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Nobel laureate John Jumper leaves DeepMind for Anthropic — Google's second AI defection in a week
John Jumper — Nobel laureate, AlphaFold lead, DeepMind VP — joins Anthropic. Less than a week after Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer left for OpenAI. Two crown jewels gone in seven days.
Trump announces Apple–Intel US foundry deal — ends Apple's decade of TSMC exclusivity
Trump confirms an Apple–Intel US foundry deal on Truth Social. Intel stock jumped 9% pre-market. Apple's decade-long TSMC exclusivity gets its first crack.
Meituan reportedly paid for rival's dirt — ¥2,000 per case, Taobao Shangou «shocked and furious»
Shanghai Securities News reports Meituan paid restaurants ¥2,000 per case for negative material on rival Taobao Shangou. Taobao Shangou says it's «shocked and furious».
Sam's Club China CPO out within a week of SAMR talks — four food incidents in six months
China's SAMR called Walmart China in for food safety on June 13. Sam's Club Chief Procurement Officer resigned within a week. Four food incidents in six months.
Xiaohongshu to file confidential Hong Kong IPO at $70B — 4× valuation in 18 months
Xiaohongshu plans a confidential Hong Kong IPO filing by end of June at a $70B target. The valuation has 4×'d in 18 months. Underwriters: Goldman, CICC.
Octoverse 2025: TypeScript #1, 180M devs, LLM repos triple
GitHub's Octoverse 2025: 180M developers (+36M in a year), TypeScript overtakes Python and JS as #1 by contributors, LLM-using repos grew 178% year-on-year.
Anthropic overtakes OpenAI in enterprise share — May 41% vs 39.5%
Per Ramp's expense data, Anthropic's share of enterprise AI subscriptions hit 41% in May, edging past OpenAI's 39.5% — first reversal. Export controls became a tailwind.
Redis patches 5 RCE bugs at once — one hidden two years, PoC public
Redis patched five critical RCE bugs at once on May 5, affecting 7.2.0–8.6.2. CVE-2026-23479 had been hiding for two years. PoC chains are public. Upgrade immediately.
AMD FSR 4.1 lands on RX 7000 in July — INT8 version claims quality parity with FP8
AMD's FSR 4.1 expands from RX 9000 to RX 7000 in July. The INT8 build claims quality parity with the FP8 version. RX 6000 and Steam Deck GPU come early 2027 with shader-based inference.
Microsoft asks AWS to help save GitHub — 1B → 14B code changes in a year
Microsoft is asking AWS for help keeping GitHub up. Code-change events go from 1B in 2025 to a projected 14B in 2026 — 14× — driven by AI coding agents. Eight outages already this year.
Oracle's free ARM tier cut in half — effective today, over-limit free instances power off
Oracle Cloud Always Free's ARM instance ceiling drops 50% today (June 15) — from 4 OCPU + 24GB to 2 OCPU + 12GB. Over-limit free instances are powered off. No transition period.
42 states jointly subpoena OpenAI — three legal hits in a week as IPO filing lands
42 state attorneys general jointly subpoena OpenAI, asking for ad practices, retention mechanics, child/elderly use, model docs and policies. Three legal hits in a week, just as OpenAI files its IPO.
Musk crosses $1T net worth on SpaceX IPO day — first trillionaire in history
SpaceX IPO opens June 12, ticker SPCX, +20% first day to a $2T valuation. Musk crosses $1.05T net worth — humanity's first trillionaire. 90%+ of it is locked for 366 days.
Google Pixel bootloop drags into month four — official «solution»: factory reset
Three months in, Google still hasn't fully fixed the Pixel bootloop bug from the March update. Pixels 6 through 10 are affected. Google's first solutions wiped data; a rescue OTA is now trickling out.
US orders Anthropic to disable Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 — flagship models pulled
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick orders Anthropic to block all foreign users from Fable 5 and Mythos 5 — including its own non-US employees. Anthropic pulls both flagship models globally.