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Anthropic details how it built its multi-agent Claude Research system, claiming significant improvements in internal evaluations over single-agent systems — Our Research feature uses multiple Claude agents to explore complex topics more effectively. We share the engineering challenges …
More: Simon Willison's Weblog, Constellation Research, and implicator.ai
Bluesky: @proptermalone, @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com, and @timkellogg.me
| Timothy B. Lee / Understanding AI: |
Researchers find Llama 3.1 recalls large parts of popular copyrighted books, possibly weakening AI industry claims that such memorization is fringe behavior — New research could have big implications for copyright lawsuits against generative AI. — In recent years, numerous plaintiffs … | Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
A look at Apple's upgrades to CarPlay, iPadOS, and visionOS, why they were the underappreciated highlights of WWDC, and thoughts on the Liquid Glass redesign — Apple's unveiling of iOS 26 and the Liquid Glass interface was the most discussed part of its developers conference …
More: TechRadar, Digital Trends, The Mac Observer, iJustine on YouTube, Benzinga, Tailosive Tech on YouTube, Brandon Butch on YouTube, Tech Times, zollotech on YouTube, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, iClarified, MobileSyrup, AppleInsider, PhoneArena, and Blockchain.News
| Bloomberg: |
In March, New York added a checkbox to its WARN system for companies to show if “technological innovation or automation”, like AI, was a reason for mass layoffs — Form fitting — New York state has quietly become the first in the nation to ask companies to disclose …
Forums: Slashdot
| Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: |
New York state passes a bill mandating safety and transparency requirements for frontier AI models; the bill now awaits Governor Kathy Hochul's signature — New York state lawmakers passed a bill on Thursday that aims to prevent frontier AI models from OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic …
More: AM New York, The Economic Times, Coinmonks, Cryptopolitan, NYSenate.gov, StrictlyVC, and Maginative
X: @zamaan_qureshi, @sengonzalezny, @sen_gounardes, @ccianet, @alexbores, @anjneymidha, @alexbores, @jackclarksf, and @jackclarksf
Forums: r/Futurology, r/newyork, r/technology, r/law, r/politics, and r/artificial
| Financial Times: |
BT Group CEO Allison Kirkby says AI could deepen job cuts at the telco, whose plan to cut over 40,000 jobs by 2030 “did not reflect the full potential of AI” — Allison Kirkby said advances in artificial intelligence could deepen significant job cuts under way at BT …
More: Reuters, The Times, Cautious Optimism, Business Insider, The Guardian, Cryptopolitan, and Bloomberg
| Tamara Djurickovic / Tech.eu: |
Berlin-based Knowunity, an AI-powered learning platform with 20M+ users in 15 countries, raised a €27M Series B led by XAnge, bringing its total funding to €45M — Knowunity is a global AI learning companion that combines personalised AI and student-created content to make studying easier, more engaging, and effective.| Martin Young / Cointelegraph: |
The US SEC rescinds 14 rules the agency proposed under the Biden Administration, including two relating to DeFi and digital asset custody — The SEC has withdrawn over a dozen rules the agency proposed under Joe Biden, including two crypto-related rules targeting DeFi and digital asset custody.
More: CryptoSlate, Coinpedia Fintech News, Inside Bitcoins, Cryptopolitan, crypto.news, and Barron's Online
X: @iampaulgrewal and @khurramdara
| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Aspora, which makes financial tools like remittance services for the Indian diaspora, raised a $50M Series B co-led by Sequoia and Greylock at a $500M valuation — India has been one of the top recipients of remittances in the world for more than a decade.| Ainslie Chandler / Bloomberg: |
Amazon plans to invest ~$13B in Australia from 2025 to 2029 to develop its data center infrastructure, as demand for cloud computing and AI grows in the country — The investment, in the Sydney and Melbourne data centers, is the biggest ever in Australia by a global technology company, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said.
More: Forbes, DatacenterDynamics, Blockchain.News, About Amazon, SmartCompany, PV Tech, Cyber Daily, Cryptopolitan, and Reuters. Forums: r/aws
| Meridith McGraw / Wall Street Journal: |
America250, the nonprofit organizing the US Semiquincentennial celebration, says it received sponsorship commitments from Oracle, Amazon, Coinbase, and Palantir — Twenty two corporations and foundations are sponsoring the 250th Army Birthday Parade and Festival on the National Mall, according to the Army.| Debby Wu / Bloomberg: |
Taiwan imposes export controls on Huawei, SMIC, and some of their subsidiaries, restricting their access to tech and equipment necessary for AI chip production — Taiwan's International Trade Administration has included Huawei, SMIC and several of their subsidiaries in an update … | Milana Vinn / Reuters: |
Dealogic: tech deals accounted for $421B of the $1.67T in global deals announced in the first five months of 2025, with 75% of tech M&A involving AI software — Weighed down by tariffs and geopolitical uncertainty, dealmaking has slowed to a crawl across most industries except one: the unglamorous world of data infrastructure.
LinkedIn: Dawn Kopecki
| Bloomberg: |
Statista expects the global influencer marketing industry to grow 36% between 2024 and 2025, reaching $33B, as brands tighten overall ad budgets — Ashton Hall's morning routine involves dunking his head in iced Saratoga Spring Water. For the company that sells the bottled water …
More: Mirror and Social Media Today
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