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• Sources: Anthropic's bankers have hired UK law firm Freshfields to advise on its IPO; it also advised on Google's acquisition of Wiz and ServiceNow's Armis deal (The Information)
• Spotify removed 500K+ streams of Malcolm Todd's Earrings after a 70% surge in 24 hours sent it to #1 on Spotify USA and coincided with suspicious Kalshi wagers (Stephanie Stacey/Financial Times)
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• Sources: Crusoe is in active talks to raise ~$3B in a funding round expected to value the company in the ~$30B range, up from a ~$10B valuation in October (Bloomberg)
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• Source: crypto payments and settlement startup Mesh is raising funding led by Binance at a ~$2B valuation, six months after raising $75M at a $1B valuation (Lucinda Shen/Axios)
• Travel app Hopper agrees to a $35M FTC settlement over allegations the company misled users by imposing hidden fees and misrepresenting the total costs (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch)
• Internal memo: Tesla plans to impose a $200-per-week limit for staff's AI spending beginning July 6; the tally excludes beta versions of xAI products (Grace Kay/The Information)
• Sources: ElevenLabs held early talks with investors on a secondary share sale for staff that would value the startup at ~$22B; it was valued at $11B in February (Bloomberg)
• UK-based StirlingX, which develops secure data intelligence systems for defense and critical infrastructure, raised a $20M Series A, following a $11M seed (Cate Lawrence/Tech.eu)
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• Tesla Q2 vehicle deliveries are up 25 percent over last year
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• OpenAI reportedly wants all AI companies to give the US government a stake in their businesses
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• X is making a fresh push for live video with new creator payouts
• Apple is reportedly planning a visual refresh of the entry-level MacBook Pro next year
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