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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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| Financial Times: |
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 of Mythos — Dario Amodei is supported by rival Sam Altman in call for international co-operation — Anthropic chief executive Dario …
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| Wired: |
Sources: the White House's move to restrict Mythos 5 came after it ordered Anthropic to revoke South Korea-based SK Telecom's access over alleged ties to China — Days before Anthropic took its most advanced AI models offline, the White House ordered the company to revoke SK Telecom's access … | Hugo Lowell / Wired: |
Trump administration officials say Anthropic must ensure Fable 5's guardrails can't be circumvented before rerelease; experts say that may not be possible — Trump administration officials tell WIRED that if Anthropic wants to rerelease Fable 5, it will need to ensure the model's guardrails can't be circumvented.
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| New York Times: |
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| The Information: |
Noam Shazeer leaves Google to join OpenAI as lead for architecture research; he rejoined Google as a Gemini co-lead in 2024 during the $2.7B Character.AI deal — Noam Shazeer, the Google DeepMind researcher whose work underpinned the generative AI boom, is joining OpenAI, the AI firm told staff on Wednesday.| 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 …
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| 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 … | 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 Claude and Gemini integrations, and more — Epic has detailed Unreal Engine 6, which it says will prominently integrate generative AI models to allow developers to …
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| 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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| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
AWS Summit: Amazon unveiled AWS Continuum, which uses AI to find and fix code vulnerabilities, AWS 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 … | Chris Martin / Tech Advisor: |
Google confirms it has ended production of the Nest Mini and Nest Audio, but they “will continue to be fully supported” with updates, patches, and customer care — But it's not all bad news — We had a feeling it was coming, but we now have confirmation from Google …
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| Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge: |
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| Lucas Ropek / TechCrunch: |
Snap's stock closed down 8.14% on Wednesday, after the company launched its $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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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Mastodon adds email newsletters, letting writers send their posts to subscribers' inboxes, even to readers without a Mastodon account, as part of Mastodon 4.6 — Mastodon, the open, decentralized alternative to Big Tech apps like X and Threads, is betting that email could help solve …
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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.
| Allie Garfinkle / Fortune: |
Filing: Roelof Botha has joined the board of SpaceX as an independent director, seven months after stepping down as Sequoia steward — Roelof Botha, longtime investor and former steward at Sequoia Capital, has joined the board of SpaceX, a filing revealed.
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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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| 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 … | Pew Research Center: |
A survey of US adults: 49% reported using chatbots in 2026, up from 33% in 2024, 24% said that they use chatbots on a daily basis, and 44% said they use ChatGPT — More Americans are using chatbots, and some are adopting AI summaries and smart speakers. But views about AI … | Ryan Merket / RuntimeWire: |
Joshua Baer, the founder and CEO of Texas accelerator-turned-venture firm 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 …
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| Anhata Rooprai / Reuters: |
Shoe company Allbirds rebrands to Smartbird as it pivots to an AI infrastructure company and names former AWS executive 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) … | 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 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
More: Nature, Nature, and The Keyword
| 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 … | 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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