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| Anthropic: |
Anthropic launches Claude Sonnet 5, saying it nears Opus 4.8 performance at lower prices and is substantially better than Sonnet 4.6 for agentic work — Claude Sonnet 5 is built to be the most agentic Sonnet model yet. It can make plans, use tools like browsers and terminals …
More: Axios, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, ZDNET, The New Stack, The Next Web, The Deep View, TestingCatalog AI News, Yahoo Finance, and RuntimeWire
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Forums: Hacker News, r/claude, and r/ClaudeAI
| Kyle Baird / The Block: |
Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, BlackRock, Coinbase, and 140+ companies join Open Standard to launch Open USD, a stablecoin that shares earnings from its reserves — Quick Take — Payment giants, banks, tech firms and crypto companies are among Open Standard's launch members.
More: Open USD (OUSD) Stablecoin, Gizmodo, Decrypt, Barron's Online, Fortune, Unchained, PYMNTS, The Information, CoinDesk, Reuters, Finimize, Benzinga, Blockonomi, Bitcoin Magazine, The Crypto Times, Blockchain.News, CryptoNinjas, CoinGape, Coinpedia Fintech News, and Wall Street Journal
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LinkedIn: Connor Fitzgerald, Christoph Sulyok, and Catherine Gu
| Reuters: |
Meituan open-sources LongCat-2.0, a 1.6T-parameter model that it says was trained on a 50K-chip cluster of domestic Chinese processors, without giving details — China's food delivery giant Meituan (3690.HK) said on Tuesday it had released and would open-source its next-generation LongCat …
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Forums: r/SillyTavernAI and r/LocalLLaMA
| Sam Tabahriti / Reuters: |
The UK CMA proposes requiring Apple and Google to relax UK developer payment “steering” rules, and Apple to open NFC; Google says it “already made the changes” — Britain's competition regulator on Tuesday proposed allowing app developers to steer users …
More: GOV.UK, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, MacRumors, Thurrott, Financial Times, Global Competition Review, Telegraph, Courthouse News Service, The Independent, iClarified, UPI, The Next Web, City A.M., Nairametrics, GOV.UK, Daring Fireball, Dow Jones Newswires, Daily Mail, iThinkDifferent, The Guardian, The Mac Observer, Blockonomi, Apple Must, PYMNTS, MacTech.com, Mobilegamer.biz, and MacDailyNews
LinkedIn: Gina Sternberg. Mastodon: @neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk. Forums: r/apple and MacRumors Forums
| Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: |
Anthropic launches Claude Science, an AI workbench that uses existing Claude models like Opus 4.8 to integrate 60+ scientific databases and specialized toolkits — Anthropic introduced Claude Science on Tuesday, an AI workbench that gives scientists one environment to do computational research …
More: Anthropic, Financial Times, 9to5Mac, Reuters, The New Stack, The Next Web, NVIDIA, The Deep View, Bloomberg, The Decoder, Yahoo Finance, and STAT
| The Keyword: |
Google launches Nano Banana 2 Lite, a low cost text-to-image model that delivers outputs in four seconds, and rolls out Gemini Omni Flash to developers — We're making it easier to experiment and scale your ideas with Nano Banana 2 Lite, our fastest, most cost-efficient Gemini Image model …
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Forums: Hacker News and r/Bard
| Russell Brandom / TechCrunch: |
AWS launches an internal organization for AI-focused forward-deployed engineers, backed by $1B in resources, following OpenAI and others in launching FDE teams — As companies struggle to integrate AI, they're increasingly ready to bring in outside help — and service providers are launching … | Emmy Martin / New York Times: |
As OpenAI and Anthropic prepare to go public, San Francisco tech workers making six figures say they cannot compete with the new AI elite and may have to leave — As OpenAI and Anthropic prepare to go public, tech workers making six figures are grousing that they cannot compete with the new A.I. elite.
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| Mike Scarcella / Reuters: |
SCOTUS agrees to hear Apple's appeal of a 2025 contempt ruling in its Epic case after a district judge found Apple violated an order to make App Store changes — The U.S. Supreme Court agreed on Tuesday to hear Apple's (AAPL.O) bid to escape being found in contempt in its legal fight with …
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| Financial Times: |
A study of 22K US companies shows those spending most heavily on AI are adding workers faster than peers, but most gains are among tech companies and startups — Study of 22,000 US companies challenges fears that generative AI will trigger broad job losses
| Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information: |
Source: OpenAI engineers earlier this month told some colleagues they had figured out a way to more than halve the cost of inference — We closely track efforts by Anthropic, Google and OpenAI to get access to more server chips to run their models. But we don't talk enough about the work … | John Harney / Bloomberg: |
The DOD seeks to recruit engineers experienced in frontier AI, machine learning and automation, and data systems, to embed them “down to the unit level” — The Trump administration announced plans to recruit engineers to fill “high-impact technical roles” at the Defense Department …
More: USAJOBS, DefenseScoop, Defense One, Federal News Network, and Breaking Defense
| Semafor: |
Source: the Trump administration has talked with SpaceX about donating shares to Trump Accounts, which provide children with tax-advantaged savings accounts — THE SCOOP — The Trump administration has spoken with SpaceX about donating stock to the children's savings accounts known …
More: Ars Technica, Blockonomi, Benzinga, and Seoul Economic Daily
X: @eleanor_mueller and @cb_doge
Bluesky: @msbellaf, @annmlipton, @pppgrifter, @somethingbytes, and @tyleraking.com. Forums: Ars OpenForum
| Frank Connelly / Bloomberg: |
Schneider Electric agrees to buy industrial AI company Cognite in a $3.1B all-cash deal, and plans to combine Cognite with its industrial software company Aveva — Schneider Electric SE agreed to buy Cognite in a $3.1 billion transaction to expand its industrial data and AI software business.
