Techmeme

Nearly 40% of Alphabet's planned ~$85B in equity offerings for AI will go toward covering tax obligations tied to employee equity awards, amid the AI talent war (Cory Weinberg/The Information)
Meta is alerting Instagram users whose accounts were taken over using Meta AI chatbot; some hackers claim to still be able to exploit Meta AI chatbot (Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai/TechCrunch)
Collate, whose AI tools automate paperwork for life sciences companies, raised $95M led by Redpoint at a ~$1B valuation, bringing its total funding to $125M (Amy Feldman/Forbes)
Amazon announces new visual search features, including displaying AI-generated images of products within its app based on users' search queries (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
Leading the Future, the pro-AI super PAC backed by Greg Brockman, appears to be linked to multiple sockpuppet accounts, including a purported anti-AI activist (@themidasproj)
Terra AI, which develops AI models for mining companies to better map underground resources, raised a $20M Series A led by Khosla Ventures (Katie Fehrenbacher/Axios)
Town, which is developing personalized AI assistants that connect to users' email and calendar, raised a $55M Series A led by a16z (Lily Mae Lazarus/Fortune)
Forage, a payments processor that helps retailers and food-delivery companies accept EBT cards, raised a $40M Series B led by Mouro Capital at a $225M valuation (Yuliya Chernova/Wall Street Journal)
Wordsmith, whose AI tools help in-house lawyers draft contracts, handle legal questions, and more, raised a $70M Series B, bringing its total funding to $100M (Melia Russell/Business Insider)
Lassie, whose AI agent helps dental practices automate admin work, raised a $35M Series A led by a16z, a source says, at a ~$250M valuation (Alex Konrad/Upstarts Media)
Meta is spinning off Supernatural into an independent company, Supernatural Health, after earlier saying the VR fitness game would stop getting new content (Victoria Song/The Verge)
Digital i: YouTube overtakes Netflix in average daily viewing globally, rising from 87.2 minutes in 2024 to 99.1 in 2025, while Netflix fell from 100.5 to 93.4 (Michael Savage/The Guardian)
Mustafa Suleyman says Microsoft aims to become "one of the top four labs in the world", and "the pivotal moment was renegotiating our contract with OpenAI" (The Verge)
Anthropic unveils a Services Track for its Claude Partner Network, a ranking based on what companies built with Claude, and releases a Claude Partner Hub portal (Belle Lin/Wall Street Journal)
Meta launches Meta Business Agent globally on WhatsApp and Instagram DMs, after a two-year pilot of the customer support AI bot in India, Mexico, and others (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

Wired

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Engadget

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Insomniac Games' Wolverine looks comically violent
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Pokémon Champions hits iOS and Android on June 17
WiiM's first soundbar has a touchscreen display and Dolby Atmos
Mark Zuckerberg wants Meta agents to "run your whole business"
Trump signs scaled-back AI cybersecurity order
The Star Fox remake is a test for the franchise's future
Theos: Cities of Myth is the spiritual successor to the one of the great city builders of the early 2000s
Florida sues OpenAI and Sam Altman over alleged 'exploitation of users'
Google pledges to replenish more water than it uses at data centers by 2030
NASA readies the X-59 for its first supersonic flight, SpaceX's Starship grounded and more science stories
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Meta took down over a million scam accounts in joint operation with Microsoft, SpaceX and DOJ
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