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Financial Times: Sources: Germany's Neura Robotics, which builds AI-powered humanoid robots, raised 1.4B from Tether, Qualcomm, Amazon, Nvidia, and others at a ~7B valuation — Crypto group Tether, Ama

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Sources: Microsoft is restricting employees from using Claude Fable 5 because of Anthropic's new 30-day data retention requirements (Tom Warren/The Verge)

Tom Warren / The Verge: Sources: Microsoft is restricting employees from using Claude Fable 5 because of Anthropic's new 30-day data retention requirements — Microsoft's legal teams are evaluating Ant

Sources: Microsoft's Xbox division is planning major layoffs next month and significant budget cuts for marketing and some other areas (Jason Schreier/Bloomberg)

Jason Schreier / Bloomberg: Sources: Microsoft's Xbox division is planning major layoffs next month and significant budget cuts for marketing and some other areas — Asha Sharma's first major cuts will

Sources: OpenAI is considering drastically lowering its price for tokens in anticipation of similar cuts the company expects at Anthropic (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal: Sources: OpenAI is considering drastically lowering its price for tokens in anticipation of similar cuts the company expects at Anthropic — The company might lower prices for toke

Hardware

Sources: OpenAI is in advanced talks to lease a proposed 10GW data center campus in Ohio as part of a deal that could include financial backing from Nvidia (Anissa Gardizy/The Information)

Anissa Gardizy / The Information: Sources: OpenAI is in advanced talks to lease a proposed 10GW data center campus in Ohio as part of a deal that could include financial backing from Nvidia — OpenAI i

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Sources: Sam Altman told staff that OpenAI is expected to go public 'within the next year' and OpenAI plans a tender offer 'very soon' at a $687.69 share price (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)

Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information: Sources: Sam Altman told staff that OpenAI is expected to go public “within the next year” and OpenAI plans a tender offer “very soon” at a $687.69 share price —

Sources: Sea's Shopee is cutting hundreds of developer jobs globally; the reductions started this week and amount to about 8% of Shopee's developer workforce (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: Sources: Sea's Shopee is cutting hundreds of developer jobs globally; the reductions started this week and amount to about 8% of Shopee's developer workforce — Sea Ltd.'s Shopee is cutting

Sources: the ECB temporarily barred Revolut from releasing new products in the European Economic Area last summer until the company had rectified 'deficiencies' (Financial Times)

Financial Times: Sources: the ECB temporarily barred Revolut from releasing new products in the European Economic Area last summer until the company had rectified “deficiencies” — Europe's most valuab

Safety

Sources: Trump administration officials have told CAISI to halt publication of its model assessments while an EO President Trump signed last week is implemented (Amrith Ramkumar/Wall Street Journal)

Amrith Ramkumar / Wall Street Journal: Sources: Trump administration officials have told CAISI to halt publication of its model assessments while an EO President Trump signed last week is implemented

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South Korean regulators fined Coupang $409M for a data leak in 2025 that exposed ~33.7M accounts and escalated into a diplomatic conflict with the US (Shinhye Kang/Bloomberg)

Shinhye Kang / Bloomberg: South Korean regulators fined Coupang $409M for a data leak in 2025 that exposed ~33.7M accounts and escalated into a diplomatic conflict with the US — A South Korean regulat

Survey: 53% of Americans fear AI could put someone in their household out of work; Democrats are more likely than Republicans to worry about AI's impact on jobs (Reuters)

Reuters: Survey: 53% of Americans fear AI could put someone in their household out of work; Democrats are more likely than Republicans to worry about AI's impact on jobs — Half of Americans fear that

Tesla has just 59 vehicles in its robotaxi fleet and is limited to three Texas cities after almost a year, nowhere close to Elon Musk's big promises (Kara Carlson/Bloomberg)

Kara Carlson / Bloomberg: Tesla has just 59 vehicles in its robotaxi fleet and is limited to three Texas cities after almost a year, nowhere close to Elon Musk's big promises — The carmaker has just 5

The FBI seizes 13 domains allegedly tied to fake consulting firms that sought information from US government and military employees for suspected Chinese agents (A.J. Vicens/Reuters)

