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Also: Anthropic advocates for a ‘pause’ on AI advancement – days after filing to go public on the US stock market Hello, and welcome to TechScape. I’m your host, Blake Montgomery, the US tech editor at the Guardian. Today we’re discussing Donald Trump’s neediness for AI and the contradictions of Anthropic’s safety-first posture. OpenAI confidentially files for initial public offering on US stock market Apple debuts revamped ‘Siri AI’ and new child safety features for iPhones and iPads The Guardian view on children and the internet: rolling back big tech’s untrammelled power | Editorial Silicon Valley including Meta has embraced Maga politics, says Nick Clegg Bernie Sanders’ AI sovereign wealth fund plan is good. But we think this is better | Nathan E Sanders and Bruce Schneier Majority of US’s new AI datacenters to be built on drought-hit land Billions spent and hypothetical returns: the AI boom explained with six charts ‘A driver of political violence’: how the breakneck AI boom is fu
Read full articlePrediction market traders are putting real money on the table that Anthropic will publicly release its most powerful and controversial artificial intelligence (AI) model, Claude Mythos, within the next 24 to 48 hours, even as the company has made no official announcement. What the Markets Are Saying As of Tuesday morning, Polymarket‘s “Claude Mythos released […]
President Donald Trump has confirmed he is in discussions with AI companies about arrangements that would give the American public a financial stake in the industry’s growth. While Trump did not name specific companies, CNBC reported that the administration has been in talks with OpenAI about a potential government equity stake, some of which could […]
Apple kicked off its annual developer conference with bold promises about AI. The company, CEO Tim Cook said, would be "introducing new technologies and innovations that push the limits on what's possible." But its slew of announcements - centered on a brand-new "Siri AI" - had more to do with catching up. After almost entirely neglecting Siri and punting its AI promises down the road in 2025, Apple went all in on the tech this year. It pitched Siri as an all-encompassing virtual assistant that ties together all your Apple devices, with multimodal features, a dedicated app, an all-in-one AI agent and more. Executives emphasized privacy aga … Read the full story at The Verge.
Google has agreed to pay SpaceX $920 million per month from October 2026 through June 2029 for access to approximately 110,000 Nvidia GPUs and related infrastructure, according to a regulatory filing. The deal mirrors the $1.25 billion monthly agreement SpaceX struck with Anthropic in May, though Google’s arrangement covers roughly half the compute capacity. Google […]
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A regulatory dispute has indefinitely delayed the release of Siri AI.
Most of Apple's current AI ideas are roughly the same as everyone else's AI ideas. A chatbot you can ask questions; quick ways to create or summarize text; bizarre, borderline creepy image-generation tools. The company spent most of its WWDC keynote playing catch-up with the state of the AI art, announcing Siri features you can already find on Android phones and in the Claude and ChatGPT apps. The pitch, in so many cases, is just "this thing you know, but on your iPhone now." But a few minutes after I downloaded the first developer beta of iPadOS 26 (I didn't want to risk it on my Mac or my iPhone, both of which are too important to my dail … Read the full story at The Verge.
Former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati made her first major public appearance in roughly 18 months at the Bloomberg Tech conference in San Francisco, using the platform to preview her startup Thinking Machines Lab’s core technology and address the circumstances that first thrust her into the spotlight. Murati described what the company calls “interaction models” — a departure […]
