Tech

Dealogic: investors have poured $58B across 42 data center deals YTD; Oxford Economics says ~850 data centers worth some $7T are under construction globally (www.ft.com)
2026-6-17

Sources: Chinese social media app Xiaohongshu targets a Hong Kong IPO as early as year-end at a $70B+ valuation, up from $50B in recent private secondary trades (www.wsj.com)
2026-6-17 China Hong Kong IPO

WordPress survey: 60% of US consumers say “AI” in a brand's messaging is a turnoff, 86% always or sometimes check the original source after seeing an AI summary (techcrunch.com)
2026-6-17 WordPress AI

Sources: Jeff Bezos is investing in Cambridge, UK-Based CuspAI, which applies generative AI to material sciences, as part of a $400M round at a $2.6B valuation (www.ft.com)
2026-6-17 AI Jeff Bezos

Databricks says annualized revenue rose 80%+ YoY to $6.9B, up from $5.4B in Q4; CEO Ali Ghodsi says higher AI agent usage is increasing costs, lowering margins (www.cnbc.com)
2026-6-17 AI 4Q

A look at Wyoming's Frontier Stable Token, which launched in January and currently has a market value of ~$1M, as other states explore “white labeling” the tech (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-17

HPE Tempts VMware Users, Partners With Year of Free Virtualization Software (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-6-17 VMware

Sources: Meta decided to support KOSA after it was packaged with language preempting state AI laws and a bill requiring app stores to verify users' ages (www.politico.com)
2026-6-17 AI

Kapwing: in tests, ~60% of the first 500 TikTok For You videos shown to a new account were AI slop, ~3x the slop shown to a new YouTube user via YouTube Shorts (www.searchenginejournal.com)
2026-6-17 AI YouTube

Sources: the US has held off adding DeepSeek, CXMT, and 100+ other flagged companies to its Entity List, last updated in October, the longest gap in 10+ years (www.reuters.com)
2026-6-17

Many US lawmakers said this week they had not been formally briefed on Trump's Fable 5 move, including Ted Cruz, whose commerce committee can shape AI policy (www.politico.com)
2026-6-17 Trump AI

Sources: Amazon faces a possible FTC lawsuit alleging it misled advertisers; multiple state AGs are involved and the case could seek billions in civil penalties (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-17 Amazon

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker signs a state budget with new taxes on social media giants, digital ads, and prediction and crypto markets, all likely facing lawsuits (chicago.suntimes.com)
2026-6-17 Tax Budget

Commodore's Callback 8020 Is a $499 Flip Phone That Blocks Social Media and Browsers (mobile.slashdot.org)
2026-6-17 Social Media

SpaceX closed up 4.8% on Tuesday with a $2.65T market cap, just above Amazon's, after popping ~12% intraday and briefly overtaking Microsoft's $2.93T market cap (www.cnbc.com)
2026-6-17 Amazon Microsoft SpaceX

Anthropic pauses its anticipated move to token-based billing for Claude Agent SDK that it planned to implement on June 15, saying “Nothing changes for now” (arstechnica.com)
2026-6-17

Malicious JetBrains Marketplace plugins steal AI API keys from developers (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-6-17 AI

Binance Set To Lose Permission To Operate In EU (news.slashdot.org)
2026-6-17

Sources: PayPal to shutter its 10-year-old PayPal Ventures arm amid a broader shakeup under a new CEO and has hired Jefferies to explore selling some positions (fortune.com)
2026-6-17

France To Stop Certifying Products Without Quantum-Safe Encryption (it.slashdot.org)
2026-6-17 France Quantum

Melbourne-based Everlab, which is building an AI-powered preventive healthcare platform, raised a AU$65M Series A led by Airtree Ventures (www.smartcompany.com.au)
2026-6-17 AI Melbourne

New Rokarolla Android malware targets 217 banking, crypto apps (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-6-17 Android

Mobileye Is Entering the US Robotaxi Market With Standalone Service (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-6-17

Sensor Tower: ChatGPT's market share fell to 46.4% by the end of May, as Gemini rose to 27.7% and Claude to 10.3%; Grok, Meta AI, and others have less than 5% (techcrunch.com)
2026-6-17 AI Sensor

Snap's First Consumer AI Glasses Are Coming This Fall For $2,195 (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-6-17 AI

Zhipu launches GLM-5.2, says it markedly improves coding and agentic tasks, with strong long-horizon capabilities and a 1M context window, under an MIT license (z.ai)
2026-6-17

SpaceX To Acquire AI Coding Startup Cursor For $60 Billion (science.slashdot.org)
2026-6-17 Startup AI SpaceX

Google launches Android 17 and Wear OS 7, first on Pixel devices, with support for the latest AI models, a bubble bar UI, and live updates on Wear OS (techcrunch.com)
2026-6-17 Android Google AI

Turn 15 minutes into lifetime learning while Headway's just $48 (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-6-17

Steam Workshop abused to spread malware via Wallpaper Engine app (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-6-17

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