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Sources: Amodei, Altman, and Hassabis called for US-led collaboration on AI rules at the G7 summit; Macron and Modi raised concerns over the US block on Mythos — Dario Amodei is supported by rival Sam Altman in call for international co-operation — Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei …
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| Rolfe Winkler / Wall Street Journal: |
In an interview, Tim Cook says Apple price hikes are “unavoidable” to offset surging memory and storage chip costs, and “the situation has become unsustainable” — The CEO tells the Journal in an exclusive interview that soaring costs make price increases ‘unavoidable’
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| New York Times: |
A look at chaos inside Anthropic after disabling Fable 5 and Mythos 5 with less than 90 minutes of notice, as some staff wonder if Trump is bullying the startup — Workers at the artificial intelligence company have been puzzled and increasingly concerned by the administration's move to limit their latest A.I. models.
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| Hugo Lowell / Wired: |
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| Eleanor Mueller / Semafor: |
Sources: Trump officials discussed how to structure government equity stakes in AI companies, with Commerce Secretary Lutnick preferring a sovereign wealth fund — Senior Trump administration officials had weighed how to structure potential government equity stakes in major AI companies … | Joey Cappelletti / Associated Press: |
Bernie Sanders proposes legislation to create a sovereign wealth fund financed via a one-time 50% stock tax on AI companies that reach $200M in annual AI sales — As artificial intelligence companies reshape the economy and race toward trillion-dollar valuations, Sen. Bernie Sanders … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Mastodon adds email newsletters, letting writers send their posts directly to subscribers' inboxes, even to readers without a Mastodon account — Mastodon, the open, decentralized alternative to Big Tech apps like X and Threads, is betting that email could help solve the open social web's biggest problem: audience growth.
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple is testing a second-generation iPhone Air, planned for spring 2027, with a second rear camera for ultrawide-angle photos and better battery life — Apple Inc. is preparing a second-generation iPhone Air for spring 2027, aiming to boost the appeal of the slimmed-down device …
More: Thurrott, Engadget, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, Digital Trends, MobileSyrup, Mashable, and The Apple Post
| Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
A newly discovered data leak has exposed what appears to be a collection of Fortinet and FortiGate VPN credentials for 73,932 firewall URLs across 194 countries — A newly discovered data leak dubbed “FortiBleed” has exposed what appears to be a collection of Fortinet and FortiGate VPN credentials …
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| Andy Robinson / Video Games Chronicle: |
Epic says Unreal Engine 6, planned for early access in late 2027, will unify UE5 and Unreal Editor for Fortnite, add integrations with Claude and Gemini, more — Epic has detailed Unreal Engine 6, which it says will prominently integrate generative AI models to allow developers to …
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| Arseniy Shestakov: |
Apple's planned move of Hide My Email aliases to private.icloud.com will let services easily distinguish them from normal iCloud email addresses and block them — a small and unimportant announcement appeared in Apple developer news: New domain for Sign in with Apple and iCloud+ Hide My Email.
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| Ryan Merket / RuntimeWire: |
Joshua Baer, the founder and CEO of Texas accelerator Capital Factory, died on Tuesday night in a business jet crash in Laredo, Texas — Joshua Baer (@joshuabaer), the founder and CEO of Capital Factory, died Tuesday night in a business jet crash in Laredo, Texas, KXAN reported …
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| Lucas Ropek / TechCrunch: |
Snap's stock closed down 8.14% on Wednesday, after the company launched the $2,195 Specs AR glasses on Tuesday; SNAP is down ~41% YTD — Snap's long-awaited AR glasses, Specs, didn't have the best debut. — The company's stock hasn't been on the healthiest trajectory lately.
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| Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge: |
Google's $99 Google Home Speaker, which is built for Gemini for Home and works as a Matter controller, will ship on June 29, nine months after it was announced — The Google Home Speaker is designed for Gemini for Home and its more conversational smart home assistant.
