<html> <head> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0"> <style> a { text-decoration:none; } .uppercase { text-transform:uppercase; } .page { font-family:Optima, Helvetica, sans-serif; width:620px; margin:0 auto; background-color:white; font-size:16px; } .page table { border-collapse:collapse; } .header a, .header a:hover, .header a:visited { color:#606060; } .section { margin-top:12px; } .first_section { margin-top:4px; } .first_in_section { border-top:none !important; } .story .leading_item .title { font-size:18px; } .big_story .leading_item .title { font-size:24px; } .clustered_items .title { font-size:18px; } .title a { color:#004860; font-weight:bold; } .excerpt { color:black; font-size:16px; } .cite { color:#888; display:inline-block; white-space: nowrap; } a.tweet_cite:link, a.tweet_cite:visited, a.fb_item_cite:link, a.fb_item_cite:visited { color:black; } a.tweet_body:link, a.tweet_body:visited, a.fb_item_body:link, a.fb_item_body:visited { color:black; } .tweet, .fb_item { padding:1px 0; } .fb_item_image { width:12px; } .tweet_image { width:12px; } .logo { display:block; background:url(https://www.techmeme.com/img/techmeme34.png); background-size: cover; height:34px; width:142px; } .logo_img { height:34px; width:142px; } .sponsor .label { display:block; color:#686860; font-size:12px; font-weight:bold; padding:2px 0; } .event a:link, .event a:visited { color:#004860; } .banner { margin-bottom:12px; padding:20px 10px; background-color:#ffd700; text-align:center; font-size:26px; color:red; } .mcnPreviewText{display: none !important;} @media only screen and (max-width: 480px) { body, .page { width:100% !important; -webkit-text-size-adjust:none !important; } .MC_links { font-size:14px !important; padding-bottom:10px !important; } .page_date { font-size:18px !important; } .narrow_image { display:none !important; } .section { margin-top:16px !important; } .first_section { margin-top:6px !important; } .story, .big_story { padding: 12px 0 !important; border-top:1px solid silver !important; } .first_in_section { border-top:none !important; } .logo { background:url(https://www.techmeme.com/img/techmeme135.png) !important; background-size: cover !important; height:38px !important; width:160px !important; } .logo_img { height:38px !important; width:160px !important; } .tweet_image, .fb_item_image { width: 12px !important; } .events { padding:12px 10px !important; } .sponsor_image { max-width: 100px; } .presented_by { padding:2px 0 10px !important; } } </style> <!--[if gte mso 9]> <style type="text/css"> .clustered_items td { padding-left:38px !important; } </style> <![endif]--> </head> <body> <!-- --> <!--[if !gte mso 9]><!----><span class="mcnPreview Text" style="display:none; font-size:0px; line-height:0px; max-height:0px; max-width:0px; opacity:0; overflow:hidden; visibility:hidden; mso-hide:all;">The Senate parliamentarian rules that a Republican effort blocking US states from enforcing AI laws for 10 years will remain in Trump's One Big Beauti</span><!--<![endif]--> <!-- --> <div class="page" style="font-family: Optima, Helvetica, sans-serif;width: 620px;margin: 0 auto;background-color: white;font-size: 16px;"> <div class="header"> <table style="width: 100%;margin-bottom: 8px;border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td class="MC_links" colspan="2" style="font-size:13px;text-align:center;padding:2px 0 8px;color:#606060"> <a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=9dde68040c&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #606060;">Got this from a friend? Subscribe!</a> | <a href="https://us14.forward-to-friend.com/forward?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=af6663de18&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #606060;">Forward</a> | <a href="https://us14.campaign-archive.com/?e=06cea4a9e4&u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=af6663de18" style="text-decoration: none;color: #606060;">View in browser</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="vertical-align:middle;padding-left:10px;min-height:38px;"> <a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=983390fdf6&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #606060;"> <!-- <span class="logo"></span> --> <img class="logo_img" src="https://www.techmeme.com/img/techmeme135.png" width="142" height="34" style="height: 34px;width: 142px;"> </a> </td> <td class="page_date" style="vertical-align:middle;text-align:right;color:#004860;font-weight:700;padding-right:10px">Sun, Jun 22</td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border:1px solid lightgray;padding:5px 0;background-color:white;margin:0 auto 10px;" class="story sponsor"> <table class="leading_item" style="width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td colspan="2"> <div class="presented_by" style="text-align:center;width:100%;letter-spacing:2px;text-transform:uppercase;font-size:14px;padding:2px 0 4px;"> Presented by Google </div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding-left:10px;vertical-align:middle;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=f172088eaa&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Generate videos with Veo 3 in Google Gemini</a></span> <span class="excerpt" style="color: black;font-size: 16px;"> — Create high-quality, 8-second videos with Veo 3, our state-of-the-art AI video generator. Try it with a Google AI Pro plan or get the highest access with the Ultra plan.</span> </td> <td style="padding:0 15px 0 15px;vertical-align:middle;text-align:right;"> <a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=d80d11266c&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;"> <img class="sponsor_image" src="https://techmeme.com/simg/gemini_264px.png"> </a> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <!