Glass half empty: Apple's WWDC keynote walked back Liquid Glass and leaned on AI features as stock fell on Siri demos. - Macworld

Apple announces Siri AI, with on-screen awareness, personal context understanding, a Dynamic Island-based interface, and more, along with a dedicated Siri app - 9to5Mac

Apple won't launch Siri AI in the EU after failing to win a Digital Markets Act interoperability exemption - Reuters

Apple's strongest iOS 27 on-device AI model requires 12GB RAM, leaving older 8GB devices behind. - Digital Trends

shocked, shocked that my 16 pro is being left in the dust

Apple unveils new Apple Foundation Models: two on-device models, including a 20B-parameter multimodal model called AFM 3 Core Advanced, and three cloud models - f

Apple's frontier AI model runs on Nvidia GPUs in Google's cloud; Apple says user data is never stored or used for training - TNW | Apple

Optimists say Apple’s privacy, ecosystem control, grip on users give it an edge, even as it lags and now relies on Google - Spyglass

New AI-powered Siri may unlock hardware updates for Apple TV 4K and HomePod mini, while other products face further delays. - TechRadar

Altman and Pachocki declare OpenAI's "third phase": automate AI research by March 2028, expand global access, and give everyone a personal AGI - OpenAI

Apollo and Blackstone raise $35bn in chip financing for Anthropic in one of the largest private credit deals. - Financial Times

Microsoft Build 2026 brings Anthropic's Claude into Excel Agent Mode, reaching an estimated 750 million users. - Tech Times

Claude Code architect Boris Cherny says AI coding ROI should be benchmarked against engineering labor cost, not software subscriptions. - Fortune

Deliverance AI exits stealth with £6m ARR, selling a governed agentic AI operating system for regulated enterprises. - TNW | Artificial-Intelligence

SpaceX targets a Friday June 12 IPO at a $1.77 trillion valuation, backed by 10,000 satellites in orbit and plans to launch up to 1 million more; Musk revealed the AI-1 satellite specs (20m tall, 70m wingspan, Nvidia GPUs) alongside a planned Gigasat solar factory and Terafab chip plant with Tesla - Bloomberg

SpaceX xAI claims $26 billion annualized cloud revenue from Anthropic and Google deals, exceeding Amazon and Google AI cloud revenue, pivots from frontier lab to neocloud. - NextBigFuture.com

Texas court orders Google to remove photos of xAI-linked Memphis data center posted by former contractor. - Reason.com

China plans to spend $295 billion over five years building a national AI data center network using at least 80% domestic chips. - Bloomberg

Public markets asked to price in advances in AI, Starlink and space-based computing long before lift-off - Financial Times

Databricks is in talks to raise at up to $175 billion, a 31% increase from its $134 billion valuation four months ago. - TNW | Investors-Funding

Mohamed El-Erian warns the trio of AI IPOs, arriving alongside heavy government and corporate bond issuance, creates "intense demand for capital" - Benzinga

Reality bites: AI investment boom faces four harsh realities as Bain study shows weak ROI and Broadcom forecast wipes $444 billion from its market cap. - Yahoo

Subsidy’s over, suckers: Uber burned its annual budget by Q1 and Citrini Research says the era of subsidized AI spending is ending - New York Magazine

Alphaville.What Aristotle can teach us about AI-enabled quantitative investment - Financial Times

AI firms leased 1 million square feet of Manhattan office space in Q1 2026, more than all of 2025 combined. - The Wall Street Journal

Data center construction boom strains US labor supply, with industry needing up to 456,000 new workers by 2027 amid rising project cancellations - TechRadar

Kevin O'Leary proposed a Manhattan-sized Utah data center, called opponents Chinese stooges, then scaled back - Bloomberg

AI's net favorability has plunged to minus 20 and 71% of Americans oppose new data centers, with cities already passing bans and moratoriums - Fast Company

Who will actually thrive in the hybrid AI-human workforce? - The New York Times

AI is reshaping C-suite and board roles as profoundly as it affects entry-level positions, requiring leadership to redefine their functions. - Harvard Business Review

AI agent adoption will triple in two years, but 73% of employees don't understand how digital labor will reshape their roles - MIT Technology Review

Accenture and Carnegie Mellon's new AI Maturity Model finds 86% of executives plan more AI spending but only 21% have redesigned core processes - CMU

Pilot error: 42% of companies abandoned most AI initiatives in 2025, up from 17%, as governance gaps blocked scale - Hacker Noon

EY's AI leader says cost-cutting is AI's "smallest level of return" and companies miss bigger growth opportunities by treating AI as a headcount tool - Business Insider

Sen. Adam Schiff introduced a bill requiring human commanders to retain final authority over Pentagon AI weapons decisions and barring AI from nuclear launch. - The Hill

Israel deploys AI-controlled drone swarms for surveillance and strikes in the West Bank and southern Lebanon, according to The Cradle report. - NaturalNews.com

UK Prime Minister Starmer gave Apple and Google three months to block nude images on children's devices or face legislation. - BBC News

Over 90% of open-access data repositories report AI bot scraping, with LLMs able to re-identify 25% of anonymized research participants, leading to calls to restrict data access - Nature

AI-generated phishing emails hit a 54% click-through rate vs. 12% for standard attempts, making spear-phishing 50x more profitable - InfoQ

Spear-phishing from artisanal to industrial: AI voice cloning from 10 seconds of audio, paired with caller-ID spoofing, defeats STIR/SHAKEN protections that verify call path but not identity - TechRadar

UK doctors and the NHS face liability for AI diagnostic errors; the Medical Protection Society wants AI tools reclassified under consumer protection law - the Guardian

A Philips survey found 64% of clinicians use personal AI tools when hospitals fail to provide adequate workplace options. - The Independent

Drug resistance is a fertile field: AI tools identify antibiotic candidates and cut research costs as drug-resistant bacteria are projected to kill 39 million people by 2050 - Nature

A pipette, a robot, and a dream: Ginkgo Bioworks' autonomous lab ran 30,000 experiments in six months using AI-directed robots, raising both productivity gains and biosecurity concerns - NCPR

From Erdős problems to proof verification, AI tools accelerate mathematical discovery while researchers say machines still lack scientific "taste" - Nature

They Spent Years on a Math Problem. Then They Were Scooped by A.I. - The New York Times

NotebookLM autonomously researches sources and produces slides, maps, and Venn diagrams from a single basic prompt - TechRadar

Google upgrades NotebookLM with Gemini 3.5 Flash, Antigravity code execution, and 100-plus built-in software skills. - Ars Technica

Google released Gemma 4 12B, an Apache 2.0 multimodal model optimized for 16GB laptops that matches performance of its 26B MoE model. - 4sysops

Xiaomi's MiMo-V2.5-Pro hits 1,200 tokens/second on 8 commodity GPUs, beating Cerebras's custom-chip record for trillion-parameter models - Decrypt

Canonical introduced sandboxed LLM development environments in Ubuntu, moving the OS toward the AI agent era. - theregister

Waymo acquired Apple's 5,500-acre Arizona self-driving proving ground for $220 million, recorded June 5. - TechCrunch

Instawork launches Instacore, a five-camera wearable rig that pays gig workers to capture real-world footage for training robots - Business Insider

A correspondent visiting around 100 robots at Hong Kong's InnoEX expo finds impressive dexterity gains but persistent battery and reliability gaps. - New Atlas

Global fertility has fallen below replacement rate as smartphone adoption reduced in-person socialization, with AI companion apps poised to worsen the trend. - Vox

Artists and designers are embracing handmade, deliberately imperfect aesthetics as a cultural backlash against AI-generated imagery. - the Guardian