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Summary “Nintendo Switch 2 Edition” game cartridges can be played on the original Switch. Consider purchasing Switch 2 Editions for future upgrades to gain access to upgraded versions. Early adopters of the Nintendo Switch 2 have discovered something interesting about the way Switch 2 Edition game cartridges work. This Nintendo Switch 2 detail may be important for original Nintendo Switch owners to know. The Nintendo Switch 2 has now rolled out, and gamers are learning everything there is to know about the new system and its games. For example, those players have learned that Mario Kart World is missing local…

Anysphere, the maker of AI coding assistant Cursor, has raised $900 million at a $9.9 billion valuation, Bloomberg reported. The round was led by returning investor Thrive Capital, with participation from Andreessen Horowitz, Accel, and DST Global. The massive round is Anysphere’s third fundraise in less than a year. The 3-year-old startup secured its previous capital haul of $100 million at a pre-money valuation of $2.5 billion late last year, as TechCrunch was first to report.  AI coding assistants, often referred to as “vibe coders,” have emerged as one of AI’s most popular applications, with Cursor leading the category. Anysphere’s…

Lending platform Maple Finance is expanding to the Solana network in a bid to reach a broader class of users. According to a June 5 announcement shared with Cointelegraph, the company is deploying its syrupUSD yield-bearing stablecoin to Solana-based platforms Kamino and Orca. The coin had previously been available only on the Ethereum blockchain. Maple’s Solana integration is launching with $30 million in liquidity, which the company says will establish “a deep and stable foundation for lending, trading, and collateral provisioning” in the ecosystem.Related: Solana lacks ‘convincing signs’ of besting Ethereum: SygnumThe integration was powered by an integration with Chainlink’s…

Perplexity received 780 million queries in May, CEO Aravind Srinivas shared on stage at Bloomberg’s Tech Summit on Thursday. Srinivas said that the AI search engine is seeing more than 20% growth month-over-month. “Give it a year, we’ll be doing, like, a billion queries a week if we can sustain this growth rate,” Srinivas said. “And that’s pretty impressive because the first day in 2022, we did 3,000 queries, just one single day. So from there to doing 30 million queries a day now, it’s been phenomenal growth.” Srinivas went on to note that the same growth trajectory is possible,…

Anthropic co-founder and Chief Science Officer Jared Kaplan said his company cut Windsurf’s direct access to Anthropic’s Claude AI models largely because of rumors and reports that OpenAI, its largest competitor, is acquiring the AI coding assistant. “We really are just trying to enable our customers who are going to sustainably be working with us in the future,” said Kaplan during an onstage interview Thursday with TechCrunch at TC Sessions: AI 2025. “I think it would be odd for us to be selling Claude to OpenAI,” Kaplan said. The comment comes just a few weeks after Bloomberg reported that OpenAI…

CNN  —  Do you yearn for long days and short nights? Then this could be the best day of the year for you and your fellow sunlight seekers. The summer solstice falls late in the day on Friday, June 20 in the United States (it will already be Saturday, June 21 in Europe). It’s the longest day and shortest night in the Northern Hemisphere. It’s also the first official day of summer. Our ancient ancestors certainly took note of the yearly occasion. Some of their monuments were aligned to precisely mark the summer solstice light (looking at you Stonehenge). Pagan celebrations…

Google on Thursday announced an update to its Gemini 2.5 Pro preview model that the company claims is better at certain programming tasks. The company’s calling it an “updated preview,” building on the upgrade to Gemini 2.5 Pro that Google announced around a month ago. Google says the model will roll out in general availability in a “couple of weeks” and is available starting today in its AI developer platforms AI Studio and Vertex AI and the Gemini app. Image Credits:Google “[Gemini 2.5 Pro] continues to excel at coding, leading on difficult coding benchmarks,” Google wrote in a blog post.…

Summary Tom Felton will reprise his role as Draco Malfoy in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child on stage in New York. The play serves as an epilogue to the original story, set 19 years after the final film. Felton’s involvement in the Harry Potter franchise continues, with a rumored role in an HBO adaptation and behind-the-scenes content creation. Harry Potter’s final movie might have been released back in 2011, but the magical franchise remains as popular today as ever. With the films still beloved, theme park lands being created, and an HBO television adaptation on the way, the Wizarding…

Trump Media and Technology Group, the company majority-owned by US President Donald Trump that runs his Truth Social media platform, filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to launch a Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF).TMTG filed an initial registration statement on Form S-1 for its Truth Social Bitcoin (BTC) ETF on June 5, according to an announcement by the company. The filing reads:“The assets of the Trust consist primarily of bitcoin held by a custodian on behalf of the Trust. The Trust seeks to reflect generally the performance of the price of Bitcoin.“The filing comes after stock exchange NYSE…

Anthropic says that it has released a new set of AI models tailored for U.S. national security customers. The new models, a custom set of “Claude Gov” models, were “built based on direct feedback from our government customers to address real-world operational needs,” writes Anthropic in a blog post. Compared to Anthropic’s consumer- and enterprise-focused models, the new custom Claude Gov models were designed to be applied to government operations like strategic planning, operational support, and intelligence analysis. “[These] models are already deployed by agencies at the highest level of U.S. national security, and access to these models is limited…