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Wall Street Journal:
Anthropic calls for top AI labs to weigh slowing or temporarily pausing development, suggesting that self-improving AI systems may soon pose societal risks  —  The $1 trillion startup warns that AI models are nearing capability to improve without human intervention
Anthropic:
Anthropic details its progress toward recursive self-improvement, and its implications, and says Claude has authored 80%+ of the code merged into its codebase  —  Our progress toward recursive self-improvement, and its implications.  —  For most of AI's history, humans drove every step in its development cycle.
Mark Tyson / Tom's Hardware:
Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince says agentic traffic is “growing so fast that bots have now passed human traffic online for the first time”  —  Bot (automated) vs. human HTTP requests are split 57.5 vs. 42.5 percent, according to the firm's latest data.
Financial Times:
Sources: Anthropic has embedded around half a dozen forward-deployed engineers within the NSA to help the agency deploy Mythos for offensive cyber operations  —  Arrangement comes as AI lab is locked in legal battle with Pentagon over Claude model
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
What to expect at WWDC 2026: an overhauled Siri, a Siri app, a slew of new AI capabilities, OS updates focused on reliability and responsiveness, and more  —  The iPhone maker will attempt its artificial intelligence turnaround on Monday.  —  Apple Inc. will unveil a new artificial intelligence strategy …
OpenAI:
OpenAI updates ChatGPT's memory with a “more capable and compute-efficient” architecture and a summary page that lets users review and steer what it remembers  —  Improving memory synthesis in ChatGPT to optimize for freshness, continuity and relevance.  —  Loading...
Ryan Christoffel / 9to5Mac:
Apple-funded study: the App Store had $1.4T in billings and sales globally in 2025; apps with consumer AI features saw 4x more billings growth than other apps  —  Apple shares update on 2025 App Store success  —  “Developers are the heartbeat of the App Store, and this year's incredible milestone …
Wired:
Analysis: Meta discreetly added code for an unreleased “NameTag” face-recognition system for its AI smart glasses over multiple Meta AI app updates in 2026  —  Code reviewed by WIRED uncovered an unreleased face-recognition system embedded in Meta's smart glasses platform.
James Gallagher / BBC:
University of Cambridge researchers say they have developed the first vaccine with a key component entirely designed by AI and subsequently trialed it in humans  —  Artificial intelligence has been used to develop a “fundamentally new” type of vaccine that could protect against large swathes …
Isabelle Lee / Bloomberg:
S&P Dow Jones rejects proposals to expedite S&P 500 eligibility for mega-cap IPOs such as SpaceX's; companies remain ineligible until one year after their IPOs  —  S&P Dow Jones Indices will keep its existing eligibility requirements for the S&P 500, rejecting proposals …
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: US officials discussed the US taking stakes in major AI companies after Sam Altman pitched the idea in 2025; Altman met Bernie Sanders on Wednesday  —  The talks have been with artificial-intelligence leaders such as OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, who pitched the idea
Jennifer Valentino-DeVries / New York Times:
Internal docs from lawsuits by 1,400+ school districts show how social media companies targeted kids: Meta paid “teen ambassadors”, Snap sent school-hour alerts  —  Internal documents show how tech giants grabbed children's attention throughout the day, a strategy that schools say has undermined education.
Coco Feng / South China Morning Post:
A research team that includes Huawei says it successfully used Huawei's Ascend 910C chips for DeepSeek V4 Pro model's post-training, amid increased US sanctions  —  While Chinese chipmakers have found success in supporting AI inference, they are struggling with the far more complex process of training
Michael Considine / CNBC:
OpenAI confirms it will comply with President Trump's EO that asks AI companies to allow the US government to assess their models' capabilities before release  —  OpenAI has confirmed it will comply with Donald Trump's executive order that asks AI companies to allow the federal government …
Reuters:
Chinese regulator CSRC tightens oversight of the country's ~$3.4T private fund industry; the CSRC says it will encourage tech-focused VC investments and more  —  China on Friday tightened oversight of the country's 23 trillion yuan ($3.40 trillion) private fund industry …

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Ted Johnson / Deadline:
Memo: Lesley Stahl, Bill Whitaker, and Jon Wertheim say they will stay at 60 Minutes as they don't want to see it die and are “working to build trust with Nick”

Jody Godoy / Reuters:
Sources: a group of US states is preparing a lawsuit against Paramount's WBD acquisition; California's AG has said his office would make a decision soon

Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
The Guardian's EIC says digital reader revenue rose 17% YoY to £125M in the year to March 31 and over 40% of revenue is from outside the UK, up from 8% in 2016

More News

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Poke, which lets users access AI agents via text message, becomes the first AI agent approved for Apple's Messages for Business platform; Poke launched in March
John Ainger / Bloomberg:
In a letter to Utah's Senate President, Kevin O'Leary says he will cut a 40,000-acre data center project in Utah by 19,430 acres, after pressure from lawmakers
CJ Haddad / CNBC:
Supabase, which provides backend tools for building AI apps, raised a $500M Series F led by GIC at a $10B pre-money valuation, up from $5B in October 2025

Earlier Picks

Jay Peters / The Verge:
Google now lets big creators and publishers in the US claim and customize dedicated Google Search profiles to aggregate their content from multiple platforms
Tom Dotan / Newcomer:
Founders Fund launches a TV-style game show featuring A-list founders and investors, such as Sam Altman, Dylan Field, and Palmer Luckey, playing a game of Mafia
Politico:
Two US House lawmakers unveil bipartisan AI legislation that would override some state AI laws and require top AI developers to implement risk-management plans
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Meta's Oversight Board says Meta's account deactivations lack due process, violations are handed out without clarity, and there's little support for appeals
Cloudflare:
Cloudflare acquires VoidZero, which develops Vite, Vitest, Rolldown, Oxc, and Vite+ frameworks, and says the projects will stay open source and community-driven
Nivedita Balu / Reuters:
Canada unveils “AI for all”, its AI strategy that it says will help create 250,000 jobs by 2031, with a CA$500M tech fund for investing in homegrown AI startups
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