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Despite the "DeepMind mafia" pulling billions into London AI startups, none of Demis Hassabis' former lieutenants is building a homegrown UK frontier AI model (Tim Bradshaw/Financial Times)
Shares of Japanese NAND flash maker Kioxia slid 12% on Friday after a report that OpenAI was considering delaying its IPO sparked a selloff in AI-related shares (Sam Nussey/Reuters)
Sources: SpaceX COO Gwynne Shotwell told investors during an IPO roadshow SpaceX may launch a Starlink mobile product and build its own terrestrial US network (Financial Times)
Swiss watchmaker Swatch seeks $170M from Samsung in a London trial over 26 digital watch face apps that allegedly cloned luxury brand designs, including Omega (Alistair Gray/Financial Times)
OpenAI says 97.9% of its employees are now using Codex, up from ~40% in August 2025; non-developer usage of Codex has risen 137x for individual users (Thomas Claburn/The Register)
Warp, a startup using AI to automate payroll compliance and employee management, raised a $60M Series B led by Battery, bringing its total funding to $85M (Lucinda Shen/Axios)
Utah-based ecommerce tech company Redo raised an $81M Series B at a $1.25B valuation led by Smash Capital, with participation from Pelion and Cervin (David Politis/Utah Money Watch)
SoftBank shares fell 12% after reports that OpenAI may delay its IPO until 2027; expectations of a windfall from OpenAI's debut helped support Softbank's stock (Aya Wagatsuma/Bloomberg)
California launches a tool to serve as an "early warning system" for widespread AI-driven job loss, linking AI exposure with unemployment insurance claims (Jo Constantz/Bloomberg)
Upside, which provides social workers with AI-powered housing insights, raised a $20M Series A led by Aquiline with Flare Capital, 645, and others participating (Cailey Gleeson/Fierce Healthcare)
How the US AI build-out is pushing up prices for electricity, software, and more; in a survey, 81% of economists say it will add to inflation over the next year (Justin Lahart/Wall Street Journal)
Elastic announces a ~7% reduction in its workforce, and says "advances in AI and automation are letting us operate with leaner teams"; ESTC closed down 8.70% (Richard Speed/The Register)
YouTube rolls out changes to Shorts, including adding a setting to double playback speed, eliminating the "dislike" button, and more (Lucas Ropek/TechCrunch)
Doc: the DOD has quietly revised its doctrine on how the US military picks its targets, envisioning "systems where AI initiates actions with human monitoring" (Katrina Manson/Bloomberg)
NHTSA proposes eliminating the mandate for manual brake pedals in "vehicles designed to be driven exclusively by automated driving systems" (Sean O'Kane/TechCrunch)

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OpenAI will initially only release ChatGPT 5.6 to government-approved customers
The most popular Grok feature is, apparently, exactly what you think
Commodore has dropped the price of its retro phone by $100 ahead of preorders
Notion Mail is shutting down
Spain will require carriers to keep mobile networks live during power outages
Polestar won't be able to sell its cars in the US next year
Retroid's Pocket Nova is a very capable 4:3 handheld that costs $229
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You may be plugging your Fire TV Stick into the wrong HDMI port
Apple will reportedly skip the M6 Pro and Max and jump straight to M7
Xbox prices are rising again after Microsoft helped drive up component costs
Sony announces major layoffs at Bungie, including most of the Destiny team
Russia allegedly used a forensics platform to hack an activist's phone, despite having its access cut off
Samsung's latest budget phone has mild upgrades and a $50 price hike
Google Finance is now available as a standalone Android app
Sony A7R VI review: A huge speed boost makes this a nearly perfect high-resolution camera
IBM says it has created the world's first sub-1 nanometer chip
Apple hikes prices for most of its hardware
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Google will open the Play Store to outside billing on June 30

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