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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Apple says it is adding additional controls around “Full Disk Access” on macOS as AI agents have increased “the risks associated with this level of access”  —  Days after a journalist claimed that Meta's Muse app on Mac read their private messages — a claim that Meta disputed …
Chance Miller / 9to5Mac:
Apple releases an update for iPhone 18 Pro Max devices on AT&T to address cellular failures; units that already lost service require hardware replacement  —  Apple has confirmed an issue causing a “small number” of iPhone 18 Pro Max devices on AT&T to lose cellular service.
Karissa Bell / Engadget:
Meta announces Muse Gadgets, providing an open source ESP32 microchip firmware and a Linux SDK to let users bring Muse to their hardware, like Raspberry Pi 5  —  The company created its own smart home device, the Muse Home Link  —  We still don't know too much about Meta's tamagotchi-like AI device …
Michael Kan / PCMag:
Nvidia announces a version of DGX Spark with 64 GB of unified memory for $4,999, or $1,000 more than the 128 GB version at launch  —  The ongoing memory shortage has prompted Nvidia to create a 64GB version of its DGX Spark mini PC, which runs AI models locally.  The only problem?
Tim Culpan / Culpium:
Sources: TSMC is exploring plans to work with Elon Musk's Terafab project as it mulls a presence in Texas, adding to its existing plans to expand in Arizona  —  [Exclusive] Taiwanese foundry giant may use Terafab as anchor client for a future Texas semiconductor factory.
Garrison Lovely / Semafor:
Leaked Slack messages show OpenAI employees' pushback in June to Greg Brockman's Leading the Future ties, contributing to Brockman reneging on a $25M donation  —  THE SCOOP  —  On June 1, OpenAI chief strategy officer Jason Kwon gave employees a preview of a blog post denying the company …
Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE:
Supabase raised $150M led by Singapore's GIC and agrees to acquire Turso, which offers a database optimized for AI agents, for an undisclosed sum  —  Supabase Inc., a startup that commercializes the open-source PostgreSQL database, has raised $150 million in funding.  —  Singapore's GIC sovereign wealth fund led the deal.
Howard Liu / South China Morning Post:
Center for Technology & Statecraft: Chinese fabs had acquired ~343 DUVi tools by early 2026, with ~270 from ASML; DUVi can be adapted to make 7nm chips and HBM  —  DUV tools, though not as advanced as EUV, can be adapted to manufacture 7-nm logic chips and advanced memory for AI processors, report says.
@tavus:
Tavus unveils Griffin, the “first Human Interaction Model”, which it says passed the “video Turing test”, with 48% of users thinking it was human in live chats  —  Introducing Griffin, the first model to pass the video Turing test. 48% of people who talked to it live thought it was a real human. Previous systems have had a pass rate <3%. It is #1 on NVIDIA's benchmark for full-duplex AI video. It's the first Human Interaction Model (HIM).
Stephen Council / Business Insider:
David Robinson, who worked on OpenAI's Safety Systems team and had previously led policy planning, left OpenAI last week  —  David Robinson, a leader on OpenAI's Safety Systems team, has resigned from the company.  —  An OpenAI spokesperson told Business Insider on Friday that Robinson left last week …
Robert McMillan / Wall Street Journal:
A look at the Swarmchasers forum, which has 400 members, including the Nightingale Collective and Transluce, who comb the web for traces of rogue AI agents  —  Swarm chasers hunt for clues of bad behavior.  Their work is our starkest understanding yet of what happens when AI goes wrong.
Jason Koebler / 404 Media:
A US judge rules an officer's use of Flock to search a car's license plate was a form of “indiscriminate mass surveillance”, and violated the Fourth Amendment  —  Flock's nationwide network is quickly “approaching dragnet-type law enforcement practice” and the cop should have got a warrant, the judge wrote.
Molly Taft / Wired:
Amazon says it has stopped using NDAs with county officials for data center projects and acknowledges community backlash is leading to data center moratoriums  —  In a blog post published Friday, CEO Matt Garman detailed the steps the company says it's already taking around data centers.
Todd Bishop / GeekWire:
Amazon plans to spend $1B+ over five years for infrastructure upgrades and other projects in US communities that host its data centers, amid a growing backlash
Meir Orbach / CTech:
Nasdaq-listed neocloud Nebius acquires Inferize, whose tech helps optimize GPU utilization and reduce AI request costs, sources say for $100M to $150M  —  The Israeli startup, which was founded by former Granulate executives and employs 17 people, built technology designed to reduce idle GPU capacity when AI demand changes.
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Independent Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta plans to shut down after 30+ years, following pressure from Russian authorities and the persecution of its reporters

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