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Sources: the US government plans to let the Federal Data Center Enhancement Act, which details standards for data center use and operations, expire in September (www.wired.com)
2026-6-15

Court reporting shows AI's limits in replacing human skill, as reporters remain crucial for capturing gestures and working through noise, amid a worker shortage (www.wsj.com)
2026-6-15 AI

Canada's PM says the Anthropic ban shows the dangers of “over-reliance on certain models”, and compares the risks to those that led to the 2008 financial crisis (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-15 Canada Ban

Fox says it is acquiring Roku in a deal worth around $22B, including debt, giving it access to more than 100M streaming households (www.wsj.com)
2026-6-15

Trump's Iran deal achieves none of Israel's war goals – opposition leader (www.rt.com)
2026-6-15 Trump Israel Iran

Popular American singer among six killed in helicopter collision (VIDEO) (www.rt.com)
2026-6-15 U.S.

Use of AI for Iran school bombing doesn't violate Anthropic's ‘red lines' – CEO (www.rt.com)
2026-6-15 AI Iran

Indian sailors struggle to move shipmate's body amid US blockade (www.rt.com)
2026-6-15 India

Tencent-backed Enflame receives approval for a Shanghai IPO and plans to raise ~$888M; Enflame is the last of China's four leading AI chipmakers to go to market (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-15 China IPO AI Tencent Shanghai

The UK social media ban will apply to Snapchat, TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, and X, and will require platforms to stop children from livestreaming (www.bbc.com)
2026-6-15 Facebook YouTube Snapchat Instagram Ban

Breakaway region's leader makes first Israel visit (www.rt.com)
2026-6-15 Israel

Letter: US cybersecurity leaders urge the White House to lift the ban on Anthropic's Mythos and Fable 5, arguing the move hurts defenders more than attackers (www.axios.com)
2026-6-15 Ban

UK PM Keir Starmer says the UK will ban social media for under-16s and restrict gaming and livestreaming platforms, aiming for regulation by the end of 2026 (www.reuters.com)
2026-6-15 Ban

President Trump says he warned Emmanuel Macron to drop France's 3% digital services tax on US tech giants, or face a 100% tariff on French champagne and wine (nypost.com)
2026-6-15 Trump France Tax

IT Workers Are Now Struggling to Find Work, as 'Picky' Companies Demand AI Skills (it.slashdot.org)
2026-6-15 AI

Russian MOD confirms strikes on Ukrainian military facilities: What we know so far (www.rt.com)
2026-6-15 Russia Ukraine

Haitian Defense Ministry chief abducted amid gang violence – media (www.rt.com)
2026-6-15

As “nudify” tools proliferate, unleashing a new form of bullying among kids, parents and schools are struggling to protect young victims from AI deepfakes (www.wsj.com)
2026-6-15 AI

Are You an Internationalist? (www.juancole.com)
2026-6-15

Australia just learned an old lesson from the AI age (www.aspistrategist.org.au)
2026-6-15 Australia AI

To maintain access to frontier AI, decide where independence matters most (www.aspistrategist.org.au)
2026-6-15 AI

A profile of UC Berkeley professor Hany Farid, the world's leading digital forensics expert for 20+ years, who says he is now struggling to identify AI fakes (www.nytimes.com)
2026-6-15 AI

Sources: Alibaba is in talks to buy Chinese fresh grocery delivery platform Pupu for $1.5B, in a bid to better compete with food delivery rivals like Meituan (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-15 China Alibaba

Madrid-based Orbio, which uses AI agents to help businesses interview, onboard, and manage frontline workers, raised a $21M Series A led by Dawn Capital (techcrunch.com)
2026-6-15 Interview AI

Did an Israeli Firm Meddle in NYC, European Elections? (www.juancole.com)
2026-6-15 Europe Israel

New Threat to Netanyahu: The Collapse of Western Support (www.juancole.com)
2026-6-15 Netanyahu

Inside the Signal group chat where Sergey Brin, Marc Andreessen, Garry Tan, and other tech elites toss out strategies to oppose a proposed California wealth tax (sfstandard.com)
2026-6-15 Tax California

Sources: ByteDance is in talks with Shanghai-based Iluvatar CoreX to purchase AI inference GPUs, and is also considering a deal to buy Baidu's Kunlunxin chips (www.reuters.com)
2026-6-15 AI Shanghai

Health wearables are booming, with both Oura and Whoop eyeing IPOs, but investors remain cautious after Fitbit's struggles and low consumer hardware margins (www.wsj.com)
2026-6-15 IPO

Rylo, which develops real-time speech and sign-language translation tools for deaf and hard-of-hearing users, raised $85M led by General Catalyst and Canaan (www.calcalistech.com)
2026-6-15

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