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Replit's TikTok Ads Mirror MLMs, Promise Riches
An opinion column argues that vibe-coding startups like Replit and Cursor are running TikTok influencer campaigns that mirror predatory MLMs, promising young people software riches without disclosing
Barret Zoph is out at OpenAI again after just five months
OpenAI's head of enterprise AI sales Barret Zoph has departed after just five months, marking his second exit from the company following a brief stint as cofounder of Mira Murati's competing startup.
Book: Trump Mocked Zuckerberg, Bezos Over Groveling Texts
A new book by NYT reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan reveals that Trump privately mocked tech executives Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos by showing associates their fawning texts and calling t
Elastic to buy Deductive AI for up to $85M
Enterprise search company Elastic has agreed to acquire Deductive AI, a young startup using AI to debug software, for up to $85 million — a speedy exit for the 2023-founded company last valued at $33
Gemini Live Gains Memory for Personalized Chats
Google's Gemini Live now accesses users' past chat memories and connected app data to deliver personalized responses, marking a significant step toward deeper AI integration in its conversational inte
Intel Jumps 10% on Trump-Announced Apple Chip Deal
Intel's stock jumped 10%+ on June 18, 2026, after President Trump announced Apple would partner with Intel on designing and building chips in the U.S., though neither company has confirmed the deal.
AI inference startup Baseten reportedly raising $1.5B months after its last mega-round
AI inference startup Baseten is close to finalizing a $1.5 billion funding round at a $13 billion valuation, per the Wall Street Journal, just five months after closing a $300 million Series E at a $5
White House Builds Ad Hoc AI Licensing Regime
The Trump administration's standoff with Anthropic over Claude Mythos and Fable 5 has crystallized into an ad hoc AI licensing regime, with other labs now offering the White House early model access t
Google Discontinues Nest Home Mini and Nest Audio
Google is ending production of the Nest Home Mini and Nest Audio smart speakers a day after unveiling a new $100 Google Home speaker, though existing Nest devices will continue receiving software upda
OpenAI poaches DeepMind's Shazeer, adds ex-Trump AI
OpenAI is staffing up ahead of its IPO with two high-profile hires: Google DeepMind co-lead Noam Shazeer and former Trump White House AI policy official Dean Ball.
YC Spring 2026 Demo Day: 11 VC-Favorite Startups
Y Combinator's Spring 2026 Demo Day on Tuesday spotlighted 11 AI- and defense-heavy standouts, with VCs highlighting counter-drone startup 9 Mothers at a $200M+ valuation — potentially the most valuab
AWS plans to sell Trainium chips, challenging Nvidia
Amazon Web Services is exploring direct sales of its Trainium AI chips to third-party data center operators — a shift that would mark the cloud giant's most direct challenge yet to Nvidia's grip on AI
This robotic self-driving toilet comes to you
Yueban debuted the Xiaoban, an autonomous self-driving toilet that navigates to users with mobility issues, at a Shanghai elderly care expo, priced at roughly $4,300 in China.
FERC Orders Grid Fast Lane for Data Centers
FERC unanimously ordered six major grid operators to fast-track electricity connections for data centers, setting 30- and 60-day reporting deadlines, but stopped short of tackling the underlying short
Dean Ball, ex-Trump AI adviser, joins OpenAI
Former Trump AI adviser Dean Ball, who helped shape the Trump administration's early AI policies, is joining OpenAI to lead a new team called Strategic Futures focused on frontier AI policy and intern
General Intuition in Talks for $300M Raise at $2B
General Intuition, a New York startup building foundation models that train AI agents in spatial-temporal reasoning, is negotiating a roughly $300M round at a ~$2B valuation just eight months after it
Building a robotics research setup that lives next to my desk
A former OpenAI robotics researcher built a €4,569.80 desk-side manipulation setup around a UFACTORY xArm Lite 6, kicking off months of independent research conducted in the open.
Adobe Embeds AI Assistant in Premiere, Illustrator
Adobe is rolling its AI assistant into multiple flagship creative apps — Premiere, Illustrator, and InDesign — extending the tool across its professional software suite.
Lutnick Takes Over White House AI Policy
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has emerged as the central figure in the Trump administration's AI policy apparatus after his export controls on Anthropic triggered the takedown of the company's Fab
VandeHei: Bad AI Writing Reflects User Laziness
Axios co-founder Jim VandeHei argues that bad AI writing reflects user laziness, not AI limitations, detailing how he trains Claude and ChatGPT Codex on his books and Axios columns to draft content in
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