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Sources: Jack Rae, a principal researcher at Google DeepMind, is expected to join Meta's "superintelligence" team, as well as an ML lead from Sesame AI (Bloomberg)
2025-06-11 18:31 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
The Wikimedia Foundation pauses an experiment that showed Wikipedia users AI-generated summaries at the top of some articles, following an editor backlash (Emanuel Maiberg/404 Media)
2025-06-11 18:31 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Amazon's Ad Video Generator, a free tool to create gen AI ads and depict items as they would be used in the real world, is now available for sellers in the US (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
2025-06-11 17:30 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Memo: Google appoints a new chief AI architect, DeepMind CTO Koray Kavukcuoglu, who will coordinate future AI-powered product development (Reed Albergotti/Semafor)
2025-06-11 17:30 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Researchers find the first known "zero-click" attack on an AI agent; the now-fixed flaw in Microsoft 365 Copilot would let a hacker attack a user via an email (Sharon Goldman/Fortune)
2025-06-11 17:30 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: Chinese diplomats agree to a six-month ease of rare-earth export licenses, with the earliest application approval within a week of the deal's signing (Wall Street Journal)
2025-06-11 17:30 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
The Browser Company launches Dia, a macOS browser in beta for Arc users based around an AI chat sidebar that can access tabs, history, and logged-in sites (David Pierce/The Verge)
2025-06-11 14:28 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Meta launches V-JEPA 2, an open-source AI "world model" to understand and predict 3D environments and object movements, to help robotics and self-driving cars (Ryan Browne/CNBC)
2025-06-11 15:29 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Filing: Disney and NBCUniversal sue Midjourney in California, accusing it of direct and secondary copyright infringement; they say talks with Midjourney failed (Sara Fischer/Axios)
2025-06-11 15:29 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Mistral AI CEO Arthur Mensch says European companies and governments increasingly want non-US AI tools, and Mistral is on track to pass $100M in annual revenue (Sam Schechner/Wall Street Journal)
2025-06-11 14:28 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Coco Robotics, which operates a fleet of cooler-sized delivery robots on wheels, raised $80M from Sam Altman and others, taking its total funding to $110M+ (Rachel Metz/Bloomberg)
2025-06-11 13:28 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
DoorDash acquires adtech company Symbiosys for $175M, announced as part of a major update on its ad business, which crossed a $1B+ annualized run rate in 2024 (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)
2025-06-11 14:28 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
HP unveils Dimension, the first hardware built with Google's 3D video conferencing tech, featuring a 65-inch light field display, launching in 2025 for $25,000 (Emma Roth/The Verge)
2025-06-11 12:28 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
President Trump says a trade framework with China "is done, subject to final approval with President Xi and me", and the US tariff rate would be 55% "total" (Bloomberg)
2025-06-11 13:28 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Israeli data security startup Cyera raised $540M led by Georgian, Greenoaks, and Lightspeed at a $6B valuation, up from $3B in November 2024 after raising $300M (Steven Scheer/Reuters)
2025-06-11 12:28 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Will Cathcart says WhatsApp plans to support Apple in its legal case against the UK Home Office over weakening encryption, which may "set a dangerous precedent" (Zoe Kleinman/BBC)
2025-06-11 12:28 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Meta and TikTok challenge the EU's DSA supervisory fee, set at 0.05% of annual global net income, in the EU's General Court, arguing it is disproportionate (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)
2025-06-11 12:28 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
A profile of Twitch streamer and YouTuber Ross Minor, blind since age 8, who is an advocate and consultant for blind-accessible video games like Sea of Thieves (Dexter Thomas/Wired)
2025-06-11 11:28 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
How ad agency WPP is embracing AI tools, despite the threat to its creative business, as its stock falls 50% in seven years; its WPP Open platform has 50K users (Daniel Thomas/Financial Times)
2025-06-11 10:27 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Nvidia unveils new projects to bolster AI infrastructure across Europe, including expanding its Mistral partnership to use local AI computing, at a Paris event (Ian King/Bloomberg)
2025-06-11 11:28 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
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