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| Russell Brandom / TechCrunch: |
Anthropic launches Opus 4.8, saying it's “more likely to flag uncertainties about its work and less likely to make unsupported claims”, at the same price as 4.7 — On Thursday, Anthropic released Opus 4.8, the newest version of its most advanced publicly available model.
More: Anthropic, Claude, XDA Developers, Bloomberg, 9to5Mac, New York Times, ZDNET, The Verge, Crypto Briefing, and StartupHub.ai
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Forums: Hacker News, r/Anthropic, r/accelerate, r/singularity, and Lobsters
| Madison Mills / Axios: |
Anthropic says it expects Mythos-class models to be available to all customers “in the coming weeks” following the development of stronger safeguards — Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.8 Thursday, an upgrade to its flagship AI model with better coding and knowledge work skills, all for the same price as its prior version.
More: Fortune, Reuters, Yahoo Finance, Tom's Guide, Blockonomi, Inc.com, StartupHub.ai, Cyber Security News, and WeRSM
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Illustrations based on sources detail Apple's Siri overhaul, like a new UI and chatbot-style app, and major iOS 27 changes, ahead of the WWDC keynote on June 8 — The iPhone maker looks to stage a comeback in digital assistants and artificial intelligence.
More: Tech Brew, Macworld, The Verge, Engadget, TechCrunch, Crypto Briefing, iPhone in Canada, iDrop News, Tom's Guide, MacRumors, Apple Must, iClarified, The Mac Observer, PhoneArena, Implicator.ai, Cult of Mac, MacRumors, The Tech Portal, Digital Trends, and 9to5Mac
X: @tgod34748, @scottbelsky, @tattedworks, @avstorm, @kimmonismus, @universeice, @markgurman, @asherdipps, @jyarow, @andrewjclare, @mikkoh, @daniel__hurley, and @vnchocotaco
Forums: r/apple and MacRumors Forums
| Aaron Tilley / The Information: |
Sources: at WWDC, Apple is likely to showcase how 15 years of designing chips gives it an advantage in running AI locally, and will use a distilled Gemini model — At Apple's annual developer conference next month, the star of the show will be a series of long-delayed artificial intelligence upgrades to the iPhone.
More: PYMNTS, Bloomberg, MacRumors, Neowin, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, The Mac Observer, and Engadget
| Raphael Satter / Reuters: |
Letter: US Central Command says it received “threat reports concerning adversary exploitation of commercial location data” to target US personnel in war zones — U.S. forces deployed to war zones have been targeted using commercially available location data …
More: Wired, TechCrunch, Washington Examiner, Metacurity, Stars & Stripes, and The Independent
Bluesky: @mims, @malwarejake, @karlbode.com, @dell, @johnnyryan, @aaronblackshear, and @raphae.li. Mastodon: @wchr@mastodon.social
Forums: r/army and r/worldnews
| Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
The European Commission fines Temu €200M under the DSA for allegedly failing to adequately stop the sale of illegal products; further penalties could follow — Chinese online retailer Temu has been fined €200 million ($232 million) on Thursday for not doing enough to stop the sale …
More: European Commission, BBC, Financial Times, UPI, SupplyChainBrain, Global News, Washington Times, Dexerto, The Guardian, Politico, Yahoo Finance, Crypto Briefing, Bloomberg, Tech Times, Engadget, New York Times, The Independent, and Nikkei Asia
LinkedIn: Ágnes Tiba and Sara Brandstätter
Forums: r/technology, r/europe, and r/worldnews
| Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog: |
Anthropic and OpenAI seem to have finally found product-market fit with coding agents, which are quickly becoming daily drivers for very well-paid professionals — Anthropic are strongly rumored to be about to have their first profitable quarter. Stories are circulating of companies surprised …
More: Axios, Business Insider, and MarTech
Forums: Hacker News, r/Economics, r/BetterOffline, r/theprimeagen, and Lobsters
| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
YouTube launches new Premium podcast features, including an AI-powered recommendation tool, an “Auto speed” setting, and a new on-the-go listening mode — YouTube announced on Thursday it's introducing new podcast features for Premium users, including an AI-powered recommendation tool … | Bloomberg: |
Oura unveils the Oura Ring 5, with a 40% smaller form factor, improved sensing, and repositioned LEDs, shipping from June 4 for $399, up from the Ring 4's $349 — Oura Health Oy, the popular smart ring maker seeking to go public this year, unveiled a significantly thinner and lighter new model along with new wellness features.
