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Amazon MGM Studios drops Luca Guadagnino's mostly finished movie on Sam Altman; Amazon struck a major deal with OpenAI in February, including a $50B investment (Variety)
John Edwards, UK Information Commissioner and chair of the ICO, the country's data and AI regulator, resigned following a workplace investigation (Liv McMahon/BBC)
Sources: England and Wales' attorney general tells his office to stop posting on X, a first for the UK government, amid worries about X inciting violence (Peter Walker/The Guardian)
The US FERC approves new orders to fast-track data center power requests, aiming to handle them in 90 days, while bringing new requirements for AI hyperscalers (Bloomberg)
Siemens expects Xcelerator revenue to more than double in 2026, aiming to make the platform an industrial app store integrating software and hardware offerings (Marilen Martin/Bloomberg)
Turkey approves Uber's $335M deal to buy Getir's delivery business, tied to a $500M investment pledge in Turkey; Uber is also paying $100M for a 15% Getir stake (Ana-Maria Stanciuc/The Next Web)
Filing: Jio Platforms, India's largest wireless operator with 526M+ subscribers, files for an IPO; the deal is expected to be one of India's biggest IPOs ever (Priyanka Salve/CNBC)
Sources: Chinese autonomous driving company Momenta has reached a ~$9B valuation as it gears up to raise ~$1B in an upcoming Hong Kong IPO (Jiahui Huang/Wall Street Journal)
How hacker group TeamPCP exploited the open source trust model and distribution method to compromise and inject malware into over 1,000 software packages (Matt Kapko/CyberScoop)
Sources detail how Google is using Nvidia's playbook to build an AI chip business, including providing $3.2B to fund a NY data center renting TPUs to Anthropic (Wall Street Journal)
Barret Zoph leaves OpenAI again five months after rejoining in January; Zoph initially left OpenAI in 2024 to serve as Thinking Machines Lab co-founder and CTO (Hayden Field/The Verge)
Sources: about 200 companies accessing Mythos Preview through Project Glasswing have preserved their access despite a recent US government shutdown order (Bloomberg)
The CFTC permanently bans Celsius founder Alex Mashinsky from trading in markets it oversees as part of a settlement resolving its 2023 lawsuit against him (Jesse Coghlan/Cointelegraph)
Sources: Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick questioned ASML leaders on concerns China acquired one of its EUV machines, violating US-led export restrictions (Bloomberg)
Source: Elastic has agreed to acquire the AI site reliability engineering startup Deductive AI for up to $85M; CRV led Deductive AI's $7.5M seed round in 2025 (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)

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Engadget

Toy Story 5 is a surprisingly thoughtful critique of technology
Amazon won't release Sam Altman biopic focused on OpenAI's 2023 leadership crisis
Amazon is investigating three employees who spoke out against building more AI data centers
At least one UK government department is reportedly done with X
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2028 Mercedes-Benz VLE first drive: Your 8K living room on wheels has arrived
Google has discontinued the Nest Home Mini and Nest Audio
Rivian faces a class action lawsuit over self-driving in its early vehicles
Instagram now lets you add a unique caption to each carousel slide
How to pay with Google Wallet using your Samsung Galaxy Watch
Apple opens up third-party app stores in Brazil
Apple TV will broadcast the Formula 1 Austrian Grand Prix for free
Google Calendar lets you use any color you want for your events
Akai refreshes the MPC One and Key 37 workstations
GTA 6 pre-orders open on June 25
Old iPods are making a comeback thanks to Gen Z
XGIMI MemoMind One review: Smart glasses, creepy AI
Ultrahuman's M2 Live is an updated glucose tracker for metabolic tracking
Adobe brings its Firefly AI Assistant inside of Premiere, Photoshop and Illustrator
Trump claims Apple and Intel closed deal to manufacture chips in the US

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