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Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
OpenAI debuts o3-pro for ChatGPT Pro and Team users and in the API, costing $20/1M input and $80/1M output tokens; Enterprise and Edu will get access next week  —  OpenAI has launched o3-pro, an AI model that the company claims is its most capable yet.  —  O3-pro is a version of OpenAI's o3 …
Carl Franzen / VentureBeat:
OpenAI announces an 80% price drop for its o3 model and a “flex” mode for synchronous processing that charges $5 for input and $20 for output per million tokens  —  Good news, AI developers!  —  OpenAI has announced a substantial price cut on o3, its flagship reasoning large language model …
Nelson Aguilar / CNET:
Google rolls out Android 16 to Pixels with live lock screen notifications, and debuts features, including more AI-editing in Google Photos, in a broader update  —  The big Android update features new ways to organize your notifications and quickly enhance your phone's security.
New York Times:
Sources: Meta plans to build an AI lab dedicated to pursuing “superintelligence”, led by Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang, with seven- to nine-figure compensations  —  The new lab, set to include Scale AI founder Alexandr Wang, is part of a reorganization of Meta's artificial intelligence …
Bloomberg:
Sources: Mark Zuckerberg, frustrated with Meta's shortfalls in AI, is personally assembling a team of AI experts and met engineers at his homes in recent weeks  —  Zuckerberg has prioritized recruiting for the secretive new team, referred to internally as a superintelligence group, according to people familiar with his plans.
Cory Weinberg / The Information:
Sources: Meta agrees to take a 49% stake in Scale AI for $14.8B, in a deal that gives cash to Scale's shareholders and makes Alexandr Wang a top Meta executive  —  Meta has agreed to take a 49% stake in data labeling firm Scale AI for $14.8 billion, two people familiar with the matter said.
Ben Thompson / Stratechery:
Apple's WWDC 2025 marked a strategic retreat from its overambitious AI promises; SVP Craig Federighi openly admitted Siri's AI features need more time  —  If WWDC's opening video — which cast Apple executives as characters in the upcoming F1 movie, with Senior Vice President …
Lance Ulanoff / TechRadar:
Interview with Craig Federighi and Greg Joswiak on Apple's struggles to ship AI features, demoed in 2024, with the “V1 Siri architecture” and work on a V2 model  —  Is it a delay, a strategy... or something else?  —  There's no denying that Apple's Siri digital chatbot …
The Information:
Google offers voluntary buyouts to US staff across several businesses and units, including the one housing its core search team and much of the ads organization  —  Google is offering voluntary buyouts to employees across several businesses and units, including the knowledge and information organization …
Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch:
Snap aims to ship lightweight, consumer AR glasses called Specs in 2026, lighter than its Spectacles 5 glasses for devs, but with many of the same capabilities  —  Snap is back with a new pair of AR smart glasses, and for the first time in years, it's ready to sell them to consumers.
Reuters:
Sources: OpenAI plans to add Google Cloud to meet its growing needs for computing capacity, a surprising collaboration; source: the deal was finalized in May  —  OpenAI plans to add Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) Google cloud service to meet its growing needs for computing capacity, three sources told Reuters …
Ari Levy / CNBC:
Elon Musk says Tesla's robotaxi service will “tentatively” begin on June 22 in Austin, with first autonomous deliveries of a car to a customer's home on June 28  —  - Tesla CEO Elon Musk said in a post on X on Tuesday that Tesla robotaxi rides in Austin, Texas, are ‘tentatively’ set to begin June 22
Sam Altman:
Sam Altman says “intelligence and energy”, the “limiters on human progress”, will be abundant in the 2030s, and superintelligence should be widely distributed  —  We are past the event horizon; the takeoff has started.  Humanity is close to building digital superintelligence …
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Sam Altman claims an “average” ChatGPT query uses about 0.34 watt-hours and about 0.000085 gallons of water, or “roughly one fifteenth of a teaspoon”
