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| Natasha Singer / New York Times: |
An interview with Leah Belsky, OpenAI's VP of Education, as the startup competes with Google and others to offer premium AI tools to universities and students — OpenAI, the firm that helped spark chatbot cheating, wants to embed A.I. in every facet of college. First up: 460,000 students at Cal State.
More: Gizmodo, The Japan Times, Politico, Hong Kong Free Press HKFP, and Independent Institute
Bluesky: @carlbergstrom.com, @matthewbudman, @laywilliams, @joelhs, @scripting.com, @biblioracle, and @hypervisible. Mastodon: @emilymbender@dair …
X: @j_vittori, @berlinger, @natashanyt, and @davoh
| John Gruber / Daring Fireball: |
Bill Atkinson, a pioneering Apple engineer and key member of the original Macintosh team, died on June 5 at age 74 from pancreatic cancer — From his family, on Atkinson's Facebook page: … One of the great heroes in not just Apple history, but computer history.
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: ByteDance replaced some TikTok Shop's US staff in Seattle with China-based managers after 2024 US revenue hit $9B, far short of its $17.5B goal — TikTok Shop initially set a goal to increase its US e-commerce business tenfold last year to $17.5 billion in transaction volume …
More: NewsMax.com and Digital Music News
| Eric Geller / Cybersecurity Dive: |
President Trump signs an EO scrapping or revising several Biden- and Obama-era cybersecurity programs, including for AI security and post-quantum cryptography — The White House accused the Biden administration of trying to “sneak problematic and distracting issues into cybersecurity policy.”
More: The White House, The White House, TechCrunch, Politico, DeviceSecurity.io, Forbes, Nextgov/FCW, Federal News Network, and CyberScoop
Bluesky: @gigastacey, @ericjgeller.com, and @ericjgeller.com
| Julie Bort / TechCrunch: |
Enterprise vibe coding startup Superblocks raised a $23M Series A, bringing its total funding to $60M, and launched an enterprise coding AI agent called Clark — Brad Menezes, CEO of enterprise vibe coding startup Superblocks, believes the next crop of billion-dollar startup ideas are hiding … | Francisco Rodrigues / CoinDesk: |
Justin Sun-linked BiT Global dismisses with prejudice its lawsuit against Coinbase for delisting wBTC; the delisting followed Coinbase launching rival cbBTC — BiT Global agreed to dismiss its lawsuit against Coinbase, with each party covering its own legal expenses. — What to know:
More: The Block and The Crypto Times
| Lizzie Dearden / New York Times: |
The UK High Court warns lawyers of possible criminal charges for using AI-generated fake legal material, citing two recent cases with hallucinated content — A senior judge said on Friday that lawyers could be prosecuted for presenting material that had been “hallucinated” by artificial intelligence tools.| Sebastian Herrera / Wall Street Journal: |
A profile of Panos Panay, head of devices and services at Amazon, who has scaled back new releases to focus on perfecting products like Alexa+ before rollout — Panos Panay needs the more advanced Alexa+ assistant to be a hit. For 10 years, the product has struggled to evolve.
More: USA Today. Bluesky: @sebasaherrera and @sebasaherrera
X: @drbarnard, @panos_panay, and @caro_milanesi
| The Guardian: |
Sources: the UK has delayed proposals to regulate AI, with plans to introduce an AI bill in 2026 to address concerns about issues like safety and copyright — Law expected to include safety and copyright issues but delay likely to raise concerns about ongoing lack of regulation| Joseph Menn / Washington Post: |
Sources: before installing Starlink at the White House in February, DOGE ignored security concerns that the service bypasses traditional WH security controls — Starlink satellite connections in the White House bypass controls meant to stop leaks and hacking.
More: Raw Story, Mother Jones, NewsMax.com, and To the Contrary
Bluesky: @aleksandrina, @wandery, @jimgoldgeier, and @paleofuture
Forums: r/Intelligence, r/somethingiswrong2024, and r/politics
| Dan Whateley / Business Insider: |
YouTube rolls out a tool to let some creators upload different thumbnails for each video dubbed into a different language, to help expand their global audience — - YouTube is adding a new tool to let creators change thumbnails for videos in different languages.| Rest of World: |
New apps are helping immigrants navigate Trump's deportation crackdown, including by alerting users to locations of ICE raids and informing them of their rights — With tightening immigration policies and rising fears of deportation, new apps provide migrants with resources to stay prepared and connected.
More: Los Angeles Times, Reuters, New York Times, Metro.co.uk, Breitbart, Slate, Bloomberg, and Times of San Diego
Bluesky: @unicornriot and @unicornriot
| Financial Times: |
Microsoft plans to add a “safety” category to its AI leaderboard on Azure Foundry, with a safety metric based on its ToxiGen and CAIS's WMD Proxy benchmarks — Tech group's corporate clients use its ‘leaderboard’ to assess rival offerings by likes of OpenAI and Elon Musk's xAI| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
AI research nonprofit EleutherAI releases the Common Pile v0.1, an 8TB dataset of licensed and open-domain text for AI models that it says is one of the largest — EleutherAI, an AI research organization, has released what it claims is one of the largest collections of licensed and open-domain text for training AI models.
More: Washington Post, Engadget, arXiv.org, r-three on GitHub, Hugging Face, Futurism, The Common Pile on Hugging Face, and The Decoder
Bluesky: @cpaxton. Mastodon: @pbloem@sigmoid.social. Forums: r/artificial, r/technology, and Lobsters
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