More: Cognite, Reuters, The Next Web, and Dow Jones Newswires
| Bloomberg: |
How Spain's LaLiga uses nationwide IP blocking to combat illegal sports streams, impacting an estimated 550K+ domains, putting it in conflict with Cloudflare — From small businesses to government agencies, legitimate websites are getting caught in the crossfire of LaLiga's fight against illegal sports streams| Dina Bass / Bloomberg: |
AI inference startup Etched raised $800M from investors including Jane Street and a TSMC-linked venture firm, and says it has signed sales contracts worth $1B — Nvidia rival says it has raised $800 million and has $1 billion in contracts. — AI chip startup Etched said it has raised $800 million …
More: TechCrunch, RuntimeWire, and The Next Web
| Stephanie Stacey / Financial Times: |
Hotels, tour operators, and travel agencies rush to launch proprietary online tools and loyalty schemes to fend off future competition from AI travel agents — Chatbots could help to find, filter and book customers' destinations — Hotels, tour operators and travel agencies are rushing … | Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Google shuts down the Tenor API, affecting GIF pickers on platforms like Discord, WhatsApp, and Bluesky; Nikita Bier says X has migrated elsewhere — GIFs are a huge part of the modern web, with Tenor being one of the libraries that powers a variety of apps including Twitter/X. Google acquired Tenor …
More: The Verge, Google Help Center, and PCGamesN
| Josh Scott / BetaKit: |
Ottawa-based Dominion Dynamics, which is building software, sensors, and drones to autonomously monitor the Arctic, raised a CA$139M Series A led by Georgian — Six months after closing a major seed round, Ottawa-based defence tech company Dominion Dynamics has secured $139 million CAD …
More: Dominion Dynamics, Globe and Mail, Tectonic Defense, and Resilience Media
| Jordyn Holman / New York Times: |
Q&A with Grindr CEO George Arison on turning Grindr into an “AI-native company”, “impos[ing]” AI on staff, facing “opposition”, using AI as a CEO, and more — George Arison, the gay dating app's chief executive, is aiming for all code to be eventually written … | Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE: |
Cybersecurity company Aikido Security acquires Root, which has raised about $37.6M and develops an AI platform for securing open-source components — Belgian cybersecurity company Aikido Security NV today announced that it has acquired Root.io Inc., a company that offers patching …
More: CTech, The New Stack, Aikido Security's Blog, and Aikido Security
| Bloomberg: |
Nebex, a fintech startup aiming to act as a broker platform connecting US space tech suppliers, foreign governments, and investors, raised a $30M seed led by GV — Alphabet Inc.'s GV venture arm led a funding round to provide $30 million in seed money to a fledgling space fintech company founded … | Wall Street Journal: |
Filings: Microsoft's Ireland hub generated $47B in pretax profits for FY 2025, or 38.1% of its global total; new EU rules require country-by-country reporting — Country-by-country EU reporting requirement forces companies to offer additional public tax details| Orlando Crowcroft / Financial Times: |
AI and vibe coding fuel a surge in game releases; ATTN Economy says 181K mobile games launched in six months to May, up 118% on iOS and 73% on Android YoY — More instinctive technology is accelerating production amid concerns it risks losing gamers' trust
LinkedIn: Orlando Crowcroft
| Julie Bort / TechCrunch: |
AI coding startup 8090 raised a $135M Series A led by Salesforce Ventures; founder Chamath Palihapitiya announces that he will lead the company as CEO — Chamath Palihapitiya, best known for his venture capital firm Social Capital and the All-In podcast, announced Monday that the AI coding startup he founded raised a sizable Series A.| New York Times: |
An Indonesian court sentences Gojek co-founder and ex-education minister Nadiem Makarim to 10 years in prison for power abuses over a Chromebook contract — The case against Nadiem Makarim, a co-founder of Gojek, has fueled concerns about judicial fairness in a nation where foreign investors were already growing wary.
More: Arab News, DealStreetAsia, Al Jazeera, Tech in Asia, Associated Press, TNGlobal, Reuters, The Business Times, Fortune, and CNBC
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