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OpenAI Mulls Slashing Prices As It Competes With Anthropic For Users (slashdot.org)
2026-6-12

Former a16z GP John O'Farrell criticizes the AI industry and his ex-partners for spending hundreds of millions to fight regulation, calling it “a huge mistake” (www.nytimes.com)
2026-6-12 AI

Coinbase launches an AI agent that can execute trades and pay for premium research; users can give it access to their main account or have it operate separately (techcrunch.com)
2026-6-12 AI Coinbase

Opendoor Ends India Operations, Fueling a Bigger Conversation About AI and Outsourcing (slashdot.org)
2026-6-12 India AI

Sources: Anthropic signed 12+ initial agreements for direct data center leases, a first for the company, with Google potentially providing a financial guarantee (www.theinformation.com)
2026-6-12 Google

[Webinar] Device code phishing in 2026: live demos, real kits, and where it's headed next (pushsecurity.com)
2026-6-12

Authorities dismantle 'AudiA6' ransomware crypto-laundering service (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-6-12

PhoenixAI, formerly CelerData, which is building what it calls an agentic AI-ready analytical database, raised an $80M Series B led by Sky9 (siliconangle.com)
2026-6-12 Database AI

Barcelona-based Theker, which is building AI-powered robots for industrial environments, raised $85M led by CRV, with Samsung, LVMH, and others participating (economictimes.indiatimes.com)
2026-6-12 Samsung AI Robot

Waymo launches a $30 per month membership program called Waymo Premier, with perks including 10% cashback and five free ride cancellations per month (techcrunch.com)
2026-6-12

Sources: BlackRock put in an order to buy at least $5B worth of SpaceX shares; SpaceX received an over $1B request from a single family-office investor (www.wsj.com)
2026-6-12 SpaceX

Xbox CEO Says Current Margins 'Cannot Continue' (games.slashdot.org)
2026-6-12 Xbox

Product head Alex Benzer says Bluesky in 2026 plans to add “communities”, smaller spaces to “go deeper and hang out with people who care about the same stuff” (www.theverge.com)
2026-6-12

Citigroup launches a blockchain-based platform for wealthy and institutional clients to trade tokenized shares of private firms, initially for foreign investors (www.wsj.com)
2026-6-12 Blockchain

OpenAI Says China Launched Influence Campaign To Shape US Attitudes On AI Datacenters (slashdot.org)
2026-6-12 China AI

OpenAI acquires Ona, which offers cloud services to support AI agents, and plans to bring Ona's team into its Codex effort (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-12 AI

The US House fails to extend FISA's Section 702, ensuring the warrantless surveillance program will expire for the first time since its 2008 enactment (www.politico.com)
2026-6-12

Crusoe said it had “paused” a plan to build a Wyoming data center; sources: it failed to win customers including Google amid concerns about costs and timetable (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-12 Google

Amazon says its data centers used ~2.5B gallons of water in 2025, or 0.12 liters of water per kWh, and water use at sites it owns and operates fell 2% from 2024 (www.wsj.com)
2026-6-12 Amazon

Apollo Global has implemented a new risk assessment that categorizes software investments into 12 to 14 sectors to rank their susceptibility to AI disruption (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-12 AI

Jeff Bezos' Prometheus, which is building AI models for physical tasks, raised a $12B Series B at a $41B valuation, following a $6.2B Series A (www.axios.com)
2026-6-12 AI Jeff Bezos

Why AI-driven threats are exposing the limits of MSP security stacks (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-6-12 AI

Nvidia and Abridge, maker of an AI note-taking app for doctors, are training an AI model for clinical conversations using de-identified data and Nemotron models (www.wsj.com)
2026-6-12 AI Nvidia

Digital Asset, which builds Canton Network, a public blockchain with privacy features, raised $355M, including $100M from a16z crypto (news.bloomberglaw.com)
2026-6-11 Blockchain Asset

DoorDash launches an in-app AI chatbot to let users order food and groceries and make reservations with photos and prompts (www.cnbc.com)
2026-6-11 AI chatbot

Anthropic donates $150M to launch Claude Corps, a fellowship program that will teach 1,000 fellows how to use Claude and place them with nonprofits in the US (apnews.com)
2026-6-11

CISA tells govt agencies to patch critical exploited flaws in 3 days (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-6-11

Coupang hit with record $409 million data breach fine in Korea (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-6-11 Korea

Sources: Google is in talks with Samsung to manufacture a memory input-output die for its 10th-gen Icefish TPU, while making the computing engine at TSMC (www.theinformation.com)
2026-6-11 Google Samsung

Sources: SpaceX's IPO has attracted $70B+ in orders from retail investors, who are expected to be allocated at least 20% of the available shares (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-11 IPO Retail SpaceX

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