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| Maxwell Zeff / Wired: |
Anthropic backtracks on its decision to quietly limit Fable 5's ability to develop LLMs, saying “requests will visibly fall back to Opus 4.8”, after backlash — The company changed course after researchers spoke out against the policy, which would have covertly limited Claude's ability to develop competing AI models.
More: The Verge, Engadget, Forbes, Business Insider, Moneycontrol, Silicon Republic, Claude, Gizmodo, eMarketer, Moneycontrol, Simon Willison's Weblog, The Decoder, ZeroHedge News, Help Net Security, and The Verge
X: @claudedevs, @zeffmax, @deredleritt3r, @yacinemtb, @gergelyorosz, @tenobrus, @sporadica, @jdpeterson, @deanwball, @wired, @mattparlmer, @zeffmax, @rohanpaul_ai, @basedjensen, @simonw, @simonw, @max_paperclips, @scobleizer, @eliebakouch, @zeffmax, @gergelyorosz, @agustinlebron3, @krishnanrohit, @kimmonismus, @deliprao, and @deanwball. Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to
Forums: r/MachineLearning, r/ClaudeCode, r/singularity, r/accelerate, r/ClaudeAI, r/Anthropic, and r/singularity
| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: |
More: Information Age, The Verge, BridgeMind on YouTube, Runtime, WinCentral, Wall Street Journal, Forrester, Constellation Research, and The Decoder
X: @zeroxjf, @alexjplaskett, @deryatr_, @mehulmpt, @ksimback, @chompie1337, @fabknowledge, @iruletheworldmo, @0xballoonlover, @tautologer, @deryatr_, @willccbb, @teknium, @banteg, @blancheminerva, @scobleizer, @tomieinlove, and @behi_sec
Forums: Hacker News, r/ClaudeCode, and r/ClaudeAI
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: OpenAI is considering drastically lowering the prices it charges users for tokens in anticipation of similar cuts the startup expects Anthropic to make — The company might lower prices for tokens, the central unit for gauging AI costs, though the discussions are still in flux
More: CNBC, Marcus on AI, International Business Times, Implicator.ai, The Decoder, Newser, Bloomberg, Blockchain.News, MarketWatch, Sherwood News, PYMNTS, Forbes, Android Authority, Fortune, Digital Trends, The Tech Portal, Yahoo Finance, Nairametrics, Benzinga, and ZeroHedge News
X: @mweinbach and @zerohedge
LinkedIn: Emil Protalinski, Victor Zhang, Kevin O'Leary, Rudy DeFelice, and Christophe Barraud
Forums: r/OpenAI, r/codex, r/BetterOffline, r/singularity, and r/accelerate
| Shahram Mokhtari / iFixit News: |
A teardown reveals the Trump Mobile T1 is a gold-painted HTC U24 Pro but features some changes, including memory from Micron instead of SK Hynix — In case you missed it, there is now a Trump phone. Yes, really. And this week, we got to take it apart. — A couple of weeks ago I got …
More: Engadget, PCMag, Gizmodo, Tech Advisor, The Verge, Android Authority, TechRadar, Mashable, NBC News, and Notebookcheck. X: @benjamingoggin
| A.J. Vicens / Reuters: |
The FBI seizes 13 domains allegedly tied to fake consulting firms that sought information from US government and military employees for suspected Chinese agents — Federal authorities announced on Wednesday the seizure of 13 internet domains tied to what the U.S. Justice Department called … | Riley Griffin / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Meta has completed an operational split with Manus and stopped data sharing; Manus is exploring options, including raising ~$1B to fund a buyback — Meta Platforms Inc. has completed an operational split from Manus and halted data sharing between the two companies …
More: The Next Web, The Information, and Tom's Hardware
| 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 …
More: XBOX Wire, Ars Technica, Forbes, IGN, Kotaku, Yahoo Finance, DayOne, Thurrott, Comic Book, Game Informer, Silicon Republic, TheGamer, PocketGamer.biz, The Information, Video Games Chronicle, Pure Xbox, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, GamingBolt, Dexerto, Gameranx, Game Developer, Digit, Moneycontrol, People Matters, Tech4Gamers, GamesBeat, TechSpot, Reuters, GeekWire, PC Gamer, Press Start, Gizmodo, PCMag, GamesIndustry.biz, Windows Central, Variety, GamesIndustry.biz, Pure Xbox, and Kotaku
