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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, AppleInsider, Times of India, Business Standard, Sydney Morning Herald, iClarified, iPhone in Canada, Neowin, Fortune India, The Mac Observer, and Philip Elmer‑DeWitt
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Forums: r/apple and r/technology
| Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog: |
Researchers detail an exploit in GitHub's official MCP server that lets hackers trick an LLM agent into leaking private information about the MCP user — GitHub MCP Exploited: Accessing private repositories via MCP (via) GitHub's official MCP server grants LLMs a whole host of new abilities …
More: Invariant Labs. Bluesky: @simonwillison.net. Mastodon: @simon@fedi.simonwillison.net. X: @lbeurerkellner and @convexdad. Forums: Hacker News
| Edith Hancock / Wall Street Journal: |
The EU says Shein's practices breach rules against false discounts, deceptive product labels, and more, and warn that it could face fines if it doesn't comply — European Union regulators said China-founded e-commerce platform Shein's sales tactics fall foul of EU law and that the company …
More: European Commission, BBC, Euronews, The Irish Times, DutchNews.nl, Euractiv, The Independent, Irish Independent, The Standard, and RTÉ
| 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
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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.
More: Daily Mail, BetaNews, Cyber Security News, WinBuzzer, Livemint, The Gateway Pundit, BGR, Cryptopolitan, Tom's Hardware, Hindustan Times, CryptoSlate, The Independent, Moneycontrol, Digit, Telegraph, and Neowin
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources, including 30+ current and former Meta employees and 10+ US officials, detail Mark Zuckerberg's embrace of Trump, which has yet to pay major dividends — Meta's CEO has done everything he can to win over Trump, and it's not clear how much he has to show for it.| Alexios Mantzarlis / Indicator: |
The top contributor to X's Community Notes is Web3 Antivirus, a startup that uses an automated process to flag crypto scam posts and has posted 52,000 times — I thought someone was gaming X's crowdsourced moderation; instead, they appear to be helping clean up the platform's mess for free.| Tatum Hunter / Washington Post: |
People are using ChatGPT for unsparing assessments of their looks, with many also asking the chatbot to create plans to “glow up” their appearance — Friends want to protect your feelings. AI isn't pulling any punches. — Ania Rucinski was feeling down on herself.
More: New York Post and Tom's Guide
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| Pranav Dixit / Business Insider: |
Meta's AI team has faced a talent drain, with just three of the 14 authors credited on the landmark 2023 Llama paper still at Meta; several joined Mistral — - Meta's AI team has faced a talent drain as key Llama model creators have exited. — The departures raise concerns about Meta's ability to retain top AI talent.| Owen Walker / Financial Times: |
Scam victims in Singapore lost a total of ~$858M last year, up 70% YoY; most are contacted via Meta-owned apps, and deepfakes in scams are increasingly common — City-state residents who spend a lot of time online and are naturally compliant with authority are especially vulnerable
More: PYMNTS.com, The Online Citizen, The Straits Times, and Asia Times. Bluesky: @robertscotthorton
| Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog: |
A database tracking instances where lawyers got caught presenting AI hallucinations shows that, of 116 cases dating back to June 2023, 20 occurred this month — AI Hallucination Cases (via) Damien Charlotin maintains this database of cases around the world where a legal decision …
Bluesky: @caseynewton and @simonwillison.net
| 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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Forums: r/iphone, r/ios, r/apple, r/apple, r/augmentedreality, r/apple, and MacRumors Forums
| Bloomberg: |
A look at the UAE's Mohamed bin Zayed University of AI, which aims to supply talent to Emirati companies, incubate startups, and serve as the UAE's AI R&D arm — Mohamed bin Zayed University of AI is focused on building an engineering pipeline, incubating homegrown startups, and hypercharging the region's AI development
LinkedIn: Eric Xing
| 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 callsSponsor Posts
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