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• Tech News: Trump Trade Truce? Troops in LA, Cybersecurity AI Funding Frenzy

• Company Watch: Amazon, Meta x Scale AI, Anthropic, Cohere, Polymarket x 𝕏

• Feature: Is Apple’s AI Strategy Defiance or Delay?”

• Buzzy Tools: Latest Buzzy tech, AI and financial tools

• Deep Tech: The latest in deep tech, biotech, futurism and more

• Space Tech: Latest news in the space race and aerospace tech

• Crypto: Blockchain and crypto policy and startups or protocols to watch

TECH IN THE NEWS

Trade Truce? — US-China trade talks in London extend to a second day, tackling tariffs and rare earths. Trump remains optimistic about reaching an agreement on export controls, following a temporary truce.

Troops in LA — Trump sends 700 Marines to LA amidst immigration protests. California officials call it unnecessary and provocative as tensions rise. California has now sued Trump over his decision to federalize the National Guard.

Tech on Fire in LA — The Protests in LA also led to vandalism of Waymo robotaxis and Lime e-scooters as demonstrators clashed with police.

Cybersecurity Shake-Up — A Trump's executive order revises Obama/Biden cybersecurity policies by removing digital ID acceptance, AI testing requirements, and quantum encryption mandates.

AI Funding Frenzy — North America dominates AI venture capital with $69.7B invested from February to May 2025. Europe and Asia trail with just $6.4B and $3B.

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COMPANIES TO WATCH

OpenAI — Reported $10B in ARR, with a 50% increase in paid users to 3 million, mainly from business products. It aims for $12.7B by 2025, though high costs delay cash-positivity until 2029.

Amazon's $10B Bet — Amazon invests $10Bn in North Carolina to build AI and cloud infrastructure, 500+ high-skilled jobs and local STEM education initiatives. It also plans a $20B investment to construct two data centers in Pennsylvania.

Meta & Scale AI — Meta is in talks to invest $10B in AI startup Scale AI, potentially the largest funding event ever for a private company, Scale has seen rapid growth.

Anthropic — Introduces Claude Gov models tailored for U.S. national security to enhance strategic planning, intelligence analysis, and cybersecurity. Designed for classified environments, these models improve handling of sensitive information.

Cohere — The enterprise AI startup founded by ex-Google researchers is raising over $500M, aiming for a valuation of $5.5B-$6.5B. Its ARR has doubled, exceeding $100M, despite stiff competition.

Polymarket x 𝕏— The New York prediction market partnered with 𝕏 to integrate real-time insights, aiming to enhance financial decision-making by providing transparent and accurate forecasting.

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Is Apple’s AI Strategy Defiance or Delay?”

Apple’s WWDC 2025 revealed a privacy-first approach to AI that contrasted sharply with its rivals. Is it calculated restraint or missed opportunity?

There was a streak of quiet defiance in Apple’s tone at WWDC 2025 this year. While every other tech giant throws gasoline on the AI hype cycle, Apple showed up not with a manifesto, hype and flashy promises—but with a system.

Yes, they talked AI. But not in the way Silicon Valley has come to expect. No grandstanding. No flashy “AI-first” rebrand. No hallucination-prone assistants trying to replace your brain. Instead, we got Apple Intelligence, on-device LLMs, and private cloud compute. A bespoke hybrid system—quietly powerful, deeply integrated, and obsessively privacy-preserving.

Some may have expected Apple to dodge the AI discourse altogether. Instead, they leaned in—with trademark restraint. It really is “the most subtle revolution in Silicon Valley.” The subtlety was lost on many, including Wall Street yesterday.

Apple Intelligence

Apple introduced Apple Intelligence across its platforms—marking a pivotal, albeit cautious, step into the AI race. The centerpiece was a privacy-first, on-device LLM model accessible to third-party developers with just three lines of code. While Siri’s full revamp was delayed, Apple demoed Visual Intelligence (context-aware screen understanding), Live Translations across calls and messages, and integrated ChatGPT into Xcode for code completion. The biggest visible change? A "Liquid Glass" UI overhaul—their boldest redesign since iOS 7. But what wasn’t said, especially about Siri’s future and general AI strategy, may have mattered more to Wall Street. The stock dropped 1.7%, wiping nearly $75 billion in value.

The Feature Set? Subtle, but Structured.

From Xcode integrations with ChatGPT to Live Translations across phone calls, FaceTime, and messages, Apple’s AI is creeping across its ecosystem. A new Workout Buddy offers real-time coaching in the gym. Developers can tap the new Foundation Models Framework to integrate Apple’s on-device LLM with just three lines of code.

Siri, however, remains conspicuously undercooked. Despite last year’s promises, Apple admitted the assistant “needs more time to reach our high quality bar”. That line alone reportedly cost Apple $75 billion in market cap—a rare stumble for the world’s most tightly run ship.

But Maybe That’s the Point.

