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Alibaba releases Qwen3.7-Plus, a multimodal proprietary model with a 1M-token context window, costing $2 per 1M tokens, 60% less than text-only Qwen3.7-Max (venturebeat.com)
2026-6-3 Alibaba

The EU General Court annuls the EU's designation of Meta's Marketplace as a DMA gatekeeper, citing partial evidence, but upholds the designation for Messenger (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-3

Barcelona-based HR software startup Factorial raised a $150M Series D led by General Catalyst at a $2.5B valuation to expand AI agents and grow in Germany (www.wsj.com)
2026-6-3 Germany Startup AI

Google adds Android protection against AI deepfake scam calls (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-6-3 Android Google AI

VS Code zero-day lets hackers steal GitHub tokens in one click (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-6-3 GitHub

Trump Administration to Dismantle Ocean Monitoring System (news.slashdot.org)
2026-6-3 Trump

Q&A with labor economist Kathryn Anne Edwards on why much of the AI jobs panic is overblown, why the US should start planning for AI job loss outcomes, and more (www.platformer.news)
2026-6-3 AI

London-based Gigaton, which is developing AI to automate industrial control systems for cement, steel, glass, and chemicals plants, raised a $26M Series A (pathfounders.com)
2026-6-3 AI London

The UK CMA says publishers in the country will be allowed to opt out of Google AI search results, giving the company nine months to implement the changes (www.bbc.com)
2026-6-3 Google AI

French quantum computing startup Quobly, which is developing silicon-based quantum computers, raised a €115M Series A led by Bpifrance, SEALSQ, and STMicro (tech.eu)
2026-6-3 France Startup Quantum

How India's ambitions to build and export a sovereign AI template are colliding with structural constraints, including a dependence on foreign AI infrastructure (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-3 India AI

Mastercard says it plans to offer on-chain settlement using several regulated USD stablecoins, initially supporting USDC, PYUSD, USDG, USDP, RLUSD, and SoFiUSD (www.coindesk.com)
2026-6-3

UnearthInsight: Indian IT companies have spent $7.1B on acquisitions since the start of 2025 to gain clients, as AI-led pricing pressure weakens organic growth (economictimes.indiatimes.com)
2026-6-3 India AI

Google says it is testing a new toggle inside its Search Console with some UK domain owners, letting them decide whether their sites appear in AI search results (www.engadget.com)
2026-6-3 Google AI

Sources: DeepSeek is set to raise ~$7.4B in its first funding round from investors including Tencent and CATL at a valuation of between ~$52B and ~$59B (www.reuters.com)
2026-6-3 Tencent

Current and former Meta employees detail Alexandr Wang's efforts to revive Meta's AI edge, as Muse Spark boosts confidence despite lagging rivals in coding (giftarticle.ft.com)
2026-6-3 AI

Microsoft's Project Solara Is an OS For Devices That Run AI Agents Instead of Apps (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-6-3 Microsoft AI

Over 116,000 Minecraft systems infected in WeedHack malware campaign (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-6-3

Sensor Tower: ChatGPT has become the fastest app to hit 1B global MAUs by far; ChatGPT's MAUs are up 62% YoY in Q2 to date, Claude's MAUs are up 640% YoY to 56M (www.reuters.com)
2026-6-3 Sensor

University of Toronto researchers claim to have developed a “worm” powered by open source AI that exploits known flaws and tailors attacks for each computer (www.nytimes.com)
2026-6-3 AI Toronto

Source: Google asked Google Play app devs to join a “confidential content offer pilot”, offering to pay for access to codebases to use them to train AI tools (www.404media.co)
2026-6-3 Google AI

Source: SpaceX plans to raise $75B in its IPO by selling 555.6M shares at $135 each, an unusual move since most companies set a price range before the roadshow (www.reuters.com)
2026-6-3 IPO SpaceX

10 Everyday Concepts That Are Shockingly Modern (listverse.com)
2026-6-3

Google selling $10B of equity to Berkshire is fascinating and functions as a signal that AI demand is high, in a world where the most cash buys the most compute (stratechery.com)
2026-6-3 Google AI Equity Berkshire

Bitcoin fell as much as 7% over 24 hours to below $67K on Tuesday for the first time since April, following Strategy's first BTC sale since 2022; MSTR fell 9% (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-3 Bitcoin

Oxford Quantum Circuits, a UK-based startup building and deploying quantum computers, has raised a $350M Series C led by Bullhound Capital (sifted.eu)
2026-6-3 Startup Quantum

Microsoft's Coreutils project brings Linux commands to Windows (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-6-3 Linux Microsoft

Mathematicians Warn of AI Threats to Profession As Industry Encroaches (science.slashdot.org)
2026-6-3 AI

Sources: a Broadcom-backed portion of Apollo and Blackstone's $36B debt deal to buy TPUs for Anthropic to lease may yield ~5.75% vs. 8%-9% for a riskier portion (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-3

OpenAI upgrades GPT-5.5, as it plans to retire legacy ChatGPT models (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-6-3

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