Tech

A look at 10 AI agent startups from YC's first-ever spring Demo Day; the batch included 144 companies, 70 of which focused on agentic AI (africa.businessinsider.com)
2025-6-14 Startup AI

AIM Intelligent Machines, which retrofits heavy construction equipment to operate autonomously, raised $50M from Khosla Ventures, General Catalyst, and others (www.semafor.com)
2025-6-14

Google's $32 billion deal for Wiz gets antitrust review (indianexpress.com)
2025-6-14 Google

Depending on AI alone to make decisions affecting people's lives is worrisome: Sayash Kapoor, co-author, AI Snake Oil (indianexpress.com)
2025-6-14 AI

They asked an AI chatbot questions. The answers sent them spiraling. (indianexpress.com)
2025-6-14 AI chatbot

Too busy to read? Google Search can now read results out loud using Audio Overviews (indianexpress.com)
2025-6-14 Google

Waymo temporarily limits service in SF, Austin, and Atlanta, and stops service in LA, as US cities prepare for protests against federal immigration policies (www.wired.com)
2025-6-14 Immigration

Sources: the US DOJ is reviewing whether Google's planned $32B acquisition of cybersecurity company Wiz would illegally limit competition in the market (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-6-14 Google

Google, Scale AI's largest customer, plans split after Meta deal (indianexpress.com)
2025-6-14 Google AI

Meta poaches 28-year-old Scale AI CEO after taking multibillion dollar stake in startup (indianexpress.com)
2025-6-14 Startup AI

Smart Tires Will Report On the Health of Roads In New Pilot Program (tech.slashdot.org)
2025-6-14

Harvard releases Institutional Books 1.0, a dataset for AI researchers with 242B tokens, from 394M scanned pages and 983K public domain books in 254 languages (apnews.com)
2025-6-14 AI

Canary, which offers hotel guest management tools, raised an $80M Series D led by Brighton Park Capital, valuing the company at about $600M (techcrunch.com)
2025-6-14

President Trump's 2024 financial disclosure report shows he earned ~$57M from his stake in World Liberty Financial and $1.2M from an NFT licensing deal (www.nytimes.com)
2025-6-14 Trump

IBM Says It's Cracked Quantum Error Correction (tech.slashdot.org)
2025-6-14 IBM Quantum

Ellipsis Health, which developed an AI voice agent to check in on patients between doctor visits, raised a $45M Series A led by Salesforce, Khosla, and CVS (www.wsj.com)
2025-6-14 AI Salesforce

Enterprise AI Adoption Stalls As Inferencing Costs Confound Cloud Customers (news.slashdot.org)
2025-6-14 AI

There Aren't Enough Cables To Meet Growing Electricity Demand (hardware.slashdot.org)
2025-6-14

Source: Ramp raised $200M led by Founders Fund, valuing the startup at $16B, up from $13B in March, when it conducted a $150M share sale (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-6-14 Startup

UK Universities Sign $13.3 Million Deal To Avoid Oracle Java Back Fees (developers.slashdot.org)
2025-6-14 Oracle

23andMe says TTAM Research Institute, a nonprofit backed by Anne Wojcicki, is the new buyer for the company's assets, offering $305M and topping Regeneron's bid (www.wsj.com)
2025-6-14 Asset

Anker Recalls More Than 1.1 Million Power Banks (hardware.slashdot.org)
2025-6-14

Oracle stock jumped 24% this week, its best performance since 2001, and is up 29% in 2025, vs. Nasdaq's 1%, after the company reported cloud momentum (www.cnbc.com)
2025-6-14 Oracle

Sources: Google, Scale AI's largest customer, plans to cut ties with the company after the Meta deal; Microsoft, OpenAI, and xAI also plan to step back (www.reuters.com)
2025-6-14 Google Microsoft AI

macOS Tahoe Brings a New Disk Image Format (hardware.slashdot.org)
2025-6-14

AI Therapy Bots Are Conducting 'Illegal Behavior', Digital Rights Organizations Say (slashdot.org)
2025-6-14 AI

A White House memo says David Sacks and Craft Ventures are divesting holdings in AI companies and hyperscalers like xAI and Meta (www.axios.com)
2025-6-14 AI

23andMe's Founder Anne Wojcicki Wins Bid For DNA Testing Firm (science.slashdot.org)
2025-6-14

Sources: Anne Wojcicki is poised to regain control of 23andMe, after her nonprofit TTAM offered $305M to top Regeneron's bid for the DNA-testing company (www.wsj.com)
2025-6-14

Source: Accel, which owns 18.5% of Scale AI after investing a total of ~$350M, expects to gain over $2.5B from Meta's $14.3B investment in the startup (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-6-14 Startup AI

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