Apple’s been here before. Watching the market run ahead of the tech. Watching the cracks show. OpenAI launched the everything-bubble, and Google, Meta, Microsoft all followed suit. What we’re seeing now? An overpriced market castle built on sand. AI agents hallucinate. Models collapse under reasoning strain. The compute bill is unsustainable. The hype is brittle.

And Apple’s just… waiting and building. Research out yesterday from its own labs even questions the logic of step-by-step reasoning LLMs, suggesting that “thinking harder” doesn’t make models smarter—just more bloated, more expensive, and less reliable.

There’s Wisdom in Waiting.

Tim Cook is in an impossible spot. Match the hype, risk ethical shortcuts, or go slow and get slammed by investors. It’s hard to be the adult in the room, but someone has to be.

Apple's decision not to dive into centralized mega-models may look conservative now, but it’s rooted in a strategic vision: build AI that works offline, works privately, and works well. As Craig Federighi put it: “We're opening up access for any app to tap directly into the on-device, large language model at the core of Apple.”

The Core Tech Is There

The Liquid Glass UI is the boldest redesign since iOS 7, reacting to touch and light in real-time across every Apple platform. Visual Intelligence lets users search, extract data, or launch shortcuts based on what's on-screen—no need to swipe between apps.

Siri may be delayed, but Spotlight, Smart Stack, and on-device search are evolving fast. They don’t talk back, but they just work.

And while the AI assistant might be MIA, the assistant framework is being built. Slowly. Deliberately.

Is Apple Missing the Ride? Or Building the Rails?

Wall Street didn’t love the keynote. Shares fell 1.7%, dropping below $200 and wiping billions off Apple’s market cap. Analysts called the announcements “incremental,” the strategy “timid.”

But a deeper look tells a different story. Apple is pouring $500 billion over four years into U.S.-based AI infrastructure, including a new 250,000 sq. ft. server factory in Houston. It’s partnering with OpenAI, Broadcom, and possibly Google Gemini next. It’s already integrated ChatGPT into Siri. It’s not absent. It’s just underground.

Liquid Glass might grab the headlines. But privacy-first AI is the real play.

And let’s not forget: Apple Intelligence adoption already hit 80% of eligible U.S. users. That’s not a miss. That’s a moat.

Verdict? It’s Early Days.

Apple is either playing the long game—or going the way of Nokia. Their cautious pace may win trust in an AI market that’s increasingly seen as brittle. Or they may miss the inflection point entirely.

But betting against Apple rarely pays off. And when the dust settles, we may look back at 2025 as the year they built the foundations—while others chased fireworks.

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Apple — Workout Buddy AI coach personalizes fitness guidance + more at WWDC.

Google — AI Portraits offers interactive coaching avatars, voice + Scheduled tasks enhances AI assistant + Interactive data visualizations for financial data.

OpenAI — GPT-4.1 enhances voice, research export, web voice chat + Record offers meeting summaries.

Huxe — iOS Audio app curates personalized briefings from comms.

Exa — Frontier structured research model achieves 94.9% accuracy on SimpleQA.

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BUZZY TECH

The Latest Deep Technology & Trends To Watch

Non-Binary AI Chip — China's quantum chip boosts aviation cuts power use.

mRNA HIV Cure — Nanoparticles target latent HIV, showing cure promise.

Quantum AI — Small-scale quantum supercomputer processors outperform.

Westinghouse — 10 nuclear reactors by 2030 to 4x capacity; SMRs cut costs.

Soft Metal Solid-State Battery — Lithium-sodium mix hits 500-mile range.

AI Foot Scanner — UK startup's device predicts heart failure w/ 83% accuracy.

CRYPTO WATCH

Crypto Funds Surge — Crypto funds hit a record $167B in assets with $7.05B net inflows as investors hedge against volatility and diversify from U.S. holdings.

Circle IPO — The USDC owner saw its stock soar 247% on its second day, closing at $107.70, far above the $31 IPO price, boosting its market value to $28.6B.

Plasma ICO Boom — Plasma secured $500M in stablecoin deposits for its upcoming ICO, with one trader spending $100k on Eth gas fees for a $10M deposit. This indicates a potential revival of the ICO trend.

UK Crypto Securities — The UK financial regulator plans to lift its ban on crypto-linked exchange-traded notes for retail investors, tracking currencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum.

Dubai Real Estate Blockchain — Dubai's real estate market saw $399M in tokenized transactions, 17.4% of May's sales. Prypto Mint's launch promotes fractional ownership, aiming for a $16B market by 2033.

Layer's Luxe Display — Angelo Sotira, founder of DeviantArt, unveils Layer, a $22,000 digital art display with high-quality resolution and self-sustaining features.

SPACE_RACE

Ispace Resilience — Japan Moon landing telemetry lost, fell over.

XZY-1 Starship — China tests Starship, successful takeoff, splashdown.

SpaceX Chips — Texas factory to make chips for satellite, government tech.

Space Data Centers — Billionaires tackle radiation, maintenance challenges.

Axiom Space Mission — First mission with India, Poland, Hungary astronauts.

Starlink Satellite Interference — Leaking radio signals disrupt astronomy.

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