-- <div class="banner"> YOUR AD HERE </div> --> <table class="events" style="width: 100%;background-color: #f4f4f4;border-top: 1px solid lightgray;border-bottom: 1px solid lightgray;border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr><td style="padding:14px 10px;"> <span style="color:#455;font-weight:bold;">Tomorrow's events: </span> <span class="event"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=14dfb48173&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;">HPE Discover</a></span> </td></tr> </table> <div class="first_section" style="margin-top: 4px;"> <div class="section_header uppercase" style="border-bottom: 3px solid #004860;letter-spacing: 1px;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;padding: 4px 10px;text-transform: uppercase;"> top news </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="first_story first_in_section big_story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding-left:10px;vertical-align:top;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 24px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=1b25191cdd&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">The Senate parliamentarian rules that a Republican effort blocking US states from enforcing AI laws for 10 years will remain in Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span> </td> <td style="padding: 0 10px;vertical-align:top;"> <div class="narrow_image" style="position:relative;"> <img src="https://www.techmeme.com/250622/i12.jpg"> </div> </td> </tr> <!-- <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="excerpt">A Republican effort to block US states from enforcing new artificial intelligence regulations … </span> <span class="cite">(Bloomberg)</span> </td> </tr> --> </table> <table style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr><td style="padding:5px 10px 3px;"> <div class="tweet" style="padding: 1px 0;"> <img class="tweet_image" width="12" src="https://techmeme.com/img/twitter_x.png" style="width: 12px;"> <a class="tweet_cite" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=d42ed50439&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">@anthonyadragna:</a> <a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=34e4200793&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">Breaking overnight: Senate parliamentarian has ruled the 10-year state AI moratorium can stay in the megabill. HOWEVER, a number of Senate GOP — like @HawleyMO and @MarshaBlackburn — are very opposed to the language, so expect attempts to remove it on the floor. [image]</a> </div> <div class="tweet" style="padding: 1px 0;"> <img class="tweet_image" width="12" src="https://techmeme.com/img/twitter_x.png" style="width: 12px;"> <a class="tweet_cite" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=e6249b389d&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">@senmarkey:</a> <a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=b7f47354fc&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">My amendment to strip the AI moratorium from the reconciliation bill is ready to go. I urge other members to join me and block this dangerous provision.</a> </div> <div class="tweet" style="padding: 1px 0;"> <img class="tweet_image" width="12" src="https://techmeme.com/img/twitter_x.png" style="width: 12px;"> <a class="tweet_cite" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=f9381f4d6d&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">@neil_chilson:</a> <a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=ab8a0bcf71&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">State AI moratorium provision survived the Byrd bath because the Senate parliamentarian clearly agrees that this is a funding condition, not a stand-alone prohibition. That directly undercuts the core argument of the opposition. Every terrible scenario they've painted of what this provision will do hinges on interpreting it as a stand-alone prohibition.</a> </div> </td></tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="big_story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding-left:10px;vertical-align:top;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 24px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=db4ff095b1&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Texas enacts legislation, effective September 1, requiring a permit to operate self-driving vehicles, just before Tesla's planned robotaxi trial in Austin</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Reuters</span>)</span> </td> <td style="padding: 0 10px;vertical-align:top;"> <div class="narrow_image" style="position:relative;"> <img src="https://www.techmeme.com/250622/i10.jpg"> </div> </td> </tr> <!-- <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="excerpt">Texas Governor Greg Abbott, a Republican, has signed legislation requiring a permit … </span> <span class="cite">(Reuters)</span> </td> </tr> --> </table> <table style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr><td style="padding:5px 10px 3px;"> <div class="tweet" style="padding: 1px 0;"> <img class="tweet_image" width="12" src="https://techmeme.com/img/twitter_x.png" style="width: 12px;"> <a class="tweet_cite" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=0af46e4c37&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">@zacksjerryrig:</a> <a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=47b2509c46&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">Turns out @tesla has to certify their FSD as a Level 4 with the state of Texas before September 1st 2025 - or they have to take their ‘cybertaxis’ off the road. 😂 Thank you @GregAbbott_TX for signing this bill yesterday. 🙏 Keep Texans safe!