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New York Times:
Sources: Meta plans to build an AI lab dedicated to pursuing “superintelligence”, led by Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang, with seven- to nine-figure compensations  —  The new lab, set to include Scale AI founder Alexandr Wang, is part of a reorganization of Meta's artificial intelligence …
Bloomberg:
Sources: Mark Zuckerberg, frustrated with Meta's shortfalls in AI, is personally assembling a team of AI experts and met engineers at his homes in recent weeks  —  Zuckerberg has prioritized recruiting for the secretive new team, referred to internally as a superintelligence group, according to people familiar with his plans.
Cory Weinberg / The Information:
Sources: Meta agrees to take a 49% stake in Scale AI for $14.8B, in a deal that gives cash to Scale's shareholders and makes Alexandr Wang a top Meta executive  —  Meta has agreed to take a 49% stake in data labeling firm Scale AI for $14.8 billion, two people familiar with the matter said.
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
OpenAI debuts o3-pro for ChatGPT Pro and Team users and in the API, costing $20/1M input and $80/1M output tokens; Enterprise and Edu will get access next week  —  OpenAI has launched o3-pro, an AI model that the company claims is its most capable yet.  —  O3-pro is a version of OpenAI's o3 …
Carl Franzen / VentureBeat:
OpenAI announces an 80% price drop for its o3 model and a “flex” mode for synchronous processing that charges $5 for input and $20 for output per million tokens  —  Good news, AI developers!  —  OpenAI has announced a substantial price cut on o3, its flagship reasoning large language model …
Ben Thompson / Stratechery:
Apple's WWDC 2025 marked a strategic retreat from its overambitious AI promises; SVP Craig Federighi openly admitted Siri's AI features need more time  —  If WWDC's opening video — which cast Apple executives as characters in the upcoming F1 movie, with Senior Vice President …
Lance Ulanoff / TechRadar:
Interview with Craig Federighi and Greg Joswiak on Apple's struggles to ship AI features, demoed in 2024, with the “V1 Siri architecture” and work on a V2 model  —  Is it a delay, a strategy... or something else?  —  There's no denying that Apple's Siri digital chatbot …
Nelson Aguilar / CNET:
Google rolls out Android 16 to Pixels with live lock screen notifications, and debuts features, including more AI-editing in Google Photos, in a broader update  —  The big Android update features new ways to organize your notifications and quickly enhance your phone's security.
Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch:
Snap aims to ship lightweight, consumer AR glasses called Specs in 2026, lighter than its Spectacles 5 glasses for devs, but with many of the same capabilities  —  Snap is back with a new pair of AR smart glasses, and for the first time in years, it's ready to sell them to consumers.
Reuters:
Sources: OpenAI plans to add Google Cloud to meet its growing needs for computing capacity, a surprising collaboration; source: the deal was finalized in May  —  OpenAI plans to add Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) Google cloud service to meet its growing needs for computing capacity, three sources told Reuters …
Wall Street Journal:
Similarweb: Google's AI tools are significantly cutting organic search traffic to news publishers; traffic to BI, HuffPost, and WaPo is down ~50% in three years  —  Chatbots are replacing Google's traditional search, devastating traffic for some publishers  —  The AI armageddon is here for online news publishers.
Sam Altman:
Sam Altman says “intelligence and energy”, the “limiters on human progress”, will be abundant in the 2030s, and superintelligence should be widely distributed  —  We are past the event horizon; the takeoff has started.  Humanity is close to building digital superintelligence …
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Mistral launches its first reasoning models: Magistral Small, on Hugging Face under an Apache 2.0 license, and Magistral Medium, in preview on Mistral's Le Chat  —  French AI lab Mistral is getting into the reasoning AI model game.  —  On Tuesday morning, Mistral announced Magistral, its first family of reasoning models.
Wall Street Journal:
IBM plans to build IBM Quantum Starling, a “fault-tolerant” quantum computer with 20,000x the compute of today's quantum computers, in New York state by 2029  —  The powerhouse computers can be sensitive and error-prone.  Now, IBM is offering some details on how it will overcome …
Sam Tabahriti / Reuters:
