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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.
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.
New York Times:
Anthropic raised a $65B Series H at a $965B post-money valuation, overtaking OpenAI's $852B valuation, and says its revenue run rate crossed $47B this month  —  Anthropic raised $65 billion in new fund-raising that put its value at $900 billion, ahead of OpenAI's last valuation of $730 billion, as the companies duel for A.I. dominance.
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 …
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 …
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 …
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.
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
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.
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.
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 …
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.
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
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 …
Jonathan Vanian / CNBC:
Mark Zuckerberg tells shareholders that a Meta cloud computing business is “definitely on the table” if Meta overspends on data centers and has excess capacity
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 …
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 …
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.
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 …
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 …
Financial Times:
Sources: Australia-founded Airwallex, which Keith Rabois accused of being a “Chinese backdoor”, is relocating some staff out of China as it plans a US expansion  —  Australia-founded Airwallex is pursuing US expansion amid intensifying rivalry between Washington and Beijing
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