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June 11, 2025, 10:30 AM

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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 a lot of context to run well and without enough it tends to overthink  —  OpenAI dropped o3 pricing 80% today and launched o3-pro.  Ben Hylak of Raindrop.ai returns with the world's first early review.
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
OpenAI debuts o3-pro for ChatGPT Pro and Team users and in its 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 …
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 …
Carl Franzen / VentureBeat:
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Takashi Mochizuki / Bloomberg:
Nelson Aguilar / CNET:
Google rolls out Android 16 to Pixels with live lock screen notifications, and a broader update to add more AI to Google Photos, custom group chats, and more  —  The big Android update features new ways to organize your notifications and quickly enhance your phone's security.
Wall Street Journal:
Sources detail how X used threats of lawsuits and pressure tactics to motivate companies like Amazon, Ralph Lauren, and Verizon to resume buying ads on the site  —  Elon Musk and CEO Linda Yaccarino launched a campaign to strong-arm advertisers back onto the platform
New York Times:
Elon Musk says “I regret some of my posts about President Trump last week. They went too far”; last week, Trump said he had no desire to repair the relationship  —  President Trump and Elon Musk traded social media barbs last week.  Mr. Trump has said that he has no interest …
Bloomberg:
Bloomberg:
President Trump says a trade framework with China “is done, subject to final approval with President Xi and me”, and the US' tariff rate would be 55% “total”  —  President Donald Trump said a trade framework with China has been completed, with Beijing supplying rare earths and magnets …
Ari Levy / CNBC:
Elon Musk says Tesla's robotaxi service will tentatively begin on June 22 in Austin, with the first autonomous delivery 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
Lance Ulanoff / TechRadar:
An interview with Craig Federighi and Greg Joswiak on Apple's struggles to ship AI features demoed in 2024 using Siri's “V1 architecture” and its work on a V2  —  Is it a delay, a strategy... or something else?  —  There's no denying that Apple's Siri digital chatbot …
Ben Thompson / Stratechery:
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 …
The Information:
Google offers voluntary buyouts to US employees in 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 …
Rachel Metz / Bloomberg:
Coco Robotics, which operates a fleet of cooler-sized delivery robots on wheels, raised $80M from Sam Altman and others, taking its total funding to $110M+  —  Coco Robotics, a startup that operates a fleet of cooler-sized delivery robots on wheels, has raised $80 million in funding …
David Pierce / The Verge:
The Browser Company launches Dia, a macOS browser in beta for Arc users based around an AI chat sidebar that can access tabs, history, and logged-in sites  —  Dia, the new browser from The Browser Company, is almost nothing like the company's last product.  That app, Arc, was a total rethink …
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