</a> </div> <div class="tweet" style="padding: 1px 0;"> <img class="tweet_image" width="12" src="https://techmeme.com/img/twitter_x.png" style="width: 12px;"> <a class="tweet_cite" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=9a44491d48&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">@sawyermerritt:</a> <a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=f6d99cd7a4&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">Here is my experience (in 4K) from earlier today in one of the world's first ever public Tesla Robotaxi rides in Austin, Texas with FSD Unsupervised! No-one is in the driver seat and the safety monitor in the passenger seat does not have a steering or pedals. It was awesome. [video]</a> </div> <div class="tweet" style="padding: 1px 0;"> <img class="tweet_image" width="12" src="https://techmeme.com/img/twitter_x.png" style="width: 12px;"> <a class="tweet_cite" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=494c3d2473&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">@mayemusk:</a> <a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=c1a19441f6&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">In 2008, the Tesla Roadster was launched. I borrowed one for this photoshoot in NYC. No one knew what it was. And now, it's Tesla Robotaxi day in Austin, Texas. Love the excitement on the @X posts - being driven in a car without a driver, steering wheel or pedals is so cool 😎 [image]</a> </div> </td></tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;background-color:#f4f4f4;" class="story sponsor"> <table class="leading_item" style="width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding-left:10px;vertical-align:middle;"> <span class="label" style="display: block;color: #686860;font-size: 12px;font-weight: bold;padding: 2px 0;">SPONSOR</span> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=6e8c77c54f&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Ship with AI: The Future of Coding is Here</a></span> <span class="excerpt" style="color: black;font-size: 16px;"> — Use natural language in Slack to trigger real PRs, docs, dashboards, infra & more. Codegen connects GitHub, Linear, Notion, and beyond.</span> </td> <td style="padding:0 20px 0 15px;vertical-align:middle;text-align:right;"> <a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=91f1c88fbd&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;"> <img class="sponsor_image" src="https://techmeme.com/simg/codegen.png"> </a> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="big_story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding-left:10px;vertical-align:top;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 24px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=e335e3ae32&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">A look at Apple's conservative approach to M&A, which may need to change to catch up in AI by acquiring a startup like Perplexity, Cohere, Sierra AI, or Mistral</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Mark Gurman / </span><span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span> </td> <td style="padding: 0 10px;vertical-align:top;"> <div class="narrow_image" style="position:relative;"> <img src="https://www.techmeme.com/250622/i9.jpg"> </div> </td> </tr> <!-- <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="excerpt">Apple will need to make the biggest acquisition in its history to put an end to its artificial intelligence debacle.</span> <span class="cite">(Mark Gurman / Bloomberg)</span> </td> </tr> --> </table> <table style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr><td style="padding:5px 10px 3px;"> <div class="tweet" style="padding: 1px 0;"> <img class="tweet_image" width="12" src="https://techmeme.com/img/twitter_x.png" style="width: 12px;"> <a class="tweet_cite" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=4bd0203c12&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">@markgurman:</a> <a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=74a8c7b49d&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">Apple met earlier this year with Mira Murati — the former chief technology officer of OpenAI — to discuss a potential deal for her new AI startup, Thinking Machines Lab. The talks never progressed to an advanced stage. </a> </div> <div class="tweet" style="padding: 1px 0;"> <img class="tweet_image" width="12" src="https://techmeme.com/img/twitter_x.png" style="width: 12px;"> <a class="tweet_cite" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=9c516c1265&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">@ejzim:</a> <a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=acded4ec44&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">Mistral has great, small models. They're especially popular in consumer applications, which is a bonus. The hard part is that the EU views them as a national champion so hard to imagine they'll get regulatory approval. (Or maybe that's how Apple makes nice with the EU?)</a> </div> <div class="tweet" style="padding: 1px 0;"> <img class="tweet_image" width="12" src="https://techmeme.com/img/twitter_x.png" style="width: 12px;"> <a class="tweet_cite" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=8fc17ea52a&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">@chatgpt21:</a> <a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=833e86162b&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">> Apple tries to make deal with perplexity > Apple buys 32 ai startups > Siri still sucks > Apple tries to make a deal with Mira murati thinking machines I smell blood in the water. Apples only chance at staying alive is blocking other ai companies from making an agent that works on iPhone Google has a chance to release the full project Astra and take market share.