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June 5, 2026, 4:40 AM
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Wired:
Analysis: Meta discreetly added code for an unreleased “NameTag” face-recognition system for its AI glasses over multiple updates to the Meta AI app this year  —  Code reviewed by WIRED uncovered an unreleased face-recognition system embedded in Meta's smart glasses platform.
Anthropic:
Anthropic details its progress toward recursive self-improvement, and its implications, and says 80%+ of the code merged into its codebase is authored by Claude  —  Our progress toward recursive self-improvement, and its implications.  —  For most of AI's history, humans drove every step in its development cycle.
Wall Street Journal:
Anthropic calls for top AI labs to weigh slowing or temporarily pausing development, suggesting that self-improving AI systems may soon pose societal risks  —  The $1 trillion startup warns that AI models are nearing capability to improve without human intervention
Financial Times:
Sources: Anthropic has embedded around half a dozen forward-deployed engineers within the NSA to help the agency deploy Mythos for offensive cyber operations  —  Arrangement comes as AI lab is locked in legal battle with Pentagon over Claude model
Mark Tyson / Tom's Hardware:
Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince says agentic traffic is “growing so fast that bots have now passed human traffic online for the first time”  —  Bot (automated) vs. human HTTP requests are split 57.5 vs. 42.5 percent, according to the firm's latest data.
OpenAI:
OpenAI updates ChatGPT memory with a “more capable and compute-efficient” architecture and a summary page that lets users review and steer what it remembers  —  Improving memory synthesis in ChatGPT to optimize for freshness, continuity and relevance.  —  Loading...
Isabelle Lee / Bloomberg:
S&P Dow Jones rejected proposals to expedite S&P 500 eligibility for mega-cap IPOs such as SpaceX, which remains ineligible until one year after going public  —  S&P Dow Jones Indices will keep its existing eligibility requirements for the S&P 500, rejecting proposals …
Ashley Belanger / Ars Technica:
Elon Musk petitioned the FTC in May to end its 2022 order restricting Twitter's data use, claiming Twitter no longer exists as X merged with xAI and then SpaceX  —  Critics hope to keep Elon Musk from escaping a strict data-privacy order imposed by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) shortly before he took over Twitter.
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John Ainger / Bloomberg:
In a letter to Utah Senate President, Kevin O'Leary says he will cut a 40,000-acre AI data center project in Utah by roughly half, after backlash from lawmakers  —  A proposed Utah data center that would have been almost three times the size of Manhattan will be drastically scaled back after pressure from lawmakers.
CJ Haddad / CNBC:
Supabase, which provides backend tools for building AI apps, raised a $500M Series F led by GIC at a $10B pre-money valuation, up from $5B in October 2025  —  Vibe coding needs infrastructure.  Supabase is trying to provide it.  —  The startup, which makes back-end tools …
Jennifer Valentino-DeVries / New York Times:
Internal docs from lawsuits by 1,400 school districts show how social media companies targeted kids: Meta paid “teen ambassadors”, Snap sent school-hour alerts  —  Internal documents show how tech giants grabbed children's attention throughout the day, a strategy that schools say has undermined education.
Bloomberg:
Sources: Brian Chesky is starting a new AI lab and considering a focus on user interaction and design; he will remain Airbnb CEO and will not be the lab's CEO  —  Airbnb Inc. Chief Executive Officer Brian Chesky is starting a new artificial intelligence lab, according to several people familiar …
NOTUS:
Sources: US officials have held talks with AI companies about the government acquiring shares; Sam Altman first pitched the concept directly to Trump in 2025  —  Senior U.S. officials have held preliminary discussions with major artificial intelligence companies about the potential …
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Google now lets big creators and publishers in the US claim and customize dedicated Search profiles to aggregate their content from multiple platforms  —  Big creators and publishers can claim dedicated Search profiles that let them highlight everything they do online.
Cloudflare:
Cloudflare acquires VoidZero, the company behind Vite, Vitest, Rolldown, Oxc, and Vite+ frameworks, and says the projects will stay open source  —  VoidZero, the company behind Vite, Vitest, Rolldown, Oxc, and Vite+, is joining Cloudflare.  As part of this change, all team members of VoidZero are joining Cloudflare, too.
Zoe Kleinman / BBC:
An interview with Naomi Gleit, Meta's head of product who joined the company 20 years ago, on Zuckerberg's “unfair” reputation, AI agents' capabilities, more  —  When Naomi Gleit joined Meta nearly 20 years ago, she was the firm's 29th employee.

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From Mediagazer

Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Fox News says Maria Bartiromo is no longer with Fox; Bartiromo's Mornings with Maria will be retitled Morning with Fox Business and employ a rotation of anchors

Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
The FCC asks a court to throw out ABC's suit that claims the agency is using the regulatory process to abridge ABC's speech; a hearing is set the week of Oct. 5

Andrew Marchand / The Athletic:
An Athletic probe finds journalist Dianna Russini violated standards due to her relationship with an NFL coach but finds scant evidence it impacted coverage

More News

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Poke, which lets users access AI agents via text message, becomes the first AI agent approved for Apple's Messages for Business platform
Tom Dotan / Newcomer:
Founders Fund launches a TV-style game show featuring A-list founders and investors, including Sam Altman and Palmer Luckey, playing a game of Mafia
Politico:
Two House lawmakers unveil bipartisan AI legislation that would override some state AI laws and require top AI developers to implement risk-management plans
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Meta's Oversight Board says Meta's account deactivations lack due process, violations are flagged without clarity, and there's little support for appeals
Yogita Khatri / The Block:
Coinbase and Better fund the first Fannie Mae-backed mortgage that uses bitcoin as collateral, with a nationwide rollout planned in the coming months

Earlier Picks

Nivedita Balu / Reuters:
Canada unveils its AI strategy that it says will help create 250,000 jobs by 2031, with a CA$500M tech fund to invest in homegrown AI startups
John Kruzel / Reuters:
SCOTUS sides with the FCC in its clash with wireless carriers, upholding the agency's in-house system for levying fines for regulatory violations
Bloomberg:
Corporate spending management platform Ramp raised $750M at a $44B valuation led by Iconiq, Singapore's GIC, and the OTPP, taking its total funding to $3B
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