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Polymarket says its annualized revenue is now $1B+; Dune Analytics: daily volume on Polymarket's US platform rose from ~$50M in mid-May to $200M+ by June 20 (www.cnbc.com)
2026-6-28

SpaceX Plans To Build 'Starpipe' Natural Gas Pipeline To Fuel Starship Rockets (science.slashdot.org)
2026-6-27 SpaceX

Streaming services must comply with a California law that bans playing ads louder than the content being watched from July 1, but its implementation is unclear (arstechnica.com)
2026-6-27 California

Bitcoin Drops Again. Skeptical Investment Strategist Calls It 'Useless' (news.slashdot.org)
2026-6-27 Bitcoin

A look at advanced chip packaging, now more reliant on TSMC and its partners in Taiwan than ever, and the efforts to address this bottleneck in the US (www.nytimes.com)
2026-6-27 Taiwan

Sources: Meituan, Baidu, Xiaomi, and other Chinese tech giants have been trimming their workforces, fueling Chinese workers' concerns of being replaced by AI (www.scmp.com)
2026-6-27 China AI Xiaomi

Astronomers Find Biggest Super-Puff Planets Yet That Are Lighter Than Cotton Candy (science.slashdot.org)
2026-6-27

Japanese financial giant SBI Holdings agrees to acquire Bitbank, a top 10 Japanese crypto exchange by trading activity, for ~$289M, set to close in October (www.coindesk.com)
2026-6-27 Japan

Source: Intel has promised to deliver SpaceX and Apple a toolkit this fall to test its 14A node before they make final commitments to produce chips with Intel (www.nytimes.com)
2026-6-27 Intel Apple SpaceX

Insurance tech startup Corgi denies accusations that it used Papermark's open source software code to develop its software and present it as its own (techcrunch.com)
2026-6-27 Startup Insurance

Sources: Apple is lobbying the Trump admin for clearance to buy memory chips from US-blacklisted Chinese company CXMT to ease pressure from rising chip prices (www.ft.com)
2026-6-27 Trump China Apple

Sources: the CFTC began an extensive investigation of Polymarket earlier this year; the agency's former acting head killed a separate investigation in July 2025 (www.nytimes.com)
2026-6-27 CFTC

US Government Allows Anthropic Limited Release of 'Mythos' AI Model, Saying 'Appropriate Safeguards are in Place" (news.slashdot.org)
2026-6-27 AI

Sources: SpaceX and Charter have held executive-level talks on a consumer mobile phone offering, which would help SpaceX become a DTC mobile phone provider (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-27 Mobile SpaceX

Anthropic says the US government is allowing Mythos 5 to be redeployed to critical infrastructure operators, and is working to restore general access to Fable 5 (x.com)
2026-6-27

Sources: Meta lobbyists are urging California lawmakers to exempt social media platforms from legislation that would increase penalties in child-harm cases (www.politico.com)
2026-6-27 California

FBI: Russian hackers now target Signal backup recovery keys (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-6-27 Russia FBI

Letter: the US lifts its block on Mythos 5, allowing Anthropic to release it to more than 100 US institutions; sources: talks about Fable 5 are ongoing (www.semafor.com)
2026-6-27

Sources: Anthropic and the White House are moving closer to an agreement to lift US restrictions on Fable 5 and Mythos 5 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-27

How AI-native law firms use “management services organisation” structures to access capital historically barred from US law firms, including PE and VC funds (www.ft.com)
2026-6-27 Private Equity AI Venture Capital

Microsoft Adds Another Year To Windows 10 Extended Update Program (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-6-27 Microsoft

Oracle's stock fell 19% this week, the steepest weekly drop since a 20% plunge in August 2001, amid concerns about its debt load and AI investments (www.cnbc.com)
2026-6-27 AI Oracle

AWS hikes prices for Nvidia GPUs in its EC2 Capacity Blocks service, which let businesses rent AI compute in advance, by 20%; Trainium chip pricing is unchanged (www.theinformation.com)
2026-6-27 AI Nvidia

Sources: Zuckerberg urged execs to explore Polymarket and Kalshi partnerships, as the Arena prediction app targets 100M monthly active “predictors” aged 18-34 (www.nytimes.com)
2026-6-27 Zuckerberg

Doc: the DOD quietly revised US military's targeting doctrine, giving AI a bigger role by envisioning “systems where AI initiates actions with human monitoring” (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-27 AI

The FTC fast-tracks approval for SpaceX to acquire Mesh, which raised a $50M Series A in February to make high-efficiency optical transceivers for data centers (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-27 SpaceX

OpenAI says GPT-5.6 Sol and Terra were capable of identifying vulnerabilities but were unable to execute autonomous, end-to-end attacks against hardened targets (deploymentsafety.openai.com)
2026-6-27

Sources: Paul Meade, Apple's top executive in charge of Vision Pro and smart glasses efforts, is leaving for OpenAI to work on the company's AI-powered devices (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-27 AI Apple

CISA sets urgent deadline to fix Cisco flaw exploited in attacks (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-6-27 Cisco

Sources: Russian hackers were behind a 2025 ransomware attack on Jaguar Land Rover that used “mind-blowing” encryption and cost UK's economy an estimated $2.5B (www.nytimes.com)
2026-6-27 Russia

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