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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple is testing upgraded App Intents with Uber, Temu, Amazon, YouTube, WhatsApp, and other apps to transform Siri into a true voice-first interface — Apple's upcoming voice-control feature for the new Siri could be an under-the-radar hit — if it works.
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| Bloomberg: |
AI startups like Anthropic and OpenAI are ramping up efforts to recruit quant researchers from Wall Street firms, offering competitive pay and benefits — At a rooftop bar on Manhattan's Lower East Side, roughly 150 quant researchers met with employees at the artificial-intelligence startup Anthropic … | Demetri Sevastopulo / Financial Times: |
Sources: Chinese officials have urged the Trump administration to relax HBM chip export controls during trade talks, after the Biden administration ban in 2024 — Experts warn dropping restrictions would give Beijing a competitive advantage in artificial intelligence
More: Gizmodo, CNBC, Tech in Asia, RTHK, Times of India, Benzinga, Implicator.ai, Wccftech, DigiTimes, and Reuters
| New York Times: |
An analysis of over 1M words of conversation between a ChatGPT user and ChatGPT shows how chatbots can lead ordinarily rational people to spiral into delusion — Over 21 days of talking with ChatGPT, an otherwise perfectly sane man became convinced that he was a real-life superhero.
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LinkedIn: Helen Toner, Dylan Freedman, and Kashmir Hill
Forums: r/BetterOffline, r/technology, and r/Longreads
| Alex Kantrowitz / Big Technology: |
Q&A with OpenAI COO Brad Lightcap on GPT-5, its dynamic reasoning, defining AGI, scaling vs. post-training, hallucinations, enterprise adoption, and more — A conversation about what OpenAI's long-anticipated flagship model tells us about different forms intelligence and AI's trajectory from here.
More: Business Insider, PhoneArena, and Bloomberg
| Kevin Roose / New York Times: |
Hands-on with Alexa+: fun to talk to and good at handling multistep requests, but it is buggy, unreliable, and worse at some basic tasks than the original Alexa — Alexa+ processes language in a more fluid way. Users can speak to it as they would to a human.Graham Dickie/The New York Times
More: 9to5Mac and About Amazon
| Bloomberg: |
Investors are increasingly divesting from companies they fear are at risk of AI disruption, like Wix and Shutterstock, which are down at least 30% in 2025 — Artificial intelligence's imprint on US financial markets is unmistakable. Nvidia Corp. is the most valuable company in the world at nearly $4.5 trillion.| Natasha Singer / New York Times: |
CS grads struggle to land jobs as tech companies lay off workers and embrace AI; CS majors face a 6.1% unemployment rate in the US among grads aged 22 to 27 — Manasi Mishra recently graduated from Purdue University with a degree in computer science.Madeleine Hordinski for The New York Times| Anna Tong / Reuters: |
Coding bootcamps, a Silicon Valley mainstay for over a decade, are facing decline as AI eliminates the kind of entry-level roles for which they trained people — Coding bootcamps have been a mainstay in Silicon Valley for more than a decade. Now, as AI eliminates the kind of entry-level roles … | New York Times: |
A look at Changpeng Zhao's efforts to get a pardon from Trump for his money-laundering charges, including via lobbying and a business deal with the Trump family — A sophisticated operation is pushing President Trump to forgive Changpeng Zhao, which would boost the chances for his company, Binance, to break into the U.S. market.
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| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
Advocates for net neutrality say they won't appeal a ruling against the policy, saying they don't trust the US Supreme Court to rule fairly on the issue — Advocacy groups that tried to defend federal net neutrality rules in court won't file an appeal, saying they don't trust the Supreme Court to rule fairly on the issue.
More: Free Press Action Fund Feed and MediaPost
Forums: r/NoShitSherlock, r/politics, r/skeptic, r/FedEmployees, r/law, r/scotus, r/technology, Slashdot, and Ars OpenForum
| Wataru Suzuki / Nikkei Asia: |
A steady stream of large conventions in China showcasing homegrown humanoid robots is stirring investor excitement, even though sales are far from taking off — BEIJING — China is holding a steady stream of large-scale conventions showcasing its homegrown humanoid robots …
More: Tech in Asia, Bloomberg, and Gizmodo
| Fortune: |
Sources: Trump's World Liberty Financial is seeking to raise $1.5B to launch a publicly traded crypto treasury company that would hold its WLFI token and cash — The Trump family business World Liberty Financial is planning to announce a crypto treasury company, say three investors who have seen parts of the deal.| Bloomberg: |
US nuclear, geothermal, and energy storage companies have found a lifeline in the AI data center boom after years of challenges such as high interest rates — Long-unloved nuclear and geothermal are experiencing a boom in interest as data center developers seek carbon-free resources capable … Sponsor Posts
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