</a> </div> </td></tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=cf9ffef350&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">A look at the US Army Reserve's Detachment 201, which lets tech executives, like Meta's Bosworth, give advice as senior officers while keeping their day jobs</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Steven Levy / </span><span class="pub_name">Wired</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=41a8304163&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Adobe Labs launches Project Indigo, a free computational photography app for iPhones that captures a burst of images and combines them into a high-quality photo</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Jay Peters / </span><span class="pub_name">The Verge</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=54f57ba5d5&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">OpenAI says it has removed all marketing materials announcing its acquisition of Jony Ive's io due to a trademark dispute lawsuit</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Mark Gurman / </span><span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=01da6f7695&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sources: the WH rejected DOD's proposal for the head of NSA and US Cyber Command, extending the agencies' leadership vacuum; Trump fired NSA's head in April</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">John Sakellariadis / </span><span class="pub_name">Politico</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=15ebb26c0d&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Docs: the FCC is probing USCTM, launched by the Biden administration as a voluntary safety label for IoT devices, over its administrators' alleged ties to China</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Brian Flood / </span><span class="pub_name">Fox News</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=c9a78890f3&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Experts say China's new national internet ID, currently voluntary, to sign in across social media apps and sites could further erode already limited freedoms</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">John Liu / </span><span class="pub_name">CNN</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=d3c9540347&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">A profile of Scale AI co-founder Alexandr Wang, whose ties to influential people in the AI industry and the GOP could give Meta leverage over its competitors</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Ellen Huet / </span><span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=e3b20460a9&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Circle shares jumped over 20% on Friday as investors cheered the US Senate approval of the GENIUS Act, and have surged ~675% since the company's IPO on June 5</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Tanaya Macheel / </span><span class="pub_name">CNBC</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </div> <div class="section" style="margin-top: 12px;"> <div class="section_header uppercase" style="border-bottom: 3px solid #004860;letter-spacing: 1px;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;padding: 4px 10px;text-transform: uppercase;"> infosec </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="first_in_section story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=65cd2c6236&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Cloudflare says it mitigated a record-breaking 7.3Tbps DDoS attack in mid-May, which delivered 37.4TB of junk traffic to the target in just 45 seconds</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Dan Goodin / </span><span class="pub_name">Ars Technica</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=8ada68ada5&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Insurance giant Aflac says a cybercrime group breached its systems and may have stolen data; source: the attack bears the hallmarks of Scattered Spider</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Jonathan Greig / </span><span class="pub_name">The Record</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=1a139e3804&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Experts say China-linked groups have repeatedly hacked Russian companies and government agencies in search of military secrets since the war in Ukraine began</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Megha Rajagopalan / </span><span class="pub_name">New York Times</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=d3fb748064&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Hackers briefly exploited a front-end vulnerability in CoinMarketCap's rotating doodles feature to inject fake “Verify Wallet” phishing pop-ups</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Francisco Rodrigues / </span><span class="pub_name">CoinDesk</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </div> <div class="section" style="margin-top: 12px;"> <div class="section_header uppercase" style="border-bottom: 3px solid #004860;letter-spacing: 1px;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;padding: 4px 10px;text-transform: uppercase;"> artificial intelligence </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="first_in_section story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=193f2a8126&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">A UN survey of 21 countries finds that trust in AI is strongest in low-income and developing nations; 83% in China and 37.5% in the US said they trust AI</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Magdalena Del Valle / </span><span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=1a0cd934b1&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">A look at DARPA's “Exponentiating Mathematics” program, which aims to speed up progress in pure mathematics by developing an AI “co-author” to conduct research</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Alexander Nazaryan / </span><span class="pub_name">New York Times</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=71ba55f1ca&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">An interview with LinkedIn CEO Ryan Roslansky on how AI is affecting the jobs market, AI agents, dealing with fake AI-generated accounts, and more</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Shirin Ghaffary / </span><span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=1572f82ba1&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">An interview with computational linguist Emily Bender, who coined the term “stochastic parrot”, on her AI skepticism, co-writing the book The AI Con, and more</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">George Hammond / </span><span class="pub_name">Financial Times</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=004c0abf9f&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">A look at “Generative Engine Optimization” startups like Profound and Bluefish AI, which help businesses improve content to appear in AI search summaries</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Rashi Shrivastava / </span><span class="pub_name">Forbes</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </div> <div class="section" style="margin-top: 12px;"> <div class="section_header uppercase" style="border-bottom: 3px solid #004860;letter-spacing: 1px;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;padding: 4px 10px;text-transform: uppercase;"> smartphones </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="first_in_section story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=093793748d&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Purism's $1,999 security-focused Liberty Phone, assembled in the US with decade-old specs and some US-made parts, exposes the gaps in US phone manufacturing</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Ben Raab / </span><span class="pub_name">Wall Street Journal</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=da302084af&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Huawei unveils a beta version of HarmonyOS 6, making it available to developers, and announces the HarmonyOS Agent Framework to help developers create AI agents</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Coco Feng / </span><span class="pub_name">South China Morning Post</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </div> <div class="section" style="margin-top: 12px;"> <div class="section_header uppercase" style="border-bottom: 3px solid #004860;letter-spacing: 1px;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;padding: 4px 10px;text-transform: uppercase;"> cryptocurrency </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="first_in_section story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=62e2084eb9&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">BitcoinTreasuries.net: about 130 publicly-listed companies currently hold a combined ~$87B in bitcoin, about 3.2% of all the bitcoins that will ever exist</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Philip Stafford / </span><span class="pub_name">Financial Times</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=9db07a912d&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Canadian crypto companies are encountering regulatory challenges in introducing a local stablecoin, as the US advances stablecoin legislation</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Monique Mulima / </span><span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </div> <div class="section" style="margin-top: 12px;"> <div class="section_header uppercase" style="border-bottom: 3px solid #004860;letter-spacing: 1px;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;padding: 4px 10px;text-transform: uppercase;"> M&A </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="first_in_section story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=136b9ee7fb&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Report: Vista Equity Partners and Blackstone buy out other investors in Assent for $400M, valuing the Ottawa-based supply chain software company at $1.3B</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Alex Riehl / </span><span class="pub_name">BetaKit</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=791fcf4f9b&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Austin-based PE firm Haveli Investments agrees to acquire Couchbase, which offers a cloud database for AI applications, for about $1.5B</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Akash Sriram / </span><span class="pub_name">Reuters</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </div> <div class="section" style="margin-top: 12px;"> <div class="section_header uppercase" style="border-bottom: 3px solid #004860;letter-spacing: 1px;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;padding: 4px 10px;text-transform: uppercase;"> funding deals </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="first_in_section story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=598d6bba41&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Onebrief, which makes military workflow software, raised a $20M Series C extension led by Battery Ventures at a $1.1B valuation, taking the round total to $70M</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Chris Metinko / </span><span class="pub_name">Axios</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=070eecf8ff&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">London-based PhysicsX, which uses AI to design industrial parts such as engine and drone components, raised $135M, a source says at just under a $1B valuation</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Kieran Smith / </span><span class="pub_name">Financial Times</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=19aa0a0553&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Uncountable, which makes AI tools to let R&D teams accelerate development cycles, raised a $27M Series A led by Sageview, bringing its total funding to $32.5M</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Chris Metinko / </span><span class="pub_name">Axios</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=91b4d5d758&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Slide, which develops data backup and disaster recovery tech for managed service providers serving SMBs, raised a $25M Series A led by Base10 Partners</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Chris Metinko / </span><span class="pub_name">Axios</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=dad3a6e175&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Browserbase, which develops headless browsers for AI agents and apps, raised a $40M Series