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Meta says Threads now has 500M MAUs, adds a "Your Algo" tool that lets users privately control what they see in their feed, and launches Communities out of beta (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)

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Alibaba's AI unit Tongyi Lab launches the Qwen Robot Suite, its first suite of AI models for robots, in pilot testing with some Alibaba Cloud enterprise clients (Wency Chen/South China Morning Post)

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You only have 5 days left to watch the Expendables movies on Netflix

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Lenovo’s next tablet has a thick speaker bump and an upgraded kickstand

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Kodak’s collectible Charmera camera is getting new Y2K-inspired designs

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Half a billion people are using Threads every month

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SpaceX agrees to acquire Cursor in a merger valuing the AI coding startup at $60B, set to close in Q3 2026, or pay a $4B to $10B termination fee (Reuters)

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SoftBank announces an OpenAI-powered "patching service" that aims to protect Japan's top 3,000 companies behind crucial infrastructure against cyberattacks (Yuri Kageyama/Associated Press)

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Florida sues TikTok for allegedly violating its social media regulations for minors and state consumer protection laws by showing "X-Rated" content to minors (Alex Ebert/Bloomberg Law)

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France plans €655M in AI investments through 2030 and a Mistral-powered chatbot for state services; its security service will replace Palantir with Chapsvision (Benoit Berthelot/Bloomberg)

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India blocks Telegram until June 22 citing its use by organized "cheating rackets" to "defraud candidates" taking a national medical entrance examination (Reuters)

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Study: Mistral and other open-source AI models are among the weakest at filtering Russian disinformation; Mistral's top model ranks 47 out of 60 tested models (Andrew Jack/Financial Times)

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After resurrecting an iconic PC brand, Commodore is getting into flip phones

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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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