More: Business Wire, CNET, MacRumors, Wired, Android Police, 9to5Google, The Next Web, Forbes, iClarified, The Tech Portal, Digital Trends, MobiHealthNews, 9to5Mac, The Guardian, Android Authority, PCMag, Fast Company, The Verge, Blockonomi, ZDNET, Tech Advisor, Trusted Reviews, The Independent, The Shortcut, Android Central, and TechCrunch
X: @ritwikpavan and @markgurman
| Jyoti Mann / The Information: |
Memo: Meta plans to embed engineers and product managers inside large corporate customers as part of a new Enterprise Solutions unit to help deploy its AI tools — Meta Platforms plans to place engineers and product managers inside large corporate customers as part of a new unit …
More: PYMNTS. X: @jyoti_mann1, @mratable, @matt_slotnick, @simonkhalaf, @edzitron, @dwlz, and @supbagholder. Threads: @joshpetersel
| Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: |
More: DatacenterDynamics, TechRadar, Implicator.ai, Overturned, and National Legal …
| Casey Newton / Platformer: |
Meta's Oversight Board says Meta agreed to increase its funding by $13M, ensuring that it will be funded through 2028, reversing a planned decrease in funding — Meta has agreed to increase funding to its external Oversight Board by $13 million, Platformer has learned …
More: OpenAI Foundation, Reuters, Yahoo Finance, and Oversight Board
Bluesky: @caseynewton and @caseynewton.mastodon …
| Zac Bowden / Windows Central: |
Qualcomm unveils the Snapdragon C, an entry-level ARM-based SoC for Windows 11 devices starting from $300 and shipping in 2026, taking aim at the MacBook Neo — Qualcomm has unveiled its new entry-level ARM-based SoC for Windows 11 devices that will begin shipping later this year on devices that cost as low as $300.
More: Qualcomm, Gizmodo, Acer, The Verge, 9to5Google, PCMag, Thurrott, How-To Geek, VideoCardz.com, Tom's Hardware, XDA Developers, PCWorld, T3, Engadget, Neowin, Android Authority, Tom's Guide, Notebookcheck, Digital Trends, and MakeUseOf
Forums: r/Windows11 and r/windowscentral
| ABC News: |
US prosecutors charge Google engineer Michele Spagnuolo with using inside information to make ~$1.2M via Polymarket bets on Google's Year in Search 2025 results — Michele Spagnuolo allegedly placed bets on what users were searching for. — In this Dec. 19, 2023, file photo …
More: US Department of Justice, Mercury News, NPR, 9to5Google, Decrypt, Gizmodo, BBC, PCMag, CFTC, Reuters, CNBC, International Business Times, New York Post, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Dow Jones Newswires, Wired, Crypto Briefing, Mashable, Washington Post, Axios, WLTX-TV, NME, TechCrunch, Sherwood News, Bitcoinist.com, The Next Web, Unchained, Cryip, The Register, The Verge, Financial Times, CoinDesk, Australian Financial Review, Engadget, and The Information
X: @polymarket, @sdnynews, @arrington, @herecomeskumar, @pons_eth, @avi_eisen, @marionawfal, @chairmanselig, @dustingouker, @j0xnah, @bobbyallyn, @bobbyallyn, @amandalfischer, @vydamo_, and @avi_eisen. LinkedIn: ABC News
Bluesky: @knibbs, @brbarrett, @peoplesfabric, @carnage4life, @paleofuture, @aaronschaffer.com, and @miasato
Forums: r/technology, r/NPR, r/InterstellarKinetics, r/d4vdiots, r/LegalNews, and r/inthenews
| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
The Steam Deck's huge price hike, from $399 in 2022 to $789 today, is the end of an era for gaming handhelds, coming amid RAMageddon, tariffs, and the Iran war — The Steam Deck's huge price hike is the end of an era for gaming handhelds. … For a few glorious years …
More: Rock, Paper, Shotgun, The Register, Gizmodo, IGN, The Shortcut, Club386, TheGamer, VG Charts, Windows Central, Liliputing, XDA Developers, and The Verge
X: @sadlyitsbradley and @tomwarren
| Edward Ludlow / Bloomberg: |
