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    Money 2 sources

    SpaceX to acquire AI coding platform Cursor for $60 billion

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    Everyday life 1 source

    Pinterest launches an experimental AI shopping app called ‘Ask Pinterest’

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    Your work 1 source

    From the Hugging Face Hub to robot hardware with Strands Agents and LeRobot

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    Research 1 source

    The next humanoid robot might not look human at all

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    GLM-5.2: Built for Long-Horizon Tasks

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    Rules & power 1 source

    Trump admin tries to block Clean Air Act lawsuit over xAI's gas turbines

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Everything else that day

The rest of the wire for June 17, 2026 — 25 more stories from 8 outlets, untouched.

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  1. Entrepreneurs in Nairobi make the case for going solar MIT Tech Review · technologyreview.com
  2. Hacking the atmosphere: Geoengineering gets a reality check MIT Tech Review · technologyreview.com
  3. Anthropic’s latest feud with the Trump admin may actually help it, sales data suggests TechCrunch
  4. Anthropic "pauses" token-based billing for its Claude Agent SDK Ars Technica
  5. Exclusive eBook: How AI is becoming the next military advisor MIT Tech Review · technologyreview.com
  6. SpaceX valuation balloons to $2.6T, briefly passes Amazon TechCrunch
  7. Pentagon boasts of using AI to write reports mandated by Congress Ars Technica
  8. Android 17 launches with new multitasking tools as Google expands Gemini features TechCrunch
  9. ‘Dangerous’ AI Models Are Coming No Matter What Wired
  10. Apple 2027 rumors: AirPods with cameras for AI and the second folding iPhone The Verge
  11. Qualcomm’s latest chip hints that more powerful smart glasses could be on the way The Verge
  12. My Father Wants to Age in Place. AI Will Be Watching Wired
  13. What Do We Need From Our Homes Right Now? Wired
  14. The Download: the first brain implant power user and South Korea’s AI obsession MIT Tech Review · technologyreview.com
  15. ‘Pretty Crazy’ Token Usage Is Testing Bosses’ Bet on AI Wired
  16. Visual Language Models Train Robots to Read Human Emotions IEEE Spectrum · spectrum.ieee.org
  17. olmo-eval: An evaluation workbench for the model development loop Hugging Face
  18. How a Google DeepMind Spin-off Hunts Hidden Drug Targets IEEE Spectrum · spectrum.ieee.org
  19. Profiling in PyTorch (Part 2): From nn.Linear to a Fused MLP Hugging Face
  20. Timing Trick Cuts Energy Used in LLM Training by Up to 14 Percent IEEE Spectrum · spectrum.ieee.org
  21. AI Can Help Track the World’s Shrinking Glaciers IEEE Spectrum · spectrum.ieee.org
  22. Google just redesigned the search box for the first time in 25 years — here’s why it matters more than you think. VentureBeat
  23. Railway secures $100 million to challenge AWS with AI-native cloud infrastructure VentureBeat
  24. Claude Code costs up to $200 a month. Goose does the same thing for free. VentureBeat
  25. Listen Labs raises $69M after viral billboard hiring stunt to scale AI customer interviews VentureBeat
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