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Techmeme - 2025-06-27T23:51:07-04:00

Sources: Applied Compute, a pre-launch reinforcement learning startup founded by three former OpenAI staffers, raised $20M at a $100M valuation led by Benchmark (Alex Konrad/Upstarts Media) - 2025-06-27T23:50:22-04:00

Canada orders Chinese video surveillance tech provider Hikvision to cease all operations and close its business in the country over national security concerns (Yi Wei Wong/Bloomberg) - 2025-06-27T22:40:01-04:00

The term "context engineering" is gaining traction over "prompt engineering" as it better describes the skill of providing LLMs with the necessary information (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Weblog) - 2025-06-27T21:45:02-04:00

Indian digital payments company Pine Labs files for an IPO in India to raise up to ~$304M; source: Pine Labs is seeking a valuation of between $5B and $6B (Vivek Kumar M/Reuters) - 2025-06-27T20:30:01-04:00

Anthropic tested Claude's ability to manage a physical "storefront" to mixed results, as the AI struggled with pricing strategy and inventory management (Ryan Daws/AI News) - 2025-06-27T18:35:01-04:00

On the a16z podcast, Bryan Kim said a16z backed Cluely because speed in marketing and building beats crafting a perfect "artisan" product due to AI competition (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch) - 2025-06-27T17:35:02-04:00

A group of 17 GOP governors write to Senate majority leader and House speaker urging for the state AI bill moratorium to be removed from the reconciliation bill (Ashley Gold/Axios) - 2025-06-27T17:25:04-04:00

Sources: OpenAI is not releasing an internal paper on AI stages as it may complicate OpenAI's ability to declare AGI and block Microsoft from its tech (Kylie Robison/Wired) - 2025-06-27T16:30:02-04:00

Source: OpenAI recently began renting Google's TPUs to power ChatGPT, marking its first significant use of non-Nvidia chips; Meta also considered using TPUs (The Information) - 2025-06-27T16:25:01-04:00

Sources: Meta is looking to raise $3B in equity and $26B in debt, from private capital firms, including Apollo Global and KKR, to fund its data center build out (Financial Times) - 2025-06-27T16:00:49-04:00

UK retailers are building an arsenal of anti-theft tech powered by AI, computer vision, and facial recognition, as organized crime fuels a shoplifting epidemic (Laura Onita/Financial Times) - 2025-06-27T15:15:02-04:00

Trump says the US is "terminating all discussions on trade with Canada" in response to Canada's decision to impose a digital services tax on US tech firms (Kevin Breuninger/CNBC) - 2025-06-27T14:10:01-04:00

Trump's tax bill expands Qualified Small Business Stock benefits for VCs, founders, startup staff, including increasing maximum tax-free gains from $10M to $15M (Ben Steverman/Bloomberg) - 2025-06-27T13:50:01-04:00

Anthropic launches the Anthropic Economic Futures Program to bolster research on the impacts of AI and encourage new proposals on how to mitigate the downsides (Reed Albergotti/Semafor) - 2025-06-27T12:55:00-04:00

Denmark plans to clamp down on AI-generated deepfakes by changing copyright law to give its citizens rights to their own body, facial features, and voice (Miranda Bryant/The Guardian) - 2025-06-27T12:25:01-04:00