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Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
OpenAI debuts o3-pro for ChatGPT Pro and Team users and in its 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 …
Ben Hylak / Latent.Space:
OpenAI's o3-pro is much smarter than o3 and amazing at using tools, but the model requires a lot of context to run well and without enough it tends to overthink  —  OpenAI dropped o3 pricing 80% today and launched o3-pro.  Ben Hylak of Raindrop.ai returns with the world's first early review.
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 …
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 …
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Sam Altman claims an “average” ChatGPT query uses ~0.34 watt-hours, or 1+ second of oven use, and ~0.000085 gallons of water, or “one fifteenth of a teaspoon”
Nelson Aguilar / CNET:
Google rolls out Android 16 to Pixels with live lock screen notifications, and a broader update to add more AI to Google Photos, custom group chats, and more  —  The big Android update features new ways to organize your notifications and quickly enhance your phone's security.
Takashi Mochizuki / Bloomberg:
Nintendo says it sold 3.5M+ Switch 2s globally in the console's first four days, a record for any of its hardware; Nintendo aims to sell 15M units by March 2026  —  Samsung's Galaxy S25 Edge Shows the Limits of Impressively Thin Phones … Explainers
Lance Ulanoff / TechRadar:
An interview with Craig Federighi and Greg Joswiak on Apple's struggles to ship AI features demoed in 2024 using Siri's “V1 architecture” and its work on a V2  —  Is it a delay, a strategy... or something else?  —  There's no denying that Apple's Siri digital chatbot …
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
Wall Street Journal:
Sources detail how X used threats of lawsuits and pressure tactics to motivate companies like Amazon, Ralph Lauren, and Verizon to resume buying ads on the site  —  Elon Musk and CEO Linda Yaccarino launched a campaign to strong-arm advertisers back onto the platform
New York Times:
Elon Musk says “I regret some of my posts about President Trump last week. They went too far”; last week, Trump said he had no desire to repair the relationship  —  President Trump and Elon Musk traded social media barbs last week.  Mr. Trump has said that he has no interest …
Ari Levy / CNBC:
Elon Musk says Tesla's robotaxi service will tentatively begin on June 22 in Austin, with the first autonomous delivery of a car to a customer's home on June 28  —  - Tesla CEO Elon Musk said in a post on X on Tuesday that Tesla robotaxi rides in Austin, Texas, are ‘tentatively’ set to begin June 22
The Information:
Google offers voluntary buyouts to US employees in several businesses and units, including the one housing its core search team and much of the ads organization  —  Google is offering voluntary buyouts to employees across several businesses and units, including the knowledge and information organization …
Financial Times:
Sources: Peter Thiel-backed crypto exchange Bullish confidentially files for a US IPO, as demand for digital assets surges under the Trump administration  —  Group seeking to tap a wave of enthusiasm for digital assets as Trump vows to cut regulations  —  Cryptocurrency exchange Bullish …
Molly Taft / Wired:
President Trump's spending bill could limit local control over zoning and environmental regulations for AI data centers, worrying state lawmakers  —  An AI-related provision in the “Big Beautiful Bill” could restrict state-level legislation of energy-hungry data centers—and is raising bipartisan objections across the US.
Bloomberg:
Nvidia unveils new projects to bolster AI infrastructure across Europe, including expanding its Mistral partnership to use local AI computing, at a Paris event  —  Nvidia Corp. Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang projected that Europe's artificial-intelligence computing capacity will increase …
Bloomberg:
President Trump says a trade framework with China “is done, subject to final approval with President Xi and me”, and the US tariff rate would be 55% “total”  —  US President Donald Trump said a trade framework with China was completed that included an agreement …
Rachel Metz / Bloomberg:
Coco Robotics, which operates a fleet of cooler-sized delivery robots on wheels, raised $80M from Sam Altman and others, taking its total funding to $110M+  —  Coco Robotics, a startup that operates a fleet of cooler-sized delivery robots on wheels, has raised $80 million in funding …
Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch:
Snap aims to ship Specs, its lightweight, consumer AR glasses, in 2026, lighter than its Spectacles 5 glasses for developers but with many of the same features  —  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.

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Financial Times:
Sources: Standard General hedge fund founder Soo Kim has been in talks with a major WBD shareholder over potentially buying or investing in the WBD TV networks

John Rogers / Associated Press:
Peter Arnett, a Pulitzer Prize-winning correspondent who covered the Vietnam War for the AP and the first Gulf War for CNN, has died at 91

Laura Cress / BBC:
Netflix wins rights to a FIFA soccer simulation game, developed by Delphi Interactive and set for release ahead of the 2026 World Cup, for free to Netflix users

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Gavin Blackburn / Euronews:
President Emmanuel Macron says France will ban social media access for children under 15 within “a few months” if it is not done at the European Union level

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Jess Weatherbed / The Verge:
Mark Zuckerberg says Threads users will soon be able to send DMs to each other without having to leave the platform, first in Hong Kong, Argentina, and Thailand
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
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
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