Waymo unveils Ojai, a vehicle designed in partnership with Zeekr for robotaxi use, initially for select riders in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Phoenix — Alphabet Inc.'s Waymo unit will deploy a new autonomous vehicle designed specifically for robotaxi use, offering public rides in California and Arizona without human supervision.| Connor Hart / Wall Street Journal: |
IBM and Red Hat commit $5B to establish a new open-source software model, dubbed Project Lightwell, and will deploy 20,000 engineers globally, supported by AI — Project Lightwell will deploy a global force of 20,000 engineers, supported by advanced artificial intelligence| Dominic-Madori Davis / TechCrunch: |
Corgi, which uses AI to provide insurance for startups, raised a $106M Series B1 at a $2.6B valuation, up from $1.3B on May 6, for a total funding of $378M — Insurance tech Corgi on Thursday announced a $106 million Series B1 raise, valuing the company at $2.6 billion … | CJ Haddad / CNBC: |
Tel Aviv-based web development company Wix cuts ~20% of its workforce, citing the “fast evolution of AI capabilities” and currency exchange rate difficulties — Israel-based web development company Wix is slashing roughly 20% of its workforce, CEO Avishai Abrahami announced …
More: CTech, Fast Company, The American Bazaar, The Next Web, Crypto Briefing, Yahoo Finance, VC Cafe, and StartupHub.ai
| Reuters: |
IBM plans to invest more than $10B in quantum computing over five years as it aims to build the first large-scale, error-free quantum computer by 2029 — IBM (IBM.N) said on Thursday it plans to invest more than $10 billion in quantum computing over five years as it aims to build by 2029 …
More: Barron's Online, Yahoo Finance, Motley Fool, Crypto Briefing, Investor's Business Daily, Constellation Research, The Quantum Insider, Reuters, and Blockonomi. Forums: r/IBM
| Choi Yeon-jae / The Korea Herald: |
Samsung's Securities, SDS, and Card units say they will acquire a 4% stake in Dunamu, which operates South Korea's largest crypto exchange, for ~$446M in cash — Samsung Securities, Samsung SDS and Samsung Card said Thursday they will jointly acquire a 4 percent stake in Dunamu …
More: The Korea Times, SammyGuru, The Elec, Bitcoin News, NewsBTC, Blockonomi, The Block, Crypto Briefing, and CoinDesk
| Bloomberg: |
Internal speech: JD.com founder Liu Qiangdong vows to protect the company's 900,000 employees from AI and automation, saying it will “do everything possible” — JD.com Inc. founder Liu Qiangdong vowed to prevent the e-commerce firm's 900,000-strong workforce from losing their jobs to automation … | Russell Brandom / TechCrunch: |
Elon Musk says Anthropic's Colossus deal is “a 180 day lease with 90 day notice”; SpaceX's S-1 said Anthropic “agreed to pay a monthly fee through May 2029” — Earlier this month, xAI signed a major compute deal with Anthropic, pledging billions of dollars a month …
More: The Information, Gizmodo, The Next Web, The Tech Portal, Business Insider, Crypto Briefing, Reuters, and Blockonomi
Bluesky: @stucowan, @tcarmody, and @okane.fyi
| Jeremy Kahn / Fortune: |
London-based Geordie AI, which builds a security and governance platform for AI agents, raised a $30M Series A led by Balderton at an estimated $180M valuation — Geordie AI, a London-based startup which provides a security and governance platform for AI agents, has raised a $30 million Series A round led by Balderton Capital.| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Intel unveils its first dedicated handheld gaming chips, the Arc G3 and Arc G3 Extreme, featuring Xe3 GPU cores, arriving first in the Acer Predator Atlas 8 — The Acer Predator Atlas 8 will be one of the first to use it — and there's reportedly an MSI too.
