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Kuala Lumpur-based Respond.io, which uses AI agents to manage customer conversations, raised a $62.5M Series B led by Camber, following a $7M Series A in 2022 (Kate Park/TechCrunch)

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Italy's competition regulator opens a probe into Apple under the DMA over the interoperability of iOS and iPadOS with alternative cloud services (Cristina Carlevaro/Reuters)

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Sources: DeepSeek closed a $7.4B round at a $50B valuation under an unusual structure requiring investors to put capital into an LP run by CEO Liang Wenfeng (The Information)

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Sources: audited financial figures show OpenAI spending hit $34B in 2025, including $19B on research and development and nearly $6B on sales and marketing (Financial Times)

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Sources: Microsoft is adding AWS capacity to GitHub after AI-driven growth strained infrastructure and triggered a series of reliability issues (Ashley Stewart/Business Insider)

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Memo: CTO Andrew Bosworth said Meta did "an atrocious job" sharing Applied AI's vision, promising employees better communication, career growth, and more perks (Wired)

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Filing: the US DOJ asks court to dismiss an NAACP suit over xAI's gas turbines, saying xAI is integral to US' military operations, including the Iran War (Molly Taft/Wired)

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The Batman Part 2 casting rumor reveals an even darker movie than the original

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Sources: Trump officials weighed Anthropic export controls weeks before forcing its models offline, after a dispute over Mythos access for a China-linked firm (Washington Post)

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Anthropic says its senior leaders met Trump admin officials on June 15, but no resolution was reached and both sides are working to resolve things quickly (Leo Schwartz/The Information)

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Inside the fight over Claude Mythos 5

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[Sponsor] Mux — Video for Developers

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The Washington Post on the EU’s DMA Folly

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Taxi-hailing app Go's shares grew 21% in its Tokyo debut, after it raised ~$553M in Japan's largest IPO in 2026, giving the company a market value of ~$1.16B (Yasutaka Tamura/Bloomberg)

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Summer Hikaru Died leads 2026 best manga awards nominees list

Polygon - All

A look at Roblox's biometric age-checking tool, which will help place its users into age-based accounts starting in June, amid controversy over user privacy (NBC News)

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House of the Dragon season 3 might finally redeem itself with the Battle of the Gullet

Polygon - All

Canada wants to stop companies from using your data to charge you more, but the details are still missing

The Next Web

Xiaomi built a robotic arm that plugs in your EV at home, delivering on a promise Tesla made in 2014 and never kept

The Next Web

Rivian CEO says supervised point-to-point self-driving will arrive this year, and he’s comparing it directly to Tesla’s FSD

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