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May 26, 2025, 12:10 PM
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Source: the main topic at WWDC will be a redesigned software interface, dubbed Solarium, for all of Apple's operating systems, including tvOS and watchOS  —  Jony Ive's deal with OpenAI should cause major shockwaves at Apple, especially after a design-team brain drain and struggles in artificial intelligence.
Mayank Parmar / BleepingComputer:
Palisade Research claims that OpenAI's o3 altered a shutdown script to avoid being turned off, even when explicitly instructed to allow shutdown  —  A new report claims that OpenAI's o3 model altered a shutdown script to avoid being turned off, even when explicitly instructed to allow shutdown.
Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog:
Highlights from the system prompts of Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4, including model safety, avoiding sycophancy, and not regurgitating copyrighted content  —  Anthropic publish most of the system prompts for their chat models as part of their release notes.
Noam Scheiber / New York Times:
Some Amazon engineers say managers have increasingly pushed them to use AI over the past year, raising output goals and becoming less forgiving about deadlines  —  Pushed to use artificial intelligence, software developers at the e-commerce giant say they must work faster and have less time to think.
Financial Times:
Sources: SoftBank's Masayoshi Son pitched a joint US-Japan sovereign fund to top DC and Tokyo officials to back large tech and infrastructure projects in the US  —  Washington and Tokyo discuss possibility of fund that would make large-scale US tech and infrastructure investments
Belle Lin / Wall Street Journal:
CB Insights: VC investment in voice AI startups rose from $315M in 2022 to $2.1B in 2024, driven by growing business adoption of voice AI agents in call centers  —  Improvements in the technology behind voice-based AI bots are making them more prolific and humanlike in phone calls
Financial Times:
Sources: Trump Media and Technology Group aims to raise $2B in fresh equity and another $1B via a convertible bond to buy cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin  —  US president's administration and family have become staunch advocates for digital assets  —  Antoine Gara, Oliver Barnes and George Steer in New York, Arash Massoudi in London
Bloomberg:
A look at the UAE's Mohamed bin Zayed University of AI, which aims to supply talent to Emirati companies, incubate startups, and serve as the UAE's AI R&D arm  —  Mohamed bin Zayed University of AI is focused on building an engineering pipeline, incubating homegrown startups, and hypercharging the region's AI development
Leo Marchandon / Reuters:
Capgemini says it is partnering with SAP to deploy custom Mistral AI tools for industries with stringent data requirements, such as aerospace and defense  —  French IT firm Capgemini (CAPP.PA) said on Monday it was partnering with Germany's SAP (SAPG.DE) to deploy custom Mistral AI solutions for sensitive industries.
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Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg:
OpenAI sets up a legal entity in South Korea and plans a Seoul office, its third in Asia, and says the country has the most paying ChatGPT users outside the US  —  OpenAI has established a legal entity in South Korea, seeking to propel further adoption of its artificial intelligence technologies.
Rishav Chatterjee / Reuters:
Australia's WiseTech agrees to buy US cloud logistics firm E2open for $2.1B including debt, offering $3.30 per share, a 24.5% premium on E2open's May 23 close  —  Australian software company WiseTech Global (WTC.AX) on Monday announced its biggest deal to date, buying out U.S. cloud computing firm E2open …

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Max Tani / Semafor:
Sources: Bari Weiss has repeatedly asked CBS journalists to find links between Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed and the Muslim Brotherhood

Brian Stelter / CNN:
CNN's Chief International Anchor Christiane Amanpour plans to leave next June, after 43 years with the network

Sian Cain / The Guardian:
Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim's Elizabeth Holmes film You Can See Everything opens at $15M, the biggest North American doc debut since Fahrenheit 9/11

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Amy Hawkins / The Guardian:
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Earlier Picks

Mohit Pandey / Analytics India Magazine:
Sarvam AI's 24B-parameter LLM for Indian languages Sarvam-M receives only 334 downloads in two days on Hugging Face, raising concerns about AI efforts in India
Will Oremus / Washington Post:
Grok's tendency to repeat debunked claims raises doubts about Elon Musk's goal of making it a reliable source of information in high-stakes areas like medicine
Sean Heelan / Sean Heelan's Blog:
A security researcher details how he discovered a zero-day vulnerability in the Linux kernel's SMB implementation by analyzing the code using OpenAI's o3 API
Emma Roth / The Verge:
A look at updates that weren't in the Google I/O keynote, including a Nearby Passes notification in Wallet and the Play Store's Ask Someone Else to Pay button
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