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A US judge denies Apple's motion to dismiss the DOJ antitrust lawsuit, filed in March 2024, accusing Apple of unlawfully dominating the US smartphone market (Jody Godoy/Reuters)

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Sources: Mike Rockwell and Craig Federighi have led efforts to assess external models to power Siri; after testing, Anthropic's tech seemed most promising (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

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The US takes down a North Korean operation that, from 2021 to 2024, impersonated 80+ people to get remote jobs at 100+ US firms, using "laptop farms" in the US (Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai/TechCrunch)

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In a memo, Mark Zuckerberg announces Meta Superintelligence Labs and 11 new hires; Nat Friedman "will partner with Alexandr Wang" to lead the new group (Kurt Wagner/Bloomberg)

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Google announces 30+ Gemini AI tools for educators, like "Gems" which help students on specific subjects, included with Google Workspace for Education accounts (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

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A look at the rise of $5B+ unicorns, which make up 13% of ~1,600 unicorns but hold $3.5T of $6T total valuation; 17 startups joined the $5B+ club in H1 2025 (Gené Teare/Crunchbase News)

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Campfire, which offers AI-powered ERP and accounting services, raised a $35M Series A led by Accel (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)

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Experts raise concerns that Malta's expedited MiCA licensing process may lack sufficient enforcement and oversight; OKX received a MiCA license in four days (CoinDesk)

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Robinhood announces an expanded offering of tokenized US stocks across Europe, crypto staking in US, a Layer 2 blockchain for real-world asset settlement, more (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC)

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Cursor launches a web app and Slack integration for managing AI coding agents from mobile and desktop (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)

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How performers on OnlyFans and other adult sites are using LLMs for creative inspiration, amid a rise of adult-specific LLMs like sex worker chatbot GPTease (Lux Alptraum/The Verge)

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SEC filing: Oracle signed multiple large cloud agreements, including one that is expected to contribute $30B+ in annual revenue starting in FY28; ORCL jumps 5%+ (Samantha Subin/CNBC)

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Apple will delay rolling out some iOS 26 features in the EU later this year, including "visited places", citing the difficulty of complying with the DMA (Edith Hancock/Wall Street Journal)

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Microsoft claims its new AI tool diagnoses diseases with 80% accuracy vs. doctors' 20%; Mustafa Suleyman calls it a "step toward medical superintelligence" (Will Knight/Wired)

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Europol says it has dismantled a crypto investment fraud ring in Spain that laundered €460M using a global network of accomplices, and five people were arrested (Sudip Kar-Gupta/Reuters)

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Tinder is mandating new users in California verify their profiles using facial recognition technology starting June 30 in a bid to reduce impersonation (Kerry Flynn/Axios)

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Source: Nintendo pulled its products from Amazon's US site after noticing third-party merchants were selling games in the US at prices below Nintendo's rates (Matt Day/Bloomberg)

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Spotify revamps its Discover Weekly playlist after ten years, adding new genre filters for Premium users, and says users streamed 100B+ tracks via the playlist (Amanda Silberling/TechCrunch)

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Bank of Korea temporarily halts preparations for the second phase of its pilot initiative testing program for a central bank digital currency, scheduled for Q4 (Soo-Hyang Choi/Bloomberg)

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Stockholm-based Tandem Health, which has developed an AI medical copilot for clinicians to record patient consultations, raised a $50M Series A led by Kinnevik (Maya Dharampal-Hornby/Sifted)

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