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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: The Decoder, Benzinga, 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: The Register, Axios, Semafor, Tom's Hardware, VentureBeat, One Useful Thing, Engadget, Bloomberg, CNN, The Economic Times, The Neuron, The Independent, The Decoder, The Rundown AI, DigiTimes, Seoul Economic Daily, Digit, CNBC, Tech Times, Blockonomi, New York Post, The Deep View, Runtime, SiliconANGLE, PYMNTS, Decrypt, Constellation Research, Benzinga, International Business Times, Cointelegraph, and MakeUseOf
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LinkedIn: Pramod Khargonekar, 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: New York Times, Business Insider, and NewsMax.com
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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.
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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's 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...
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| Isabelle Lee / Bloomberg: |
S&P Dow Jones rejects proposals to expedite S&P 500 eligibility for mega-cap IPOs such as SpaceX's; companies remain ineligible until one year after their IPOs — S&P Dow Jones Indices will keep its existing eligibility requirements for the S&P 500, rejecting proposals …
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| 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: Dexerto, Telegraph, The Indian Express, The Sun, Southampton News …, and Mirror
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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.| Reuters: |
Sources say a months-long dispute between the White House and Anthropic is showing signs of easing across the US government as the startup 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
| 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.| Coco Feng / South China Morning Post: |
A research team that includes Huawei says it successfully used Huawei's Ascend 910C chips for DeepSeek V4 Pro model's post-training, amid increased US sanctions — While Chinese chipmakers have found success in supporting AI inference, they are struggling with the far more complex process of training| 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 and Fox News
| 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: Engadget and The Dispatch
| @starlink: |
SpaceX says Starlink now has 12M+ “active customers with high-speed internet” 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]
| Reuters: |
Chinese regulator CSRC tightens oversight of the country's ~$3.4T private fund industry; the CSRC says it will encourage tech-focused VC investments and more — China on Friday tightened oversight of the country's 23 trillion yuan ($3.40 trillion) private fund industry … | 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 …
More: Upstarts Media, TechCrunch, The Information, Benzinga, and Skift
X: @negligible_cap, @bizcarson, and @stockmarketnerd
| 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
| Zoe Kleinman / BBC: |
An interview with Naomi Gleit, Meta's head of product who joined the company in 2005, on Mark Zuckerberg's “unfair” reputation, AI agents for business, and more — When Naomi Gleit joined Meta nearly 20 years ago, she was the firm's 29th employee.| 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, Tech Funding News, Supabase, SiliconANGLE, Implicator.ai, Pulse 2.0, The SaaS News, TNGlobal, Supabase Blog, Investing.com, citybiz, Salesforce Ventures, and PYMNTS
X: @saltcod, @coatuemgmt, @asenkut, @felicis, @salesforcevc, @supabase, @thisiskp_, @supabase, and @kiwicopple
LinkedIn: Sean Oliver and Clayton Kast
| 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 and VC News Daily
| John Ainger / Bloomberg: |
In a letter to Utah's Senate President, Kevin O'Leary says he will cut a 40,000-acre data center project in Utah by 19,430 acres, after pressure 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.
More: Gizmodo, NBC News, Deseret News, Fox Business, International Business Times, Washington Examiner, Business Insider, The Hill, The Verge, and Salt Lake Tribune
X: @mgsiegler. Bluesky: @karlbode.com. Forums: r/TechnologyThread, r/BasiliskEschaton, r/AIMain, and r/Environmentalism
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