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Sources: Meta decided to support KOSA after it was packaged with language preempting state AI laws and a bill requiring app stores to verify users' ages (www.politico.com)
2026-6-17 AI

Kapwing: in tests, ~60% of the first 500 TikTok For You videos shown to a new account were AI slop, ~3x the slop shown to a new YouTube user via YouTube Shorts (www.searchenginejournal.com)
2026-6-17 AI YouTube

Sources: the US has held off adding DeepSeek, CXMT, and 100+ other flagged companies to its Entity List, last updated in October, the longest gap in 10+ years (www.reuters.com)
2026-6-17

Many US lawmakers said this week they had not been formally briefed on Trump's Fable 5 move, including Ted Cruz, whose commerce committee can shape AI policy (www.politico.com)
2026-6-17 Trump AI

Sources: Amazon faces a possible FTC lawsuit alleging it misled advertisers; multiple state AGs are involved and the case could seek billions in civil penalties (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-17 Amazon

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker signs a state budget with new taxes on social media giants, digital ads, and prediction and crypto markets, all likely facing lawsuits (chicago.suntimes.com)
2026-6-17 Tax Budget

Commodore's Callback 8020 Is a $499 Flip Phone That Blocks Social Media and Browsers (mobile.slashdot.org)
2026-6-17 Social Media

SpaceX closed up 4.8% on Tuesday with a $2.65T market cap, just above Amazon's, after popping ~12% intraday and briefly overtaking Microsoft's $2.93T market cap (www.cnbc.com)
2026-6-17 Amazon Microsoft SpaceX

Anthropic pauses its anticipated move to token-based billing for Claude Agent SDK that it planned to implement on June 15, saying “Nothing changes for now” (arstechnica.com)
2026-6-17

Malicious JetBrains Marketplace plugins steal AI API keys from developers (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-6-17 AI

Binance Set To Lose Permission To Operate In EU (news.slashdot.org)
2026-6-17

Sources: PayPal to shutter its 10-year-old PayPal Ventures arm amid a broader shakeup under a new CEO and has hired Jefferies to explore selling some positions (fortune.com)
2026-6-17

France To Stop Certifying Products Without Quantum-Safe Encryption (it.slashdot.org)
2026-6-17 France Quantum

Melbourne-based Everlab, which is building an AI-powered preventive healthcare platform, raised a AU$65M Series A led by Airtree Ventures (www.smartcompany.com.au)
2026-6-17 AI Melbourne

New Rokarolla Android malware targets 217 banking, crypto apps (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-6-17 Android

Mobileye Is Entering the US Robotaxi Market With Standalone Service (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-6-17

Sensor Tower: ChatGPT's market share fell to 46.4% by the end of May, as Gemini rose to 27.7% and Claude to 10.3%; Grok, Meta AI, and others have less than 5% (techcrunch.com)
2026-6-17 AI Sensor

Snap's First Consumer AI Glasses Are Coming This Fall For $2,195 (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-6-17 AI

Zhipu launches GLM-5.2, says it markedly improves coding and agentic tasks, with strong long-horizon capabilities and a 1M context window, under an MIT license (z.ai)
2026-6-17

SpaceX To Acquire AI Coding Startup Cursor For $60 Billion (science.slashdot.org)
2026-6-17 Startup AI SpaceX

Google launches Android 17 and Wear OS 7, first on Pixel devices, with support for the latest AI models, a bubble bar UI, and live updates on Wear OS (techcrunch.com)
2026-6-17 Android Google AI

Turn 15 minutes into lifetime learning while Headway's just $48 (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-6-17

Steam Workshop abused to spread malware via Wallpaper Engine app (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-6-17

Qualcomm announces Snapdragon Reality Elite, its new flagship XR chipset, debuting in the compute puck of Xreal's Aura Android XR device this fall (www.uploadvr.com)
2026-6-17 Android

Letter: Hightouch, an ad tech startup recently valued at $2.75B, offers to buy LiveRamp's identity business from Publicis for $800M to $1.2B in cash and stock (www.axios.com)
2026-6-17 Startup

A look at Specs, which have a battery life of up to four hours per charge, and an interview with Snap CEO Evan Spiegel about the AR glasses (www.fastcompany.com)
2026-6-17 Interview Battery AR

The US Government's Anthropic Models Ban Was Never About an AI Jailbreak (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-6-17 AI Ban

Microsoft is moving Copilot Cowork to usage-based pricing and is considering a Microsoft-hosted version of DeepSeek as a cheaper option (www.axios.com)
2026-6-17 Microsoft

Snap unveils $2,195 Specs, its first AR glasses that are “fully standalone” and have a 51-degree field of view, expected “this fall” in the US, UK, and France (www.theverge.com)
2026-6-17 France AR

Sources: Apple's AirPods with cameras for AI are scheduled to launch in 2027 alongside the 20th anniversary pro iPhones and a second-generation foldable iPhone (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-17 iPhone AI Apple

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