From: today

India orders temporary ban on Telegram over exam fraud concerns

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The restrictions include a nationwide ban on Telegram until June 22 and a requirement to disable the app's message editing feature.

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This startup’s super metals could soon be in military drones, luxury watches, and chef’s knives

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Instead of heating metals, Foundation Alloy beats them into submission. The startup has raised $22 million to scale up production of its alloys.

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SpaceX to acquire Cursor for $60B in stock, days after blockbuster IPO

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The deal is supposed to help SpaceX's struggling AI division. The company told IPO investors it sees a $26 trillion addressable market in AI.

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Threads adds new personalization and community features as it reaches 500M monthly users

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The Meta-owned social platform announced a series of new features launching today, including a "Your Algo" tool that lets users control what they see in their feeds

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ChatGPT’s market share slips below 50% for first time

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The chatbot still remains the most popular AI assistant worldwide with over 1.1 billion monthly users, followed by Gemini with 662 million and Claude with 245 million.

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‘Pretty Crazy’ Token Usage Is Testing Bosses’ Bet on AI

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A Silicon Valley software maker and an ecommerce company reveal to WIRED how they are navigating the emerging challenge of “tokenomics.”

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Malaysia’s AI agent-powered messaging app Respond.io raises $62.5M, eyes acquisitions

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Respond.io, one of Malaysia startups to watch, uses AI agents to handle high volumes of customer inquiries and charges per convo, not per seat.

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DOJ Lawyers Argue xAI Is ‘Vital’ for National Security in NAACP Lawsuit

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In a bid to dismiss a lawsuit over xAI’s polluting gas turbines, the Justice Department claimed the company is integral to military operations—including the Iran War.

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From: yesterday

Anthropic Is Still at Odds With the White House Over Claude Fable 5

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Anthropic leaders flew to Washington, DC, to meet with White House officials on Monday. After high-level talks, they’re still split on the risk Claude Fable 5 presents.

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Sundar Pichai faces boos, walkout at Stanford graduation ceremony over Google’s Israel, ICE ties

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AI is once again at the heart of a college graduation protest — this time for the technology's use in Google's defense contracts.

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The US government’s Anthropic models ban was never about an AI jailbreak

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The Trump administration's decision that forced Anthropic to pull its latest cybersecurity models could be reactionary, retaliatory, or both, but the message is clear: The AI industry isn't immune fro...

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Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth Admits the Company’s AI Reorg Was ‘Atrocious’

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In an internal memo seen by WIRED, Bosworth promised employees more stability, better communication, and the return of workplace perks as the company seeks to improve morale.

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From: yesterday

SpaceX is public: Everything you need to know post-IPO

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TechCrunch has followed SpaceX's start, struggles, and successes from the early days. And we're here for what happens next too. This package of SpaceX IPO coverage includes who stands to win (and mayb...

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Meta’s new ‘AI Mode’ on Facebook pulls from public info across its platforms

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Meta announced Monday that it's rolling out a wave of new AI features on Facebook, the latest sign of the company's effort to catch up in the AI race and keep users more engaged on the platform.

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These are the countries moving to ban social media for children

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Australia was the first country to issue a ban in late 2025, aiming to reduce the pressures and risks that young users may face on social media, including cyberbullying, social media addiction, and ex...

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Cybersecurity vets protest ‘dangerous’ US government ban on Anthropic’s most powerful models

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A group made up of dozens of cybersecurity experts urged the White House to remove export control restrictions on Anthropic’s models Fable and Mythos, arguing that the order is going to limit the ab...

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SpaceX’s biggest-ever IPO just grew to $85.7 billion raised

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SpaceX's IPO underwriters maxed out their share purchases, adding to an already historic amount of money raised.

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UK unveils sweeping social media ban for users under 16

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The ban would apply to a range of social media platforms, including Snapchat, TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, and X.

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Salesforce acquires AI customer service platform Fin for $3.6 billion

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Salesforce says it wants to use Fin's team and technology to improve Agentforce, its existing enterprise platform that businesses can use to build custom AI agents that automate tasks.

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Sarvam becomes India’s newest AI unicorn with $234 million funding round led by HCLTech

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Indian IT services company HCLTech is investing $150 million in the Bengaluru startup.

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Fox to acquire Roku in $22B deal

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Fox says the deal will create the third-largest television company in the United States.

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As AI agents become employees, NewCore emerges with $66M to give them identities

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NewCore argues the next challenge in enterprise security will be managing AI agents, not people.

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A satellite just learned to find things on its own — here’s what that means

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In April, for the first time ever, an Earth observation satellite found what it was looking for, all on its own.

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Meta Tapped a Pentagon Supplier to Prototype Face Recognition for Its Glasses

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Rank One, whose board includes a former CIA deputy director and a former FBI science chief, supplied face recognition to Meta for internal development of its smart glasses app.

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