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Google's $99 Google Home Speaker, which is built for Gemini for Home and works as a Matter controller, will ship on June 29, nine months after it was announced (www.theverge.com)
2026-6-18 Google

Convey, which is building AI “teammates” to automate manual work at clients like NBCUniversal, raised a $38M Series A led by a16z (www.businessinsider.com)
2026-6-18 AI

Why Account Takeovers Are Rising and How to Stop Them (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-6-18

UK says reports that Prime Minister Keir Starmer sought a carve-out to US export controls imposed on Mythos 5 are “categorically untrue” (www.politico.eu)
2026-6-17

Andera, which uses AI to automate corporate audit and compliance testing, raised a $37M Series A led by Lightspeed (www.axios.com)
2026-6-17 AI

EigenQ, which makes cybersecurity systems to protect from future attacks by quantum computers, plans to go public via a SPAC merger at a $3B valuation (www.reuters.com)
2026-6-17 Quantum

India's Telegram ban hit the UAE too. Here's how to get around it (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-6-17 India Ban

Conduct, which uses AI to let companies maintain, change, and modernize their legacy IT systems, raised a $60M Series A, bringing its total funding to $72M (www.axios.com)
2026-6-17 AI

Estonia says it plans to assign personal ID numbers to AI assistants to give them legal rights and hold them accountable for their actions (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-17 AI

Microsoft confirms Office apps launch issues after June updates (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-6-17 Microsoft

Nasdaq Private Market sues Hiive, claiming Hiive stole trade secrets and infringed on its IP, poaching two employees in part to access confidential information (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-17

Twenty, which uses AI to help US military hackers penetrate adversary computer networks, raised a $100M Series B led by Accel at a $1B valuation (www.axios.com)
2026-6-17 AI

OpenAI's CSO Jason Kwon messaged staff that the company “strongly” told the US government that building AI “requires the best talent from around the world” (www.theinformation.com)
2026-6-17 AI

The US government awards $500M under the CHIPS Act to SandboxAQ to use AI to develop new chemicals and materials for domestic semiconductor manufacturing (www.reuters.com)
2026-6-17 AI Manufacturing

Stop Killing Games Fails To Secure EU Law Despite 1.3 Million Signatures (games.slashdot.org)
2026-6-17

Uber plans to expands its premium robotaxi service from SF to Houston by mid-2027, in partnership with EV maker Lucid and autonomous vehicle startup Nuro (techcrunch.com)
2026-6-17 Uber Startup Autonomous Car

Kodak confirms data breach claimed by ShinyHunters extortion gang (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-6-17

Microsoft working on Defender patch for RoguePlanet zero-day (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-6-17 Microsoft

Surfshark One+ with Incogni is $95 for a year of full privacy coverage (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-6-17

CISA orders feds to patch max severity Joomla plugin flaw by Friday (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-6-17

Sources: Trump officials discussed ways to structure government equity stakes in AI companies, with Commerce Secretary Lutnick favoring a sovereign wealth fund (www.semafor.com)
2026-6-17 Trump AI Equity

Nauk Nauk, which runs an AI video app that turns photos of toys into short animated videos, raised $20M and is coming out of beta; it claims to have 1M+ users (www.axios.com)
2026-6-17 AI

Sources describe Huawei's efforts to rebuild its chip business seven years after the US cut Huawei off from advanced chips, as it bets on logic-stacking tech (www.ft.com)
2026-6-17

World models startup Odyssey raised $310M from Amazon and others at a $1.45B valuation and will use AWS as its preferred cloud partner, deploying Trainium chips (www.ft.com)
2026-6-17 Amazon Startup

AI and Brain-Computer Interface Allow Speechless ALS Patient To Work a Full-Time Job (science.slashdot.org)
2026-6-17 AI

A profile of Anthropic researcher Nicholas Carlini, who warned about Mythos in March and is now part of an Anthropic team briefing the White House on safeguards (www.wsj.com)
2026-6-17

Sources: Samsung is seeing a rise in advanced chip production requests from BYD, Google, AMD, and others as TSMC's capacity remains constrained by AI demand (asia.nikkei.com)
2026-6-17 Google Samsung AI AMD

Sources: a new AI lab founded by Junyang Lin, former lead of Alibaba's Qwen models, has raised several hundred million dollars at a ~$2B post-money valuation (www.theinformation.com)
2026-6-17 Alibaba AI

India's Telegram ban until June 22 over exam paper leak concerns is a terrible look for the country, sets a precedent, and could happen again if unchallenged (x.com)
2026-6-17 India Ban

Kazakhstan signs accords with Firebird on Nvidia-related computing projects that could bring up to $10B in investment, as it seeks to build a Data Center Valley (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-17 Nvidia

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