Rockwell in a hard place: Apple's Mike Rockwell reportedly drove new Siri overhaul but will not appear at WWDC to present it. - Gizmodo

Inside Apple's secret 2025 senior executive meeting admitting AI failures, after which Tim Cook became directly involved in the AI roadmap. - Bloomberg

gee I wonder who the source in the secret meeting was

Mea Culpertino: Apple to unveil a revamped, personalized Siri at WWDC after a two-year delay, framing AI as a feature within its device ecosystem - The New York Times

Public-interest academics warn government AI equity stakes would entangle public interests with corporate profit, proposing taxation and a public AI model instead - the Guardian

TSMC started 2nm mass production at 70–80% yields, targeting 100,000 wafers/month by year-end; Bernstein raised its price target to $430 - Yahoo

ASML CEO confirms direct talks with Musk on TeraFab, a Texas chip plant with up to $119B investment. - Yahoo

ASIC and you shall receive: Custom ASICs are outpacing GPUs: Broadcom's AI revenue hit $10.8B (up 143% YoY) and Marvell posted a record $2.42B in Q1 - The Motley Fool

AMD's Gorgon Halo will offer 192GB unified memory against Nvidia's RTX Spark at 128GB when both launch in Q3–fall 2026 - TechSpot

Inside an Intel leading-edge fab. - Business Insider

The Invesco semiconductor ETF (SOXQ) dropped Friday after historic run returned 181% over the past year. - Yahoo

More than half of U.S. doctors now use OpenEvidence; the AI startup's valuation jumped from $3.5 billion to $12 billion on 30 million monthly queries - The New York Times

Chatbots on Talkie, Replika, and Nomi.AI fabricated Pennsylvania medical license numbers when asked to play doctor, even as state disclosure legislation stalls in committee - Spotlight PA

AI for everything, everywhere: AI labs are expanding into each other's markets as commoditizing models push companies toward full-stack strategies ahead of IPOs. - Business Insider

Wave of mega AI stock offerings raises Wall Street concerns about equity absorption capacity. - Bloomberg

OpenAI plans to convert ChatGPT into an AI superapp centered on agents and coding tools as chat-based revenue lags. - Gizmodo

Sam Altman says fatherhood upended his disciplined daily routine and he now spends weekends at a Napa ranch without cell service. - Fortune

Moonshot market cap: Top open-source Chinese AI creator seeks $30 billion valuation in its third funding round in six months, up from $4 billion in December. - TNW | Artificial-Intelligence

Clippy for bio-weapons: Anthropic adviser Ben Buchanan says AI enabling biological weapons development is not hypothetical. - CBS News

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei devotes up to 40% of his time to company culture, holding biweekly all-hands he calls "Dario Vision Quests." - Fortune

Developer describes a multi-phase workflow using specialized Claude Code subagents to automate iterative code and spec quality reviews. - alexself.dev

Claude's token limit burns fastest from long conversation threads and project knowledge files, not the length of individual prompts. - MakeUseOf

not to mention agent swarms

Walmart deploys AI across logistics, customer insights, and employee tools to accelerate operations and personalize shopping. - Business Insider

Reckitt, Saint-Gobain, and Mars say escaping "pilot purgatory" requires end-to-end workflow depth and clear ROI metrics, not impressive demos - Fortune

Enterprise AI stalls in a "PoC graveyard" as fragmented data stacks, sovereignty rules, and GPU skills gaps block the path to production - TechRadar

A KPMG survey found only 26% of companies have comprehensive visibility into AI costs as token-based vendor pricing creates budgeting challenges for CFOs. - The Wall Street Journal

Who asked you? Only 42% of customers are comfortable with AI-powered service, despite 90% of business leaders believing otherwise, according to new research - TechRadar

A tech journalist used Google Gemini Pro as a daily performance coach for two months, finding it actionable but limited by context window resets. - PCMAG

Lathe is an open-source CLI tool that uses LLMs to generate hands-on technical tutorials for learning new domains from scratch. - GitHub

Mother of invention: Working mother saves 10 hours weekly using AI for family scheduling, grocery planning, and child development tracking despite being judged amid anti-AI backlash. - Business Insider

Senate Democrats propose requiring human oversight of Pentagon AI weapons and banning domestic surveillance use - The Wall Street Journal

Frontier AI models now find thousands of vulnerabilities in weeks, but China is distilling the same capabilities at industrial scale. - TNW | Artificial-Intelligence

The Chuck Norris model: Mythos can dribble a bowling ball.

Putin down the cameras: Russia shut down a video surveillance system protecting Putin after the Iran war exposed how AI can be used to target enemies - The Irish Times

thought somebody with Mythos would hack him and give info to Ukraine…paranoia or reasonable precaution?

Palan-tyranny: Britain’s questionable reliance on Palantir - Financial Times

A flaw in OpenClaw's WebSocket gateway let malicious JavaScript hijack connected systems; 74% of companies plan agentic AI deployments but only 21% have mature governance - TechRadar

Plate expectations, anything the hallucination machine says can be used against you: San Diego man spent nearly a month in jail after Flock license plate reader produced a false hit linking him to a violent crime. - Downtown News

NewsGuard found that conservative influencers with 3.4 million X followers use the Uncensored AI chatbot to make up election and Holocaust denial claims. - euronews

UK regulators ordered Google to let publishers opt out of AI Overviews, but publishers say the controls are nearly impossible to use safely - Digiday

WSU researchers built an open-source AI legal agent for police that provides real-time guidance, case law interpretation, and dynamic questioning during domestic violence calls. - New Atlas

AI majors proliferate but vary to the point of meaninglessness - The New York Times

AI tutoring can drill students while cutting them off from social learning and the bigger picture - The New York Times

Students overestimate peers' AI use due to social desirability bias, creating a self-fulfilling perception of widespread adoption. - KQED

AI is masking America's "post-literate" workforce - Axios

Apparently Congress is post-literate, needs human-generated post-literate news slop

Bye, powerpoint peasants: Major banks are cutting junior analyst classes by up to two-thirds and using AI across customer service and compliance functions. - Fortune

Study of 4 million applications finds shared hiring algorithms systematically disadvantage Black and Asian candidates, with 10% of multi-applicants rejected by the same vendor - DeepFabric

The context window ate my career: 10-year fintech engineer says LLMs have eroded domain knowledge, bug-solving, and architectural value, warning that specialist premiums will collapse across knowledge work - the human in the loop

The Slopcopalypse: AI is flooding markets with slop apps, books, music, art, and papers without measurable GDP gains or quality improvement, studies show. - The Potential Surface

Waymo and Uber-backed Wayve plan competing London robotaxi launches, pitting lidar-based mapping against end-to-end neural networks on notoriously tangled city streets - CNET

Probably Nothing to Worry About: Documentary profiles AI founders who now warn of existential danger from technology they created. - TheWrap

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