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  • SpaceX's monumental IPO has reshaped the financial landscape, creating the world's first trillionaire and causing significant disruptions, including a surge in traffic for platforms like Robinhood.
  • AI continues to be a major industry focus, with developments ranging from potential government crackdowns on powerful models like Anthropic's due to safety concerns, to malicious actors leveraging AI for sophisticated cybercrime operations.
  • The tech sector is grappling with internal challenges, including reports of poor working conditions within Meta's AI unit and ongoing debates about the ethical implications and responsible development of artificial intelligence.
  • Significant investments are being made in ambitious AI projects, such as Jeff Bezos's Prometheus raising $12 billion for an 'artificial general engineer' and Mistral reportedly seeking substantial funding at a high valuation.
  • Regulatory scrutiny and legislative changes are impacting the tech industry, evidenced by the expiration of a US surveillance law and ongoing investigations into companies like OpenAI by state attorneys general.

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  • The future of Hollywood isn’t feeding prompts into vanilla gen AI models 2 hours ago by Charles Pulliam-Moore
    AI, Entertainment, Film, Google, OpenAI, Tech

    Concept art from Dear Upstairs Neighbors that used to train custom builds of Google’s Veo and Imagen models. | Image: Google DeepMind For all the noise that's been made about how generative AI is poised to revolutionize the filmmaking industry, there haven't really been any projects created with the technology that felt like the sort of entertainment people would pay to see. Most AI firms' video models are still only capable of churning out short bursts of visually inconsistent footage . And some of Hollywood's biggest AI partnerships have suddenly evaporated in ways that make it seem like studios might

  • Valve just imported 13 tons of VR headsets in one day 11 hours ago by Sean Hollister
    Gaming, News, PC Gaming

    On June 10th, the German container ship Posen docked in Los Angeles after a two-week voyage from Shanghai. As Valve watcher Brad Lynch notes , it was almost certainly carrying the first mass production shipments of the Steam Frame , Valve's new gaming headset. Import records show that Valve's distribution partner Ceva offloaded nearly 32 metric tons of "Virtual Reality Devices" on Valve's behalf - or roughly 13 tons of actual product, after you subtract the roughly 3,700 kilogram weight of five 40-foot shipping containers. That's the same math we used to estimate that Valve imported 50 tons of game

  • Nothing CEO says phone prices are going to keep going up 17 hours ago by Stevie Bonifield
    Gadgets, News, Phones, Tech

    Nothing Phone 4A Pro | Photo: Dominic Preston / The Verge If you're thinking about upgrading your phone, "the best time was yesterday," according to Nothing CEO and co-founder Carl Pei, echoing a message we heard during MWC . As Android Authority reports, Pei said in a post on X that the RAM shortage has already impacted Nothing's less expensive mid-range phone : "For Phone 4A , memory costs doubled between when we decided to build the device and when it launched. They've doubled again since." He warned that "Phone prices are going up, and they'll keep going up into

  • The world’s first trillionaire is a killer 18 hours ago by TC. Sottek
    Elon Musk, Tech

    Hm! | Photo: Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty Images Elon Musk's SpaceX IPO will probably make him the richest person to ever walk the planet . And while his mountain of horrible personal conduct could fill multiple books, one fact in particular stands out: A year ago, Musk's actions directly led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people. He did it knowingly. And, worse - gleefully. This is not a serious person , but his abuse of the world is deadly serious. In the first months of President Donald Trump's second term, the Musk-led Department of Government

  • Siri is good now?? 20 hours ago by David Pierce
    AI, Apple, Apple Event, Podcasts, Tech, Vergecast

    You'd be forgiven for thinking this day would never come. Siri has spent a decade and half somewhere between "sort of useful at a few things" and "utterly disastrous, why did I even try, can it honestly not even set a timer." But the wildest thing just happened: Apple put out a new version of Siri , and it actually seems to be pretty good . On this episode of The Vergecast , David and Nilay talk about their early experiences with Siri AI, and what it means for users, and the rest of the AI industry, for the iPhone's


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