Elon Helped His Enemy. Iran Bombed a Data Center. Apple Lied About Siri.

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This week Elon Musk gave Anthropic access to his Colossus 1 supercomputer in Memphis — 300 megawatts of compute capacity and over 220,000 Nvidia GPUs. The same man who called Anthropic a company that "hates Western civilization" in February. The same supercomputer built to power Grok, his direct competitor to Claude.Iran struck an Amazon data center this week — the first time a major US cloud provider's physical infrastructure has been directly damaged by enemy action. Secretary of State Rubio declared Operation Epic Fury concluded and said the US now seeks a memorandum of understanding with Iran. Trump said a deal is "very possible." The ceasefire is in its most fragile state since April 8.Apple agreed to pay $250 million to settle a class action lawsuit over advertising Siri AI capabilities that did not exist at the time of the ads, still do not exist today, and will not exist for at least two more years. A Chinese court ruled that companies cannot legally fire workers because AI can do their job more cheaply. Coinbase cut 14% of its workforce citing AI and a market downturn. Meta acquired a robotics startup to accelerate its humanoid AI ambitions. Ukrainian forces captured a Russian military position using only ground robots and aerial drones — two Russian soldiers surrendered to a machine. Google quietly installed a 4GB Gemini Nano model on users' devices through Chrome without prompting. Justin Sun and World Liberty Financial are now suing each other simultaneously. The CLARITY Act advanced to Senate Banking Committee markup for the first time in eight months.Weekly recap with Carmelo Giuliano and Sasha Asheghi from Arcanum Ventures.Timestamps:00:00 — Intro01:39 — Marco Rubio Just Said the War Is Over05:05 — Iran Strikes Amazon Data Center08:16 — Meta Buys a Robotics Startup12:08 — Ukraine Captured a Russian Position Using Only Robots16:23 — Apple $250 Million Class Action Lawsuit21:34 — Gemini Nano Secretly Installed for Google Chrome Users25:42 — Chinese Court Rules Firms Can’t Lay Off Workers On AI Grounds30:20 — Anthropic Just Cut a Deal With Elon Musk35:26 — Justin Sun Sues World Liberty Financial41:04 — The CLARITY ACT is finally moving44:47 — Coinbase Cuts 14% of Workforce52:24 — Biggest Fundraise of the Week55:15 — Outro--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------📍Useful Links for Arcanum Ventures:👉 Arcanum Ventures X: x.com/ArcanumVentures👉 Arcanum Ventures LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/arcanum-ventures/👉 Arcanum Venture Website: https://www.arcanum.ventures/👉 Arcanum Telegram Community: https://t.me/Arcanumventures👉 Work With Us: https://www.arcanum.ventures/workwithusform/👉 Arcanum Media Center: https://www.arcanum.ventures/media-center/--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------📍Disclaimer:Arcanum Ventures is not currently invested in or advising with any of the mentioned companies. The context of this content is merely meant to provide discussion and insight to viewers interested in the #startups, #tech, #AI, and #web3 industries.This video was created to serve as an educational aid, and nothing in the video constitutes any financial advice. Do your own research and #invest wisely!

The Strait of Hormuz Is Open and Closed at the Same Time | BOOM ROOM Weekly Roundup

The Iran war escalated again overnight. The US struck Iranian military and surveillance sites for the second consecutive night, in response to a downed American helicopter in the Gulf days earlier. Iran fired back at US bases in Kuwait, Bahrain, and Jordan with 12 ballistic missiles. Iran now says any vessel approaching the Strait of Hormuz is cooperating with the enemy. CENTCOM says the Strait is open and ships are transiting through it. Both things are being said at the same time. Brent crude is sitting in the mid 90s and barely moved.The US added 172,000 jobs in May, more than double the forecast, with unemployment holding at 4.3 percent. CPI is still at 3.8 percent and real wages remain negative. Kevin Warsh takes the chair at his first Fed meeting on June 17 facing a labor market that gives him almost no room to cut.Apple held its last WWDC under Tim Cook this week and rebuilt Siri from scratch as Siri AI, powered by a custom 1.2 trillion parameter Google Gemini model under a reported 1 billion dollar a year deal. Starting this fall, iOS lets you set Claude or another third party AI as your default assistant instead of Siri.SpaceX priced its IPO at 135 dollars a share, targeting a 1.75 trillion dollar valuation in the largest IPO in market history, with 30 percent of the float going to retail through Robinhood, Fidelity, and Schwab.Monash University published research on a light powered AI chip that generates, directs, and reads information on a single circuit, a potential answer to the AI energy crunch.Anthropic released Claude Fable 5, the first publicly available Mythos class model, days after filing its confidential S1. Claude Mythos 5, the unrestricted version, is simultaneously rolling out to 150 organizations across 50 countries through Project Glasswing.The Great American AI Act was introduced in Congress this week as the US starts writing its own AI rules, while the EU AI Act's general purpose AI rules take effect August 2 with the compliance guidance still unpublished.#ai #worldnews #iran #technews #vcinsights #technology #tech #crypto #deeptech #investing #investingpodcast #investingnews Timestamps:00:00 – Intro01:24 – Iran War Is Stalling05:51 – US Jobs Added 172,000 in May10:07 – Rise of Defense Tech Startups Funding 14:01 – The WWDC 202618:36 – European Military Robots Go to War22:52 – SpaceX Prices Its IPO at $135 Per Share28:27 – Monash University Built a Light-Powered AI Chip31:06 – Anthropic’s Claude Fable 536:25 – The Great American AI Act39:42 – Google and Anthropic Pays SpaceX for Compute43:58 – AI Water Consumption Dilemma47:24 – Telegram Rebranded TON to Gram51:15 – Sam Bankman-Fried Filed a Formal Pardon Application55:22 – CFTC New Rules for Prediction Markets59:33 – Biggest Fundraises of the Week1:02:59 – Outro--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------📍Useful Links for Arcanum Ventures:👉 Arcanum Ventures X: x.com/ArcanumVentures👉 Arcanum Ventures LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/arcanum-ventures/👉 Arcanum Venture Website: https://www.arcanum.ventures/👉 Arcanum Telegram Community: https://t.me/Arcanumventures👉 Work With Us: https://www.arcanum.ventures/workwithusform/👉 Arcanum Media Center: https://www.arcanum.ventures/media-center/--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------📍Disclaimer:Arcanum Ventures is not currently invested in or advising with any of the mentioned companies. The context of this content is merely meant to provide discussion and insight to viewers interested in the #startups, #tech, #AI, and #web3 industries.This video was created to serve as an educational aid, and nothing in the video constitutes any financial advice. Do your own research and #invest wisely!

12. juni 20261 h 4 min

Elon Helped His Enemy. Iran Bombed a Data Center. Apple Lied About Siri. | BOOM ROOM Roundup

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