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Sources: Apple's revamped Siri may launch in beta, and will have an option to auto-delete chats; Apple plans to add Suggested Genmoji to iOS 27 and iPadOS 27 — Also: A Genmoji upgrade is coming in iOS 27. — Apple's Siri app in iOS 27 will include privacy features unique to the chatbot market.
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| The Hacker News: |
Grafana says hackers have accessed its GitHub environment and demanded a ransom to prevent the release of its codebase; Grafana refused to pay — Grafana has disclosed that an “unauthorized party” obtained a token that granted them the ability to access the company's GitHub environment and download its codebase.
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| John Burn-Murdoch / Financial Times: |
Analysis: mass adoption of smartphones and social media may be a primary driver of declining birthrates globally, in part by reducing in-person socializing — The demographic landslide defining our era is gaining speed — and terrain. In more than two-thirds of the world's 195 countries …
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| Eleanor Olcott / Financial Times: |
Developers say Chinese AI labs lead US rivals in video generation, as ByteDance and Kuaishou train models on vast short-form video libraries from their own apps — Chinese artificial intelligence groups have moved ahead of US rivals in video generation, a key battleground in generative AI … | The Information: |
Analysis: 34 leading AI startups are generating ~$80B in annualized revenue, up 112% from six months ago, with Anthropic and OpenAI capturing 89% of the revenue — Anthropic and OpenAI are widening the revenue gap between themselves and the rest of the AI startup field.
More: Taipei Times
| Kim Zetter / ZERO DAY: |
Experts: Stuxnet-linked Fast16 malware, designed to subvert nuclear weapons testing simulations, was likely part of a campaign to slow Iran's nuclear ambitions — Fast16 didn't predate Stuxnet but was contemporaneous with it. It also wasn't aimed at altering nuclear weapons … | Phoebe Liu / Forbes: |
A profile of SAS CEO Jim Goodnight, the 83-year-old who co-founded the 50-year-old analytics firm and holds a ~67% stake worth $13.3B, as AI tests SAS' strategy — Unlike most of today's biggest AI companies, SAS—once America's largest privately held software company—has always operated slowly, steadily and profitably.
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| Alison Weissbrot / Adweek: |
Publicis agrees to acquire LiveRamp, which allows companies to share and build new data sets and models that can power agentic frameworks, for $2.2B in cash — Publicis Groupe has agreed to acquire LiveRamp for $2.2 billion all-cash deal, the French holding company said Sunday.| Kevin Breuninger / CNBC: |
Filings: in Q1, Trump traded $220M-$750M in NVDA, MSFT, AMZN, META, ORCL, and other stocks; millions of dollars of NVDA were bought shortly before major news — President Donald Trump reported thousands of financial transactions totaling hundreds of millions of dollars …
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| Terrence O'Brien / The Verge: |
In an experiment that let Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, and Grok run radio stations, Claude tried to incite a revolution and Gemini cheerfully detailed tragic events — Claude tried to incite a revolution, Gemini cheerfully detailed horrific tragedies, and poor Grok was just confused.
More: The Indian Express, Gizmodo, and The Decoder
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| Owen Walker / Financial Times: |
Sources: DayOne, the spinoff of China's largest data center operator GDS Holdings, plans dual IPO in Singapore and NY, seeking to raise $5B at a ~$20B valuation — Please use the sharing tools found via the share button at the top or side of articles. Copying articles to share with others …
More: Crypto Briefing and Reuters
| Deedy / @deedydas: |
SF vibes are frenetic over the huge divide in outcomes and career uncertainty for software engineers; over 5 years ~10K people in AI attained retirement wealth — The vibes in SF feel pretty frenetic right now. The divide in outcomes is the worst I've ever seen. Over the last 5yrs, a group of ~10k people - employees at Anthropic, OpenAI, xAI, Nvidia, Meta TBD, founders - have hit retirement wealth of well above $20M (back of the envelope
More: TechCrunch and The Decoder
| John Gapper / Financial Times: |
King's Cross, where Google's new UK HQ is due to open later this year, has become London's new tech, VC, and AI hub, attracting OpenAI, Anthropic, and others — A formerly rundown area has become London's new global technology hub — Google's new UK headquarters in King's Cross …
Bluesky: @y2skot
| Dominic-Madori Davis / TechCrunch: |
Nectar Social, which offers an agentic OS for marketers, raised a $30M Series A led by Menlo Ventures, with GV and True Ventures among investors — AI-powered marketing platform Nectar Social announced Thursday that it raised a $30 million Series A round led by Menlo Ventures and its Anthology Fund … Sponsor Posts
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