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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 …
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| Ben Hylak / Latent.Space: |
OpenAI's o3-pro is much smarter than o3 and amazing at using tools, but the model requires extensive context to perform optimally and may overthink without it — OpenAI dropped o3 pricing 80% today and launched o3-pro. Ben Hylak of Raindrop.ai returns with the world's first early review.
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| 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 …
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| 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 …
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
| 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.
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| Lance Ulanoff / TechRadar: |
An interview with Craig Federighi and Greg Joswiak on Apple's struggles to ship AI features, demoed in 2024, with the “V1 Siri architecture” and its work on V2 — Is it a delay, a strategy... or something else? — There's no denying that Apple's Siri digital chatbot …
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| 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 …
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| 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
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| Takashi Mochizuki / Bloomberg: |
Nintendo says it sold 3.5M Switch 2 consoles globally in its first four days, a record for any of its hardware; Nintendo aims to sell 15M units by March 2026 — The Japanese company has already sold more of the device than the roughly 2.7 million the original Switch managed during its first month in 2017.
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| Andrés R. Martínez / New York Times: |
Elon Musk says “I regret some of my posts about President Trump last week. They went too far”; Trump said he had no interest in repairing the relationship — President Trump and Elon Musk traded social media barbs last week. Mr. Trump has said that he has no interest in repairing the relationship with his former adviser.
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| 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 … | Financial Times: |
Sources: Peter Thiel-backed crypto exchange Bullish confidentially files for a US IPO, as demand for digital assets surges under the Trump administration — Group seeking to tap a wave of enthusiasm for digital assets as Trump vows to cut regulations — Cryptocurrency exchange Bullish …
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| Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: |
Snap aims to ship Specs, its lightweight, consumer AR glasses, in 2026, lighter than its Spectacles 5 glasses for developers but with many of the same features — 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.| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources detail how X has used threats of lawsuits and high pressure tactics to motivate companies such as Amazon and Verizon to resume advertising on the site — Elon Musk and CEO Linda Yaccarino launched a campaign to strong-arm advertisers back onto the platform
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| 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.
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| Gavin Blackburn / Euronews: |
President Emmanuel Macron says France will ban social media access for children under 15 within “a few months” if it is not done at the European Union level — Macron's pledge comes after a 14-year-old pupil fatally stabbed a staff member during a routine bag check at a school in eastern France.| Alan Wong / Bloomberg: |
Hong Kong invokes its national security law to ban Taiwanese-made mobile game Reversed Front: Bonfire, marking the first known use of the law to block a game — Hong Kong invoked national security laws to ban a video game for the first time, broadening the use of the set of legislation … | Rylee Kirk / New York Times: |
Twenty-seven US states and the District of Columbia 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 … | Molly Taft / Wired: |
President Trump's spending bill could limit local control over zoning and environmental regulations for AI data centers, worrying state lawmakers — An AI-related provision in the “Big Beautiful Bill” could restrict state-level legislation of energy-hungry data centers—and is raising bipartisan objections across the US.| 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 …
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X: @readkrystalhu and @kenrickcai
Forums: r/OpenAI, r/singularity, and Slashdot
| Nikkei Asia: |
Analysis: Nvidia's $500B US spending plan has accelerated the US AI server ecosystem development, with at least eight suppliers unveiling new investment plans — TAIPEI — At Foxconn's manufacturing hub in Houston, Texas, hundreds of construction workers and engineers are working tirelessly … | The Information: |
Salesforce is restricting third-party companies from long-term indexing and storing of Slack messages, which would hamper rival enterprise AI firms like Glean — Slack, an instant-messaging service popular with businesses, recently blocked other software firms from searching or storing Slack messages … Sponsor Posts
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