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Sources: the US DHS, in partnership with DOGE, has built the first-ever searchable national citizenship data system, pulling from SSA and immigration databases (www.npr.org)
5 days ago Immigration

GOP Senators agree to change a provision in the tax bill from a 10-year ban on state AI regulation to a 5-year ban with carve outs for issues such as copyrights (www.bloomberg.com)
5 days ago Tax AI Ban Republican

Canada rescinds its Digital Services Tax “in anticipation of” a trade deal with the US, with trade talks resuming; the tax was set to go into effect on Monday (apnews.com)
5 days ago Tax Canada

UK Scientists Plan to Construct Synthetic Human Genetic Material From Scratch (science.slashdot.org)
5 days ago

A profile of OnlyFans' secretive founder Leo Radvinsky, as the platform's parent company is considering a sale for as much as $8B, according to sources (www.wsj.com)
5 days ago

China's tech giants are ramping up M&A and investment deals as the government shifts its stance to support the tech industry, particularly in areas like AI (www.bloomberg.com)
5 days ago China AI

Beware of Promoting AI in Products, Researchers Warn Marketers (slashdot.org)
5 days ago AI

Spinwheel, which helps fintech companies and banks authenticate users, automate data retrieval, and facilitate payments, raised a $30M Series A led by F-Prime (www.axios.com)
5 days ago Fintech

Kuo expects Apple to mass produce a Vision Pro with M5 in Q3 2025, a Vision Air in Q3 2027, a Vision Pro with a new design and XR glasses in H2 2028, and more (9to5mac.com)
5 days ago Apple

Earth is Trapping Much More Heat Than Climate Models Forecast (news.slashdot.org)
5 days ago Climate

Sources: Menlo Ventures targets ~$1.5B for new funds to invest in AI ventures, including $650M for early-stage startups, and $850M for later-stage companies (www.wsj.com)
5 days ago Startup AI

For the Free Software Foundation's Summer Fundraiser, the 'GNU Press Shop' is Open (news.slashdot.org)
5 days ago

Winnipeg-based Conquest Planning, which uses AI to help financial advisors and other clients make decisions, raised an $80M Series B led by Goldman Sachs (betakit.com)
5 days ago AI Goldman

New NSA/CISA Report Again Urges the Use of Memory-Safe Programming Language (it.slashdot.org)
5 days ago programming

Memo: OpenAI's Mark Chen responds to Meta offers, says it feels like “someone has broken into our home and stolen something” and OpenAI is “recalibrating comp” (www.wired.com)
5 days ago

Blue Origin Just Launched Six More Passengers to the Edge of Space (science.slashdot.org)
5 days ago

The F1 movie gives Apple its first box office hit, opening to $144M worldwide and $55.6M in the US; it was pushed on Apple Music, Podcasts, Fitness+, and Wallet (deadline.com)
5 days ago Apple

This Microsoft Surface SE open-box deal is now 49% off, but going fast (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
5 days ago Microsoft

Cloudflare open-sources Orange Meets with End-to-End encryption (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
5 days ago

Bluetooth flaws could let hackers spy through your microphone (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
5 days ago

Has an AI Backlash Begun? (it.slashdot.org)
5 days ago AI

Elon Musk calls the Senate tax bill “utterly insane” as it raises taxes on nuclear and geothermal energy and battery storage, which are crucial for AI training (www.noahpinion.blog)
5 days ago Tax Energy AI Elon Musk Battery Senate

Baidu plans to open-source its Ernie LLM on June 30; some say this could cement China's AI leadership, while others doubt it will be a “DeepSeek moment” (www.cnbc.com)
5 days ago China AI

To Spam AI Chatbots, Companies Spam Reddit with AI-Generated Posts (tech.slashdot.org)
5 days ago AI chatbot Reddit

MCP has promise beyond AI, and could serve as a “universal plugin system” that connects disparate data sources and tools together to enable new capabilities (worksonmymachine.substack.com)
5 days ago AI

Just How Much Space Data Will the Rubin Observatory Collect? (science.slashdot.org)
5 days ago

OpenAI is expanding its consulting-like service to refine its models and build bespoke apps for large enterprise and government clients spending at least $10M (www.theinformation.com)
5 days ago

Carbon Record Reveals Evidence of Extensive Human Fire Use 50,000 Years Ago (science.slashdot.org)
6 days ago

Call center agents in Australia, Canada, Greece, and the US say they've been repeatedly mistaken for AI, as the industry rapidly integrates AI alongside humans (www.bloomberg.com)
6 days ago Australia AI Canada Greece

Report: Swiss deep tech startups have created over $100B in total enterprise value, with 60% of VC funding in Switzerland from 2019 to 2025 going to deep tech (tech.eu)
6 days ago Startup Switzerland

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