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Sources: Meta decided to support KOSA after it was packaged with language preempting state AI laws and a bill requiring app stores to verify users' ages (Politico)

Techmeme

Kapwing: in tests, ~60% of the first 500 TikTok For You videos shown to a new account were AI slop, ~3x the slop shown to a new YouTube user via YouTube Shorts (Matt G. Southern/Search Engine Journal)

Techmeme

Widow's Bay season 1 ending explained by director, plus a season 2 teaser

Polygon - All

Sources: the US has held off adding DeepSeek, CXMT, and 100+ other flagged companies to its Entity List, last updated in October, the longest gap in 10+ years (Karen Freifeld/Reuters)

Techmeme

Sources: Amazon faces a possible FTC lawsuit alleging it misled advertisers; multiple state AGs are involved and the case could seek billions in civil penalties (Bloomberg)

Techmeme

Many US lawmakers said this week they had not been briefed on Trump's Fable 5 move, including Ted Cruz, whose commerce committee has jurisdiction over AI policy (Politico)

Techmeme

Checking In on the iOS Continental Fun-Gap Drift

Daring Fireball

Illinois Governor JB Pritzker signs a state budget that levies taxes on social media giants, digital advertising, and prediction and crypto markets (Mitchell Armentrout/Chicago Sun Times)

Techmeme

Anthropic pauses its plan to move Claude Agent SDK to token-based billing from June 15, saying "Nothing changes for now", giving power users a pricing reprieve (Kyle Orland/Ars Technica)

Techmeme

SpaceX closed up 4.83% on Tuesday for a $2.65T market cap, just above Amazon's, after popping ~12% intraday and briefly overtaking Microsoft's $2.93T market cap (CNBC)

Techmeme

Sources: PayPal plans to close its 10-year-old PayPal Ventures arm amid new CEO Enrique Lores' shakeup and has hired Jefferies to explore selling some positions (Ben Weiss/Fortune)

Techmeme

A Czech AI startup says it can detect drones by sound for €150 per sensor, and it wants to wire up power grids first

The Next Web

Melbourne-based Everlab, which is building an AI-powered preventive healthcare platform, raised a AU$65M Series A led by Airtree Ventures (Tegan Jones/SmartCompany)

Techmeme

Spider-Man actor Tom Holland reveals his Spider-Man replacement pick

Polygon - All

The most important scene in Fast & Furious lasts less than a minute and Vin Diesel didn't get paid to film it

Polygon - All

Clive Barker's Hellraiser: Revival hands-on: The first good Hellraiser game?

Polygon - All

UC Davis brain implant lets ALS patient speak with 99% accuracy and work full time, no researchers needed

The Next Web

Critical Role reveals new Age of Umbra Sallowlands characters ahead of upcoming premiere

Polygon - All

The Complete Calvin and Hobbes is a great last-minute Father’s Day gift

The Verge - All Posts

SpaceX Acquires xAI, Goes Public, Acquires Cursor

Michael Tsai