US House fails to extend FISA's Section 702, ensuring the warrantless surveillance program will expire for the first time since its 2008 enactment (www.politico.com)
2026-6-12

Crusoe said it had “paused” a plan to build a Wyoming data center; sources: it failed to win customers including Google amid concerns about costs and timetable (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-12 Google

Amazon says its data centers used ~2.5B gallons of water in 2025, or 0.12 liters of water per kWh, and water use at sites it owns and operates fell 2% from 2024 (www.wsj.com)
2026-6-12 Amazon

Apollo Global has implemented a new risk assessment that categorizes software investments into 12 to 14 sectors to rank their susceptibility to AI disruption (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-12 AI

Jeff Bezos' Prometheus, which is building AI models for physical tasks, raised a $12B Series B at a $41B valuation, following a $6.2B Series A (www.axios.com)
2026-6-12 AI Jeff Bezos

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