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<span class="title" style="font-size: 24px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=1332ac7319&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sources: SpaceX has agreed to invest $2B in xAI, as part of xAI's $5B equity fundraise announced by Morgan Stanley last month</a></span>
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<a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=d080023753&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">...spacex invests in xai → xai buys gpus & trains models → tesla & spacex deploy them → x broadcasts the narrative → x, tesla, & even spacex feed data back to xai → repeat. capital flows just as fluidly. valuation here powers investment there. each entity acts as both producer & consumer in a potentially self sustaining loop. pretty remarkable to see, & possibly another sign of deep power law outcomes that the internet drives.</a>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 24px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=ca254ff5a0&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sources: Google is paying $2.4B for a nonexclusive license to certain Windsurf tech and hire some of its employees, but won't be taking a stake in the company</a></span>
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<a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=8076e3ca04&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">Updated our Windsurf/Google story with new deal details: - Employees with vested shares will receive cash - Employees who joined less than 12 months ago are not vested and won't get payouts under current terms - Windsurf negotiated to keep $100M+ on its balance sheet; company will shift focus to enterprise customers - Remaining company will now be employee owned</a>
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<a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=da328db4dd&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">My steel man here is that: 1. Employees who haven't reached a 1 year vesting cliff don't have that strong of a claim around “I built this with sweat and need a liquidity event” and we don't know the tenures of all the left-behind employees. 2. The real culprit here might be FTC antitrust. This is a hyper competitive market and Google STILL feels like they can't just do a normal acquisition.</a>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=8c00306dcd&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">T-Mobile has received FCC and DOJ approval for its $4.4B acquisition of US Cellular, after agreeing to phase out DEI programs to comply with FCC policy</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Kelcee Griffis / </span><span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=ed86beff27&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">A look at Xiaomi AI Glasses, launched in China on June 26 with a starting price of ~$278, featuring a 12MP ultra-wide camera and powered by Qualcomm's AR1 chip</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Ben Jiang / </span><span class="pub_name">South China Morning Post</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=dba202f738&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Samsung agrees to acquire Seattle-based Xealth, which helps healthcare providers manage digital health tools and has raised over $50M, for an undisclosed sum</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Taylor Soper / </span><span class="pub_name">GeekWire</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=fdb440228d&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">YouTube and Netflix are increasingly locked in a battle over TV in the US; Nielsen: YouTube accounted for 12.5% of all TV viewing time in May and Netflix 7.5%</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">John Koblin / </span><span class="pub_name">New York Times</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=1a723b7a62&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Nielsen: Netflix's share of most-watched shows has dropped from 80%+ in 2021 to ~50%; Amazon, Apple, HBO Max, Hulu, and Paramount+ have shows in 2025's Top 10</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Lucas Shaw / </span><span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=8212468bab&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">A look at Meta's revamped GenAI strategy, as Mark Zuckerberg poaches top AI talent for the Superintelligence team with a typical offer of $200M over four years</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">SemiAnalysis</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=226d1573cb&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Belkin's move to brick Wemo devices highlights how little accountability IoT companies face when abandoning connected products customers paid for</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Scharon Harding / </span><span class="pub_name">Ars Technica</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=bcabfc94b7&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">A look at how Big Tech is faring in the Trump administration in terms of their executives' ties with Trump, contracts, antitrust cases, tariffs, and more</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Wall Street Journal</span>)</span>
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cryptocurrency
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=d3487281c4&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Pump.fun raised $500M via a sale of PUMP tokens, which sold out in 12 minutes; it offered 12.5% of its total token supply at a fully diluted valuation of $4B</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Zack Abrams / </span><span class="pub_name">The Block</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=3e35abab7f&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">There's little evidence that UAE-based Aqua 1 Foundation, the largest investor in Trump's World Liberty Financial after buying tokens worth $100M, exists at all</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Jacob Silverman / </span><span class="pub_name">The Nation</span>)</span>
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social networks
