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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)
1 hour ago Amazon Startup

Trump & Hegseth Storm Global Heating's Shores with Carbon Artillery (www.juancole.com)
1 hour ago Trump

Peace Deal Ends Iran War: What Did US, Israel Gain? (www.juancole.com)
1 hour ago Israel Iran

Iran Will Sign a Deal on Friday as the Winner, But Will the War Be Over? (Juan Cole) (www.juancole.com)
1 hour ago Iran

AI and Brain-Computer Interface Allow Speechless ALS Patient To Work a Full-Time Job (science.slashdot.org)
2 hours ago AI

The complications that China's build-up brings to nuclear balance (www.aspistrategist.org.au)
3 hours ago China

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)
3 hours ago

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)
3 hours ago 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)
4 hours ago 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)
4 hours ago 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)
4 hours ago Nvidia

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)
4 hours ago

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)
4 hours ago 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)
5 hours ago 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)
5 hours ago 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)
5 hours ago 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)
5 hours ago

HPE Tempts VMware Users, Partners With Year of Free Virtualization Software (tech.slashdot.org)
5 hours ago VMware

The compliance era is over. Australia's cybersecurity depends on resilience, not just rules (www.aspistrategist.org.au)
5 hours ago Australia

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)
7 hours ago 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)
7 hours ago AI YouTube

Preserving South China Sea rights means exercising them (www.aspistrategist.org.au)
8 hours ago China South China Sea

The Most Splendid Housing Bubbles in America: Price Drops & Gains in 33 Big Expensive Cities, May 2026 (wolfstreet.com)
8 hours ago U.S. Real Estate

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)
8 hours ago

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)
8 hours ago 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)
8 hours ago 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)
9 hours ago Tax Budget

West bends international law to suit its agenda – Russian official (VIDEO) (www.rt.com)
9 hours ago Russia

How CCP's ‘peaceful reunification' bodies push its line globally (www.aspistrategist.org.au)
9 hours ago

EU-backed Armenia election winner brands opposition ‘illegal' (www.rt.com)
9 hours ago Europe

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