Wall Street Journal:
Similarweb: Google's AI tools are significantly cutting organic search traffic to news publishers; traffic to BI, HuffPost, and WaPo is down ~50% in three years  —  Chatbots are replacing Google's traditional search, devastating traffic for some publishers  —  The AI armageddon is here for online news publishers.
Rylee Kirk / New York Times:
Twenty-seven states and DC sue 23andMe to oppose the sale of DNA data from its customers without their direct consent  —  The genetic-testing company, which collected DNA data from users, is for sale in bankruptcy court.  Now, 27 states and the District of Columbia oppose selling the data without express consent.
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Mistral launches its first reasoning models: Magistral Small, on Hugging Face under an Apache 2.0 license, and Magistral Medium, in preview on Mistral's Le Chat  —  French AI lab Mistral is getting into the reasoning AI model game.  —  On Tuesday morning, Mistral announced Magistral, its first family of reasoning models.
Sam Tabahriti / Reuters:
Ofcom launches nine Online Safety Act investigations, including into 4chan over alleged illegal content and into seven file-sharing services over possible CSAM  —  Britain's media regulator Ofcom on Tuesday launched nine investigations over possible breaches of online safety laws …
More: BBC and Ofcom
Mastodon: @campuscodi@mastodon.social.  X: @ofcom and @jimbethell.  Forums: r/nottheonion
Roman Anin / OCCRP:
Investigation: Russian network engineer Viktor Vedeneev controls thousands of Telegram IP addresses and maintains its servers; his companies have FSB links  —  INVESTIGATION  —  The technical infrastructure that underpins Telegram is controlled by a man whose companies have collaborated with Russian intelligence services.
Wall Street Journal:
IBM plans to build IBM Quantum Starling, a “fault-tolerant” quantum computer with 20,000x the compute of today's quantum computers, in New York state by 2029  —  The powerhouse computers can be sensitive and error-prone.  Now, IBM is offering some details on how it will overcome …
Afshan Musani / CNBC:
Generative AI enterprise search startup Glean raised a $150M Series F led by Wellington, taking its valuation to $7.2B, up from $4.6B in September 2024  —  Generative AI enterprise search startup Glean announced on Tuesday that it raised $150 million in a Series F financing …
Tim Hardwick / MacRumors:
Apple says Visual Intelligence will soon be able to search on-screen iPhone content, in addition to analyzing real-world objects, expanding on camera search  —  Apple has announced a major Visual Intelligence update at WWDC 2025, enabling users to search and take action on anything displayed across their iPhone apps.
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Apple unveils iOS 26, featuring its Liquid Glass design language, an updated lockscreen, and new features in Camera, Safari, Phone, Messages, Music, and more

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From Mediagazer

Michael Savage / The Guardian:
BBC DG Tim Davie and BBC News head Deborah Turness resign, after BBC was accused of “serious and systemic” bias on topics like Trump, Gaza, and trans rights

New York Times:
A look at the advantages and pitfalls of AI use in major newsrooms: from sifting through big datasets to suggesting headlines to causing embarrassing errors

Michelle Zenarosa / Poynter:
During five months of covering ICE raids, LA Public Press added legal training for staff, digital security protocols, threat assessment policies, and more

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Jess Weatherbed / The Verge:
Mark Zuckerberg says Threads users will soon be able to send DMs to each other without having to leave the platform, first in Hong Kong, Argentina, and Thailand

Earlier Picks

Financial Times:
The UK plans to launch an autonomous taxi trial in London in spring 2026, a year earlier than planned; Uber and Wayve will partner to operate the service
Stephen Katte / Cointelegraph:
US SEC Chair Paul Atkins says the agency is working on an “innovation exemption” to boost onchain product creation and fulfill Trump's vision of a US crypto hub
David Pierce / The Verge:
Apple unveils iPadOS 26 with features to “fluidly resize” app windows, move them, and open more app at once, a new Files app, a Mac-like Preview app, and more
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