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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: Apple plans a new Siri camera mode in iOS 27 by moving Visual Intelligence, currently tied to the Camera Control button, into the camera app — Apple Inc. is planning

Nikkei Asia: Sources: Apple tells suppliers it will maintain its current production share in India rather than expand, after local sites struggled without China-based teams — PALO ALTO, California/TAI

Bloomberg: Sources: China suspends issuing new Level 4 autonomous vehicle licenses, after over 100 of Baidu's Apollo Go robotaxis disrupted traffic in Wuhan last month — China has suspended issuing ne

Financial Times: Sources: OpenAI has, in practice, abandoned its Stargate JV in favor of large bilateral deals; execs say its guiding principle remains to “build more compute” — Chief executive Sam Al

Axios: Sources: the White House is developing rules for government agencies to get around Anthropic's supply chain risk designation and onboard new models like Mythos — - One source described the Whit

Reuters: SpaceX IPO filing: Elon Musk can only be removed as CEO via a vote by holders of Class B super-voting shares, which he will control post-IPO, a rare provision — SpaceX is telling investors th

Gian Volpicelli / Bloomberg: The European Commission issues preliminary DSA findings against Meta, saying Instagram and Facebook fail to prevent under-13 users from accessing the services — The Europe

Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: Uber partners with Expedia to launch a hotel booking integration in its app in the US, and plans to add Expedia's Vrbo brand later in 2026 — Uber Technologies Inc. is adding

Jay Peters / The Verge: YouTube rolls out Full Multiview Customization to YouTube TV, letting users pin up to four live streams in a window, after debuting a limited version in 2023 — Custom multiview

Bob Van Voris / Bloomberg: A US judge denied Sam Bankman-Fried's request for a new trial based on what SBF called new evidence; SBF tried to withdraw his request, but the judge refused — A federal jud

talkie: AI researchers launch talkie, a 13B vintage language model trained on historical text with a 1930 cutoff, to see if it can replicate scientific breakthroughs — Why vintage language models? — H

Ina Fried / Axios: Amazon and OpenAI announce an expanded deal that will make OpenAI's models available from AWS, a day after OpenAI revised its Microsoft partnership — Amazon and OpenAI on Tuesday an

Matthew Gault / 404 Media: An analysis of Internet Archive data: by mid-2025, ~35% of new websites published since ChatGPT's launch in November 2022 were AI-generated or AI-assisted — Researchers foun

Anthropic: Anthropic partners with Blender, Autodesk, Adobe, Ableton, and others to launch connectors that integrate Claude directly into professional creative workflows — Creative professionals look

New York Times: As Russia throttles popular apps and intermittently cuts off internet access, ordinary citizens, politicians, TV stars, and others criticize the restrictions — From beauty influencers

The Guardian: Australia unveils a draft News Bargaining Incentive scheme that imposes a 2.25% levy on local revenues for platforms; Meta says the government is “simply wrong” — Google also rejects nee

Jigar Thakkar / About Amazon: AWS launches a desktop app for its Amazon Quick AI assistant, letting users connect their tools and local files to build custom apps, live dashboards, and more — Amazon Q

Matt Day / Bloomberg: AWS launches Amazon Connect Decisions and Amazon Connect Talent, which are AI agentic tools aimed at logistics workers and recruiters — Amazon.com Inc.'s cloud unit, best known f

Joel Khalili / Wired: Bloomberg CTO Shawn Edwards says the company is overhauling Terminal with a new chatbot-style interface called ASKB, currently open to ~125K users in beta — WIRED spoke with Bloo

Luke James / Tom's Hardware: China's National Supercomputing Center in Shenzhen unveils the Lingshen project, aiming for 2+ exaFLOPS performance using a domestic-made CPU-only architecture — Good luck

Bloomberg: Chinese billionaire Chen Tianqiao says his startup MiroMind is adding strict “firewalls” between its Chinese and US businesses, as China blocked Manus' sale — The fallout from Meta Platform

Sri Muppidi / The Information: Docs: OpenAI projected at the start of this year that 8/month ChatGPT Go subs will grow ~36x to 112M in 2026, while 20/month Plus subs will fall 80% to ~9M — For three y

Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: EU countries and lawmakers reach an impasse on a deal watering down the EU's AI Act due to some parties seeking exemptions for already regulated industries — EU countries and E

Rachel Yeo / Bloomberg: Foxconn Industrial Internet, which sells AI servers, reports Q1 revenue up 57% YoY to ~37B, below 44.5B est., and a record ~1.5B net income, below 1.8B est. — Foxconn Industria

