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June 9, 2026, 8:25 AM

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Hartley Charlton / MacRumors:
Apple overhauls Apple Intelligence, with a new architecture built on Apple Foundation Models co-developed with Google and adapted to run on devices and servers  —  Apple today announced a major overhaul of its Apple Intelligence platform, revealing a new architecture built on foundation models developed …
Zac Hall / 9to5Mac:
Apple announces Siri AI, with on-screen awareness, personal context understanding, a Dynamic Island-based interface, and more, along with a new Siri app  —  At WWDC 2026, Apple is detailing its Apple Intelligence improvements, starting with its Google Gemini collaboration.
Tim Hardwick / MacRumors:
Apple says Siri AI will be delayed in the EU for iOS 27 and iPadOS 27 due to the DMA; Siri AI will also not be available in China at launch  —  The new enhanced Siri AI features that Apple announced today at WWDC 2026 will not be available in the European Union or in China when they are released in beta later this year.
Kif Leswing / CNBC:
Google and Nvidia are helping Apple with Apple Foundation Model Cloud Pro, which Apple says is comparable to Gemini frontier models and runs on Nvidia GPUs  —  - Apple showed off Siri AI demos at its annual WWDC keynote in Cupertino, Calif. … Apple on Monday revealed what it's been working …
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Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch:
Microsoft disabled 70+ of its repos on GitHub, including Azure-related tools like azure-functions-host, after hackers added credential-stealing malware to them  —  Microsoft has cut off access to dozens of its open source projects hosted on GitHub as it investigates how hackers apparently breached …
OpenAI:
Sam Altman and Jakub Pachocki claim OpenAI is “entering the third phase”, aiming to automate AI research, boost the economy, and give everyone a personal AGI  —  Every few generations, a new technology changes everything.  —  Imagine electricity reaching a rural American town in the 1920s.
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
The first developer beta of iOS 27 offers the clearest signs yet of Apple's upcoming foldable iPhone, with references to folding hardware and flexible displays  —  Apple Inc.'s iOS 27 and related software updates offer the clearest public signs yet of the company's upcoming foldable iPhone …
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Google upgrades NotebookLM, which now runs on Gemini 3.5 and Antigravity, to deliver new agentic capabilities and more advanced reasoning for AI Ultra users  —  Google on Monday announced an update to its NotebookLM research tool, which includes new features and the shift to Gemini 3.5 as the default model.
Abner Li / 9to5Google:
Google lowers the price of its Google AI Plus plan to $4.99 per month, down from $7.99, and doubles the included storage to 400GB  —  Google announced today that its AI Plus subscription is getting a price drop to $4.99 per month and now includes 400 GB of storage.
Arjun Kharpal / CNBC:
In an interview, Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas says that the company is planning its IPO for 2028, regardless of how well the IPOs for Anthropic and OpenAI go  —  Perplexity is planning to go public in 2028 regardless of how the market receives the listings of Anthropic and OpenAI, CEO Aravind Srinivas told CNBC.
Ingrid Lunden / Resilience Media:
Finland-based Iceye, whose small satellites help countries with real-time location monitoring, raised a €1B Series F led by General Atlantic at a €10B valuation  —  Deal follows major deployment with Poland and crossing €250M in sales  —  We're less than a week …
Kevin Breuninger / CNBC:
A federal judge blocks President Trump's policy imposing a $100,000 fee for employer H-1B visa applications  —  A federal judge on Monday vacated President Donald Trump's policy imposing a $100,000 fee for employers' H-1B visa applications.  —  The visa payment policy violated …
Daniel Cooper / Engadget:
Apple announces new parental controls, letting kids ask to browse specific websites or contact specific people, adding automatic image filtering, and more  —  Kids can now ask to browse specific websites and contact specific people.  —  At WWDC 26, Apple announced changes to give parents more control over what their kids see and do.
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Jose Antonio Lanz / Decrypt:
Xiaomi claims MiMo-V2.5-Pro-UltraSpeed tops 1K tokens/second, a first at the 1T-parameter scale, using a standard 8-GPU commodity node; API trial starts June 9  —  Most people know Xiaomi as the Chinese phone brand.  The one that makes cheap electric scooters and air purifiers.
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Bloomberg:
New York-based Standard Bots, which wants to make AI-powered robotic arms in the US, raised $200M led by General Catalyst and Robostrategy at a $1B valuation  —  Standard Bots has raised $200 million in a new round of funding to ramp up manufacturing of robotic arms in the US as the country vies …
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Wall Street Journal:
Meta puts $115M toward a “workforce academy”, a free 5-week program to train Americans to build data centers, offering job guarantees at Meta construction sites  —  Five-week program, which is free of charge and guarantees a job, follows recent layoff of 8,000 employees
Wired:
Analysis: Meta removed code for an unreleased face-recognition system in the Meta AI app for its smart glasses, following a report on the code's existence  —  The code WIRED identified is gone from the latest version of Meta AI, the companion app for the company's smart glasses.

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