Friday, June 20, 2025

Sources: Masayoshi Son is pitching Trump officials and TSMC on a Shenzhen-like $1T AI and robotics manufacturing hub in Arizona, codenamed Project Crystal Land (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg:
Sources: Masayoshi Son is pitching Trump officials and TSMC on a Shenzhen-like $1T AI and robotics manufacturing hub in Arizona, codenamed Project Crystal Land  —  Son envisions a version of the vast manufacturing hub of China's Shenzhen that would bring back high-tech manufacturing to the US …



Sources: Foxconn and Nvidia are in talks to deploy humanoid robots at a new Foxconn factory in Houston by Q1 2026 to produce Nvidia AI servers (Wen-Yee Lee/Reuters)

Wen-Yee Lee / Reuters:
Sources: Foxconn and Nvidia are in talks to deploy humanoid robots at a new Foxconn factory in Houston by Q1 2026 to produce Nvidia AI servers  —  Taiwan's Foxconn (2317.TW) and U.S. artificial intelligence chips maker Nvidia (NVDA.O) are in talks to deploy humanoid robots at a new Foxconn factory …



Israeli authorities urge citizens to turn off home cameras, and say Iran is tapping into security cameras in Israel to gather real-time intelligence for attacks (Marissa Newman/Bloomberg)

Marissa Newman / Bloomberg:
Israeli authorities urge citizens to turn off home cameras, and say Iran is tapping into security cameras in Israel to gather real-time intelligence for attacks  —  Iran is tapping into private security cameras in Israel to gather real-time intelligence about its adversary …



Monday, June 16, 2025

Amazon Ads and Roku sign a new ad initiative to give media buyers access to 80%+ of US connected-TV households, set to launch by Q4 2025, using Amazon's DSP (Dade Hayes/Deadline)

Dade Hayes / Deadline:
Amazon Ads and Roku sign a new ad initiative to give media buyers access to 80%+ of US connected-TV households, set to launch by Q4 2025, using Amazon's DSP  —  In a milestone agreement, Amazon Ads and Roku are teaming on a new advertising initiative that will give media buyers access to more than 80% of U.S. connected-TV households.



A survey of UK academic integrity violations finds nearly 7,000 proven AI cheating cases in 2023-24, or 5.1 per 1,000 students, up from 1.6 per 1,000 in 2022-23 (Michael Goodier/The Guardian)

Michael Goodier / The Guardian:
A survey of UK academic integrity violations finds nearly 7,000 proven AI cheating cases in 2023-24, or 5.1 per 1,000 students, up from 1.6 per 1,000 in 2022-23  —  Guardian investigation finds almost 7,000 proven cases of cheating - and experts says these are tip of the iceberg



TikTok rolls out new AI ad features, including the ability for marketers to use text or images to create AI-generated video, as part of its Symphony ad suite (Kurt Wagner/Bloomberg)

Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg:
TikTok rolls out new AI ad features, including the ability for marketers to use text or images to create AI-generated video, as part of its Symphony ad suite  —  TikTok is rolling out a set of new artificial intelligence-powered advertising features, including the ability for marketers …



Sunday, June 15, 2025

A look at Apple's upgrades to CarPlay, iPadOS, and visionOS, and the new Liquid Glass redesign of its operating systems announced at WWDC (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
A look at Apple's upgrades to CarPlay, iPadOS, and visionOS, and the new Liquid Glass redesign of its operating systems announced at WWDC  —  Apple's unveiling of iOS 26 and the Liquid Glass interface was the most discussed part of its developers conference, but the real gems were its enhancements …



New York City-based Abacum, which offers AI-powered financial planning and analysis tools to companies, raised a $60B Series B led by Scale Venture Partners (Chris Metinko/Axios)

Chris Metinko / Axios:
New York City-based Abacum, which offers AI-powered financial planning and analysis tools to companies, raised a $60B Series B led by Scale Venture Partners  —  Abacum, business financial planning startup, landed a $60 million Series B round led by Scale Venture Partners, co-founder and CEO Julio Martínez tells Axios Pro.



Dealogic: tech deals accounted for $421B of the $1.67T in global deals announced in the first five months of 2025, with 75% of tech M&A involving AI software (Milana Vinn/Reuters)

Milana Vinn / Reuters:
Dealogic: tech deals accounted for $421B of the $1.67T in global deals announced in the first five months of 2025, with 75% of tech M&A involving AI software  —  Weighed down by tariffs and geopolitical uncertainty, dealmaking has slowed to a crawl across most industries except one: the unglamorous world of data infrastructure.



Uber, Verne, and Pony.ai launch autonomous rides in Zagreb, making the Croatian capital the first European city where users can book such rides via Uber's app (Anzar Mehraj/Reuters)

Anzar Mehraj / Reuters : Uber, Verne, and Pony.ai launch autonomous rides in Zagreb, making the Croatian capital the first European city ...