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A US judge dismisses xAI's lawsuit alleging OpenAI stole trade secrets, saying xAI failed to show OpenAI induced a former xAI engineer to divulge trade secrets (www.reuters.com)
2026-6-16

Britain Unveils Sweeping Ban On Social Media For Under-16s (news.slashdot.org)
2026-6-16 U.K. Ban Social Media

Radical Numerics, which is developing AI models that learn directly from biological data, raised a $50M seed led by Emergence Capital (www.axios.com)
2026-6-16 AI

Anthropic's belief in its own commitment to safety gives Anthropic the license to aggressively favor its business and even challenge the US government (stratechery.com)
2026-6-16

Fox Is Buying Roku For $22 Billion (entertainment.slashdot.org)
2026-6-16

Google says a Chinese-linked hacking group targeted US and Canadian academic, medical, and military research institutions from September 2023 to November 2025 (www.reuters.com)
2026-6-16 China Google Canada

Source: Anthropic was given 90 minutes to comply and was not provided with detailed concerns before the export control order was issued (www.ft.com)
2026-6-16

Google CEO Largely Avoids Discussing AI In Stanford Commencement Speech (news.slashdot.org)
2026-6-16 Google AI

Cybersecurity startup Chainguard, Cisco, Cloudflare, JPMorgan Chase, and others launch Athena, a coalition to secure open-source software using AI (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-16 Startup AI JPMorgan Cisco

NewCore, which helps companies manage both human and AI agent identities in a single system, emerges from stealth with a $66M seed led by Cyberstarts (techcrunch.com)
2026-6-16 AI

A US judge rejects Meta's bid to dismiss a lawsuit from Strike 3, which owns porn production companies, that alleges Meta torrented its videos for AI training (torrentfreak.com)
2026-6-16 AI

American Express agrees to acquire restaurant booking platform TheFork from Tripadvisor in an all-cash deal worth $700M; TRIP jumps 6%+ (www.reuters.com)
2026-6-16 U.S.

Electronic Arts launches EA Advertising, letting brands integrate directly into gameplay through dynamic, real-time placements, including stadium signage (www.cnbc.com)
2026-6-16

Zhipu's shares closed up 33% on Monday after JPMorgan raised the stock's price target and picked it as a winner against MiniMax; MiniMax closed up 7% (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-16 JPMorgan

Canadian payments company Nuvei agrees to acquire NY-based cross-border payments company Payoneer for ~$2.75B in cash; the deal is expected to close in mid-2027 (www.reuters.com)
2026-6-16 Canada

SpaceX IPO raised a total of $85.7B as underwriters exercised their overallotment of shares, after raising an initial $75B on June 11 (www.cnbc.com)
2026-6-16 IPO SpaceX

Indian AI startup Sarvam raised $234M in the first close of a $300M Series B at a $1.5B valuation, with HCLTech acquiring a 10.5% stake for ~$150M in cash (www.reuters.com)
2026-6-16 India Startup AI

Swiss Voters Reject Proposal To Cap Population At 10 Million (slashdot.org)
2026-6-16 Switzerland

1Password acquires Apono, which operates an AI-powered platform for managing cloud access, sources say in a deal valued at $250M to $300M (www.calcalistech.com)
2026-6-16 AI

SailPoint is acquiring Entro Security, which develops a cybersecurity platform for managing non-human identities, a source says in a deal valued at ~$200M (www.calcalistech.com)
2026-6-16

Salesforce agrees to acquire AI customer service platform Fin, formerly Intercom, for ~$3.6B, in a deal expected to close in Q4 of its 2027 fiscal year (www.cnbc.com)
2026-6-16 AI 4Q Salesforce

Sources say Anthropic struggles to communicate effectively with the Trump administration; an official says it “screwed us” after failing to “honor” a cyber EO (www.axios.com)
2026-6-16 Trump

A look at the proposals to share the AI wealth with the public: government stakes in AI labs, a tax on AI token use, a global capital income tax, and more (www.nytimes.com)
2026-6-15 Tax AI

Fox says it obtained a $12B loan for the Roku deal; existing Fox shareholders are expected to own ~73% of the combined company and Roku shareholders ~27% (www.cnbc.com)
2026-6-15

Are Many College Students Losing the Ability to Read? (news.slashdot.org)
2026-6-15

Source: Nvidia is marketing its first corporate bond sale since 2021, seeking to raise $20B+ across seven tranches with maturities ranging from two to 30 years (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-15 Nvidia

Docs: Tesla sent Swedish and Dutch regulators Full Self-Driving safety data that traffic-safety researchers called misleading; Dutch RDW approved FSD in April (www.reuters.com)
2026-6-15 Tesla Sweden Netherlands

Sources: the US government plans to let the Federal Data Center Enhancement Act, which details standards for data center use and operations, expire in September (www.wired.com)
2026-6-15

Court reporting shows AI's limits in replacing human skill, as reporters remain crucial for capturing gestures and working through noise, amid a worker shortage (www.wsj.com)
2026-6-15 AI

Canada's PM says the Anthropic ban shows the dangers of “over-reliance on certain models”, and compares the risks to those that led to the 2008 financial crisis (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-15 Canada Ban

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