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Sources: Tim Cook declined a WH invitation to join Jensen Huang and others on Trump's Middle East trip, during which Trump criticized Cook and praised Huang — Apple's chief executive has gone from winning President Trump's praise to drawing his ire, deepening the company's woes in a very bad year.
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| 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| 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.
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources, including 30+ current and former Meta employees and 10+ US officials, detail Mark Zuckerberg's embrace of Trump, which has yet to pay major dividends — Meta's CEO has done everything he can to win over Trump, and it's not clear how much he has to show for it.| 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.
More: Simon Willison's Weblog, Don't Worry About the Vase, Anthropic, and The Decoder
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| Pranav Dixit / Business Insider: |
Meta's AI team has faced a talent drain, with just three of the 14 authors credited on the landmark 2023 Llama paper still at Meta; several joined Mistral — - Meta's AI team has faced a talent drain as key Llama model creators have exited. — The departures raise concerns about Meta's ability to retain top AI talent.| Tatum Hunter / Washington Post: |
People are using ChatGPT for unsparing assessments of their looks, with many also asking the chatbot to create plans to “glow up” their appearance — Friends want to protect your feelings. AI isn't pulling any punches. — Ania Rucinski was feeling down on herself.
More: New York Post and Tom's Guide
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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.
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| Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog: |
A database tracking instances where lawyers got caught presenting AI hallucinations shows that, of 116 cases dating back to June 2023, 20 occurred this month — AI Hallucination Cases (via) Damien Charlotin maintains this database of cases around the world where a legal decision …
| Owen Walker / Financial Times: |
Scam victims in Singapore lost a total of ~$858M last year, up 70% YoY; most are contacted via Meta-owned apps, and deepfakes in scams are increasingly common — City-state residents who spend a lot of time online and are naturally compliant with authority are especially vulnerable
More: PYMNTS.com, The Straits Times, The Online Citizen, and Asia Times
| 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
LinkedIn: Eric Xing
| Financial Times: |
JioHotstar has grown its subscriber base from 50M in March to over 280M in May, driven by IPL cricket streams, nearing Netflix's global subscriber count of 300M — Subscriptions soar as JioStar consolidates rights for world's richest league in sport-mad nation — Krishn Kaushik and Chris Kay in Mumbai
More: TipRanks Financial, Benzinga, and Semafor
| 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.
More: Verdict and MarketWatch
| 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
More: TechCrunch
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