X: @layoffai. LinkedIn: Jason Schreier. Bluesky: @gematsu.com, @mackeza, @stephentotilo, @knoebel, and @wario64
Forums: r/consoles, r/IndianGaming, r/videogames, r/gaming, r/consoles, r/XboxSeriesS, r/PS5, r/pcgaming, r/xbox, r/LastStandMedia, r/Games, r/kindafunny, and r/technology
| The Verge: |
More: Variety, Game Informer, PC Gamer, Gameranx, Polygon.com, Yahoo Finance, Thurrott, TheGamer, GamingBolt, KitGuru, Gamereactor UK, Pure Xbox, ScreenRant, The Shortcut, iPhone in Canada, Comic Book, and IGN
X: @nib95_, @idlesloth84_, @shinobi602, and @wario64
Bluesky: @wario64, @jaypeters.net, and @tomwarren.co.uk
Forums: r/xbox, r/Steam, r/consoles, r/pcgaming, r/TESVI, and r/LastStandMedia
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: BlackRock put in an order to buy at least $5B worth of SpaceX shares; SpaceX received an over $1B request from a single family-office investor — Other large asset managers made similarly eye-popping requests — Elon Musk's SpaceX is preparing to stage the largest public offering ever …
More: Benzinga
| Zachary Basu / Axios: |
Elon Musk is busy stoking far-right culture wars across the West on the eve of SpaceX's IPO, with an impunity unmatched in modern corporate history — Elon Musk is on the verge of financial immortality: The world's richest man — and potentially its first trillionaire … | Politico: |
The US House fails to extend FISA's Section 702, ensuring the warrantless surveillance program will expire for the first time since its 2008 enactment — Nineteen Republicans also voted to reject a punt of Section 702, which allows U.S. intelligence agencies to spy on targets abroad without a warrant.| Dario Amodei: |
Dario Amodei outlines policy responses to AI's exponential progress across regulation and public safety, macroeconomics and taxes, science, geopolitics, more — 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 …
More: Axios, The Hill, International Business Times, Decrypt, New York Times, Associated Press, The Next Web, The Economic Times, TechCrunch, SiliconANGLE, ABC News, VentureBeat, The Deep View, and Mashable
X: @darioamodei, @mitsuhiko, @lacker, @darioamodei, @perrymetzger, @so8res, @daveshapi, @s8mb, @edzitron, @tenobrus, @adamconner, @adamconner, @sporadica, @jconorgrogan, @kimmonismus, @beffjezos, @kimnoel399, @deredleritt3r, @guilhermeotina, @mattparlmer, @hallerite, and @darioamodei. LinkedIn: Shivnath Thukral. Bluesky: @ketanjoshi.co
Forums: Hacker News, r/ClaudeAI, r/Anthropic, r/accelerate, and r/singularity
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| Terrence O'Brien / The Verge: |
Deezer launches an AI music detection tool for users of 20 services, including Spotify and Apple Music, after no company licensed its AI detection tech — Since the competition won't buy their tech, they're bringing it directly to users. … Deezer will now scan your playlists … | Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
YouTube rolls out a new in-app messaging system for sharing videos and having 1:1 conversations; it discontinued its previous Messages feature in September 2019 — After testing got underway last year, YouTube is now more widely rolling out a new in-app messaging system.| Samantha Subin / CNBC: |
DoorDash launches an in-app AI chatbot to let users order food and groceries and make reservations with photos and prompts — DoorDash is bringing artificial intelligence deeper into the user experience, allowing customers to order food and make reservations with photos and prompts.
More: TechCrunch, The Information, DoorDash, Los Angeles Times, The Verge, and Yahoo Finance
| Raphael Satter / Reuters: |
CISA shortens the deadline for US agencies to fix, disable, or remove vulnerable software or equipment in their networks to three days, citing hackers' AI use — The U.S. cyber defense agency said on Wednesday that government officials now have three days to deal with the most serious categories … | Dan Primack / Axios: |
Jeff Bezos' Prometheus, which is building AI models for physical tasks, raised a $12B Series B at a $41B valuation, following a $6.2B Series A — Prometheus, the industrial AI startup led by Jeff Bezos and former Google exec Vik Bajaj, today will announce that it's raised $12 billion in Series B funding at a $41 billion valuation.
