The Brutalist Report - techmeme
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- 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) [33d]
- 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) [34d]
- 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) [34d]
- Super Micro Computer aims to raise $7B in a series of equity and equity-linked financing transactions to fund its component purchases to satisfy AI orders (Harshita Mary Varghese/Reuters) [34d]
- 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) [34d]
- Docs: ~34K Instagram accounts, including Obama's White House account, were affected in the attack tied to Meta's AI chatbot; 3,500+ usernames were changed (New York Times) [34d]
- Anthropic says Fable 5 has invisible safeguards that use prompt modification, steering vectors, or PEFT to limit its effectiveness for frontier LLM development (Matthias Bastian/The Decoder) [34d]
- Hands-on with Claude Fable 5: impressive results with complex projects, including a data analysis tool built in just 9.5 hours and an interactive isochrone map (Ethan Mollick/One Useful Thing) [34d]
- 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) [34d]
- Apple says 79% of all iPhones and 86% of iPhones released in the last four years were running iOS 26 as of June 7, vs. 82% and 88% for iOS 18 before WWDC 2025 (Joe Rossignol/MacRumors) [34d]
- Sources: Canadian payments company Nuvei is in advanced talks to acquire cross-border payments company Payoneer Global for about $2.7B (Milana Vinn/Reuters) [34d]
- 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) [34d]
- Anthropic says internal and external red team tests of Fable 5 found no universal jailbreaks; it will keep user traffic for 30 days, aligning with Trump's AI EO (Derek B. Johnson/CyberScoop) [34d]
- Anthropic says Fable 5 uses conservative safety classifiers that trigger a fallback to Claude Opus 4.8 in ~5% of sessions, in areas like cybersecurity (Anthropic) [34d]
- 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) [34d]
- Anthropic prices both Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 at $10 per 1M input and $50 per 1M output tokens, less than half the price of Claude Mythos Preview (David Gewirtz/ZDNET) [34d]
- Anthropic releases Claude Fable 5, a "safe" Mythos-class model it says can't be used for cyberattacks, to the public, and Claude Mythos 5 to trusted orgs (Wired) [34d]
- Apple updates its guidelines to say it may remove apps in saturated categories from the App Store if they're not "updated, improved, or attracting customers" (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch) [34d]
- SF voters reject the Overpaid CEO Act, a union-backed ballot measure to raise taxes on any large business where the CEO earns 100x more than the median employee (Bloomberg) [34d]
- If Apple's Siri AI works as it was shown in the WWDC demos, Apple is set to take the lead in consumer AI, with iPhone becoming the first true AI device (M.G. Siegler/Spyglass) [34d]
- EU regulators order Meta to give rival AI chatbots free access to WhatsApp while they continue to probe if Meta abused its market power by blocking competitors (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters) [34d]
- Google releases Gemini 3.5 Live Translate, which it says can deliver "near real-time speech-to-speech translation in over 70 languages" (The Keyword) [34d]
- Meta plans to expand the use of off-platform data, such as e-commerce purchases, from serving ads to personalize content feeds and AI responses (Emma Roth/The Verge) [34d]
- Sources: India froze Starlink approvals to begin commercial operations due to concerns over the use of its terminals in Iran despite not being licensed there (Bloomberg) [34d]
- China starts operations of the world's first wind-powered underwater data center off Shanghai coast, and says it uses 20% less power than land-based facilities (Amy Hawkins/The Guardian) [34d]
- Vinyl Equity, an SEC-registered transfer agent that has launched a payments platform earlier this year, raised a $20M Series A led by Jump Capital (Ryan Lawler/Axios) [34d]
- Decentralized lending protocol Morpho raised $175M led by Paradigm, Ribbit Capital, and a16z Crypto in a token sale valuing Morpho at up to $2B (Ben Weiss/Fortune) [34d]
- 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 (Apple Machine Learning Research) [34d]
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