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Sources: Apple is testing four AI glasses designs with rectangular and oval frames, multiple colors, and a camera system with vertically oriented oval lenses — Also: The latest on the foldable iPhone. — Apple is working on several frame styles and a unique camera design for its first smart glasses.
More: Digital Trends, Neowin, iClarified, CNET, PhoneArena, Engadget, AppleInsider, Digital Trends, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, Tom's Guide, TechCrunch, Gizchina, and Forbes
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| Zvi Mowshowitz / Don't Worry About the Vase: |
A deep dive into the debate about Claude Mythos Preview, the model's capabilities, attempts to refute Anthropic's claims, and what it means for the future of AI — Anthropic is not going to release its new most capable model, Claude Mythos, to the public any time soon.
More: The Register, NonZero Newsletter, Wired, GovTech, Tomasz Tunguz, NPR, iClarified, Security Boulevard, Techdirt, HealthcareInfoSecurity.com, Axios, and SingularityHub
X: @eliebakouch, @kimzetter, @johncrickett, @maxcroser, @davidsacks, @robertwiblin, @maskedtorah, and @jeffreyleefunk. LinkedIn: Todd Humphreys
Bluesky: @timmarchman, @timkellogg.me, @mims, and @shashj
Forums: r/blackhat and r/pwnhub
| Martin Arnold / Financial Times: |
Sources: UK regulators plan to warn banks, insurers, and exchanges about security risks exposed by Claude Mythos Preview at a meeting within the next two weeks — Leading banks, insurers and exchanges to be warned over cyber security vulnerabilities exposed by Claude Mythos
More: Security Boulevard, Reuters, France 24, TechCrunch, and New York Times
| Jonah Owen Lamb / The San Francisco Standard: |
Police report: Sam Altman's home appears to have been targeted in a second attack after a gun appeared to have been fired at his home from a car early Sunday — OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's home appears to have been the target of a second attack Sunday morning, a mere two days … | Tristan Anthony / Business Insider: |
Anthropic debuts Claude for Word in beta, which adds AI editing tools and clickable citations, targeting document-heavy workflows, for Team and Enterprise users — - Anthropic launched a beta version of Claude for Word. — It follows February's release of Claude add-ins for Excel and PowerPoint.
More: Claude, Moneycontrol, Issuewire, The Hans India, Livemint, and Cyber Security News
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| Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
Takeaways from HumanX, one of the AI industry's main events: Claude Code dominated the conversation, while some execs noted China's lead in open-weight models — If one thing became clear at the HumanX conference in San Francisco this week, where 6,500 executives, founders and investors gathered …
More: The New Stack, XDA Developers, The Deep View, MakeUseOf, TechCrunch, Towards Data Science, and PCMag
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| Maggie Eastland / Bloomberg: |
Sources: the US' AI chip export push risks being undermined by licensing bottlenecks, staff attrition, and unclear policy at the Bureau of Industry and Security — President Donald Trump's goal of significantly boosting global sales of American AI chips risks being undermined by licensing bottlenecks …
More: Tech in Asia and Originally Reported …
| New York Times: |
A look at the escalating global AI arms race, as the US, China, Russia, and others rush to build AI-backed autonomous weapons and defense systems — China, the U.S., Russia and others have ramped up their contest over artificial-intelligence-backed weapons and military systems.| Bloomberg: |
As weather betting grows on prediction markets, climate experts are debating whether it improves forecasts by aggregating knowledge or is simply a zero-sum game — From Kalshi and Polymarket to niche scientific platforms, traders are predicting the weather — and climate experts are debating the results.| Washington Post: |
Sources: Anthropic met with Christian leaders in March to seek input on Claude's moral and spiritual development and if it could be considered a “child of God” — The artificial intelligence company asked religious leaders for guidance on building a moral chatbot. — Summary
More: Breitbart, The Decoder, Premier Christian News, and Gizmodo
X: @nitashatiku, @yoda, and @drewharwell
Bluesky: @jetjocko, @reselsnark, @doublepulsar.com, @campuscodi.risky.biz, @marizaga, @ernie.tedium.co, @tonystark, @tcarmody, @davidevanlovett, @damonberes.com, @saramontourlewis.com, @hypervisible.blacksky.app, and @justinhendrix. Mastodon: @natematias@social.coop
Forums: r/technology and r/accelerate
| Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: |
Flipkart and Amazon's quick commerce push in India is intensifying competition in an already crowded space where profitability remains under pressure — India's quick commerce market is booming, with demand more than doubling for some players. But the fast-delivery push by Flipkart …
More: Fortune India and Tech in Asia
| Daniel Tudor / Financial Times: |
Analysts and researchers say Google's TurboQuant compression algorithm to make LLMs more efficient is more likely to expand memory chip demand than reduce it — More efficient artificial intelligence could mean even greater need for semiconductors, say experts| Charlie Warzel / The Atlantic: |
Q&A with NYT reporter Tiffany Hsu about AI-generated online influencers, how the volume of synthetic content produces exhaustion for users, and more — AI avatars are redefining influence and trust online. — On this week's Galaxy Brain episode, Charlie Warzel is joined … | Derek Wallbank / Bloomberg: |
A journalist recounts how he used ChatGPT to develop a fitness plan to prepare for the Paris Marathon, resulting in a 20-pound weight loss and faster race times — Six months of pain and progress, 20 pounds lost and a trial-and-error test of what AI can — and cannot — do.Sponsor Posts
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