Derek B. Johnson / CyberScoop: Gartner: US states issued $3.45B in privacy-related fines to companies in 2025, a total larger than the last five years combined, driven by new privacy laws — The increa

Vlad Fedorov / The GitHub Blog: GitHub addresses two recent incidents and says it aims to improve reliability amid AI growth, focusing on “availability first, then capacity, then new features” — Here'

Jay Peters / The Verge: Google launches Ask YouTube, a conversational AI search “experiment” that generates pages with videos and text summaries, for Premium users in the US aged 18+ — ‘Ask YouTube’ i

Alice Hancock / Financial Times: Kpler, an online analytics platform tracking global maritime traffic and energy flows, says it has gained millions of new users since the war in Iran began — Kpler rep

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Lovable launches its AI coding app on iOS and Android, letting users code via voice or text AI prompts, and allowing them to switch between a PC and mobile — Apple's recent c

Financial Times: Many US rural communities oppose the AI data center buildout; Pew says 67% of planned data centers are rural, while 87% of existing ones are in urban areas — Many rural communities ar

Samantha Kelly / Bloomberg: Match Group invests 100M in Seattle-based Sniffies, a web-only platform for queer men with ~3M MAUs worldwide, paving the way for a possible acquisition — Match Group Inc.,

Aditya Soni / Reuters: Microsoft is rolling out Copilot 365 to all of Accenture's roughly 743,000 employees, in the biggest enterprise deal for Copilot, following a 2023 pilot — Microsoft (MSFT.O) is

Mitchell Hashimoto: Mitchell Hashimoto, co-founder of HashiCorp, says his terminal application Ghostty will move off GitHub, citing GitHub's frequent outages — I'm GitHub user 1299, joined Feb 2008. —

Bloomberg: Musk v. Altman: Musk testifies he's suing OpenAI because “it is not okay to steal a charity” and its pivot sets a concerning precedent for philanthropic efforts — Elon Musk testified Tuesda

Madlin Mekelburg / Bloomberg: Musk v. Altman: the judge asks Elon Musk and Sam Altman to “control your propensity to use social media to make things worse”, as opening statements begin — The judge ove

Kyt Dotson / SiliconANGLE: Nvidia launches Nemotron 3 Nano Omni, an open multimodal model with a 30B-A3B hybrid MoE architecture; the Nemotron 3 family saw 50M+ downloads in the past year — Nvidia Cor

Christina Kyriasoglou / Bloomberg: NXP reports Q1 revenue up 12% YoY to 3.18B, vs. 3.15B est., and forecasts Q2 revenue above estimates; NXPI jumps 13%+ after hours — NXP Semiconductors NV jumped in l

Seth Fiegerman / Bloomberg: OpenAI describes a report that it has missed internal goals as “prime clickbait” and says its consumer and enterprise businesses are “firing on all cylinders” — OpenAI push

Will Knight / Wired: OpenAI's Codex instruction set contains a line, repeated several times, that forbids Codex from randomly mentioning goblins, gremlins, and other creatures — “Never talk about gobl

Belle Lin / Wall Street Journal: Parallel Web Systems, founded by former Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal and which offers web search tools for AI agents, raised a 100M Series B at a 2B valuation — Parallel

Lenny Rachitsky / Lenny's Newsletter: Q&A with Evan Spiegel on why distribution is the most important moat in consumer tech, investing in Specs, 2026 as a “crucible” moment for Snap, and more — Snap's

Ben Thompson / Stratechery: Q&A with Sam Altman and AWS CEO Matt Garman about OpenAI's new partnership with AWS, Bedrock Managed Agents, Trainium chips, and more — As I noted yesterday, today's Strate

Luke Kawa / Sherwood News: Robinhood reports Q1 revenue up 15% YoY to 1.07B, vs. 1.14B est., and crypto revenue down 47% to 134M, vs. 147.6M est.; HOOD drops 6%+ after hours — The brokerage just repor

Zaheer Kachwala / Reuters: Seagate reports Q3 revenue up 44% YoY to 3.11B, vs. 2.96B est., and forecasts Q4 revenue and adjusted EPS above estimates; STX jumps 13%+ after hours — Seagate Technology (S

Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: Snap launches AI Sponsored Snaps, a conversational ad format in Snapchat's Chat tab that lets users talk to brand-specific AI agents for product recommendations — Snapchat an

Erin Woo / The Information: Source: Google signed a deal allowing the US DOD to use Google's AI for “any lawful government purpose”; Google says the agreement amends an existing contract — Google and