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Meta says Threads now has 500M MAUs, adds a "Your Algo" tool that lets users control what they see in their feed, and brings Communities out of beta (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
Alibaba's AI unit Tongyi Lab launches the Qwen Robot Suite, its first family of AI models for robots, in pilot testing with some enterprise clients (Wency Chen/South China Morning Post)
SEC filing: SpaceX agrees to acquire Cursor in a merger valuing the AI coding startup at $60B, expected to close in Q3 2026 (SEC)
SoftBank announces an OpenAI-powered "patching service" to secure Japan's top 3,000 companies behind crucial infrastructure from cyberattacks (Yuri Kageyama/Associated Press)
Florida sues TikTok for allegedly violating its social media regulations for minors and state consumer protection laws by showing "X-Rated" content to minors (Alex Ebert/Bloomberg Law)
France plans €655M in AI investments through 2030 and a Mistral-powered chatbot for state services; its security service will replace Palantir with Chapsvision (Benoit Berthelot/Bloomberg)
India blocks Telegram until June 22 citing its use by organized "cheating rackets" to "defraud candidates" taking a national medical entrance examination (Reuters)
Study: Mistral and other open-source AI models are among the weakest at filtering Russian disinformation; Mistral's top model ranks 47 out of 60 tested models (Andrew Jack/Financial Times)
Kuala Lumpur-based Respond.io, which uses AI agents to manage customer conversations, raised a $62.5M Series B led by Camber, following a $7M Series A in 2022 (Kate Park/TechCrunch)
Italy's competition regulator opens a probe into Apple under the DMA over the interoperability of iOS and iPadOS with alternative cloud services (Cristina Carlevaro/Reuters)
Sources: DeepSeek closed a $7.4B round at a $50B valuation under an unusual structure requiring investors to put capital into an LP run by CEO Liang Wenfeng (The Information)
Sources: audited financial figures show OpenAI spending hit $34B in 2025, including $19B on research and development and nearly $6B on sales and marketing (Financial Times)
Sources: Microsoft is adding AWS capacity to GitHub after AI-driven growth strained infrastructure and triggered a series of reliability issues (Ashley Stewart/Business Insider)
Memo: CTO Andrew Bosworth said Meta did "an atrocious job" sharing Applied AI's vision, promising employees better communication, career growth, and more perks (Wired)
Filing: the US DOJ asks court to dismiss an NAACP suit over xAI's gas turbines, saying xAI is integral to US' military operations, including the Iran War (Molly Taft/Wired)

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DOJ Lawyers Argue xAI Is ‘Vital’ for National Security in NAACP Lawsuit
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Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth Admits the Company’s AI Reorg Was ‘Atrocious’
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Engadget

Meta's Threads app now has half a billion monthly users
Justice Department backs xAI in NAACP lawsuit over data center pollution
Xbox is reportedly closing Ninja Theory, Double Fine and Compulsion Games
Google Earth's flight simulator mode is now available in your browser
Samsung expands its Galaxy Book 6 lineup with a Snapdragon X2 Elite-powered model
Investigation by The Atlantic reveals many millions of songs used for AI music training
Anthropic hit with lawsuit over its Claude Max usage limits
What's the difference between Dolby Cinema and IMAX?
xAI's lawsuit accusing OpenAI of stealing trade secrets has been thrown out
Facebook's new AI tools offer more of the same, with photo-editing and question-answering capabilities
Open-source Discord alternatives: What Stoat and Element actually fix
Xbox Game Studios chief reportedly steps down as layoffs loom
EA created an entire division to push more in-game ads
If you're already watching YouTube daily, this subscription swap just makes sense
Fox is buying Roku for $22 billion
Trump threatens 100 percent tariff on France's wine industry over its tech tax
UK will ban social media for children under 16
NASA's X-59 reaches speed and altitude milestones ahead of first quiet supersonic flights
A rare sticker-sealed copy of Super Mario Bros. just sold for $3 million
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