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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 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’
More: MacRumors, The Verge, Wall Street Journal, TechCrunch, Business Insider, The Information, Appleosophy, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, Reuters, Forbes, Seoul Economic Daily, iPhone in Canada, Barron's Online, Mashable, New York Post, Digital Trends, Dow Jones Newswires, Digital Music News, Daily Mail, Benzinga, and The Apple Post
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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.
More: The Hill, Gizmodo, Bloomberg, and New York Post
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Forums: Hacker News, r/politics, and Slashdot
| 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.
More: The Hill, ZeroHedge News, and Benzinga
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| 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.
More: Mastodon Blog and The Verge
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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
| 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 … | 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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| 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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| 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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LinkedIn: Volodymyr “Bob” Diachenko and Volodymyr “Bob” Diachenko
| 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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Forums: Hacker News and MacRumors Forums
| 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.
More: Gizmodo and CNBC Television on YouTube
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Threads: @amyleecodes, @crumbler, @crumbler, @roccobasilico, and @vishwanathsarangkeller. Forums: r/technology
| 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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| 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 … | The Information: |
Noam Shazeer leaves Google to join OpenAI as lead for architecture research; he rejoined Google in 2024 as part of the Character.AI deal and was Gemini co-lead — Noam Shazeer, the Google DeepMind researcher whose work underpinned the generative AI boom, is joining OpenAI, the AI firm told some staff Wednesday.
More: Techstrong.ai and Channel NewsAsia
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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
More: Nature, Nature, The Keyword, and The Atlantic
| 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 …
More: SiliconANGLE, The Next Web, and FinSMEs
| 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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| 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
| 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 … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google launches Android 17 and Wear OS 7, available first on Pixel devices, with support for the latest AI models, a bubble bar UI, and live updates on Wear OS — Google on Tuesday released the final version of its Android 17 operating system, as well as its counterpart for smartwatches, Wear OS 7.
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X: @newsfromgoogle, @pixeluibygoogle, @rosterloh, @google, @ssamat, @androiddev, @backlon, @pixeluibygoogle, @pixeluibygoogle, @mishaalrahman, @mishaalrahman, @mishaalrahman, @mishaalrahman, @mishaalrahman, and @grapheneos
LinkedIn: Dieter Bohn and Sameer Samat
| 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 …
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