Financial Times:
Sources: Amodei, Altman, and Hassabis called for US-led collaboration on AI rules at the G7 summit; Macron and Modi raised concerns over the US block on Mythos  —  Dario Amodei is supported by rival Sam Altman in call for international co-operation  —  Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei …

Kai Nicol-Schwarz / CNBC:
CEOs of Anthropic and Google DeepMind call for U.S.-led AI coalition in meeting at G7 … Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and Google DeepMind's Demis Hassabis called for a U.S.-led coalition to shape rules and standards around artificial intelligence at a meeting with tech leaders and heads of state …

Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer:
A newly discovered data leak has exposed what appears to be a collection of Fortinet and FortiGate VPN credentials for 73,932 firewall URLs across 194 countries  —  A newly discovered data leak dubbed “FortiBleed” has exposed what appears to be a collection of Fortinet and FortiGate VPN credentials …

Ryan Merket / RuntimeWire:
Joshua Baer, the founder and CEO of Texas accelerator Capital Factory, died on Tuesday night in a business jet crash in Laredo, Texas  —  Joshua Baer (@joshuabaer), the founder and CEO of Capital Factory, died Tuesday night in a business jet crash in Laredo, Texas, KXAN reported …

Ingrid Lunden / Resilience Media:
Paris-based Comand AI, which is developing AI-based command-and-control software for military operations, raised a €32M Series A led by Blossom Capital  —  French startup emerges at a time when tech sovereignty has become a major talking point in defence

Michael Peel / Financial Times:
Studies: Mira, an AI medical tool developed by researchers in Germany, and Google's Amie matched or surpassed doctors on diagnostic and treatment decisions  —  Two health models displayed clinical value across a range of diagnostic and treatment decisions, studies show

Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times:
Q&A with Luciana Lixandru, who co-leads Sequoia's global early-stage investment business, on why it is time for “act two” for Europe's tech sector, AI, and more  —  The global co-lead of the US venture capital firm's early-stage investment business talks about why it is time for ‘act two’ for Europe's tech sector

Muvija M / Reuters:
The UK CMA orders Google to provide greater transparency on how its search rankings work and to let users transfer their search data to authorized third parties  —  Britain's competition watchdog ordered Google to provide greater transparency on how its search rankings work …

Yohan Yunstaff / Cointelegraph:
Trace Finance, which provides stablecoin settlement infrastructure for cross-border payments across Latin America, raised a $32M Series A led by CoinFund  —  Cointelegraph is committed to independent, transparent journalism.  This news article is produced in accordance with Cointelegraph's Editorial Policy …

Tim Fernholz / TechCrunch:
XDOF, which is building data pipelines, collection tools, and annotation systems for robot training data, emerges from stealth with $70M  —  Two weeks ago, OpenAI said it would relaunch the robotics program it shuttered in 2021 — the latest signal that the biggest AI labs are racing to teach machines to operate in the physical world.

New York Times:
A look at chaos inside Anthropic after disabling Fable 5 and Mythos 5 with less than 90 minutes of notice, as some staff wonder if Trump is bullying the startup  —  Workers at the artificial intelligence company have been puzzled and increasingly concerned by the administration's move to limit their latest A.I. models.

Anhata Rooprai / Reuters:
Shoe company Allbirds changes its name to Smartbird as it pivots to an AI infrastructure company and names ex-AWS exec Nadia Carlsten as CEO; BIRD jumps 20%+  —  Allbirds (BIRD.O) changed its name to Smartbird on Wednesday and appointed former Amazon Web Services (AMZN.O) …

Russell Brandom / TechCrunch:
Pramaana Labs, which uses the LEAN programming language to build a deterministic verification layer on top of LLMs, raised a $27M seed led by Khosla Ventures  —  As enterprises struggle to turn AI pilot programs into functional parts of their business, reliability has taken center stage.

Ben Bergman / Business Insider:
Convey, which is building AI “teammates” to automate manual work at clients like NBCUniversal, raised a $38M Series A led by a16z  —  Convey, a startup founded last year that builds AI “teammates,” has raised $38 million in Series A funding led by Andreessen Horowitz, with participation from Khosla Ventures and Pear VC.

Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge:
Google's $99 Google Home Speaker, which is built for Gemini for Home and works as a Matter controller, will ship on June 29, nine months after it was announced  —  The Google Home Speaker is designed for Gemini for Home and its more conversational smart home assistant.