More: Acer, Ars Technica, PCWorld, XDA Developers, PCMag, Engadget, How-To Geek, Thurrott, VideoCardz.com, Guru3D, CNET, MobileSyrup, Tom's Hardware, Retro Handhelds, Gizmodo, GamesBeat, T3, CGMagazine, PC Gamer, Tom's Guide, MakeUseOf, AndroidGuys, and The Shortcut. Bluesky: @tomwarren.co.uk
| Ryan Lawler / Axios: |
Saris, which builds AI agents to automate back-office work for banks and credit unions, raised a $28.8M Series A led by 8VC — Saris, which builds AI agents to automate back-office work for banks and credit unions, raised $28.8 million in Series A funding, CEO Danial Jameel tells Axios Pro exclusively.
More: BetaKit, FinSMEs, Financial Post, and Pulse 2.0
| Brian Stelter / CNN: |
Filing: CNN sues Perplexity in New York for allegedly unlawfully copying and distributing CNN content, after failing to agree on terms with Perplexity in 2025 — CNN is suing Perplexity, accusing the AI company of unlawfully copying and distributing CNN's content.| Jesse Hamilton / CoinDesk: |
The US CFTC files alongside Gemini to nullify Gemini's $5M January 2025 settlement, arguing that the agency's current management wouldn't have pursued the case — The regulator went back to analyze the 2022 case and decided that it wouldn't have been pursued under current management and practices.
More: Bloomberg, Breitbart, KTVZ-TV, The Block, CryptoNinjas, Cryip, CoinGape, Decrypt, Blockonomi, and Reuters
| New York Times: |
Anthropic raised a $65B Series H at a $965B post-money valuation led by Altimeter, Dragoneer, Greenoaks, and Sequoia, and says its revenue run rate crossed $47B — Anthropic raised $65 billion in new fund-raising that put its value at $900 billion, ahead of OpenAI's last valuation of $730 billion … | Mariella Moon / Engadget: |
Last.fm says it is now an independent company again, 19 years after being acquired by CBS, and plans to keep its current team and continue the service as normal — Don't worry: It will keep your profiles and scrobbles. — Last.fm is an independent company again, it has announced on its forum …
More: Music Ally. X: @ardadev and @cringepoop
Bluesky: @louisgray, @handle.invalid, @waxy.org, and @selectric.space
Forums: Hacker News, r/technology, r/popheads, r/Music, r/indieheads, r/lastfm, and Slashdot
| Andrew Romero / 9to5Google: |
YouTube adds a “custom feed” to its home page that lets users prompt it to create a constantly refreshing feed, available to signed-in US users with history on — YouTube isn't exactly replacing the traditional search bar, but it is supplementing it with a way to watch a … | Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Reactor, which says its AI platform can generate video in real-time with near-zero latency, emerges from stealth with a $59M Series A led by Lightspeed — Existing generative AI models are built on batch processing: You give the system instructions; it runs computations; then spits back the results.| Chris Vallance / BBC: |
UK researchers gain access to Google's Willow quantum chip, which it says solves a problem in five minutes that would take supercomputers 10 septillion years — Scientists from King's College London have become the first UK academic research team to gain access to Google's cutting-edge …
More: King's College London
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