Techmeme

Simile, which offers "agentic twins" of real people to assess companies' products, brands, and services, raised $200M led by Greenoaks at a $2B valuation (Sri Muppidi/New York Times)
Amazon's Zoox receives the NHTSA's first US approval for paid deployment of its steering wheel-free robotaxi and can deploy up to 2,500 per year through 2028 (Abhirup Roy/Reuters)
K2 Space, which builds satellites for tasks like data-heavy communications and may power space-based data centers, raised a $500M Series D at a $6.8B valuation (Rebecca Torrence/Bloomberg)
Sources: TSMC is developing advanced AI chip packaging tech, internally called "EMIB-like", similar to Intel's Embedded Multi-die Interconnect Bridge technique (Qianer Liu/The Information)
London-based Nscale agrees to acquire Anyscale, a source says for ~$1.65B; Anyscale, which helps AI workloads run more efficiently, had a $1B+ valuation in 2022 (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)
Google-backed nuclear fusion company Commonwealth Fusion Systems raised $1B, after raising a $1.8B Series B in 2021 and $863M in 2025, and plans a 2030s launch (Zachary Skidmore/DatacenterDynamics)
Google integrates Nano Banana 2 into Google Earth via a new Create Image button, letting users prompt to create infographics or visual alterations of locations (David Gewirtz/ZDNET)
Filing: Meta reports $279B in future lease agreements in Q2 related to AI data centers that are not reflected on its balance sheet, up 53% from the prior period (Shona Ghosh/Bloomberg)
Intercontinental Exchange agrees to acquire electronic fixed-income trading platform MarketAxess for $6B in cash, a 33% premium, set to close in H1 2027 (Katherine Hamilton/Wall Street Journal)
Sources: Amazon staff find "catastrophically expensive" AI costs due to a lack of controls, like $1.8M on Claude to fail to match author details with listings (Rafe Rosner-Uddin/Financial Times)
LinkedIn says it will keep its investments in GPUs, compute, and storage capacity flat during FY 2027, after doubling its GPU efficiency in the past six months (Paresh Dave/Wired)
Disney CEO Josh D'Amaro is leading a tech overhaul of Disney+ to close the gap with Netflix and YouTube, including better recommendations and vertical videos (Bloomberg)
An AI avatar of Brazil's jailed ex-president Jair Bolsonaro, who is banned from communicating publicly, is testing new AI rules ahead of Brazil's 2026 elections (Financial Times)
How compute could become 10x+ costlier as AI capabilities and monetization outpace supply, and a look at the implications if Anthropic hits $1T in 2027 revenue (Dwarkesh Patel/Dwarkesh Podcast)
ExploitGym creator and Berkeley researcher Jingxuan He says other AI models have tried to cheat but OpenAI's "was at a much larger scale than we'd encountered" (Bloomberg)

Wired

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OpenAI’s Hacking Debacle Was a Human Mistake
LinkedIn Won’t Be Expanding Its Data Centers in the Next Year
TCL Tab A1 Plus Review (2026): Cheap Tablet That Doesn’t Feel It
A Civilian Plane Crashed in New Mexico. Was the Military’s Tech to Blame?
AI Scammers Are Better at Building Trust Than Humans
I Got a Free Meal From a Private Chef—Who Filmed It All to Train Robots
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It’s Frighteningly Easy to Jailbreak Some Frontier AI Models
Tropical Diseases Like Dengue Fever and Chikungunya Are on the Rise in Europe
X Says Australia’s Under-16 Social Media Ban Risks Interfering With Foreign Law
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The 15 Best Pool Accessories to Upgrade Your Summer (2026)
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Mac Mini Availability: Long Waits and Higher Prices
Apple Upgrade Isn’t the Best Way to Buy an iPhone
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More Typos, Fewer Em Dashes: Writers Are Creating an Anti-AI ‘Literary Counterculture’
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Boomers Can’t Stop Gifting Their Grandkids AI-Generated Slop Books
NASA’s New 3D Model Shows the Earth Is a Lumpy Mess
ICE’s New Detention Center Contracts Declare State Laws ‘Shall Not Apply’
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OpenAI’s Rogue AI Agent Hacked More Than Just Hugging Face
A Typo Landed an Innocent Gamer in Prison for 18 Months
Ebay Has to Pay $55.7 Million in Settlement for Its Unhinged Harassment Campaign
Laura Loomer’s Reversal on Ukraine Stirs Up the MAGA Civil War
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Engadget

How to use screen mirroring on Roku with your Android phone
Netflix pays $500 million to share 'The Walking Dead' streaming rights with AMC+
Spotify rolls out new personalized running features for Premium users
Lego Pokémon Smart Play hands-on: A better way to build, train and battle
Maingear introduces a new lineup of hidden-cable 'Zero' pre-built PCs
Nano Banana image generation comes to Google Earth
DJI Osmo Pocket 4P review: The best gimbal camera money can't buy
The spacecraft NASA sent to rescue the falling Swift observatory is in trouble
Surprise: The global oil crisis is pushing people toward buying electrified cars
ChatGPT and Roblox will reportedly be subject to tighter rules in the EU
Samsung's mobile division posts first-ever loss due to soaring memory prices
Xbox says game discs should have worked during its outage
OpenAI will provide free AI models to select researchers
Google Play is expanding age confirmation tools for app developers
The US government's robot ban also includes vacuums
Waymos are starting to run on freeways again
Here's how to switch from ChatGPT to Claude without losing any information
Google teases the Pixel 11 Pro and hints at a new camera bar feature
Runna's new coaching feature will adjust your workout based on local heat and humidity
Major labels call for AI slop songs to be banned from entering charts around the world

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