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.

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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.com/2026/06/18/trump-intel-apple-chip-des…) (CNBC)

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Filings: Waymo pulls its ~4K robotaxis from highways after finding 13+ instances of the cars driving into highway sections under construction (techcrunch.com/2026/06/18/waymo-recalls-nearly…) (TechCrunch)

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Rockstar Games announces that pre-orders for Grand Theft Auto VI will go live on June 25; TTWO closed up 4.93% (kotaku.com/heres-how-i-know-we-are-entering-ro…) (Kotaku)

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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 (artificialanalysis.ai/articles/glm-5-2-is-the-…) (Artificial Analysis)

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GLM-5.2 becomes the top open-weight model on Artificial Analysis (implicator.ai/glm-5-2-becomes-the-top-open-wei…) (Implicator)

Longreads

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Google Is Using Nvidia's Playbook to Build a Rival AI Chip Business (wsj.com/tech/ai/google-is-using-nvidias-playbo…) (WSJ)

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AI Is Splitting the Job Market in Two, PwC Study Shows (bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-15/ai-is-s…) (Bloomberg)

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Apple’s weird anti-nausea dots cured my car sickness (theverge.com/tech/942854/apple-vehicle-motion-…) (The Verge)