Techmeme

The US DOJ approves Paramount's $111B purchase of WBD without forcing divestitures or behavioral remedies; state AGs could still try to block the move (Yasmin Khorram/Politico)
Sources: three ex-DOGE staffers are raising $130M from a16z, Sequoia, and others for a startup that aims to use AI to secure government systems (Vanity Fair)
KPMG retracts a report on AI's benefits after it has been found to exaggerate AI adoption with case studies that appear to have been based on AI hallucinations (Financial Times)
Sources: Roku is in talks to sell itself; its shares have risen about 24% this year, giving the company a market value of $19.9B; ROKU jumps 20%+ after hours (Bloomberg)
Staff memo: Meta plans to limit employee token usage and encourage employees to use MetaCode, after internal AI spending forecasts reached billions for 2026 (Jyoti Mann/The Information)
Sources: SpaceX decided to rent its Colossus 1 data center to Anthropic after internal teams struggled to use it for Grok development due to latency issues (Edward Ludlow/Bloomberg)
Sources: Microsoft considered spinning out or restructuring its Xbox unit as a wholly-owned subsidiary, or creating a joint venture with other partners (Aaron Holmes/The Information)
A profile of former Google DeepMind employee Thibault Sottiaux, now OpenAI's head of core products tasked with combining ChatGPT and Codex into a super app (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
SpaceX debuts on the Nasdaq at $150, after pricing at $135, making Elon Musk the world's first trillionaire; SPCX closes up 19%, for a ~$2.1T market cap (Alex Harring/CNBC)
SpaceX makes Nasdaq debut at $150 after pricing at $135: Live updates (CNBC)
Meta's services, including Facebook and Instagram, are recovering after a brief outage that affected thousands of users (Jaspreet Singh/Reuters)
MrBeast hits 500M subscribers on YouTube, a record for the platform (Kayla Cobb/The Wrap)
Sam Bankman-Fried loses his bid to overturn his fraud conviction and 25-year prison sentence over the collapse of FTX (Luc Cohen/Reuters)
Sources: six months after acquiring Rivos, Meta is struggling to integrate the chip startup and halted development of a chip for training its largest AI models (The Information)
Sources: French startup Mistral AI is in talks to raise ~€3B at a ~€20B valuation; it was last valued at €11.7B during a funding round in September 2025 (Bloomberg)

Wired

‘Tell Him He’s a Piece of Shit’: Meta’s New AI Unit Is a Total Mess
Donald Trump’s White House UFC Event Would Be Embarrassing Anywhere
Chinese Drivers Are Using Tiny Plastic Heads to Fool Tesla’s Autopilot Safeguards
Elon Musk Is the World’s First Trillionaire
China Didn’t Make Americans Hate Data Centers
Crypto Guys Bought the Answer to the CIA’s Mysterious Kryptos Sculpture
A White Supremacist Youth Group Helped Orchestrate the Belfast Riots
6 Best Digital Notebooks (2026): ReMarkable, Kobo, Kindle
4 Best Floodlight Security Cameras (2026) After Thorough Testing
Pedal Electric H/T Review: A Fast, Powerful, Stylish Ebike
Real-Life Disclosure Day Will Look Nothing Like Steven Spielberg’s New Movie
Sheeran Loopers Looper X Review: Create Your One-Person Tour
Matchmakers Are Being Paid $25K to Find Trad Wives for Rich Men
The US Is Requiring Foreign Influencers to Get Work Visas for the 2026 World Cup
You Probably Won’t Get Rich Off the SpaceX IPO
SpaceX IPO Puts Elon Musk’s ‘Extreme’ Ownership to the Test
Paramount+ Coupon Codes and Deals for June 2026
B&H Photo Promo Codes and Deals This June
Hoka Coupon Codes: 30% Off in June 2026
20% Off Sephora Promo Code | June 2026
LG Promo Codes and Coupons for June 2026
Columbia Promo Codes: 15% Off | June 2026
30% Off Canon Promo Codes | June 2026
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T-Mobile Promo Codes: 25% Off | June 2026
Herman Miller Promo Codes: 40% Off June
Altra Running Promo Codes June 2026
Apple’s Camera Chief Thinks AI Can Give You Superpowers
Why You Might Already Own SpaceX Shares, Siri’s AI Makeover, and Knicks Owner’s Surveillance Machine
‘Hands Off Our NHS’: Anti-Palantir Protests Break Out in UK Over Deal With National Health Service
Meet the OpenAI Engineer Leading ChatGPT’s Biggest Transformation Yet
Massive Effigy of Elon Musk Raised Over Times Square to Protest Grok
Grok Is Still Hosting Sexualized Deepfakes of Famous Women
Is It a Super El Niño Year? It Could Turn the World’s Weather Upside Down
Drug Sites Hijacked Spotify’s Search Ranking Through Fake Podcasts
Best Smart Chess Boards (2026): Chessnut, Millennium
Signal Alums Reveal ‘Encrypted Spaces,’ a System for Making Private Collaboration Apps
The Best E-Readers of 2026: Kobo, Kindle
Best Portable Monitors (2026): Add a Second Screen I've Tested
YouTube Appears to Be Making Money Off of Sanctioned Iranians’ Accounts
Americans Are Trading Billions of Dollars on Polymarket’s Banned Offshore Platform
Fiido Air Carbon Fiber Electric Bike Review: A Light, Quiet Ebike
Welcome to the Waymo World Cup
Cameras, Sensors, and 3D Body Scans: All the Tech Helping Eliminate Blown Calls
Trump’s Border Crackdown Is Wreaking Havoc on the World Cup
How to Watch the 2026 World Cup
How Mexican World Cup Stadiums Achieved FIFA’s Environmental Certifications
People Living Near xAI’s Dirty Data Centers Are Furious About the SpaceX IPO
I Was Scammed Buying GLP-1s Online. I’m Not Alone
Peacock Promo Codes: 40% Off June 2026

Engadget

The SpaceX IPO broke Robinhood for some people
DJI and Insta360 are in a patent battle over vlogging cameras
Congress lets decades-old spying law lapse amid Trump's controversial DNI nomination
Predictably, Sam Bankman-Fried's fraud conviction appeal has been denied
Facebook and Instagram appear to be down
How to see if Netflix is downgrading your picture quality
Engadget Podcast: Making sense of SpaceX's messy IPO (and its messier CEO)
Gemini can now adjust your picture settings on Google TV
The Morning After: Apple's quest to make AI useful to its users
Apple says Siri AI won't suck up to you
Google sues Chinese scammers using Gemini AI for fraud
Senators introduce bipartisan bill to fight government censorship
Researchers are developing textiles that can produce drinking water from the air
Overwatch's latest hero will throw a bike at your head
Another parent has filed a wrongful death suit against OpenAI
Boox's new Go 6 ereader offers stylus support for note-taking
Waymo's monthly membership seems like a bad deal
Reddit now lets you post videos in comments
The Philips Skylight lets you recreate natural daylight anywhere in your home
Dave the Diver swims onto iOS and Android this August

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