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As China's working-age population shrinks, a consensus is emerging that it must deploy embodied AI robots into as many tasks as possible, as soon as possible (www.ft.com)
2026-6-25 China AI Robot

How a $45M donation to a group supporting Trump brought Larry Ellison deeper into Trump's circle, helped Oracle's business, and his son's acquisition of WBD (www.wsj.com)
2026-6-25 Trump Oracle

Assort Health, which develops AI voice agents for health care to handle scheduling and more, raised a $120M Series C led by Menlo Ventures at a $1.2B valuation (www.fiercehealthcare.com)
2026-6-25 AI

Paris-based Tsuga, whose observability software runs in customers' own clouds to help them skip per-byte ingestion costs, raised a $35M Series A led by Singular (thenextweb.com)
2026-6-25 Paris

Sources: Meta is accelerating plans to use LLMs to review content and ads, replacing ~50% of human review requests in 2026 and aiming for 90% by year-end (www.ft.com)
2026-6-25

TRM Labs: Iran-linked wallets, including those tied to Iran's central bank, have moved over $3.84B in transactions through the crypto exchange CoinEx since 2019 (www.wsj.com)
2026-6-25 Central Bank Iran

NAND flash maker Kioxia, Japan's most valuable company since June 12, plans to offer US depositary shares in spring 2027 amid AI-driven demand for memory chips (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-25 Japan AI

New Zealand-based Partly, which develops an AI model for the auto parts industry, raised a $50M Series B led by DST at a $500M valuation, as it enters the US (siliconangle.com)
2026-6-25 AI New Zealand

Stripe, Anthropic, and OpenAI Are Backing Effort To Stop Respiratory Infections (science.slashdot.org)
2026-6-25

The Netherlands is lobbying the US not to expand chip equipment export controls that would constrain ASML's ability to sell immersion DUV machines to China (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-25 China Netherlands

Facebook brings back Facebook Creator Studio as a stand-alone app with built-in AI chatbot to help creators grow their audiences through personalized guidance (techcrunch.com)
2026-6-25 Facebook AI chatbot

Digital advocacy firms like CiviClick and Influent appear to use AI to generate mass public comments on local energy projects, mostly favoring fossil fuel use (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-25 Energy AI

An Amazon seller reveals how middlemen on chat apps offer access to Amazon employees who allegedly grant favors, like reinstating suspended accounts, for a fee (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-25 Amazon

Hang Ten Systems, led by former Infosys CEO Vishal Sikka, launches with a $32M seed led by Mayfield to help enterprises use AI to run software at a lower cost (techcrunch.com)
2026-6-25 AI

Trase, which is building an operating system and infrastructure layer for AI agents in industries like health care and defense, raised a $107M seed led by Arch (www.axios.com)
2026-6-25 AI

Google releases new privacy controls for activity history, personalization (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-6-25 Google

Slate Auto's Radically Simple Electric Truck Starts At $24,950 (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-6-25

Utah Senate President J. Stuart Adams, who championed a huge data center beside the Great Salt Lake, lost his Republican primary on Tuesday after voter backlash (www.nytimes.com)
2026-6-25 Republican Senate

Paris-based digital health insurance startup Alan raised €480M led by Prosus at a €5.5B valuation, and is set for €1B+ in annual recurring revenue by year's end (www.ft.com)
2026-6-25 Startup Insurance Paris

SambaNova Executive Chairman Lip-Bu Tan says the AI chip startup is set to raise $800M to $1B, sources say at a ~$10B valuation, up from $2B in February (www.theinformation.com)
2026-6-25 Startup AI

DraftKings hacker 'Snoopy' sentenced to 18 months in prison (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-6-25 Hacker

Qualcomm expects $15B in data center chip sales by 2029, raises its non-handset chip revenue forecast to $40B by 2029, up from $22B; QCOM jumps 13%+ after hours (www.reuters.com)
2026-6-25

Meta Pauses Employee-Tracking Program Following Internal Data Leak (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-6-25

Mandiant reveals how Cisco SD-WAN zero-day attacks gained root access (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-6-25 Cisco

Cloudflare partners with Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla on PACT, a protocol to distinguish legitimate human or bot traffic from undesirable network requests (www.theregister.com)
2026-6-25 Google Microsoft Mozilla

GTA VI Is a Worrying Sign For the Future of Physical Games (games.slashdot.org)
2026-6-25

Malicious Edge extension abuses Native Messaging as bridge to malware (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-6-25

Micron reports Q3 revenue up 346% YoY to $41.46B, vs. $35.84B est., gross margin above estimates, and forecasts Q4 revenue above est.; MU jumps 14%+ after hours (www.cnbc.com)
2026-6-25 4Q

Sources: in a letter to US officials, Anthropic accused Alibaba of adversarial distillation, accessing Claude 28.8M times from April to June via ~25K accounts (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-25 Alibaba

OpenAI Unveils First Chip As Part of Broadcom Deal (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-6-25

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