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  • Fri May 8

Analysis: Meta removed code for an unreleased face-recognition system in the Meta AI app for its smart glasses, following a report on the code's existence (Wired)

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Apple announces new Apple Intelligence features for its apps, including a Notify Me feature in Safari and a Call Context feature in the Phone app (John Quintet/iPhone in Canada)

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Apple announces Visual Intelligence updates, including a new Siri mode in the Camera app for analyzing real-world objects and support for visionOS (Hartley Charlton/MacRumors)

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Apple overhauls Apple Intelligence, with a new architecture built on Apple Foundation Models developed with Google and adapted to run on device and on servers (Hartley Charlton/MacRumors)

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Apple announces Siri AI, with on-screen awareness, personal context understanding, a Dynamic Island-based interface, and more, along with a new Siri app (Zac Hall/9to5Mac)

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Apple announces new parental controls, letting kids ask to browse specific websites or contact specific people, adding automatic image filtering, and more (Daniel Cooper/Engadget)

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A federal judge blocks President Trump's policy imposing a $100,000 fee for employer H-1B visa applications (CNBC)

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Anthropic researchers say Mythos Preview can now turn publicly disclosed software vulnerabilities, or N-days, into working exploits in hours instead of weeks (Sam Sabin/Axios)

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Apple announces that AirPods will gain a custom EQ feature as part of iOS 27 (Matt Bolton/TechRadar)

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Apple unveils iOS 27, iPadOS 27, watchOS 27, and visionOS 27, highlighting performance and design improvements, including smoother system animations (Jay Peters/The Verge)

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Apple announces major performance improvements across its platforms, including up to 30% faster app launches and up to 80% faster AirDrop transfers (Ryan Christoffel/9to5Mac)

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Apple announces macOS 27 Golden Gate, featuring Liquid Glass and search improvements, a fixed corner radius across apps and system windows, and more (Marcus Mendes/9to5Mac)

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Apple announces improvements to Liquid Glass, including a new slider that lets users control transparency, ranging from fully opaque to completely clear (Hartley Charlton/MacRumors)

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The US DOD designates some of China's biggest companies, including Alibaba, BYD, and Baidu, as entities that support the Chinese military (Kate O'Keeffe/Bloomberg)

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A recording of Apple's WWDC 2026 keynote (Apple on YouTube)

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A live blog of WWDC 2026, where Apple is expected to announce an overhauled Siri, a Siri app, new AI capabilities, OS updates focused on reliability, and more (Engadget)

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Italy's competition authority says it has dropped its 2025 probe into Meta over allegations Meta abused its dominant position by installing Meta AI on WhatsApp (Alvise Armellini/Reuters)

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Sources: former OpenAI researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner's AI-focused hedge fund, Situational Awareness, has $20B+ AUM, after launching less than two years ago (Peter Rudegeair/Wall Street Journal)

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Analysis: China's low-cost ecommerce exports fell 10.9% YoY in April to $9.81B, the fifth straight monthly decline, amid surging fuel costs and weakening demand (Reuters)

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Microsoft has shut down 70+ of its own repositories on GitHub after hackers pushed malware that would steal credentials from users of AI coding agents (Joseph Cox/404 Media)

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Sources: Russia paused parts of a surveillance system protecting Putin after Israel used AI on footage from Iran's traffic cameras to locate Ayatollah Khamenei (Financial Times)

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PointFive, which helps companies reduce unnecessary cloud and AI spending, raised a $60M Series B led by Accel, bringing its total funding to $100M (Maria Armental/Wall Street Journal)

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NY-based A Security, which uses AI to automate offensive cybersecurity, emerges from stealth with $37M in funding from Lightspeed, Wiz's Assaf Rapaport, others (Lily Mae Lazarus/Fortune)

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Amazon announces a multiyear, multibillion-dollar deal with Corning to produce optical fiber for its US data centers; Corning shares jump 8%+ (Katie Tarasov/CNBC)

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FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried formally applies for a presidential pardon; he was sentenced to 25 years in prison in 2024, following the FTX collapse (Bloomberg)

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A study estimates the iPhone's diffusion explains 33%-52% of the decline in US births from 2007 to 2011, with the most pronounced effects among women aged 15-24 (Sabrina Tavernise/New York Times)

