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Scaled Cognition, a reliability-focused lab that develops the Agentic Pretrained Transformer model, raised a $100M Series A led by Khosla at a $750M valuation (www.wsj.com)
2026-6-25

Exponential View: global AI sales, excluding China, hit $25B in Q1, exceeding an estimated $21B in data center and chip depreciation costs; margins remain thin (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-25 China AI

New Study Shows That Tall Vehicle Hoods Cause Hundreds More Deaths Per Year (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-6-25

OpenAI, Anthropic, Amazon, Microsoft, and others launch Raise Us, a new non-profit led by ex-Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo to help US workers adapt to AI (www.nytimes.com)
2026-6-25 Amazon Microsoft AI

How risk modelers like Fathom and Verisk are using AI and diffusion models to bypass the limits of physics-based “cat” models to predict natural disasters (www.ft.com)
2026-6-25 AI

Preliminary findings: the EU says Azure and AWS are “the largest and second largest” cloud services in the EU, as the bloc weighs up tougher DMA oversight (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-25

A profile of incoming WhatsApp CEO Kunal Shah, who studied philosophy in Mumbai, advised Sequoia India, and joins a growing pool of Indian-born tech executives (www.ft.com)
2026-6-25 India WhatsApp

IBM details a 0.7nm chip manufacturing process that utilizes a “nanostack” 3D transistor architecture, which it says can maintain chip innovation for 10 years (www.nytimes.com)
2026-6-25 IBM Manufacturing

Arm EVP Mohamed Awad says its chip architecture now accounts for 50%+ of the hyperscale cloud computing market, as AI demand transforms the data center industry (asia.nikkei.com)
2026-6-25 AI

Alibaba falls ~5% in Hong Kong after Anthropic accused it of “illicitly” accessing its AI models, taking its YTD fall to 33%; Xiaomi and Baidu fell 3%+ (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-25 Hong Kong Alibaba AI Xiaomi

Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon says the company is designing data center chips specifically for Chinese customers that are in compliance with US export controls (asia.nikkei.com)
2026-6-25 China

Coval, which develops simulation and evaluation tech for testing, launching, and monitoring AI voice and chat agents, raised a $28M Series A led by Norwest (siliconangle.com)
2026-6-25 AI

Mirendil, founded by former Anthropic researchers and seeking to build self-improving AI for open-source developers, raised a $200M seed at a $1B valuation (www.wsj.com)
2026-6-25 AI

NASA Rover Detects Potential Signatures of Ancient Microbial Life On Mars (science.slashdot.org)
2026-6-25 NASA

As China's working-age population shrinks, a consensus is emerging that it must deploy embodied AI robots into as many tasks as possible, as soon as possible (www.ft.com)
2026-6-25 China AI Robot

How a $45M donation to a group supporting Trump brought Larry Ellison deeper into Trump's circle, helped Oracle's business, and his son's acquisition of WBD (www.wsj.com)
2026-6-25 Trump Oracle

Assort Health, which develops AI voice agents for health care to handle scheduling and more, raised a $120M Series C led by Menlo Ventures at a $1.2B valuation (www.fiercehealthcare.com)
2026-6-25 AI

Paris-based Tsuga, whose observability software runs in customers' own clouds to help them skip per-byte ingestion costs, raised a $35M Series A led by Singular (thenextweb.com)
2026-6-25 Paris

Sources: Meta is accelerating plans to use LLMs to review content and ads, replacing ~50% of human review requests in 2026 and aiming for 90% by year-end (www.ft.com)
2026-6-25

TRM Labs: Iran-linked wallets, including those tied to Iran's central bank, have moved over $3.84B in transactions through the crypto exchange CoinEx since 2019 (www.wsj.com)
2026-6-25 Central Bank Iran

NAND flash maker Kioxia, Japan's most valuable company since June 12, plans to offer US depositary shares in spring 2027 amid AI-driven demand for memory chips (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-25 Japan AI

New Zealand-based Partly, which develops an AI model for the auto parts industry, raised a $50M Series B led by DST at a $500M valuation, as it enters the US (siliconangle.com)
2026-6-25 AI New Zealand

Stripe, Anthropic, and OpenAI Are Backing Effort To Stop Respiratory Infections (science.slashdot.org)
2026-6-25

The Netherlands is lobbying the US not to expand chip equipment export controls that would constrain ASML's ability to sell immersion DUV machines to China (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-25 China Netherlands

Facebook brings back Facebook Creator Studio as a stand-alone app with built-in AI chatbot to help creators grow their audiences through personalized guidance (techcrunch.com)
2026-6-25 Facebook AI chatbot

Digital advocacy firms like CiviClick and Influent appear to use AI to generate mass public comments on local energy projects, mostly favoring fossil fuel use (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-25 Energy AI

An Amazon seller reveals how middlemen on chat apps offer access to Amazon employees who allegedly grant favors, like reinstating suspended accounts, for a fee (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-25 Amazon

Hang Ten Systems, led by former Infosys CEO Vishal Sikka, launches with a $32M seed led by Mayfield to help enterprises use AI to run software at a lower cost (techcrunch.com)
2026-6-25 AI

Trase, which is building an operating system and infrastructure layer for AI agents in industries like health care and defense, raised a $107M seed led by Arch (www.axios.com)
2026-6-25 AI

Google releases new privacy controls for activity history, personalization (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-6-25 Google

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