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| Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: |
Q&A with Luciana Lixandru, who co-leads Sequoia's global early-stage investment business, on why it is time for “act two” for Europe's tech sector, AI, and more — The global co-lead of the US venture capital firm's early-stage investment business talks about why it is time for ‘act two’ for Europe's tech sector| Muvija M / Reuters: |
The UK CMA orders Google to provide greater transparency on how its search rankings work and to let users transfer their search data to authorized third parties — Britain's competition watchdog ordered Google to provide greater transparency on how its search rankings work … | Michael Peel / Financial Times: |
Studies: Mira, an AI medical tool developed by researchers in Germany, and Google's Amie matched or surpassed doctors on diagnostic and treatment decisions — Two health models displayed clinical value across a range of diagnostic and treatment decisions, studies show
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| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
At AWS Summit, AWS announced Continuum, which uses AI to find and fix code vulnerabilities, Context, which organizes company data for AI agents, and more — Amazon Web Services is announcing a new set of AI agents for businesses, developers, and individual users, capable of everything …
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| Yusuf Khan / Wall Street Journal: |
Frontier, a group including Stripe, Google, Salesforce, and newly joined Anthropic, commits $915M to buy carbon-removal credits, on top of $1B already pledged — The commitment comes through buying group Frontier, which aims to scale up the carbon removal sector
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| Anhata Rooprai / Reuters: |
Shoe company Allbirds changes its name to Smartbird as it pivots to an AI infrastructure company and names ex-AWS exec Nadia Carlsten as CEO; BIRD jumps 39% — Allbirds (BIRD.O) changed its name to Smartbird on Wednesday and appointed former Amazon Web Services (AMZN.O) … | Ben Bergman / Business Insider: |
Convey, which is building AI “teammates” to automate workflows for clients like NBCUniversal, Samsara, and TelevisaUnivision, raised a $38M Series A led by a16z — Convey, a startup founded last year that builds AI “teammates,” has raised $38 million in Series A funding led …
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| Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: |
Uber says it will expand its premium robotaxi service from San Francisco to Houston by mid-2027, in partnership with EV maker Lucid and AV startup Nuro — Uber plans to launch a premium robotaxi service in Houston by mid-2027, making it the second U.S. market under its partnership …
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| Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: |
Anthropic updates Claude Design with design system imports, bidirectional integration with Claude Code, lower token consumption, and more export destinations — When Anthropic quietly released Claude Design in April as a “research preview,” it generated the kind of instant traction … | Ingrid Lunden / Resilience Media: |
Paris-based Comand AI, which is developing AI-based command-and-control software for military operations, raised a €32M Series A led by Blossom Capital — French startup emerges at a time when tech sovereignty has become a major talking point in defence
More: Start, Reuters, Comand AI, Tectonic Defense, and Sifted
| Nikkei Asia: |
Sources: Samsung is seeing a rise in advanced chip production requests from BYD, Google, AMD, Tesla, and other companies as AI demand strains TSMC's capacity — TAIPEI/HONG KONG/SEOUL — BYD, Google, AMD, Tesla and others are looking increasingly to Samsung Electronics for contract chipmaking services …
More: TechSpot, SammyGuru, and Blockonomi
| Ott Tammik / Bloomberg: |
Estonia says it will assign personal ID numbers to AI agents to give them “limited, controllable, and auditable authorizations” as they take actions for humans — Estonia plans to assign personal identification numbers to AI assistants that would give the bots legal rights … | Tim Fernholz / TechCrunch: |
XDOF, which is building data pipelines, collection tools, and annotation systems for robot training data, emerges from stealth with $70M — Two weeks ago, OpenAI said it would relaunch the robotics program it shuttered in 2021 — the latest signal that the biggest AI labs are racing to teach machines to operate in the physical world.| Russell Brandom / TechCrunch: |
Pramaana Labs, which uses the LEAN programming language to build a deterministic verification layer on top of LLMs, raised a $27M seed led by Khosla Ventures — As enterprises struggle to turn AI pilot programs into functional parts of their business, reliability has taken center stage.
More: SiliconANGLE, RuntimeWire, The Economic Times, Inc42, and Entrackr
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