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Techmeme - 2025-06-07T06:40:50-04:00

A profile of Panos Panay, head of devices and services at Amazon, who has scaled back new releases to focus on perfecting products like Alexa+ before rollout (Sebastian Herrera/Wall Street Journal) - 2025-06-07T06:40:03-04:00

New apps are helping immigrants navigate Trump's deportation crackdown, including by alerting users to locations of ICE raids and informing them of their rights (Rest of World) - 2025-06-07T02:35:00-04:00

AI research nonprofit EleutherAI releases the Common Pile v0.1, an 8TB dataset of licensed and open-domain text for AI models that it says is one of the largest (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch) - 2025-06-07T02:20:05-04:00

Simetrik, which uses AI to automate account reconciliation, raised a $30M Series B extension led by a Goldman Sachs Alternatives unit, taking the round to $85M (Bloomberg) - 2025-06-07T02:10:01-04:00

CapVest-owned Datasite, which offers workflow automation tech for dealmaking, acquires Grata, which helps users with all aspects of the deal process, for $200M+ (Maria Armental/Wall Street Journal) - 2025-06-07T02:00:35-04:00

Boulder, CO-based quantum computing startup Infleqtion raised a $100M Series C and partnered with US government services contractor SAIC to pursue defense deals (Stephen Nellis/Reuters) - 2025-06-07T01:30:01-04:00

Beijing-based Kuaishou's stock climbs after the company said it expects its video-generation service Kling AI to hit $100M in annual revenue by February 2026 (Bloomberg) - 2025-06-07T00:50:00-04:00

Walmart's Flipkart secures a lending license from the RBI, letting the e-commerce company offer loans directly to Indian customers and sellers on its platform (Ashwin Manikandan/Reuters) - 2025-06-07T00:20:00-04:00

President Trump signs an EO scrapping or revising several Biden- and Obama-era cybersecurity programs, including for AI security and post-quantum cryptography (Eric Geller/Cybersecurity Dive) - 2025-06-06T23:45:00-04:00

Sources: EchoStar is considering filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy to protect its valuable wireless spectrum licenses from potential revocation by the FCC (Wall Street Journal) - 2025-06-06T22:05:00-04:00

Sources: Musk's feud with Trump will complicate xAI's attempt to raise $5B in debt, and might increase lending costs or cause some lenders to walk away entirely (Eric Platt/Financial Times) - 2025-06-06T21:00:47-04:00

Researchers: cybercriminals are increasingly turning from "bulletproof" hosts to "residential proxies" that disguise malicious traffic as normal online activity (Lily Hay Newman/Wired) - 2025-06-06T19:45:01-04:00

An Indian government official says Starlink has secured a license from the telecom ministry to launch services in the country and now must apply for spectrum (Bloomberg) - 2025-06-06T18:25:02-04:00

Eric Trump says the TRUMP memecoin team and Magic Eden have canceled the $TRUMP Wallet; Trump's World Liberty Financial reportedly sent them a cease-and-desist (Jason Shubnell/The Block) - 2025-06-06T17:25:02-04:00

Virtual chronic care company Omada Health closed up 21% in its Nasdaq debut after raising about $150M in its IPO, valuing the company at just over $1B (Ashley Capoot/CNBC) - 2025-06-06T16:55:00-04:00