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Bloomberg:
Sources: Meta is in talks for a potential multibillion-dollar investment in Scale AI, Meta's largest external AI investment; Scale AI was last valued at ~$14B  —  The financing could exceed $10 billion in value, some of the people said, making it one of the largest private company funding events of all time.
Stephen Totilo / Game File:
Microsoft and Asus unveil the ROG Xbox Ally and ROG Xbox Ally X, two gaming handhelds that will run Windows games from multiple storefronts, including Steam  —  The images shown during a secret theater presentation I recently attended for the long-rumored Xbox handheld showed an icon …
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft showcases a new fullscreen Xbox experience optimized for handhelds, coming first to the Xbox Ally and Xbox Ally X and to other handhelds in 2026  —  Two new Xbox Ally devices introduce Microsoft's much-needed improvements to handheld gaming PCs.
Michael Acton / Financial Times:
Former Apple employees say integrating LLMs with Siri has led to bugs, an issue not faced by companies that have built GenAI-based voice assistants from scratch  —  iPhone-maker hit by technological challenges that have led to delays to the full rollout of its ‘Apple Intelligence’ features
Chris Stokel-Walker / Fast Company:
Some WordPress veterans and the Linux Foundation start FAIR, a federated update network to decentralize WordPress infrastructure and boost supply chain security  —  The recent travails of WordPress have caused consternation among the web community that relies on the platform, which powers more than four in ten websites online today.
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Thoughts on the major design overhaul of Apple's OSes with “Liquid Glass” UI elements, which will launch at WWDC and set the stage for fresh hardware products  —  A new software design style will be at the center of Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference — and set the stage for an upcoming iPhone overhaul.
Lyndie Chiou / Scientific American:
At a clandestine math conclave in Berkeley in May, a chatbot powered by o4-mini answered some of the hardest solvable problems much faster than a mathematician  —  The world's leading mathematicians were stunned by how adept artificial intelligence is at doing their jobs  —  BY LYNDIE CHIOU EDITED BY CLARA MOSKOWITZ
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.
Liam Vaughan / Bloomberg:
An in-depth look at the US SEC's EDGAR system breach that was disclosed in 2017, as one of the key hackers, Olga Kuprina, says EDGAR remains a soft target  —  When a notorious gang of Ukrainian cybercriminals hit a crucial database, the regulator quickly downplayed the breach.
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 …

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