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June 11, 2025, 7:55 AM
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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 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.
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  —  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, with the “V1 Siri architecture” and its work on 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  —  If WWDC's opening video — which cast Apple executives as characters in the upcoming F1 movie, with Senior Vice President …
New York Times:
Elon Musk says “I regret some of my posts about President Trump last week. They went too far”; Trump said he had no interest in repairing the relationship  —  President Trump and Elon Musk traded social media barbs last week.  Mr. Trump has said that he has no interest in repairing the relationship with his former adviser.
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
Wall Street Journal:
Sources detail how X has used threats of lawsuits and high pressure tactics to motivate companies such as Amazon and Verizon to resume advertising on the site  —  Elon Musk and CEO Linda Yaccarino launched a campaign to strong-arm advertisers back onto the platform
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 …
Ian King / 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. announced a raft of projects aimed at bolstering artificial-intelligence infrastructure across Europe …
Zoe Kleinman / BBC:
Will Cathcart says WhatsApp plans to support Apple in its legal case against the UK Home Office over weakening encryption, which may “set a dangerous precedent”  —  WhatsApp is planning to support Apple in its legal action against the UK Home Office over user data privacy, BBC News has learnt.
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.
Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:
Meta and TikTok challenge the EU's DSA supervisory fee, set at 0.05% of annual global net income, in the EU's General Court, arguing it is disproportionate  —  Meta Platforms (META.O) and TikTok said a European Union supervisory fee levied on them was disproportionate and based on a flawed methodology …
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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.

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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

Sam Roberts / New York Times:
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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
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
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