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June 7, 2026, 6:05 PM

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Cristina Criddle / Financial Times:
OpenAI plans to overhaul ChatGPT in the coming weeks, turning it into a superapp with coding tools and AI agents to serve as a gateway to higher-margin products  —  $850bn start-up to recast hit chatbot as a route to higher-margin products before a potential IPO.
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Inside the early 2025 senior exec meeting where Apple admitted its AI failures; Tim Cook became intimately involved in Apple's AI roadmap around the same time  —  Also: What to expect at WWDC 2026.  —  A top secret meeting finally got Apple to take its AI crisis seriously.
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Q&A with Google DeepMind's Director of AGI Economics Alex Imas and Epoch AI's Phil Trammell on what remains scarce after AGI, redistributing AI wealth, and more  —  “One robot now turns into many robots next year, but the number of ballerinas is the same.”  —  Economics of AGI episode w Alex Imas and Phil Trammell.
Leo Schwartz / The Information:
White House AI advisor Sriram Krishnan says he will leave his role at the end of June; sources: Krishnan plans to start a pro-Trump AI policy institution  —  Sriram Krishnan, a top AI policy advisor in the Trump administration, plans to leave his position at the end of June …
Hassan Mujtaba / Wccftech:
Memory chip vendors say CXMT's DDR5 prices match Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron, and it has a supply advantage in client markets as it is not prioritizing HBM  —  CXMT's DDR5 memory is apparently not as cheap to procure as reports claim, falling in the same range as DRAM from other manufacturers.

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