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| 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
More: Benzinga, The Decoder, and GovInfoSecurity.com
X: @samfbiddle, @deanwball, and @samfbiddle
LinkedIn: Lance McGrath and Dave Schroeder, PhD
| Anthropic: |
Anthropic details its progress toward recursive self-improvement, and its implications, and says Claude has authored 80%+ of the code merged into its codebase — Our progress toward recursive self-improvement, and its implications. — For most of AI's history, humans drove every step in its development cycle.
More: Axios, VentureBeat, Engadget, One Useful Thing, The Economic Times, The Neuron, The Independent, The Rundown AI, Blockonomi, The Decoder, DigiTimes, Digit, Seoul Economic Daily, New York Post, CNBC, Tech Times, The Deep View, Runtime, SiliconANGLE, PYMNTS, Decrypt, Constellation Research, Benzinga, International Business Times, Cointelegraph, and MakeUseOf
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LinkedIn: Christian Ryan, Parag Lokhande, and Ethan Mollick
Bluesky: @shubhendu, @mergesort.me, @emollick, @davidcrespo, @isolyth.dev, and @timkellogg.me. Mastodon: @ErikJonker@mastodon.social
Forums: Hacker News, r/accelerate, r/neoliberal, r/ArtificialInteligence, r/ClaudeAI, r/singularity, and r/technology
| 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
More: NewsMax.com. X: @deredleritt3r, @jimstewartson, @francesco_bia, @lugaricano, @kakashiii111, @benjamin_horne, @arthur_spirling, @robertwrighter, and @edzitron. LinkedIn: Darius Nassiry
Forums: r/singularity and Slashdot
| Wired: |
Analysis: Meta discreetly added code for an unreleased “NameTag” face-recognition system for its AI smart glasses over multiple Meta AI app updates in 2026 — Code reviewed by WIRED uncovered an unreleased face-recognition system embedded in Meta's smart glasses platform.
More: Buchodi's Threat Intel, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Mashable, PhoneArena, Android Authority, The Overspill, Digital Trends, Pixel Envy, and Engadget
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Threads: @reckless1280, @anildash, @anildash, and @vicmsong
Mastodon: @eff@mastodon.social and @evacide@hachyderm.io
Forums: Hacker News, r/virtualreality, r/esist, and r/BetterOffline
| Ryan Christoffel / 9to5Mac: |
Apple-funded study: the App Store had $1.4T in billings and sales globally in 2025; apps with consumer AI features saw 4x more billings growth than other apps — Apple shares update on 2025 App Store success — “Developers are the heartbeat of the App Store, and this year's incredible milestone … | 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.
More: Silicon Republic, The Independent, NBC News, SiliconANGLE, CNET, The Decoder, and Mashable
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Forums: r/Futurology and r/nottheonion
| 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...
More: Business Today, Thurrott, Digital Trends, Implicator.ai, Android Authority, Phandroid, Digit, Neowin, XDA Developers, MakeUseOf, Engadget, The Decoder, and 9to5Mac
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| 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 …
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| 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.| 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.| James Gallagher / BBC: |
University of Cambridge researchers say they have developed the first vaccine with a key component entirely designed by AI and subsequently trialed it in humans — Artificial intelligence has been used to develop a “fundamentally new” type of vaccine that could protect against large swathes …
More: Telegraph, Dexerto, The Indian Express, The Sun, Southampton News …, and Mirror
Forums: r/antiai, r/UpliftingNews, and r/singularity
| Reuters: |
China's securities regulator tightened oversight of the country's ~$3.4T private fund industry, and said it would encourage tech-focused VC investments — China on Friday tightened oversight of the country's 23 trillion yuan ($3.40 trillion) private fund industry, in a bid to reduce financial risks … | Reuters: |
Sources say a months-long dispute between the White House and Anthropic is showing signs of easing across the US government as the company prepares for its IPO — A months-long dispute between Trump administration officials and AI firm Anthropic is showing signs of easing across parts …
More: Politico and Financial Times
| Natasha Korecki / NBC News: |
Illinois Governor JB Pritzker plans to temporarily halt tax breaks for data centers from July 1, calling on state lawmakers to create a development framework — Pritzker, who is widely viewed as having 2028 White House aspirations, is tapping into an issue seen as important to voters.
Bluesky: @southpawjc
| Finya Swai / The Hill: |
FCC Chair Brendan Carr says the agency will review E-Rate, a $3B annual program subsidizing school and library internet access, amid kids' screen time concerns — The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is reviewing a $3 billion annual program that subsidizes internet access for schools and libraries …
More: The American Bazaar, Fox News, and Breitbart
| @starlink: |
Starlink says that it has 12M+ “active customers” across 160+ countries, territories, and other markets, up from 9M in December 2025 — Starlink is connecting more than 12M active customers with high-speed internet across 160+ countries, territories and many other markets. Thank you to all our customers around the world! 🛰️🌎❤️ → https://starlink.com/12M [image]
| 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 …
More: FinSMEs, Supabase, The SaaS News, SiliconANGLE, Implicator.ai, Pulse 2.0, TNGlobal, Investing.com, citybiz, Supabase Blog, Salesforce Ventures, PYMNTS, and VC News Daily
X: @supabase, @kiwicopple, @thisiskp_, @supabase, @salesforcevc, @felicis, @coatuemgmt, @saltcod, and @asenkut
LinkedIn: Sean Oliver and Clayton Kast
| Michael Considine / CNBC: |
OpenAI confirms it will comply with President Trump's EO that asks AI companies to allow the US government to assess their models' capabilities before release — OpenAI has confirmed it will comply with Donald Trump's executive order that asks AI companies to allow the federal government …
More: The Dispatch
| 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.| 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.| Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News: |
Denver-based Scotch, which makes AI-powered payments tools for liquor retailers, raised a $20M Series A from VMG Partners, following a $10M seed in 2024 — Scotch, an AI-native operating system designed specifically for liquor store owners, has secured $20 million in a Series A funding round …
More: The SaaS News, VC News Daily, and Pulse 2.0
| 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 …
More: Reuters, DigiTimes, The Information, and Benzinga
X: @jstein_star, @jstein_star, @jstein_star, and @jstein_star
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