A.J. Vicens / Reuters: The FBI seizes 13 domains allegedly tied to fake consulting firms that sought information from US government and military employees for suspected Chinese agents — Federal author

WMG acquires AI attribution startup Sureel, as it seeks to track when its songs and recordings are used in the training of AI models or in AI-generated works (Kristin Robinson/Billboard)

Kristin Robinson / Billboard: WMG acquires AI attribution startup Sureel, as it seeks to track when its songs and recordings are used in the training of AI models or in AI-generated works — The deal i

Xbox CEO Asha Sharma and CCO Matt Booty warn of an 'Xbox reset' in the next 100 days, citing challenges like annual revenue down ~$500M over the past five years (The Verge)

The Verge: Xbox CEO Asha Sharma and CCO Matt Booty warn of an “Xbox reset” in the next 100 days, citing challenges like annual revenue down ~$500M over the past five years — The company has been prep

YouTube rolls out a new in-app messaging system for sharing videos and having 1:1 conversations; it discontinued its previous Messages feature in 2019 (Abner Li/9to5Google)

Abner Li / 9to5Google: YouTube rolls out a new in-app messaging system for sharing videos and having 1:1 conversations; it discontinued its previous Messages feature in 2019 — After testing got underw

A US judge cancels a Mississippi trial and disqualifies and fines lawyers on both sides after finding their filings were filled with hallucinated case citations (Jason Koebler/404 Media)

Jason Koebler / 404 Media: A US judge cancels a Mississippi trial and disqualifies and fines lawyers on both sides after finding their filings were filled with hallucinated case citations — When two A

Analysis: Trump and his sons profited 2.3B+ from four crypto ventures including TRUMP since January 2025, while other investors in those projects lost ~$2.3B (Reuters)

Reuters: Analysis: Trump and his sons profited 2.3B+ from four crypto ventures including TRUMP since January 2025, while other investors in those projects lost ~2.3B — Risking little of their own mone

Anthropic says Claude Fable 5 uses conservative safety classifiers that trigger a fallback to Claude Opus 4.8 in <5% of sessions, in areas like cybersecurity (Anthropic)

Anthropic: Anthropic says Claude Fable 5 uses conservative safety classifiers that trigger a fallback to Claude Opus 4.8 in <5% of sessions, in areas like cybersecurity — Today we're launching Claude

Anthropic says Fable 5 has invisible safeguards that use prompt modification, steering vectors, or PEFT to limit its effectiveness for building frontier LLMs (Matthias Bastian/The Decoder)

Matthias Bastian / The Decoder: Anthropic says Fable 5 has invisible safeguards that use prompt modification, steering vectors, or PEFT to limit its effectiveness for building frontier LLMs — Key Poin

Anthropic says Fable 5 is available on Pro, Max, Team, and seat-based Enterprise plans through June 22, after which using Fable 5 will require usage credits (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)

Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: Anthropic says Fable 5 is available on Pro, Max, Team, and seat-based Enterprise plans through June 22, after which using Fable 5 will require usage credits — Anthropic is

Anthropic says red team tests of Fable 5 found no universal jailbreaks, and it will keep first- and third-party user traffic on Mythos-class models for 30 days (Derek B. Johnson/CyberScoop)

Derek B. Johnson / CyberScoop: Anthropic says red team tests of Fable 5 found no universal jailbreaks, and it will keep first- and third-party user traffic on Mythos-class models for 30 days — Claude

Apple says 79% of all iPhones and 86% of iPhones released in the past four years were running iOS 26 as of June 7, vs. 82% and 88% for iOS 18 before WWDC 2025 (Joe Rossignol/MacRumors)

Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: Apple says 79% of all iPhones and 86% of iPhones released in the past four years were running iOS 26 as of June 7, vs. 82% and 88% for iOS 18 before WWDC 2025 — Apple has sh

Claude Fable 5 hands-on: impressive results working on complex projects, like building an interactive isochrone map or a data analysis tool in just 9.5 hours (Ethan Mollick/One Useful Thing)

Ethan Mollick / One Useful Thing: Claude Fable 5 hands-on: impressive results working on complex projects, like building an interactive isochrone map or a data analysis tool in just 9.5 hours — Claude

