Happy Friday.

PlayStation: CDs are out

Timeline: 🤬

GitHub: Ok, we’ll burn your public repos on CDs

Timeline:

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Enjoy today's news.

Anthropic explores a custom AI chip partnership with Samsung, advancing plans to develop its own AI chips.
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Meta launches Pocket, an AI app letting users create, play, and share interactive games and apps from text prompts.
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Tesla expands Robotaxi service to Miami.
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Anthropic announces Built with Claude: Life Sciences, a global virtual hackathon with Gladstone Institutes running July 7–13, offering $100,000 in credits for AI research projects.
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Microsoft launches Microsoft Frontier Company, a $2.5B AI deployment business with 6,000 experts helping enterprises successfully implement Microsoft AI tools.
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Google loses its appeal against a $4.67B European Commission antitrust fine over Android's anti-competitive practices.
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Alibaba and Tencent back Kling AI, joining a $2.8B fundraise to accelerate the AI video platform's growth and expansion.
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Tesla limits employee AI spending to $200/week, except for Grok.
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New York Post's Lydia Moynihan interviews a16z co-founder Marc Andreessen on America's tech optimism, deregulation, and innovation across health, defense, and robotics.
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New Naval Podcast episode: Naval joins Garry Tan, Daniel Francis, and Farbood Nivi to discuss AGI risks, AI anxiety, and defending Taiwan.
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The future of work with Claude: Anthropic’s Boris Cherny and Cat Wu discuss Claude Tag and the future of AI-assisted work.
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As promised, tech and startups in a minute.

See you on Monday.

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