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- Sources: US officials have held talks with AI companies about the government acquiring shares; Sam Altman first pitched the concept directly to Trump in 2025 (NOTUS) [1d]
- OpenAI updates ChatGPT memory with a "more capable and compute-efficient" architecture and a summary page that lets users review and steer what it remembers (OpenAI) [1d]
- Quantinuum closed up 0.63% in its Nasdaq debut on Thursday, with a market value of $15.7B, after raising $1.68B in an upsized IPO (CNBC) [1d]
- Internal docs from lawsuits by 1,400 school districts show how social media companies targeted kids: Meta paid "teen ambassadors", Snap sent school-hour alerts (Jennifer Valentino-DeVries/New York Times) [1d]
- Poke, which lets users access AI agents via text message, becomes the first AI agent approved for Apple's Messages for Business platform (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch) [1d]
- Unsealed 2020 lawsuit: ex-IBM VP of threat intelligence alleges that IBM and AT&T concealed foreign cyber breaches to maintain eligibility for federal contracts (Bloomberg) [1d]
- Sources: Anthropic has embedded around half a dozen forward-deployed engineers within the NSA to help the agency deploy Mythos for offensive cyber operations (Financial Times) [1d]
- Sources: Brian Chesky is starting a new AI lab and considering a focus on user interaction and design; he will remain Airbnb CEO and will not be the lab's CEO (Bloomberg) [1d]
- In a letter to Utah Senate President, Kevin O'Leary says he will cut a 40,000-acre AI data center project in Utah by roughly half, after backlash from lawmakers (John Ainger/Bloomberg) [1d]
- Supabase, which provides backend tools for building AI apps, raised a $500M Series F led by GIC at a $10B pre-money valuation, up from $5B in October 2025 (CJ Haddad/CNBC) [1d]
- Google now lets big creators and publishers in the US claim and customize dedicated Search profiles to aggregate their cross-platform content (Jay Peters/The Verge) [1d]
- Founders Fund launches a TV-style game show featuring A-list founders and investors, including Sam Altman and Palmer Luckey, playing a game of Mafia (Tom Dotan/Newcomer) [1d]
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- 'We definitely are also analog people': WiiM's CEO talks to us about developing its first soundbar, Dolby Atmos FlexConnect, why it doesn't support Apple AirPlay 2, and balancing digital audio expertise with analog output [1d]
- NYT Strands hints and answers for Friday, June 5 (game #824) [1d]
- Quordle hints and answers for Friday, June 5 (game #1593) [1d]
- NYT Connections hints and answers for Friday, June 5 (game #1090) [1d]
- Will your iPhone get iOS 27? This is the rumored support list for Apple's next software overhaul — plus compatibility information for iPadOS 27 [1d]
- I used Gemini in Google Sheets to create a weekly budget that updates itself — here’s how [1d]
- Cape Fear review: Apple TV's new adaptation is stylish, scary, and features Javier Bardem's best performance yet [1d]
- Quote of the day by Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine having gone through figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT" — opening up on how reliant we are on chatbots [1d]
- I used Gemini in Google Forms to auto-build a survey and analyze responses for me [1d]
- AIs like ChatGPT fall apart in classic 'Stroop' psychological test — and that could stand in the way of achieving artificial general intelligence [1d]
- Best Buy slashes up to $400 off Apple tech in a limited-time sale — get AirPods, MacBooks, iPads and Apple Watches from $99.99 [1d]
- Georgie & Mandy's First Marriage season 3: release date predictions, cast, plot, and everything we know about the Young Sheldon spinoff's return to CBS and Paramount+ [1d]
- Many US tech firms are turning to China's DeepSeek as the bill for homegrown AI bites – American AI companies could learn a thing or two [1d]
- I taught Gemini my learning style to understand quantum physics 10x faster with custom analogies and daily quizzes [1d]
- OpenAI’s Codex helps discover HTTP/2 Bomb DoS attack that can nuke over 30GB of RAM within seconds, knocking web servers offline before they can react [1d]
- With GTA 6 Online, Rockstar has a chance to free players from its greatest vehicular mistake [1d]
- I'm done with multitasking on a single PC, and I'm tired of waiting for Valve — so I built a custom Steam Machine, and here's what it has changed for me [1d]
- 5 things to expect at WWDC 2026 — from Siri 2.0 to Tim Cook's Apple farewell [1d]
- Samsung is slashing prices on its best-rated TVs ahead of the World Cup — here are my top recommendations from $229.99 [1d]
- Nvidia’s RTX Spark sounds almost perfect for a PC handheld — too bad Jensen Huang doesn’t seem to care about that [1d]
- Gemini can turn your rough Google Docs notes into a polished report in seconds [1d]
- Meta AI's recent hack is a terrifying wake-up call for anyone who puts their trust in AI systems [1d]
- NSA warns that cybercriminals are targeting this one critical component that the energy, chemical, food, agriculture, and transportation sectors rely on - here's what we know [1d]
- Belkin's new Nintendo Switch 2 Grip could solve my biggest handheld gaming problem [1d]
- I used ChatGPT in Slack to turn team chats into weekly status reports [1d]
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