CoreWeave founders have sold $2.3B in stock since the company's lockup period expired in August after a March 2025 IPO, reducing their combined holdings by ~25% (Ella Feldman/Bloomberg)

Ella Feldman / Bloomberg: CoreWeave founders have sold $2.3B in stock since the company's lockup period expired in August after a March 2025 IPO, reducing their combined holdings by ~25% — CoreWeave I

Docs: ~34K Instagram accounts, including Obama's White House account, were affected in the breach tied to Meta's AI chatbot; attackers changed 3,500+ usernames (New York Times)

New York Times: Docs: ~34K Instagram accounts, including Obama's White House account, were affected in the breach tied to Meta's AI chatbot; attackers changed 3,500+ usernames — The flaw, which Meta s

Edge Markets, which provides banking tools for gambling and prediction markets, including real-time payments on Kalshi, raised a $29.2M Series A led by CoinFund (Davis Giangiulio/CNBC)

Davis Giangiulio / CNBC: Edge Markets, which provides banking tools for gambling and prediction markets, including real-time payments on Kalshi, raised a $29.2M Series A led by CoinFund — As predictio

In an interview, Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas says that the company is planning its IPO for 2028, regardless of how well the IPOs for Anthropic and OpenAI go (Arjun Kharpal/CNBC)

Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: In an interview, Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas says that the company is planning its IPO for 2028, regardless of how well the IPOs for Anthropic and OpenAI go — Perplexity is p

Kalshi plans to require users seeking to make bets in some markets linked to material nonpublic information to submit an online form disclosing where they work (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal: Kalshi plans to require users seeking to make bets in some markets linked to material nonpublic information to submit an online form disclosing where they work — The popular predi

Seattle City Council votes 9-0 to enact a one-year moratorium on new large data centers and study their impact; Mayor Katie Wilson is expected to sign the bill (Greg Kim/The Seattle Times)

Greg Kim / The Seattle Times: Seattle City Council votes 9-0 to enact a one-year moratorium on new large data centers and study their impact; Mayor Katie Wilson is expected to sign the bill — Amid a g

ServiceNow says attackers exploited a flaw, patched on June 5, that let unauthenticated users query data from customer instances, but gives few other details (Lawrence Abrams/BleepingComputer)

Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: ServiceNow says attackers exploited a flaw, patched on June 5, that let unauthenticated users query data from customer instances, but gives few other details — Serv

Sources: Canadian payments company Nuvei is in advanced talks to acquire NYC-based cross-border payments company Payoneer for ~$2.7B and could sign within days (Milana Vinn/Reuters)

Milana Vinn / Reuters: Sources: Canadian payments company Nuvei is in advanced talks to acquire NYC-based cross-border payments company Payoneer for ~$2.7B and could sign within days — Canadian paymen

Sources: SoftBank's talks with creditors to raise 6B through a margin loan backed by its OpenAI stake have stalled, weeks after it cut its target from 10B (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: Sources: SoftBank's talks with creditors to raise 6B through a margin loan backed by its OpenAI stake have stalled, weeks after it cut its target from 10B — SoftBank Group Corp.'s talks wit

Sources: SpaceX aims to launch orbital AI computing tests by late 2027 and has requested permission from regulators to launch up to 1M data-center satellites (Akash Sriram/Reuters)

Akash Sriram / Reuters: Sources: SpaceX aims to launch orbital AI computing tests by late 2027 and has requested permission from regulators to launch up to 1M data-center satellites — SpaceX executive

Stepful, an AI-powered online training platform for healthcare workers, raised a 55M Series C led by Oak HC/FT, bringing its total funding to 105M (Heather Landi/Fierce Healthcare)

Heather Landi / Fierce Healthcare: Stepful, an AI-powered online training platform for healthcare workers, raised a 55M Series C led by Oak HC/FT, bringing its total funding to 105M — Oak HC/FT Medica

Super Micro aims to raise $7B through equity and equity-linked financing transactions to fund component purchases tied to AI orders; SMCI drops 6%+ after hours (Harshita Mary Varghese/Reuters)

Harshita Mary Varghese / Reuters: Super Micro aims to raise 7B through equity and equity-linked financing transactions to fund component purchases tied to AI orders; SMCI drops 6%+ after hours — Super