Ofcom launches nine Online Safety Act investigations, including into 4chan over alleged illegal content and into seven file-sharing services over possible CSAM  —  Britain's media regulator Ofcom on Tuesday launched nine investigations over possible breaches of online safety laws …
More: BBC, Ofcom, and Telegraph
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Roman Anin / OCCRP:
Investigation: Russian network engineer Viktor Vedeneev controls thousands of Telegram IP addresses and maintains its servers; his companies have FSB links  —  INVESTIGATION  —  The technical infrastructure that underpins Telegram is controlled by a man whose companies have collaborated with Russian intelligence services.
Jess Weatherbed / The Verge:
OpenAI says it is “working on implementing a mitigation” to a ChatGPT, Sora, and API issue causing “elevated error rates and latency”, starting at around 3am ET  —  The chatbot is slow to respond for some users, and down completely for others.
Stephen Katte / Cointelegraph:
US SEC Chair Paul Atkins says the agency is working on an “innovation exemption” to boost onchain product creation and fulfill Trump's vision of a US crypto hub  —  Securities and Exchange Commission chair Paul Atkins also bashed the previous administration under former SEC Chair Gary Gensler and its approach to crypto.
Afshan Musani / CNBC:
Generative AI enterprise search startup Glean raised a $150M Series F led by Wellington, taking its valuation to $7.2B, up from $4.6B in September 2024  —  Generative AI enterprise search startup Glean announced on Tuesday that it raised $150 million in a Series F financing …
Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge:
Amazon says over 1M people now have access to Alexa+, up from “hundreds of thousands” in May, and plans to “make it even more broadly available over the summer”  —  And Amazon says it's coming to everyone this summer.  But we still don't know how well the souped-up smart assistant will perform.
Paige Smith / Bloomberg:
Online trading platform Webull will now allow US retail investors to bet on the future prices of bitcoin and ethereum through a partnership with Kalshi  —  The company is tapping the prediction-markets firm Kalshi to roll out the expansion, according to a statement Tuesday.
Financial Times:
The UK plans to launch an autonomous taxi trial in London in spring 2026, a year earlier than planned; Uber and Wayve will partner to operate the service  —  Britain tries to catch up in the race to adopt autonomous vehicles  —  The UK plans to bring a small number of driverless taxis …
Tim Hardwick / MacRumors:
Apple says Visual Intelligence will soon be able to search on-screen iPhone content, in addition to analyzing real-world objects, expanding on camera search  —  Apple has announced a major Visual Intelligence update at WWDC 2025, enabling users to search and take action on anything displayed across their iPhone apps.
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Apple unveils iOS 26, featuring its Liquid Glass design language, an updated lockscreen, and new features in Camera, Safari, Phone, Messages, Music, and more

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Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Arkansas PBS severs ties with the PBS network, the first state public TV system to do so since Congress cut CPB funds, citing the annual $2M+ membership cost

Pamela McClintock / The Hollywood Reporter:
Disney's Zootopia 2 surpasses $1B at the global box office, the fastest PG-rated film to do so after just 17 days in release

Trip Gabriel / New York Times:
R. Bruce Dold, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist at the Chicago Tribune, where he became editor-in-chief and publisher, is dead at 70

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Rylee Kirk / New York Times:
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Jess Weatherbed / The Verge:
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Dina Bass / Bloomberg:
Cisco unveils updated networking and security products, including a new generation of switches with 10x performance, to boost AI networks and cut bottlenecks

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Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg:
Roblox hires Paramount's Naveen Chopra as its new CFO, effective June 30; Chopra previously held senior roles at Amazon and served as CFO at Pandora and TiVo
Caroline Petrow-Cohen / Los Angeles Times:
Waymo suspends downtown Los Angeles operations after at least five vehicles were destroyed during protests, but continues to operate in other parts of the city
David Pierce / The Verge:
Apple unveils iPadOS 26 with features to “fluidly resize” app windows, move them, and open more app at once, a new Files app, a Mac-like Preview app, and more
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