• An interview with Corning CEO Wendell Weeks on risk-sharing provisions that protect the company in multibillion-dollar fiber deals with Nvidia, Meta, and Amazon (Christopher Mims/Wall Street Journal)
• South Korea's "semiconductor belt" town Dongtan has become one of the fastest-rising affluent areas, driven by windfall bonuses for Samsung and SK Hynix workers (Daniel Tudor/Financial Times)
• Huawei unveils HarmonyOS 7, introducing an "agent-friendly" architecture that connects to 2,000+ specialized AI agents and features an enhanced voice assistant (Iris Deng/South China Morning Post)
• A Ukrainian extradited from Ireland to the US pleads guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud for his role in Conti ransomware attacks between 2021 and 2022 (Lawrence Abrams/BleepingComputer)
• Anthropic says it believes the US government's export control order for Mythos 5 and Fable 5 is a "misunderstanding" and that it is working to restore access (Ananya Palyekar/Reuters)
• Moonshot AI releases Kimi K2.7-Code, claiming 30% lower reasoning token usage compared to K2.6, available under a modified MIT license (Sean Michael Kerner/VentureBeat)
• Crypto-data provider Blockworks says it has acquired its rival Messari; source: Blockworks paid more than $10M for Messari, which was valued at $300M in 2022 (Vicky Ge Huang/Wall Street Journal)
• Anthropic says it is disabling Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all customers after the US government issued an export control order, citing national security concerns (Anthropic)
• Source: the US Commerce Department decided to block foreign persons from accessing Fable 5 and Mythos 5 after a company claimed it was able to jailbreak Mythos (Axios)
• OpenAI was subpoenaed on Friday by a coalition of state AGs for documents covering a wide range of its activities and impact on users (Wall Street Journal)
• Sources detail frustration inside Meta's Applied AI team, formed in March to support Superintelligence Labs, over menial projects, "soul-crushing" work, more (Wired)
• The US DOJ approves Paramount's $111B purchase of WBD without forcing divestitures or behavioral remedies; state AGs could still try to block the move (Yasmin Khorram/Politico)
• Sources: three ex-DOGE staffers are raising $130M from a16z, Sequoia, and others for a startup that aims to use AI to secure government systems (Vanity Fair)
• KPMG retracts a report on AI's benefits after it has been found to exaggerate AI adoption with case studies that appear to have been based on AI hallucinations (Financial Times)
• Sources: Roku is in talks to sell itself; its shares have risen about 24% this year, giving the company a market value of $19.9B; ROKU jumps 20%+ after hours (Bloomberg)
| • Anthropic Says It’s Taking Claude Fable 5 Offline to Comply With US Government Order
• Meta Employees Absolutely Hate Mark Zuckerberg’s Plan for a Companywide AI Hackathon
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• Chinese Drivers Are Using Tiny Plastic Heads to Fool Tesla’s Autopilot Safeguards
• Elon Musk Is the World’s First Trillionaire
• China Didn’t Make Americans Hate Data Centers
• Crypto Guys Bought the Answer to the CIA’s Mysterious Kryptos Sculpture
• A White Supremacist Youth Group Helped Orchestrate the Belfast Riots
• 6 Best Digital Notebooks (2026): ReMarkable, Kobo, Kindle
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• Matchmakers Are Being Paid $25K to Find Trad Wives for Rich Men
• The US Is Requiring Foreign Influencers to Get Work Visas for the 2026 World Cup
• You Probably Won’t Get Rich Off the SpaceX IPO
• SpaceX IPO Puts Elon Musk’s ‘Extreme’ Ownership to the Test
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• Apple’s Camera Chief Thinks AI Can Give You Superpowers
• Why You Might Already Own SpaceX Shares, Siri’s AI Makeover, and Knicks Owner’s Surveillance Machine
• ‘Hands Off Our NHS’: Anti-Palantir Protests Break Out in UK Over Deal With National Health Service
• Meet the OpenAI Engineer Leading ChatGPT’s Biggest Transformation Yet
• Massive Effigy of Elon Musk Raised Over Times Square to Protest Grok
• Grok Is Still Hosting Sexualized Deepfakes of Famous Women
• Is It a Super El Niño Year? It Could Turn the World’s Weather Upside Down
• Drug Sites Hijacked Spotify’s Search Ranking Through Fake Podcasts
• Best Smart Chess Boards (2026): Chessnut, Millennium
• Signal Alums Reveal ‘Encrypted Spaces,’ a System for Making Private Collaboration Apps
• The Best E-Readers of 2026: Kobo, Kindle
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• YouTube Appears to Be Making Money Off of Sanctioned Iranians’ Accounts
• Americans Are Trading Billions of Dollars on Polymarket’s Banned Offshore Platform
• Fiido Air Carbon Fiber Electric Bike Review: A Light, Quiet Ebike
• Welcome to the Waymo World Cup
• Cameras, Sensors, and 3D Body Scans: All the Tech Helping Eliminate Blown Calls
• Trump’s Border Crackdown Is Wreaking Havoc on the World Cup
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• People Living Near xAI’s Dirty Data Centers Are Furious About the SpaceX IPO
| • Anthropic blocks all customers' access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5
• DoJ approves Paramount Skydance-Warner Bros. deal, cementing Ellison family control of American media
• The SpaceX IPO broke Robinhood for some people
• DJI and Insta360 are in a patent battle over vlogging cameras
• Congress lets decades-old spying law lapse amid Trump's controversial DNI nomination
• Predictably, Sam Bankman-Fried's fraud conviction appeal has been denied
• Facebook and Instagram appear to be down
• How to see if Netflix is downgrading your picture quality
• Engadget Podcast: Making sense of SpaceX's messy IPO (and its messier CEO)
• Gemini can now adjust your picture settings on Google TV
• The Morning After: Apple's quest to make AI useful to its users
• Apple says Siri AI won't suck up to you
• Google sues Chinese scammers using Gemini AI for fraud
• Senators introduce bipartisan bill to fight government censorship
• Researchers are developing textiles that can produce drinking water from the air
• Overwatch's latest hero will throw a bike at your head
• Another parent has filed a wrongful death suit against OpenAI
• Boox's new Go 6 ereader offers stylus support for note-taking
• Waymo's monthly membership seems like a bad deal
• Reddit now lets you post videos in comments
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