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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 dedicated Siri app  —  At WWDC 2026, Apple is detailing its Apple Intelligence improvements, starting with its Google Gemini collaboration.
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 …
Tim Hardwick / MacRumors:
Apple says Siri AI will not be available in the EU with the launch of 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 …
Inti Landauro / Reuters:
The EU says Apple decided not to roll out Siri AI in the EU after it had unsuccessfully requested to be exempted from interoperability obligations for the tool
Ryan Christoffel / 9to5Mac:
Apple says its most powerful on-device AI model requires an iPhone 17 Pro, iPhone Air, iPad with M4 or later, or a Mac with M3 or later, all with 12GB+ of RAM
Ashley Capoot / CNBC:
OpenAI confidentially files for an IPO, says it has “not decided on timing yet”, as “there are things we want to do that are likely easier as a private company”  —  OpenAI has confidentially filed for an IPO with the Securities and Exchange Commission …
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 its “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.
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Google upgrades NotebookLM, which now runs on Gemini 3.5 and Antigravity, to deliver new agentic capabilities and more advanced reasoning, starting for AI Ultra  —  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.
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 …
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 …
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.
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.
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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Ryan Lawler / Axios:
Vinyl Equity, an SEC-registered transfer agent that has launched a payments platform earlier this year, raised a $20M Series A led by Jump Capital  —  Vinyl Equity, which is building a modern transfer agent for public companies, raised $20 million in Series A funding led by Jump Capital, CEO Rob Schoder tells Axios exclusively.
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 …
Dan Milmo / The Guardian:
In a UK online safety consultation, the US urges the UK against an under-16 social media ban, saying it would place a “disproportionate” burden on US Big Tech  —  Trump administration says restrictions could impose ‘disproportionate’ burden on US tech companies
Ann Cao / South China Morning Post:
A group of Chinese tech companies, including Alibaba and CXMT, launches a ~$577M PE fund to boost China's “hard tech” sectors amid tightening US export curbs  —  Chip giants launch a 3.91 billion yuan private equity fund to boost the country's ‘hard tech’ sectors amid tightening US export curbs

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Associated Press:
The DOJ withdraws subpoenas that would have forced three NYT reporters to testify about sources, after a federal judge criticized the DOJ for sloppy legal work

Ted Johnson / Deadline:
A judge extends the temporary order pausing the Paramount-WBD merger for 14 more days and writes that the WGA can participate in a scheduled hearing on August 3

Brooks Barnes / New York Times:
Sony Pictures Entertainment plans to restore the Cinerama Dome and adjacent 14-screen theater in Los Angeles, reopening in 2028 and operated by Alamo Drafthouse

More News

Michael Kan / PCMag:
The US FCC waives its deadline for Amazon to deploy half of its Leo satellites by July; Amazon is still required to launch all 3,232 satellites by July 30, 2029
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

Earlier Picks

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
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
Kate O'Keeffe / Bloomberg:
The US DOD designates some of China's biggest companies, including Alibaba, BYD, and Baidu, as entities that support the Chinese military
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