Welcome, Weekenders! In this newsletter:• Shopping: Introducing the Summer Fun List—gear, gadgets and toys that all come highly recommended• AI: Where is China ahead of America? In cracking down on AI romances • Plus, Recommendations—our weekly pop culture picks: “The Last Twelve Weeks,” “The Nord Stream Conspiracy”and “The Dark Wizard”Just after 3 in the afternoon last Wednesday, I walked into Corgi Cafe, a coffee shop in San Francisco’s Financial District... Read more ›
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A political movement against data center construction is gaining speed nationwide. This week, The Information published an investigation cataloging more than 300 cities and counties that have enacted temporary or permanent bans on data center construction and more than 75 weighing them. We estimate the bans now cover more than 80,000 square miles that are home to more than 20 million people. For insights on what we published and beyond,... Read more ›
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Apple’s Vision Pro and smart glasses chief, Paul Meade, is leaving for OpenAI, Bloomberg reported. Meade, a vice president, will depart Apple by next week and join OpenAI’s hardware unit to work on its forthcoming line of devices, Bloomberg said. Meade has been at Apple since 2010 and in the ... Read more ›
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Amazon Web Services is raising the price for its AI workload rental service by 20%, the company said on Friday, in what appears to be another example of how the global compute crunch is increasing costs throughout the tech supply chain. AWS’s price increase affects its EC2 Capacity Blocks, which ... Read more ›
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OpenAI on Friday launched GPT-5.6, its most advanced AI models, to a small group of partners that have been cleared by the U.S. government to use the technology, according to the release blog post. The move confirms The Information’s Thursday report that OpenAI will release the new models in a ... Read more ›
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When people ask me what I've learned about leadership from reporting on tech companies for 20 years, I always say the same thing: that the most successful CEOs are more pragmatic than zealous. Tech CEOs are notorious for using visionary language and tying it to their personal beliefs about improving the world. They brandish mission statements about organizing all the world’s information and make us believe that their products are... Read more ›
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One after the other, four men jumped onto a stage at the front of a darkened, crowded hall one recent evening in central Beijing. Each of them was fired up. The subject: superadvanced batteries. One of these batteries, a man said, was perfect to power ultra-cheap electric vehicles and another for ultraexpensive ones. A third could almost completely charge a car in 11 minutes, while a fourth could do so... Read more ›
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SpaceX’s recent bond sale is weakening in the secondary market, with investors now demanding a significantly bigger yield premium versus U.S. treasuries from when the offering priced on Tuesday, Bloomberg reported on Friday. A large dealer was quoting SpaceX’s 2056 bonds at as much as 0.28% ... Read more ›
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Up until two months ago, DeepSeek, the three-year-old Chinese AI lab, was an anomaly in the increasingly costly global AI battle. It had relied entirely on CEO Liang Wenfeng’s personal wealth and never raised outside money. That changed in the middle of this month, when DeepSeek completed a $7.4 billion fundraising that valued the startup at more than $50 billion, the biggest ever first-time fundraising by a Chinese startup. The... Read more ›
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Samsung Group, the South Korean tech giant, plans to unveil an investment package of more than 1,000 trillion won ($648 billion) next week, a record pledge aimed at chips, AI data centers, batteries and display, according to the Maeil Business Newspaper. The investments, amounting to half of ... Read more ›
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Remember back to last December, when President Donald Trump issued an executive order designed to “remove barriers to United States AI leadership”? Trump said he was revoking former President Joe Biden’s “attempt to paralyze this industry” and planned a “minimally burdensome national standard” for regulation. It’s a different story now.Today, The Information reported that in response to a request from the Trump administration, OpenAI was releasing its latest model only... Read more ›
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Citigroup wants to tackle the murky ownership problems that have proliferated among private tech firms as more special purpose vehicles have popped up promising to connect investors with the hottest startups. The bank this month said it is launching a new service that lets investors trade private company shares on a blockchain. It’s initially limited to foreign investors—it will expand to the U.S. later. And Citi needs the companies to... Read more ›
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For AI companies on the verge of releasing cutting edge new AI models, there’s a new normal in the wake of the Trump administration’s tense showdown with Anthropic in recent weeks. On Wednesday, for example, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman informed staff during a Q&A session that the company would release its latest model, GPT 5.6, in a limited preview to a small group of partners, according to two people familiar... Read more ›
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Google is tightening the screws on news publishers. In recent months, the tech giant has been pitching publishers on a pilot program to test new AI features in Google News. The program, announced in December with initial partners such as The Washington Post and The Guardian, offers publishers promotion in “AI-powered article overviews” in Google News and its AI chatbot, Gemini. That’s a valuable offer at a time when publishers... Read more ›
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Some customers may be paying more for Anthropic and OpenAI products than they should be due to billing inaccuracies, according to data from Vaudit, which sells an AI bill-auditing tool.Between March and June, Vaudit audited bills sent to 60 companies totaling $34 million, mostly for usage of Anthropic’s Claude Code, and found about $1.7 million in mistaken overcharges, CEO Michael Hahn told me. Vaudit customers include Panasonic, HP, and Honda,... Read more ›
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Bumble is exploring a sale, Reuters reported Thursday, a sign of the struggles that the company has had with slowing growth and declining users over the past few years. The company is working with bankers at Morgan Stanley on a potential sale, the report said, though Bumble may not end up ... Read more ›
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The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration on Thursday proposed eliminating a rule that requires all vehicles to have a brake pedal. The policy change would only apply to autonomous vehicles, a move that could remove regulatory hurdles for Tesla and Zoox, which are developing vehicles ... Read more ›
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Apple on Thursday increased prices on all Macs, iPads, HomePods, Apple TV and the Vision Pro to offset a dramatic surge in memory and storage chip prices. It left prices on iPhone, Apple Watch and AirPods untouched for now, though it hinted at possible changes in the future. Its shares fell ... Read more ›
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Tech leaders from Elon Musk and Jensen Huang to a slew of startup founders and their venture-capitalist backers say robotics is headed for a “ChatGPT moment” where AI enables a wide range of physical world tasks. But the industry is increasingly split on how to get there.At issue is which kind of AI models are most promising for powering robots. On one side are proponents of vision-language-action models, or VLAs,... Read more ›
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Google is reorganizing its recently launched strike team working on AI coding tools to try to catch up with Anthropic in the most lucrative AI applications, according to people familiar with the changes. The goal is for the months-old strike team to change the approach to training Google’s AI models to improve their abilities in both coding and other areas such as creating presentations, the people said. That aligns with... Read more ›
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Anthropic accused Chinese tech giant Alibaba Group of illicitly accessing its Claude AI models to extract their capabilities in violation of the U.S. company’s terms of service. In a letter to U.S. senators dated June 10, Anthropic said Alibaba and its Qwen AI lab generated more than 28.8 ... Read more ›
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