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Belarusian kids wounded in deadly Ukrainian drone strike – governor (www.rt.com)
2026-6-17 Drone Ukraine

Nigerian army frees widow of general who died in captivity (www.rt.com)
2026-6-17 Nigeria

Syria could deal with Hezbollah without ‘killing everybody' like Israel – Trump (www.rt.com)
2026-6-17 Trump Israel Syria

Australia investigates sexual assault claims against IDF (www.rt.com)
2026-6-17 Australia

EU seeks to restrict new members' options to dissent from bloc – media (www.rt.com)
2026-6-17 Europe

OpenAI's CSO Jason Kwon messaged staff that the company “strongly” told the US government that building AI “requires the best talent from around the world” (www.theinformation.com)
2026-6-17 AI

The US government awards $500M under the CHIPS Act to SandboxAQ to use AI to develop new chemicals and materials for domestic semiconductor manufacturing (www.reuters.com)
2026-6-17 AI Manufacturing

Stop Killing Games Fails To Secure EU Law Despite 1.3 Million Signatures (games.slashdot.org)
2026-6-17

Uber plans to expands its premium robotaxi service from SF to Houston by mid-2027, in partnership with EV maker Lucid and autonomous vehicle startup Nuro (techcrunch.com)
2026-6-17 Uber Startup Autonomous Car

Kodak confirms data breach claimed by ShinyHunters extortion gang (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-6-17

Microsoft working on Defender patch for RoguePlanet zero-day (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-6-17 Microsoft

Surfshark One+ with Incogni is $95 for a year of full privacy coverage (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-6-17

CISA orders feds to patch max severity Joomla plugin flaw by Friday (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-6-17

Sources: Trump officials discussed ways to structure government equity stakes in AI companies, with Commerce Secretary Lutnick favoring a sovereign wealth fund (www.semafor.com)
2026-6-17 Trump AI Equity

Nauk Nauk, which runs an AI video app that turns photos of toys into short animated videos, raised $20M and is coming out of beta; it claims to have 1M+ users (www.axios.com)
2026-6-17 AI

Sources describe Huawei's efforts to rebuild its chip business seven years after the US cut Huawei off from advanced chips, as it bets on logic-stacking tech (www.ft.com)
2026-6-17

World models startup Odyssey raised $310M from Amazon and others at a $1.45B valuation and will use AWS as its preferred cloud partner, deploying Trainium chips (www.ft.com)
2026-6-17 Amazon Startup

Trump & Hegseth Storm Global Heating's Shores with Carbon Artillery (www.juancole.com)
2026-6-17 Trump

Peace Deal Ends Iran War: What Did US, Israel Gain? (www.juancole.com)
2026-6-17 Israel Iran

Iran Will Sign a Deal on Friday as the Winner, But Will the War Be Over? (Juan Cole) (www.juancole.com)
2026-6-17 Iran

AI and Brain-Computer Interface Allow Speechless ALS Patient To Work a Full-Time Job (science.slashdot.org)
2026-6-17 AI

The complications that China's build-up brings to nuclear balance (www.aspistrategist.org.au)
2026-6-17 China

A profile of Anthropic researcher Nicholas Carlini, who warned about Mythos in March and is now part of an Anthropic team briefing the White House on safeguards (www.wsj.com)
2026-6-17

Sources: Samsung is seeing a rise in advanced chip production requests from BYD, Google, AMD, and others as TSMC's capacity remains constrained by AI demand (asia.nikkei.com)
2026-6-17 Google Samsung AI AMD

Sources: a new AI lab founded by Junyang Lin, former lead of Alibaba's Qwen models, has raised several hundred million dollars at a ~$2B post-money valuation (www.theinformation.com)
2026-6-17 Alibaba AI

India's Telegram ban until June 22 over exam paper leak concerns is a terrible look for the country, sets a precedent, and could happen again if unchallenged (x.com)
2026-6-17 India Ban

Kazakhstan signs accords with Firebird on Nvidia-related computing projects that could bring up to $10B in investment, as it seeks to build a Data Center Valley (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-17 Nvidia

Dealogic: investors have poured $58B across 42 data center deals YTD; Oxford Economics says ~850 data centers worth some $7T are under construction globally (www.ft.com)
2026-6-17

Sources: Chinese social media app Xiaohongshu targets a Hong Kong IPO as early as year-end at a $70B+ valuation, up from $50B in recent private secondary trades (www.wsj.com)
2026-6-17 China Hong Kong IPO

WordPress survey: 60% of US consumers say “AI” in a brand's messaging is a turnoff, 86% always or sometimes check the original source after seeing an AI summary (techcrunch.com)
2026-6-17 WordPress AI

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