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Jason Schreier / Bloomberg:
Sources: Microsoft's Xbox division is planning major layoffs next month and significant budget cuts for marketing and some other areas  —  Asha Sharma's first major cuts will arrive in July  —  Microsoft Corp.'s Xbox division is planning major job cuts next month as new Chief Executive …
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch:
Cybersecurity researchers complain that Claude Fable's guardrails are too strict, rejecting “innocuous tasks” like reading blog posts or performing code reviews  —  Anthropic released its latest model Fable on Tuesday, billing it as a public and limited version of its powerful and much-hyped cybersecurity model Mythos.
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Sources: Microsoft is restricting employees from using Claude Fable 5 because of Anthropic's new 30-day data retention requirements  —  Microsoft's legal teams are evaluating Anthropic's new data retention changes. … Anthropic released Claude Fable, its first Mythos-class AI model …
Dean W. Ball / @deanwball:
Anthropic secretly limiting Claude's usefulness for LLM development strengthens the argument that Anthropic is using AI safety to justify monopolistic behavior  —  My last observation re: Anthropic's secret sabotage safety policy, is that it undermines actually good safety policy. How? 1. First, it is very plausible to describe this as anti-competitive behavior (even if you are maximally sympathetic to Anthropic here you must admit this),
Dario Amodei:
An essay on policy responses to AI's exponential progress across regulation and public safety, macroeconomics and taxes, science, civil liberties, geopolitics  —  In one of the side plots to The Lord of the Rings, two of the Hobbits attempt to rouse Treebeard—a wise but ponderous sentient tree …
Anthropic:
Anthropic releases two policy proposals on how governments should address catastrophic risks and manage labor market disruption from advanced AI systems  —  AI is advancing at exponential speed, and the policymaking process was built for a slower world.  —  We are sharing two policy proposals to prepare for AI progress.
Reuters:
Sources: SpaceX has drawn $250B+ of investor demand for what is poised to be the largest IPO to date, far beyond the $75B that SpaceX is aiming to raise  —  Elon Musk's SpaceX (SPCX.O) has drawn more than $250 billion of investor demand for what stands to be the largest-ever IPO …
The Keyword:
Google introduces DiffusionGemma, an experimental 26B-parameter open model that uses text diffusion for faster text generation compared to autoregressive models  —  Our newest open experimental model delivers up to 4x faster inference on dedicated GPUs and opens the door to exploring speed-critical, interactive local workflows.
Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information:
Sources: Sam Altman told staff that OpenAI is expected to go public “within the next year” and OpenAI plans a tender offer “very soon” at a $687.69 share price  —  OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told staff in a Slack message on Monday that he expects OpenAI to go public …
Dylan Tokar / Wall Street Journal:
The CFTC proposes prediction market rules, seeking the ability to ban bets it finds aren't in the public interest or may be highly susceptible to manipulation  —  The CFTC will provide clearer parameters around what bets are allowed on Kalshi and other platforms, but won't ban certain contracts
Matthias Bastian / The Decoder:
A German court rules that Google is directly liable for what AI Overviews say after AI Overviews falsely tied two publishers to shady business practices  —  Key Points … Ask about this article...  The Regional Court of Munich hit Google with a temporary injunction barring the company …
Sarah Guo:
As AI commoditizes benchmarkable work, an organization's lasting moats lie in tasks that are verifiable through its private data and judgment  —  The mid-2026 investor's version of AI psychosis is a despair that nothing is investable, that we should put all our money into Anthropic and Nvidia and go home.
Laurie Chen / Reuters:
Chinese companies are implementing “quiet” AI-driven layoffs to avoid labor laws that require government approval for job cuts exceeding 10% of a workforce  —  Liu, a Hangzhou-based contractor at a large Chinese internet firm, says her employer began quietly firing contractors …
Bloomberg:
Dario Amodei says he doesn't know what role Claude played in a missile strike on an Iranian school, and its use in this instance didn't violate Anthropic's ToS  —  Anthropic PBC's boss said he doesn't know what role his artificial intelligence model played in a missile strike that killed …
Financial Times:
Sources: Germany's Neura Robotics, which builds AI-powered humanoid robots, raised $1.4B from Tether, Qualcomm, Amazon, Nvidia, and others at a ~$7B valuation  —  Crypto group Tether, Amazon and Nvidia invest in fundraising deal that values company at about $7bn
Reuters:
Sources: SK Hynix plans to list its shares in the US as soon as August, seeking to capitalize on strong AI-linked stock demand and broaden its investor base  —  SK Hynix (000660.KS) plans to list its shares in the U.S. as soon as August, said two sources familiar with the matter …
Eddie Makuch / GameSpot:
Xbox Chief Strategy Officer Matthew Ball says Xbox Game Pass lost “millions” of subscribers in the months following a 50% price hike announced in October 2025  —  At Summer Game Fest today, Xbox's new chief strategy officer Matthew Ball spoke about some of the company's big moves recently …
Juby Babu / Reuters:
Oracle reports Q4 revenue up 21% YoY to $19.18B, vs. $19.1B est., and expects to raise ~$40B through a combination of debt and equity financing in FY 2027  —  Oracle (ORCL.N) reported fourth-quarter revenue that narrowly beat Wall Street expectations on Wednesday, amid growing concerns …
Sam Sabin / Axios:
OpenAI says it has banned China-linked accounts that used ChatGPT to draft social media influence campaigns targeting US debates over tariffs and data centers  —  OpenAI has banned China-linked accounts that used ChatGPT to draft social media influence campaigns targeting U.S. debates …
SemiAnalysis:
A look at Unitree's growth strategy, which mimics those used by BYD and DJI, and leverages its quadruped robot dominance to create and lead the humanoid market  —  The Fastest Iteration Cycle In Next-Gen Robotics Should See Unprecedented Acceleration  —  Reyk Knuhtsen, Niko Ciminelli, Jacob Rintamaki, and 4 others
Amrith Ramkumar / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Trump administration officials have told CAISI to halt publication of its model assessments while an EO President Trump signed last week is implemented  —  Unit's future was thrown into doubt after its public work was halted despite winning praise from AI developers

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William James / Reuters:
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