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Welcome again a week in review! Elon Musk says that Xai bought X in the All-Stock deal; A16z supported 11x fake some customers; Lumon Terminal Pro appears on Apple on the web; And much more. Let’s dig!

Xai Buys X: The owner of X Elon Musk announced on Friday that Friday XAI got X in All-Stock. This mixture is estimated at $ 80 billion and X at $ 33 billion. “Today, we take the step officially to integrate data, models, account, distribution and talent,” said Musk.

Providing numbers: Tell more than 20 sources- including investors and current and former employees- Techcrunch that A16z-backed from the subsidized 11x He suffered from financial conflictsLargely of its own making. One of the former employees said: “They mocked the numbers completely internally when it comes to growth and spread,” said one of the former employees.

Workers’ layoffs: A leakage message by the CEO of Block Jack Dormyy, which Techcrunch, has reviewed, revealed that the company – which owns the Cash and Square – He put 931 people, or 8 % of the company, as part of the “Org restructuring”. The Dorsi email denies that the demobilization of workers is for financial reasons or to replace the workers on behalf.

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“What, I am doing fraud?” The White House confirmed to Techcrunch on Friday President Trump sorry, Tarvor MiltonFounder of Nikola, who was bankrupt in truck transport. The amnesty comes a few weeks after Nicolas request for bankruptcy, Chapter 11.

Talking about leaks: A database that was leaked by Techcrunch is showed that China has developed The artificial intelligence system, which is already providing the massive control machineIt extends to the traditional taboos like the Tiananmen Square massacre.

SkungWorks: It was the Rivian’s SkunkWorks project It comes out of the company New name and $ 105 million in funding from Eclipse Ventures. It will provide startup, also called, as a self -standing company from Rivian.

Make your computers ready: Apple announced this The developer conference will start all over the world 2025 on June 9. Reports indicated that Apple has prepared exciting software repair operations for the iPhone, iPad and Mac. We also expect iOS 19, which, according to Bloomberg, will be “the largest renewal since iOS 7.”

DNA disaster: DNA test company 23andme was presented for bankruptcy this week. Anne Wogiki, co -founder of the company, Anne Wogiki, said she will leave for an independent bidder for the company. Your data may not be safeSo, so Here are some ways to delete them.

Congress verb: Cat Abu Ghazaleh, the 26 -year -old who was among the people who were extracted from the media after a lawsuit against Elon Musk, the company, This week she announced that it was nominated for Congress. “I try to be really transparent about how to run for positions, because I feel it is a kind of this black hole that looks much more difficult than it is.”

Slide of “Chapter”: I haven’t seen any seasons of “Severance”, and it seems to everyone in the world, I am completely missing. My colleague Sarah is among these people, and I monitored a Lumon Terminal Pro (the device you use in the display) on the Apple website.

The back door to China: Spesx, the defending contractor for the Pentagon, according to what was reported Chinese investors were allowed to buy sharesAs long as the money is directed through the Cayman Islands or other marine centers.

The key 2 is coming! In Nintendo Direct, the company announced it is working on it Virtual game cards that allow players to take their download games With them to use it on other devices.

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The new photo generator was launched from Chatgpt this week, and with it a flood of photos came based on art by Studio Ghibli, which is being published online. While the discussion about whether this is a horrific thing (the studio founder Ghibli Hayao Miyazaki once said that “artificial intelligence is an insult to life itself”) or cold, it highlights one thing: Copyright is still a source of concern When it comes to anything created from artificial intelligence. Although copying the art style is not necessarily illegal, Openai trains its models on the art of Studio Ghibli working in a legal “gray region”.

“I think this raises the same question that we have asked ourselves for two years,” Ivan Brown, intellectual property lawyer, told Techcrunch. “What are the effects of violating the copyright of the exit, crawling on the web, and copying these databases?”