More: GeekWire, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Yahoo Finance, Financial Times, Semafor, and CNBC
| Maria Cheng / Reuters: |
Canada introduces the Safe Social Media Act, a bill that would ban social media for children under 16 and establish safety standards for AI chatbots — The Canadian government introduced a new digital safety bill on Wednesday that would ban social media for children under 16 with exemptions …
More: Silicon Republic, Government of Canada, Government of Canada, TechRadar, Reclaim The Net, Dexerto, CBC News, Profectio, Associated Press, UPI, The Next Web, MediaNama, Politico, Mashable, Michael Geist, Engadget, NewsMax.com, Benzinga, SiliconANGLE, Wall Street Journal, Global News, BBC, Michael Geist, New York Times, Agence France-Presse, and Globe and Mail
X: @markjcarney, @evanlsolomon, @mgeist, @mgeist, and @mgeist. Bluesky: @druce.ai. Mastodon: @bstacey@icosahedron.website. Forums: r/worldnews
| Anvee Bhutani / Wall Street Journal: |
Amazon says its data centers used ~2.5B gallons of water in 2025, or 0.12 liters of water per kWh, and water use at sites it owns and operates fell 2% from 2024 — The company said water use at sites it owns and operates directly fell 2% from 2024 levels, even while it expanded its data-center footprint
More: Bloomberg, GeekWire, Yahoo Finance, About Amazon, and Latitude Media
| Bloomberg: |
Crusoe said it had “paused” a plan to build a Wyoming data center; sources: it failed to win customers including Google amid concerns about costs and timetable — On Tuesday, the data center developer Crusoe announced that it had “paused” a plan to build an AI campus in Wyoming … | Madison Mills / Axios: |
Google's philanthropic arm, Google.org, commits $50M to help train 300K+ skilled trade workers across the US, amid a shortage of workers for AI projects — Google is committing $50 million to help train more than 300,000 skilled trade workers across the U.S. Why it matters … | Gina Heeb / Wall Street Journal: |
Citigroup launches a blockchain-based platform for wealthy and institutional clients to trade tokenized shares of private firms, initially for foreign investors — Bank hopes other financial institutions will become involved — Citigroup is establishing a way for its wealthy …
More: CoinDesk, The Block, Bitcoin News, Blockonomi, Cryptonews, CoinGape, and crypto.news
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Product head Alex Benzer says Bluesky in 2026 plans to add “communities”, smaller spaces to “go deeper and hang out with people who care about the same stuff” — They're set to launch sometime this year. They're set to launch sometime this year.
More: Engadget and Gizmodo
Bluesky: @alexbenzer.com, @jcsalterego, and @ernie.tedium.co
Forums: r/redditstock and r/BlueskySocial
| Glenn Gamboa / Associated Press: |
Anthropic donates $150M to launch Claude Corps, a fellowship program that will teach 1,000 fellows how to use Claude and place them with nonprofits in the US — Anthropic will donate $150 million to launch a fellowship program that places coaches with nonprofits around the country to help … | Hannah Webster / Bloomberg: |
Apollo Global has implemented a new risk assessment that categorizes software investments into 12 to 14 sectors to rank their susceptibility to AI disruption — Apollo Global Management Inc. is assessing every new investment opportunity in the software industry for AI disruption risk … | Bloomberg Law: |
Digital Asset, which builds Canton Network, a public blockchain with privacy features, raised $355M, including $100M from a16z crypto — Blockchain builder Digital Asset Holdings LLC raised $355 million in a new funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz's main crypto fund …
More: Decrypt, Digital Asset (US) Corp., CoinDesk, FinSMEs, Bitcoin News, Blockonomi, crypto.news, Cointelegraph, and CryptoPotato
| Seth Fiegerman / Bloomberg: |
OpenAI acquires Ona, which offers cloud services to support AI agents, and plans to bring Ona's team into its Codex effort — OpenAI has agreed to acquire Ona, a startup that offers cloud services to support artificial intelligence agents, part of a bid by the AI developer to make its technology more useful for businesses.
More: OpenAI
| 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 …
More: OpenAI, Engadget, Politico, Bloomberg, PCMag, TechRadar, Benzinga, Al Jazeera, and WTTG-TV
Mastodon: @campuscodi@mastodon.social and @stroughtonsmith …
Forums: r/technology and Slashdot
| Yang Tian / BBC: |
London's Met Police calls on tech companies to make stolen phones unusable and says it is sharing data with Apple to build a “global picture” of stolen devices — The Metropolitan Police is calling on tech firms to make stolen phones harder to reuse and prevent criminals from profiting.
More: The Register, AppleInsider, Sky News, The Sun, 9to5Mac, The i Paper, Yahoo News, Daily Express, Metropolitan Police, The Independent, Shortlist, Daily Express, Telecompaper, The National News on YouTube, Mirror, GB News, LBC, The National, The Standard, inkl, Mornings With Ridge & Frost on YouTube, Daily Mail, and Metro.co.uk
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