B led by Notable Capital at a $300M valuation, up ~4x since September</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Alex Konrad / </span><span class="pub_name">Upstarts Media</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </div> <div class="section" style="margin-top: 12px;"> <div class="section_header uppercase" style="border-bottom: 3px solid #004860;letter-spacing: 1px;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;padding: 4px 10px;text-transform: uppercase;"> more news </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="first_in_section story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=95c1a8fb69&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Microsoft suspending an ICC judge's email account raised alarms across EU about how dependent its governments, businesses, and citizens are on US tech companies</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">New York Times</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=a7c4e9dd24&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">A look at Temu, Shein, Meituan, and other Chinese companies' expansion plans in Brazil, as they face slowing domestic demand and hurdles in the US and Europe</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Meaghan Tobin / </span><span class="pub_name">New York Times</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;background-color:#f4f4f4;" class="story sponsor"> <table class="leading_item" style="width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding-left:10px;vertical-align:middle;"> <span class="label" style="display: block;color: #686860;font-size: 12px;font-weight: bold;padding: 2px 0;">SPONSOR</span> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=08d558899b&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Protecting your Cloud Applications Data</a></span> <span class="excerpt" style="color: black;font-size: 16px;"> — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Box data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.</span> </td> <td style="padding:0 20px 0 15px;vertical-align:middle;text-align:right;"> <a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=cb60cd83df&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;"> <img class="sponsor_image" src="https://techmeme.com/simg/idrive-hvnuOGua.png"> </a> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=6aa457a041&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Fidelity: ~50% of UK investors trust social media, finfluencers, and AI tools for financial decisions; only ~33% used a qualified adviser in the past two years</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Maisie Grice / </span><span class="pub_name">Financial Times</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=e2f114c669&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Inside the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, whose 3.2-gigapixel camera will produce 60PB of space image data over 10 years, to be analyzed using ML and deep learning</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">New York Times</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=c3b8e4789d&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Corporate travel and expense management service Navan, formerly known as TripActions, confidentially files for a US IPO; it was valued at $9.2B in October 2022</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Pritam Biswas / </span><span class="pub_name">Reuters</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=a968b7c246&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">How Huawei has remained resilient in the face of US sanctions; Mizuho: about 700,000 units of Huawei's Ascend 910 series are expected to ship in 2025</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">South China Morning Post</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=ccf9fbe7fa&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Kantar: the share of Indians consuming media exclusively on mobile phones grew to 23% in Q1 2025, up from 15% in Q1 2023, as TVs stay unaffordable for many</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Satviki Sanjay / </span><span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </div> <div class="footer" style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;"> <table style="background-color: #FFFFFF;width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td align="center" valign="top" style="padding-top:10px; padding-bottom:10px;"> <table style="width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td align="center" valign="top" style="color:#606060; font-size:13px; line-height:190%; padding-right:10px; padding-bottom:5px; padding-left:10px; text-align:center;"> This email was sent to <a href="mailto:orbit.web.92@getmynews.app" target="_blank" style="color: #404040 !important;text-decoration: none;">orbit.web.92@getmynews.app</a> <br> <a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/unsubscribe?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=976a1cbc1f&t=b&e=06cea4a9e4&c=af6663de18" style="color: #404040 !important;text-decoration: none;">Unsubscribe</a> <br> <a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/profile?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=976a1cbc1f&e=06cea4a9e4&c=af6663de18" style="color: #404040 !important;text-decoration: none;">Update preferences</a> <br> <a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/vcard?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=976a1cbc1f" style="color: #404040 !important;text-decoration: none;">Images not loading in Outlook? Add us to your address book!</a> <br> Techmeme 530 Divisadero St. #175 San Francisco, CA 94117 USA </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </div> <div style="display:none;"><img src="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/open.php?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=af6663de18&e=06cea4a9e4" height="1" width="1" style="display:none;" alt=""></div></body> </html>