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=6c660b29a8&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Insiders describe Linda Yaccarino's tumultuous partnership with Elon Musk and say the two failed to gel as Musk's blunt style clashed with Yaccarino's polish</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Financial Times</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=4054bb4518&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">A New Hampshire court rejected TikTok's request to dismiss the state AG's suit accusing the company of using manipulative design features aimed at kids</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Zach Vallese / </span><span class="pub_name">CNBC</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=11886bd1cd&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Analysis of 1.76M Community Notes received by X from January 2021 to March 2025: 90%+ of submitted notes are never published, with many notes “stuck in limbo”</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">DDIA</span>)</span>
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artificial intelligence
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=74dc1e78b5&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Tesla rolls out Grok to some vehicles with an AMD infotainment chip; Grok comes pre-installed on new vehicles and cannot issue commands to the vehicle itself</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Simon Alvarez / </span><span class="pub_name">Teslarati</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=4d6c50240e&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Stanford study: LLMs struggle to respond appropriately to questions about delusions, suicide, and OCD, but AI could play valuable supportive roles to therapists</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Benj Edwards / </span><span class="pub_name">Ars Technica</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=461c4f4e1c&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Moonshot's Kimi K2 uses a 1T-parameter MoE architecture with 32B active parameters and outperforms models like GPT-4.1 and DeepSeek-V3 on key benchmarks</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Michael Nuñez / </span><span class="pub_name">VentureBeat</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=4311c2e8d7&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">With Trump set to speak at an energy and AI summit at Carnegie Mellon, a look at plans to turn some shuttered mill sites in Pittsburgh into AI data centers</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Kris Maher / </span><span class="pub_name">Wall Street Journal</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=3cf9598de7&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">PitchBook: 27 VC-backed companies went public in the US in the first half of 2025, the smallest number in at least 10 years, raising a total of $44.4B</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Natalia Kniazhevich / </span><span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=8ca257eb7d&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Analysis: YC picked just four Indian startups in 2024 vs. 66 in 2021, amid a growing trend of startups shifting their parent entities to India for domestic IPOs</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">The Economic Times</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=8463906d73&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Berlin-based CarOnSale, a B2B marketplace for used car trading across Europe offering vehicle inspections and more, raised a €70M Series C led by Northzone</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">David Cendon Garcia / </span><span class="pub_name">EU-Startups</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=86feadaf51&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Honor Education, an e-learning service for individuals and enterprises founded by former Dean of Apple University Joel Podolny, raised a $38M Series A</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Derek Newton / </span><span class="pub_name">Forbes</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=05f9b48aa2&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Portola, which develops the Tolan app featuring AI companions, raised a $20M Series A led by Khosla Ventures; the app has 3M+ downloads and 100K+ paid users</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Kurt Schlosser / </span><span class="pub_name">GeekWire</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=d4a4a5edc2&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Parspec, whose AI-powered workflow tool automates procurement processes in the construction supply chain, raised a $20M Series A led by Threshold Ventures</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Judy Rider / </span><span class="pub_name">Crunchbase News</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=e4c223fc7a&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">NYC-based Vellum, which develops enterprise development tools for building, testing, and deploying AI-powered apps, raised a $20M Series A led by Leaders Fund</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Kyt Dotson / </span><span class="pub_name">SiliconANGLE</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=d36c71ca6d&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Nvidia's rise after ChatGPT's release is reminiscent of dot-com era titans like Cisco and Juniper; Cisco's share price grew over 1000x between 1990 and 2000</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Tripp Mickle / </span><span class="pub_name">New York Times</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=007af507e7&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Studios like Do Big are buying Roblox games for $1M+ in a thriving secondary market; Naavik: seven of the 15 highest-earning games in June have been acquired</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Cecilia D'Anastasio / </span><span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=3dde3837d3&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Satellite imagery and eyewitness testimony reveal that online scam centers are proliferating rapidly in Myanmar despite a large-scale crackdown in February</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Nikkei Asia</span>)</span>
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<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Matthew King / </span><span class="pub_name">MIT Technology Review</span>)</span>
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