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Sources: DeepSeek's $7.4B raise was prompted by the release of Mythos as CEO Liang Wenfeng realized DeepSeek couldn't compete without a massive war chest (The Information)
Sources: Donald Trump Jr. got ~$300K in Kalshi equity after becoming a strategic adviser in 2025, when Kalshi was valued at ~$2B; now it's worth $22B+ (George Steer/Financial Times)
Q&A with Tim Sweeney on his vision for a cross-platform gaming social system, Unreal Engine 6, AI's PR challenges, the state of AAA game development, and more (Tim Clark/PC Gamer)
Italy is investigating Microsoft 365's price hike, saying Microsoft did not adequately inform users that it was integrating AI tools like Copilot into the suite (Giulia Segreti/Reuters)
A study of 408 teens in Australia finds 80%+ were still using social media three months after the ban came into force, citing inadequate age verification checks (Anna Bawden/The Guardian)
Binance tells EU customers that it will stop providing services for them from July 1, after Greece rejected its application for a bloc-wide license last week (Financial Times)
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: during SpaceX's IPO roadshow, COO Gwynne Shotwell told investors that it may launch a Starlink mobile service 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 Codex usage is up 137x for individuals and 12x within OpenAI (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's stock fell 12.53% after a report that OpenAI may delay its IPO until 2027; expectations of a windfall from OpenAI's debut had buoyed Softbank's stock (Aya Wagatsuma/Bloomberg)
California launches a tool designed to be an "early warning system" for widespread AI-driven job loss, linking AI exposure with unemployment insurance claims (Jo Constantz/Bloomberg)

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Volkswagen reportedly plans to cut 100,000 jobs
Australia's social media ban may not be that effective, study finds
The Morning After: Prices rocket up on Xboxes, MacBooks, iPads and more
NASA's TESS spacecraft finds two 'cotton candy' planets in one system
'Careless People' author accuses Meta of 'punishing' whistleblower
California launches tracker for AI-related job losses
YouTube Shorts nixes 'dislikes' and lets you double the playback speed
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
As everything gets more expensive, it's time to make do and mend
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

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