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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
What to expect at WWDC 2026: an overhauled Siri, a Siri app, a slew of new AI capabilities, OS updates focused on reliability and responsiveness, and more — The iPhone maker will attempt its artificial intelligence turnaround on Monday. — Apple Inc. will unveil a new artificial intelligence strategy …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: US officials discussed the US taking stakes in major AI companies after Sam Altman pitched the idea in 2025; Altman met Bernie Sanders on Wednesday — The talks have been with artificial-intelligence leaders such as OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, who pitched the idea
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| 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.
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| 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
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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 …
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| 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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| Financial Times: |
Sources: SpaceX prepares the largest retail allocation ever attempted in a megacap IPO, seeking to reserve as much as 25% of its $75B float for retail investors — Up to a quarter of the rocket builder's $75bn float will be set aside for individual investors
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| 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 …
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| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Filing: Reid Hoffman, who has served on Microsoft's board since 2017, will not stand for re-election at the company's 2026 annual meeting — Reid Hoffman, the LinkedIn co-founder who has served on Microsoft's board since 2017, will not stand for re-election at the company's 2026 annual meeting …
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| 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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| Aaron Holmes / The Information: |
In an internal message, Satya Nadella rebuked an internal memo that said Microsoft needs to “make people addicted” to its new AI agent product called Scout — Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on Thursday rebuked an internal memo that another company executive had written advocating to …
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| Lauren Feiner / The Verge: |
The NY State legislature passes a one-year moratorium on new large data centers, the first statewide ban of its kind if Governor Kathy Hochul signs it into law — It could become the first ban of its kind in a state. … The New York State legislature passed a one-year moratorium … | Dan Primack / Axios: |
Allen Control Systems, which makes AI-powered gun turrets for shooting down drones, raised a $200M Series B led by Smash Capital at a $2.2B post-money valuation — Years before he helped launch Disney+, or helped the Mouse buy Marvel and Star Wars, Kevin Mayer studied mechanical engineering …
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| 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 … | 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 … | Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette: |
Over 20 EU news publishers file a claim seeking €640M+ from Google following an EU decision that lets anyone harmed by Google's ad market abuse seek damages — Small publishers enabled to take on Google for damages via group claim. — More than 20 European news publishers … | Wall Street Journal: |
The largest US banks plan to launch a tokenized deposit network in 2027 to connect traditional payment rails with the infrastructure that digital assets run on — The new network could help banks contend with a wave of new competition from stablecoins and crypto firms| 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.| 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 …
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| @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]
| 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| The Economic Times: |
India-based Innefu Labs, which builds AI-powered software for national defense and enterprise security infrastructure, raised a $30M Series B led by Panthera — The capital infusion, completed through a combination of primary and secondary transactions from Panthera, positions …
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