GTA VI, Finally, Finally Coming?

Intel stock popped after Trump said Apple agreed to build chips with it in America. Waymo yanked its robotaxis off highways over construction-zone blunders. Rockstar dated GTA VI pre-orders to June 25, and GLM-5.2 grabbed the open-weights crown.

• Intel's stock jumps 10.64% after Trump said "Apple has agreed to work with Intel to design and build its Chips in America"; INTC is up 520%+ in the past year (CNBC)
• Filings: Waymo pulls its ~4K robotaxis from highways after finding 13+ instances of the cars driving into highway sections under construction (TechCrunch)
• Rockstar Games announces that pre-orders for Grand Theft Auto VI will go live on June 25; TTWO closed up 4.93% (Kotaku)
• GLM-5.2 is the leading open weights model on Artificial Analysis' Intelligence Index, scoring 51, only behind Fable 5's 60, Opus 4.8's 56, and GPT-5.5's 55 (Artificial Analysis)
• GLM-5.2 becomes the top open-weight model on Artificial Analysis (Implicator)

Longreads

• Google Is Using Nvidia's Playbook to Build a Rival AI Chip Business (WSJ)
• AI Is Splitting the Job Market in Two, PwC Study Shows (Bloomberg)
• Apple’s weird anti-nausea dots cured my car sickness (The Verge)

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