The EU warns that AI-boosted chemical synthesis is helping European drug gangs develop new 'designer' drug precursors that evade existing product blacklists (Michael Peel/Financial Times)

Michael Peel / Financial Times: The EU warns that AI-boosted chemical synthesis is helping European drug gangs develop new “designer” drug precursors that evade existing product blacklists — EU agency

The US FCC waives its deadline for Amazon to deploy half of its Leo satellites by July; Amazon is still required to launch all 3,232 satellites by July 30, 2029 (Michael Kan/PCMag)

Michael Kan / PCMag: The US FCC waives its deadline for Amazon to deploy half of its Leo satellites by July; Amazon is still required to launch all 3,232 satellites by July 30, 2029 — The Federal Comm

Safety

A federal judge blocks President Trump's policy imposing a $100,000 fee for employer H-1B visa applications (CNBC)

CNBC: A federal judge blocks President Trump's policy imposing a $100,000 fee for employer H-1B visa applications — Choose CNBC as your preferred source on Google and never miss a moment from the most

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A live blog of WWDC 2026, where Apple is expected to announce an overhauled Siri, a Siri app, new AI capabilities, OS updates focused on reliability, and more (Engadget)

Engadget: A live blog of WWDC 2026, where Apple is expected to announce an overhauled Siri, a Siri app, new AI capabilities, OS updates focused on reliability, and more — We're covering the news live

A livestream of Apple's WWDC 2026 keynote (Apple on YouTube)

Apple on YouTube: A livestream of Apple's WWDC 2026 keynote — All systems glow for WWDC26. This year's week of technology, community, and creativity with developers across the world kicks off June 8 a

Safety

A look at Ireland's Bring Your Own Power policy, which requires new data centers to have their own power plants on site or sources of energy produced nearby (Yusuf Khan/Wall Street Journal)

Yusuf Khan / Wall Street Journal: A look at Ireland's Bring Your Own Power policy, which requires new data centers to have their own power plants on site or sources of energy produced nearby — The tin

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Amazon expands its print-on-demand features to AI-generated designs created using Alexa for Shopping for products like T-shirts, water bottles, and hoodies (Mia Sato/The Verge)

Mia Sato / The Verge: Amazon expands its print-on-demand features to AI-generated designs created using Alexa for Shopping for products like T-shirts, water bottles, and hoodies — The retailer's expa

Analysis: China's low-cost ecommerce exports fell 10.9% YoY in April to $9.81B, the fifth straight monthly decline, amid surging fuel costs and weakening demand (Reuters)

Reuters: Analysis: China's low-cost ecommerce exports fell 10.9% YoY in April to $9.81B, the fifth straight monthly decline, amid surging fuel costs and weakening demand — China's e-commerce export en

Anthropic researchers say Mythos Preview can now turn publicly disclosed software vulnerabilities, or N-days, into working exploits in hours instead of weeks (Sam Sabin/Axios)

Sam Sabin / Axios: Anthropic researchers say Mythos Preview can now turn publicly disclosed software vulnerabilities, or N-days, into working exploits in hours instead of weeks — Anthropic's Mythos Pr

Agents

Apple announces a new Foundation Models framework for developers, a new Core AI framework, and a set of Xcode enhancements aimed at agentic coding workflows (Hartley Charlton/MacRumors)

Hartley Charlton / MacRumors: Apple announces a new Foundation Models framework for developers, a new Core AI framework, and a set of Xcode enhancements aimed at agentic coding workflows — Apple today

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Apple announces improvements to Liquid Glass, including a new slider that lets users control transparency, ranging from fully opaque to completely clear (Hartley Charlton/MacRumors)

Hartley Charlton / MacRumors: Apple announces improvements to Liquid Glass, including a new slider that lets users control transparency, ranging from fully opaque to completely clear — Apple today ann

Apple announces macOS 27 Golden Gate, featuring Liquid Glass and search improvements, a fixed corner radius across apps and system windows, and more (Marcus Mendes/9to5Mac)

Marcus Mendes / 9to5Mac: Apple announces macOS 27 Golden Gate, featuring Liquid Glass and search improvements, a fixed corner radius across apps and system windows, and more — During the WWDC keynote