Tech

Microsoft prepared to abandon high-stakes talks with OpenAI (indianexpress.com)
2025-6-19 Microsoft

Scale AI's rivals like Snorkel AI, Labelbox, and Turing report rising interest from clients concerned about Scale's independence after Meta's $14.3B investment (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-6-19 AI

Scale AI emphasizes that it remains an independent company and says Meta will not have access to Scale's internal systems or customers' confidential information (scale.com)
2025-6-19 AI

Careem, Uber's ride-hailing MENA arm, will suspend its decade-old Pakistan service on July 18, citing economic challenges, competition, and capital constraints (www.reuters.com)
2025-6-19 Uber

Scammers Use Google Ads To Inject Phony Help Lines On Apple, Microsoft Sites (tech.slashdot.org)
2025-6-19 Google Microsoft Apple

OpenAI warns that its upcoming models could pose a higher risk of enabling the creation of biological weapons and says it is stepping up testing of such models (www.axios.com)
2025-6-19

Multiplier, which acquires accounting services firms and scales them with AI, raised $27.5M across a seed and Series A, with the latter led by Lightspeed (techcrunch.com)
2025-6-19 AI

Texas Instruments To Invest $60 Billion To Make Semiconductors In US (news.slashdot.org)
2025-6-19 Texas

Major Oil Companies Face First 'Climate Death' Lawsuit (yro.slashdot.org)
2025-6-19 Climate

Iran's largest crypto exchange Nobitex says it was hacked, and pro-Israel group Predatory Sparrow claims responsibility; Elliptic: $90M+ was stolen and “burned” (techcrunch.com)
2025-6-19 Israel Iran

Meta is adding support for passkeys on Facebook's iOS and Android apps “soon”, and will begin rolling out passkeys to Messenger “in the coming months” (www.theverge.com)
2025-6-19 Android IOS Facebook

Apple Posts Strongest Two-Month iPhone Growth Since Pandemic (mobile.slashdot.org)
2025-6-19 iPhone Apple

Wix acquires Base44, which lets users build apps from text prompts, for $80M; Base44 was founded by a solo entrepreneur six months ago and employs six people (www.calcalistech.com)
2025-6-19 Entrepreneur

Midjourney Launches Its First AI Video Generation Model, V1 (slashdot.org)
2025-6-19 AI

Austrian Government Agrees On Plan To Allow Monitoring of Secure Messaging (it.slashdot.org)
2025-6-19 Austria

The US State Department restarts student visa interviews and requires all applicants to make their social media accounts public for vetting by US embassies (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-6-19

Napster and Sonos Sued For Millions In Unpaid Music Royalties (yro.slashdot.org)
2025-6-19

Pro-Israel hackers hit Iran's Nobitex exchange, burn $90M in crypto (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-6-19 Israel Iran

Midjourney launches V1, its first AI video generation model, letting subscribers animate images via its website; video jobs will cost ~8x more than image jobs (venturebeat.com)
2025-6-19 AI

Facebook Now Supports Passkeys (yro.slashdot.org)
2025-6-19 Facebook

Instagram ads mimicking BMO, EQ Bank are finance scams (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-6-19 Instagram

Source: Meta is in advanced talks to hire Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross to work on its AI efforts (www.theinformation.com)
2025-6-19 AI

Waymo's Robotaxis Are Coming Back to New York City (tech.slashdot.org)
2025-6-19 New York

North Korean hackers deepfake execs in Zoom call to spread Mac malware (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-6-19 Korea

Texas Instruments plans to spend $60B+ on US semiconductor plants, including two new factories in Texas, and says its long-term spending plan remains unchanged (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-6-19 Texas

Sources: Microsoft plans to announce thousands of job cuts, particularly in sales, early next month after the end of its fiscal year (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-6-19 Microsoft

Google's Frighteningly Good Veo 3 AI Videos To Be Integrated With YouTube Shorts (news.slashdot.org)
2025-6-19 Google AI YouTube

Sources: Microsoft is prepared to walk away from high-stakes talks with OpenAI if they cannot agree on critical issues, such as the size of Microsoft's stake (t.co)
2025-6-19 Microsoft

Klarna launches a $40/month unlimited mobile plan in the US via a partnership with telecom services startup Gigs, following similar offerings by Revolut and N26 (www.cnbc.com)
2025-6-19 Mobile Startup

Microsoft Planning Thousands More Job Cuts Aimed at Salespeople (it.slashdot.org)
2025-6-19 Microsoft

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