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Report: US colleges now offer 74+ AI majors and 89+ minors, and at least a dozen schools are set to add AI majors this year; only five had AI majors in 2021 (Alan Blinder/New York Times)
In an interview, Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas says that the company is planning its IPO for 2028, regardless of how well the IPOs for Anthropic and OpenAI go (Arjun Kharpal/CNBC)
The US FCC waives its deadline for Amazon to deploy half of its Leo satellites by July; Amazon is still required to launch all 3,232 satellites by July 30, 2029 (Michael Kan/PCMag)
Apple overhauls the App Store with subscription options for groups, businesses, and schools, retention messaging to reduce churn, bundled IAP reviews, and more (Andrew Orr/AppleInsider)
The first developer beta of iOS 27 offers the clearest signs yet of Apple's upcoming foldable iPhone, with references to folding hardware and flexible displays (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
Xiaomi claims MiMo-V2.5-Pro-UltraSpeed tops 1K tokens/second, a first at the 1T-parameter scale, using a standard 8-GPU commodity node; API trial starts June 9 (Jose Antonio Lanz/Decrypt)
Sam Altman and Jakub Pachocki claim OpenAI is "entering the third phase", aiming to automate AI research, boost the economy, and give everyone a personal AGI (OpenAI)
Microsoft disabled 70+ of its repos on GitHub, including Azure-related tools like azure-functions-host, after hackers added credential-stealing malware to them (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)
Google and Nvidia are helping Apple with Apple Foundation Model Cloud Pro, which Apple says is comparable to Gemini frontier models and runs on Nvidia GPUs (Kif Leswing/CNBC)
Infinity Constellation, which builds AI tools and software businesses for the professional services market, raised a $24M Series A; it previously raised $17M (Lucinda Shen/Axios)
Apple unveils an Apple Intelligence feature to automatically change compromised passwords, using agentic AI, and save them to the Passwords app (James Pero/Gizmodo)
The Trump administration relaunches efforts to block state AI laws; Sen. Blackburn is leading negotiations and pushing KOSA as part of an AI preemption package (Axios)
Meta puts $115M toward a "workforce academy", a free 5-week program to train Americans to build data centers, offering job guarantees at Meta construction sites (Wall Street Journal)
Source: Cursor, which is prepping for an expected acquisition by SpaceX, passed $4B in annualized revenue in the last week, up from $3B in April and $2B in Feb. (Richard Nieva/Forbes)
OpenAI confidentially files for an IPO, says it has "not decided on timing yet", as "there are things we want to do that are likely easier as a private company" (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)

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Ninja Theory cancels psychological horror game Project Mara
Instagram finally lets you reorder posts on your grid
The iOS 27 beta pretty much confirms that an Apple foldable is happening
Meta quietly removes face-recognition code from its smart glasses app
Sam Bankman-Fried formally applies for a pardon
OpenAI files SEC paperwork to go public
Google cuts the price of its AI Plus plan and doubles the storage
Apple is dropping support for some pretty modern Watch models
iOS 27 can run on phones as old as the iPhone 11
Reminder: macOS 27 won't work on Intel Macs
The first iOS, iPadOS and macOS 27 developer betas are available now
Siri AI for iPhones and iPads will be delayed indefinitely in the EU
watchOS 27 gets a Siri upgrade and perimenopause features
visionOS 27 brings the new Siri to Apple's headset
AirPods are getting a customizable EQ in iOS 27
iOS 27 gets new AI photo editing tools
Apple Intelligence is coming to the Shortcuts app
Apple is adding Apple Intelligence across its default apps
Siri is getting an all new app experience later this year
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