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Below is a list of all the correct answers to this week’s quiz, along with links to the actual news stories behind the quiz’s questions.
- In late May, the startup Context raised $11 million in a seed funding round which brought the company’s valuation to $70 million. The company will use the money to bring what product or service to market?
Correct answer: An AI powered office suite.
News article: Context gets $11M to build an AI-powered office suite
- What led TechCrunch to call Meta’s new AI app a “privacy disaster”?
Correct answer: Users’ questions and answers are posted to the apps public Discover feed when they hit “share.”
News article: The Meta AI app is a privacy disaster
- To increase sales of its wearable hardware, like Ray-Ban Meta glasses and the Meta Quest VR headsets, Meta plans to do what?
Correct answer: Grow a chain of retail outlets.
News article: Meta wants to open more retail stores
- What two revelations did Data-labeling company Scale AI make in an announcement on Friday?
Correct answers: It has received a “significant” investment from Meta.
Its co-founder and CEO Alexandr Wang is stepping down.News article: Scale AI confirms ‘significant’ investment from Meta, says CEO Alexandr Wang is leaving
- On May 29, the civil rights group NAACP sent letters to the Shelby County Health Department and Memphis Light Gas and Water, asking them to take action that would have a negative financial impact on what Elon Musk led company?
Correct answer: xAI
News article: NAACP calls on Memphis officials to halt operations at xAI’s ‘dirty data center’
- By fall, the Danish Ministry of Digitization will have completely quit using Microsoft products. What do they say they’ll be using as a replacements?
Correct answer: Linux and LibreOffice
News article: From Word and Excel to LibreOffice: Danish ministry says goodbye to Microsoft
- On June 2 we learned than Samsung was making an investment that might result in what benefit for its phone users?
Correct answer: Perplexity’s AI tech might be incorporated into its phones.
News article: Samsung may incorporate Perplexity’s AI tech in its phones
- Starting Monday, the United Nations will be hosting a five-day event that should interest most FOSS Force readers. What is it?
Correct answer: Open Source Week
News article: UN Open Source Week 2025
Which of these were actual headlines about data centers that have appeared so far this June?
Correct answers: Heavy Compute: AI Data Centers Have a Weight Problem
EU Unveils Plan to Ease Water Shortages and Curb Data Center Use
News articles: Heavy Compute: AI Data Centers Have a Weight Problem
EU Unveils Plan to Ease Water Shortages and Curb Data Center Use