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Sources: Mike Rockwell and Craig Federighi have led efforts to assess external models to power Siri; after testing, Anthropic's tech seemed most promising — Apple Inc. is considering using artificial intelligence technology from Anthropic PBC or OpenAI to power a new version of Siri …
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| Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: |
In a memo, Mark Zuckerberg announces Meta Superintelligence Labs and 11 new hires; Nat Friedman “will partner with Alexandr Wang” to lead the new group — Zuckerberg wrote Monday to employees that Meta's AI efforts will fall under a new group called Meta Superintelligence Labs …
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| Kate Knibbs / Wired: |
After criticism, Sen. Blackburn backs off her own AI compromise for the tax bill, saying “we can't block states from making laws that protect their citizens” — After critics called the bill a “get-out-jail-free-card” for Big Tech that could make it nearly impossible to rein …
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| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: |
The US takes down a North Korean operation that, from 2021 to 2024, impersonated 80+ people to get remote jobs at 100+ US firms, using “laptop farms” in the US — The U.S. Department of Justice announced on Monday that it had taken several enforcement actions against North Korea's operations … | Jody Godoy / Reuters: |
A US judge denies Apple's motion to dismiss the DOJ antitrust lawsuit, filed in March 2024, accusing Apple of unlawfully dominating the US smartphone market — Apple (AAPL.O) must face the U.S. Department of Justice's lawsuit accusing the iPhone maker of unlawfully dominating the U.S. smartphone market, a judge ruled on Monday.
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| Hannah Lang / Reuters: |
Circle applies for a US national trust bank license, which would let it act as a custodian for its own reserves and hold crypto for its institutional clients — Stablecoin firm Circle (CRCL.N) is applying to create a national trust bank in the U.S., a major move after its blockbuster IPO valued … | Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: |
X hires Nikita Bier, the serial entrepreneur who was behind polling startup TBH and teen-focused social network Gas, as its new head of product — Elon Musk's X has hired entrepreneur Nikita Bier as the platform's new head of product, giving Bier a senior role atop one of the most widely used social apps in the world.
More: The Verge, The Economic Times, Decrypt, Social Media Today, The Block, and Capital Brief
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| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
The latest version of the Senate's OBBB has a provision removing the 6 GHz band's protection from spectrum auctions; Wi-Fi 6E and Wi-FI 7 utilize the 6 GHz band — Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) has a plan for spectrum auctions that could take frequencies away from Wi-Fi and reallocate them for the exclusive use of wireless carriers.
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| Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: |
Levelpath, which offers AI-powered procurement software for enterprises, raised a $55M Series B led by Battery Ventures, bringing its total funding to $100M — Levelpath, a procurement software startup founded by the duo behind Scout RFP, has raised $55 million in Series B funding led …
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Q&A with Matt Mullenweg on licensing deals with AI companies, putting Tumblr's backend migration to WordPress “on hold”, fediverse, content moderation, and more — Today, I'm talking with Matt Mullenweg, the founder and CEO of Automattic, the parent company of WordPress.com … | Alex Riehl / BetaKit: |
Canada-based Clio, which makes cloud tools for law firms, agrees to acquire vLex, which offers a legal and regulatory database and an AI assistant, for $1B — Burnaby, BC-based Clio has signed a definitive agreement for its most significant acquisition to date: Miami-based …
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Investigation: three US Treasury hacks in the past five years were due to a failure to deploy basic security measures, as DOGE cuts further weaken the agency — In three major hacks, Treasury didn't deploy cybersecurity measures that could have prevented the attacks or flagged the intruders sooner … | Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Rapid7 finds eight vulnerabilities, including one remotely-exploitable flaw that cannot be fixed via firmware patch, affecting 689 models of Brother printers — PSA: Remember to change the manufacturer's default passwords on your devices. … Serious security flaws have been found in hundreds …
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| Sebastian Herrera / Wall Street Journal: |
Amazon says it has deployed over 1M robots in its warehouses, its most ever and close to its human workforce, with 75% of global deliveries aided by robotics — The e-commerce giant now counts more than one million of the machines at its facilities — | Photographs and Videos by Desiree Rios for WSJ| Sudip Kar-Gupta / Reuters: |
Europol says it has dismantled a crypto investment fraud ring in Spain that laundered €460M using a global network of accomplices, and five people were arrested — A cryptocurrency investment fraud ring that investigators said laundered 460 million euros ($540 million) …
More: Europol, BeInCrypto, CryptoPotato, Infosecurity, Cointelegraph, Help Net Security, BleepingComputer, and Coinpedia Fintech News. Forums: r/CryptoCurrency
| Will Knight / Wired: |
Microsoft claims its new AI tool diagnoses diseases with 80% accuracy vs. doctors' 20%; Mustafa Suleyman calls it a “step toward medical superintelligence” — The tech giant poached several top Google researchers to help build a powerful AI tool that can diagnose patients and potentially cut health care costs.
Source: Microsoft AI. More: The Guardian, Financial Times, GeekWire, Telegraph, Pocketables, Neowin, and Yahoo Finance
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| Edith Hancock / Wall Street Journal: |
Apple will delay rolling out some iOS 26 features in the EU later this year, including “visited places”, citing the difficulty of complying with the DMA — A service which tracks and records where users have been won't be rolled out in the EU — Apple said it will delay offering …
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