Techmeme

Rockstar Games announces that pre-orders for Grand Theft Auto VI will go live on June 25; TTWO jumps 5%+ (Zack Zwiezen/Kotaku)
Apple opens iOS to alternative app marketplaces in Brazil and changes App Store commission structure following a settlement with competition watchdog CADE (Marcus Mendes/9to5Mac)
Former Trump AI adviser Dean Ball is joining OpenAI to lead a new team called Strategic Futures, focused on frontier AI policy and internal governance (Ashley Gold/Axios)
Sources: General Intuition, which trains AI agents in spatial reasoning, is in talks to raise $300M from Jeff Bezos and others at a $2B+ valuation (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)
Amazon's AI chief Peter DeSantis says the company is in talks to sell its custom Trainium AI chips for use in third-party data centers (Mark Bergen/Bloomberg)
Filings: Waymo pulls its ~4K robotaxis from highways after finding 13+ instances of the cars driving into highway sections under construction (Sean O'Kane/TechCrunch)
Seattle-based Gradial, which makes AI agents that automate enterprise marketing workflows, raised a $65M Series C led by Insight Partners at a $675M valuation (Kerry Flynn/Axios)
Sources: the early Chinese backers of Manus, including HSG, ZhenFund, and Tencent, plan to buy the AI startup back from Meta at the $2B price Meta paid (The Information)
Architect Labs, which aims to use AI to cheapen and speed up the process of designing custom chips, raised a $24M seed led by Kindred Ventures (Max A. Cherney/Reuters)
Sources: as early as next week, the EU is set to unveil its preliminary findings that AWS and Azure seem to meet the criteria for regulation under the DMA (Bloomberg)
As David Sacks steps back and Sriram Krishnan prepares to leave, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and others are leading AI policy in the Trump administration (Maria Curi/Axios)
Hive's stock jumps 5%+ after the company announced a $220M, three-year GPU cloud contract with Bell Canada and Cohere, as it pivots away from bitcoin mining (James Van Straten/CoinDesk)
Former Gojek CEO and Indonesian education minister Nadiem Makarim is charged with taking ~$46M in rewards tied to a Chromebook procurement contract for schools (Bloomberg)
An in-depth look at Meta's AI-fueled rampage through its engineering organization, 30% to 50% of engineers on core teams reassigned to data labeling, and more (Gergely Orosz/The Pragmatic Engineer)
Prem AI, a Swiss startup that lets hedge funds and law firms run AI models on their own infrastructure, is raising a $100M Series A, targeting a $500M valuation (Natalia Kniazhevich/Bloomberg)

Wired

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Silicon Valley’s Elite Financial Advisers Say This Era of Wealth Is Different
Waymo Recalls Robotaxis Over Risk They'll Drive at Speed Into Freeway Construction Zones
Samsung The Frame Pro 2026 Review: Pricey But Worth It
Amazon’s Fire Tablets, Tested, So You Don’t Have To (2026)
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How to Watch the Knicks Parade on NYC Traffic Surveillance Cameras
Halo Stops Bedtime Scrolling so You Can Go the F to Sleep
Locked Out of the World Cup: A Year Marked by Barriers, Borders, and Broken Access
The Sperm-Maxxing Bros Are Actually Onto Something
The UK Will Scan Asylum-Seekers’ Faces for Age Checks—Despite Knowing the Tech Is Flawed
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Engadget

Apple opens up third-party app stores in Brazil
Apple TV will broadcast the Formula 1 Austrian Grand Prix for free
Google Calendar lets you use any color you want for your events
Akai refreshes the MPC One and Key 37 workstations
GTA 6 pre-orders open on June 25
Old iPods are making a comeback thanks to Gen Z
XGIMI MemoMind One review: Smart glasses, creepy AI
Ultrahuman's M2 Live is an updated glucose tracker for metabolic tracking
Adobe brings its Firefly AI Assistant inside of Premiere, Photoshop and Illustrator
Trump claims Apple and Intel closed deal to manufacture chips in the US
Waymo recalls over 3,800 robotaxis that might drive onto closed freeways
NASA is sending an orbiter to Mars with Eric Schmidt's Relativity Space
Sennheiser debuts open-ear Accentum Clip earbuds with nine hours of battery life
VSCO's new Studio Pro app can edit 100 photos at a time
Midjourney, the AI image generator, is developing a full-body ultrasonic scanner
Tim Cook says Apple price increases are 'unavoidable' due to memory crunch
The iPhone Air 2 will reportedly land next spring with a second camera
ChatGPT now has a hub for scheduled tasks
Epic Games details how it's embracing generative AI in Unreal Engine
Anthropic's design assistant now works better with its coding agent

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