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Meta says it's filing a federal court contempt order against NSO for violating a permanent injunction that barred NSO from ever targeting WhatsApp and its users (Jaspreet Singh/Reuters)

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Sources: Google recently placed an order with Intel to manufacture 3M+ TPUs in 2028; Nvidia is testing Intel's tech for a new processor and running 18A trials (Qianer Liu/The Information)

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Sources: the US urged NATO allies to channel defense spending toward efforts to replace components from Huawei in their networks and critical infrastructure (Bloomberg)

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Bending Spoons files for a US IPO, reporting a net income of $27.5M on revenue of $601M in Q1, vs. a net loss of $112.2M on revenue of $259M a year earlier (Arasu Kannagi Basil/Reuters)

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Travis Kalanick, Mark Pincus, and other founders share their horror stories of pitching to VCs; Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince publicly calls out Vinod Khosla (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)

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A look at Ireland's Bring Your Own Power policy, which requires new data centers to have their own power plants on site or contracts for energy produced nearby (Yusuf Khan/Wall Street Journal)

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UK PM Keir Starmer says tech companies must introduce "device controls" that stop kids from sending and receiving nude images or face laws forcing them to do so (Reuters)

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In a notice to Maine's AG, Meta says 20,225+ Instagram accounts may have been hacked during the months-long abuse of its Meta AI chatbot, starting on April 17 (Zack Whittaker/~this week in security~)

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Report: UK PM Keir Starmer is set to announce a ban on "harmful" online platforms for children under 16 while maintaining access to some "safer" social media (Reuters)

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Meta Says 20,000 Instagram Accounts Hacked Via AI Tool Abuse (Eduard Kovacs/SecurityWeek)

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London-based PhysicsX, which uses AI to design industrial parts like jet engines and semiconductors, raised a $300M Series C led by Temasek at a $2.4B valuation (Mark Bergen/Bloomberg)

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Nvidia and LG expand their partnership in AI, robotics, and mobility tech, including building an AI factory and co-designing future data center architectures (Choi Eun-Kyung/The Chosun Daily)

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Xbox EVP Matt Booty clarifies Microsoft's new exclusivity strategy, saying new games will be reviewed case-by-case and multiplayer games will stay multiplatform (Eddie Makuch/GameSpot)

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Sources: Spotify has approached concert promoters about licensing music festival livestreams, aiming to add more video to become a one-stop shop for music fans (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)

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Sources: Beijing-based Moonshot, which makes the Kimi chatbot, is in talks to raise up to $2B at a $30B valuation, up from a $20B+ valuation in a May round (Bloomberg)

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Microsoft says it will tighten human rights controls when working with national security agencies after an inquiry found Israel's Unit 8200 violated its ToS (The Guardian)

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UK-based Creator Fund closes a $56M fund to back European PhD founders, reaching them in universities before they're pulled into academia, Big Tech, or US labs (Mike Butcher/Pathfounders)

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Fusion energy startup Helion raised a $465M Series G led by Thrive Capital at a $15.5B valuation, nearly tripling the valuation from its January 2025 round (Tim De Chant/TechCrunch)

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Nvidia and SK Hynix sign a multiyear chip deal to develop next-gen memory; SK Hynix will diversify into infrastructure, physical AI, and memory for Vera Rubin (Yoolim Lee/Bloomberg)

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Nvidia says South Korea-based Naver will use Nvidia's DSX tech to build AI factories at "gigawatt scale" to meet global demand for AI services and physical AI (Heekyong Yang/Reuters)

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As wealth managers confront an AI reckoning, the tech is, for now, easing their workloads by picking up routine tasks, freeing up more time to advise clients (Bloomberg)

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KPMG survey: only 26% of companies have a comprehensive view of their AI costs, while 50% have some visibility and 22% have none or only see costs after billing (Wall Street Journal)

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Inside the early 2025 senior exec meeting where Apple admitted its AI failures; Tim Cook became intimately involved in Apple's AI roadmap around the same time (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

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Memory chip vendors say CXMT's DDR5 prices match Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron, and it has a supply advantage in client markets as it is not prioritizing HBM (Hassan Mujtaba/Wccftech)

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Entries updated Jun 8, 2026 09:35:08 AM PDT

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