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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 Hylak / Latent.Space:
OpenAI's o3-pro is much smarter than o3 and amazing at using tools, but the model requires extensive context to perform optimally and may overthink without it  —  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 …
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Sam Altman claims an “average” ChatGPT query uses about 0.34 watt-hours and about 0.000085 gallons of water, or “roughly one fifteenth of a teaspoon”
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.
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 …
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 …
Ari Levy / CNBC:
Elon Musk says Tesla's robotaxi service will “tentatively” begin on June 22 in Austin, with first autonomous deliveries 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
Takashi Mochizuki / Bloomberg:
Nintendo says it sold 3.5M Switch 2 consoles globally in its first four days, a record for any of its hardware; Nintendo aims to sell 15M units by March 2026  —  The Japanese company has already sold more of the device than the roughly 2.7 million the original Switch managed during its first month in 2017.
The Information:
Google offers voluntary buyouts to US staff across 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 …
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.
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.
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 …
Rylee Kirk / New York Times:
Twenty-seven US states and the District of Columbia sue 23andMe to oppose the sale of DNA data from its customers without their direct consent  —  The genetic-testing company, which collected DNA data from users, is for sale in bankruptcy court.  Now, 27 states and the District …
Nikkei Asia:
Analysis: Nvidia's $500B US spending plan has accelerated the US AI server ecosystem development, with at least eight suppliers unveiling new investment plans  —  TAIPEI — At Foxconn's manufacturing hub in Houston, Texas, hundreds of construction workers and engineers are working tirelessly …
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.

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Charlotte Klein / New York Magazine:
How Will Lewis grew isolated from the WaPo newsroom, business side, and Jeff Bezos as he outlined big ideas without clear strategies for their implementation

Adam Liptak / New York Times:
How Alan Dershowitz's petition to seek review of his CNN libel suit threatens NYT v. Sullivan, which Dershowitz argues should only apply to government officials

CNBC:
James Cameron blasts Netflix's proposed acquisition of WBD, in a letter to Senator Mike Lee, calling it “disastrous for the theatrical motion picture business”

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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
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

Earlier Picks

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
OCCRP:
Investigation: Russian network engineer Viktor Vedeneev controls thousands of Telegram IP addresses and maintains its servers; his companies have FSB links
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
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
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
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
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