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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft showcases a Windows-based fullscreen Xbox experience optimized for handheld gaming with the Asus ROG Xbox Ally, coming to other handhelds in 2026 — Two new Xbox Ally devices introduce Microsoft's much-needed improvements to handheld gaming PCs.
More: Xbox Wire, Engadget, Tech Times, Gameranx, GameSpot, VentureBeat, Ars Technica, Forbes, Eurogamer.net, How-To Geek, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, Game Informer, Neowin, and Video Games Chronicle
Bluesky: @aarongreenberg, @seanhollister, and @xboxp3
X: @tomwarren, @tomwarren, @wario64, and @tomwarren
| 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 …
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Forums: r/xbox, r/Handhelds, and r/gamingnews
| Gary Marcus / Marcus on AI: |
Apple researchers detail the limitations of top LLMs and large reasoning models, like o3, especially on problems of medium to high complexity — LLM “reasoning” is so cooked they turned my name into a verb — Quoth Josh Wolfe, well-respected venture capitalist at Lux Capital: — Ha ha ha.
More: Apple Machine Learning Research, 9meters, Hardcore Software, and Daring Fireball
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LinkedIn: Gary Marcus and Mike Kentz
Forums: Hacker News, r/ClaudeAI, r/programming, r/BetterOffline, and Lobsters
| 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.
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Bluesky: @markgurman. Mastodon: @rileytestut@mastodon.social, @stroughtonsmith …, @jaanus@iosdev.space, and @stroughtonsmith …. Threads: @bzamayo
X: @mingchikuo and @markgurman
Forums: r/apple and MacRumors Forums
| 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.| Max Mitchell: |
Cloudflare open sourced an OAuth library mostly written by Claude, showing how AI handles mechanical implementation while humans guide with context and judgment — A few days ago, my CTO Chris shared Cloudflare's open-sourced OAuth 2.1 library that was almost entirely written by Claude.
| 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
More: PYMNTS.com and iPhone in Canada
| 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| Los Angeles Times: |
CB Insights: VCs and private equity firms poured $3.1B to fund 144 deals in the LA area in Q1 2025, up from $2.7B in Q1 2024 and $1.4B in Q1 2023 — - Venture capital investors and private equity firms poured $3.1 billion to fund 144 deals in the L.A. area in the first quarter of this year, up 15% from a year ago.| Sarah Scire / Nieman Lab: |
Interviews with executives at Yahoo News, the WSJ, and Bloomberg about adding AI-powered summaries, how they can help busy readers, reliability issues, and more — “Summaries aren't a replacement for journalism: they can't exist without it.” The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg …
Bluesky: @niemanlab.org
| 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.
More: The Linux Foundation, fairpm on GitHub, joost.blog, WP Minute Podcasts on YouTube, fairpm on GitHub, and fairpm on GitHub
Bluesky: @fairpm, @linuxfoundation.org, @stokel, and @bnewbold.net. Mastodon: @miss_jwo@mastodon.social. X: @linuxfoundation. LinkedIn: Andrew Norcross. Forums: Slashdot
| Financial Times: |
Sources: Mistral AI has closed or is closing a handful of commercial contracts, each worth $100M+ over three to five years, as it expands its own infrastructure — Start-up has embarked on expansion of its own infrastructure and secured significant contracts
More: The Decoder
| 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.
More: Cautious Optimism. Bluesky: @bloomberg.com and @bykenarmstrong
X: @alexcampbell, @alephblog, @noelleinmadrid, @liamvaughanbbg, @bw, @liamvaughanbbg, @liamvaughanbbg, and @liamvaughanbbg
LinkedIn: Tim Pappa, Liam Vaughan, Robert C., and Olga Kuprina
| Divsha Bhat / Rest of World: |
A look at the intensifying race for super apps in the Gulf, as Careem, Talabat, Amazon, Botim, and Noon consolidate various services into single platforms — From Dubai to Riyadh, apps are consolidating ride-hailing, payments, and delivery into single platforms. — The race for super-apps is intensifying in the Middle East.
Bluesky: @restofworld.org
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