Tech

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

Fox says it is acquiring Roku in a deal worth around $22B, including debt, giving it access to more than 100M streaming households (www.wsj.com)
2026-6-15

Tencent-backed Enflame receives approval for a Shanghai IPO and plans to raise ~$888M; Enflame is the last of China's four leading AI chipmakers to go to market (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-15 China IPO AI Tencent Shanghai

The UK social media ban will apply to Snapchat, TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, and X, and will require platforms to stop children from livestreaming (www.bbc.com)
2026-6-15 Facebook YouTube Snapchat Instagram Ban

Letter: US cybersecurity leaders urge the White House to lift the ban on Anthropic's Mythos and Fable 5, arguing the move hurts defenders more than attackers (www.axios.com)
2026-6-15 Ban

UK PM Keir Starmer says the UK will ban social media for under-16s and restrict gaming and livestreaming platforms, aiming for regulation by the end of 2026 (www.reuters.com)
2026-6-15 Ban

President Trump says he warned Emmanuel Macron to drop France's 3% digital services tax on US tech giants, or face a 100% tariff on French champagne and wine (nypost.com)
2026-6-15 Trump France Tax

IT Workers Are Now Struggling to Find Work, as 'Picky' Companies Demand AI Skills (it.slashdot.org)
2026-6-15 AI

As “nudify” tools proliferate, unleashing a new form of bullying among kids, parents and schools are struggling to protect young victims from AI deepfakes (www.wsj.com)
2026-6-15 AI

A profile of UC Berkeley professor Hany Farid, the world's leading digital forensics expert for 20+ years, who says he is now struggling to identify AI fakes (www.nytimes.com)
2026-6-15 AI

Sources: Alibaba is in talks to buy Chinese fresh grocery delivery platform Pupu for $1.5B, in a bid to better compete with food delivery rivals like Meituan (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-15 China Alibaba

Madrid-based Orbio, which uses AI agents to help businesses interview, onboard, and manage frontline workers, raised a $21M Series A led by Dawn Capital (techcrunch.com)
2026-6-15 Interview AI

Inside the Signal group chat where Sergey Brin, Marc Andreessen, Garry Tan, and other tech elites toss out strategies to oppose a proposed California wealth tax (sfstandard.com)
2026-6-15 Tax California

Sources: ByteDance is in talks with Shanghai-based Iluvatar CoreX to purchase AI inference GPUs, and is also considering a deal to buy Baidu's Kunlunxin chips (www.reuters.com)
2026-6-15 AI Shanghai

Health wearables are booming, with both Oura and Whoop eyeing IPOs, but investors remain cautious after Fitbit's struggles and low consumer hardware margins (www.wsj.com)
2026-6-15 IPO

Rylo, which develops real-time speech and sign-language translation tools for deaf and hard-of-hearing users, raised $85M led by General Catalyst and Canaan (www.calcalistech.com)
2026-6-15

US-Iran Peace Agreement Prompts Stock Rally, Leaves Some Investors Skeptical and Questions on Speed of Resuming Oil Production (news.slashdot.org)
2026-6-15 Iran

Workers Spend As Much Time 'Botsitting' AI As Producing Useful Work, Survey Finds (it.slashdot.org)
2026-6-15 AI

Hypha, which extracts data from private-market documents to create workflows for underwriting, portfolio monitoring, and asset management, raised a $50M seed (www.axios.com)
2026-6-15 Asset

Sandstone, which builds AI-powered workflow automation tools for legal teams at small and mid-sized businesses, raised a $30M Series A led by Lightspeed (techcrunch.com)
2026-6-15 AI

Sundar Pichai faced a walkout at his Stanford commencement speech, as 100+ students left amid chants of “Free, free Palestine” over Google's ties with Israel (nypost.com)
2026-6-15 Israel Google

Microsoft Updates Six Windows' Apps. 'Photos' Gets Watermarks for Copilot Images (Off by Default) (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-6-15 Microsoft

Sources: Frank founder Charlie Javice, sentenced in September 2025 to 85 months for defrauding JPMorgan Chase, has been seeking a presidential pardon from Trump (www.wsj.com)
2026-6-15 Trump JPMorgan

A profile of Kalshi COO Luana Lopes Lara, who has overseen a tremendous pace of growth over the past year as the company faces political and regulatory backlash (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-15

UK Scientists See Little Evidence for Claims Smartphones Are Rewiring Kids' Brains (mobile.slashdot.org)
2026-6-15

Chinese Tesla drivers are using tiny plastic heads to fool Tesla's distracted-driving controls, which appear unable to distinguish figurines from real people (www.wired.com)
2026-6-15 China Tesla

A government crackdown on online casinos operating in the Isle of Man has led to a major tax revenue loss, accelerating the island's slide toward a fiscal cliff (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-15 Tax

As 'Disclosure Day' Premieres, Steven Spielberg Says He Believes Aliens Really Have Visited Earth (entertainment.slashdot.org)
2026-6-15

Satya Nadella says companies must build both human capital and token capital, with human judgment guiding AI systems that learn and improve over time (x.com)
2026-6-15 AI

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