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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:

Source: the main topic at WWDC will be a redesigned software interface, dubbed Solarium, for all of Apple's operating systems, including tvOS and watchOS — Jony Ive's deal with OpenAI should cause major shockwaves at Apple, especially after a design-team brain drain and struggles in artificial intelligence.

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Mayank Parmar / BleepingComputer:

Palisade Research claims that OpenAI's o3 altered a shutdown script to avoid being turned off, even when explicitly instructed to allow shutdown — A new report claims that OpenAI's o3 model altered a shutdown script to avoid being turned off, even when explicitly instructed to allow shutdown.

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Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog:

Highlights from the system prompts of Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4, including model safety, avoiding sycophancy, and not regurgitating copyrighted content — Anthropic publish most of the system prompts for their chat models as part of their release notes.

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Noam Scheiber / New York Times:

Some Amazon engineers say managers have increasingly pushed them to use AI over the past year, raising output goals and becoming less forgiving about deadlines — Pushed to use artificial intelligence, software developers at the e-commerce giant say they must work faster and have less time to think.

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Tripp Mickle / New York Times:

Sources: Tim Cook declined a WH invitation to join Jensen Huang and others on Trump's Middle East trip, during which Trump criticized Cook and praised Huang — Apple's chief executive has gone from winning President Trump's praise to drawing his ire, deepening the company's woes in a very bad year.

More: 9to5Mac, eeNews Europe, The Economic Times, AppleInsider, and iClarified

Bluesky: @thefarce.org and @rembrandt77

Financial Times:

Sources: SoftBank's Masayoshi Son pitched a joint US-Japan sovereign fund to top DC and Tokyo officials to back large tech and infrastructure projects in the US — Washington and Tokyo discuss possibility of fund that would make large-scale US tech and infrastructure investments

More: The Information, The Statesman, Taipei Times, Blockchain.News, and Cryptopolitan

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Belle Lin / Wall Street Journal:

CB Insights: VC investment in voice AI startups rose from $315M in 2022 to $2.1B in 2024, driven by growing business adoption of voice AI agents in call centers — Improvements in the technology behind voice-based AI bots are making them more prolific and humanlike in phone calls

Marina Temkin / TechCrunch:

Some VCs, such as Khosla Ventures, are considering acquiring mature businesses, like call center operators, and optimizing them with AI to serve more customers

Mastodon: @koen_hufkens@mastodon.social and @carnage4life@mas.to. X: @koolhead17. LinkedIn: Sebastian Mueller. Forums: Slashdot

Financial Times:

Sources: Trump Media and Technology Group aims to raise $2B in fresh equity and another $1B via a convertible bond to buy cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin — US president's administration and family have become staunch advocates for digital assets — Antoine Gara, Oliver Barnes and George Steer in New York, Arash Massoudi in London

More: Yahoo Finance

Financial Times:

JioHotstar has grown its subscriber base from 50M in March to over 280M in May, driven by IPL cricket streams, nearing Netflix's global subscriber count of 300M — Subscriptions soar as JioStar consolidates rights for world's richest league in sport-mad nation — Krishn Kaushik and Chris Kay in Mumbai

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