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Super Micro begins an independent probe into the indictment of three people for export control violations and an internal review of its trade compliance program (Harshita Mary Varghese/Reuters)

Anthropic hires Microsoft executive Eric Boyd as head of infrastructure; Boyd oversaw Microsoft's AI platform and worked at the company for 16 years (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)

Z.ai releases GLM-5.1, a 754B-parameter model that it says outperforms GPT-5.4 and Claude Opus 4.6 on SWE-bench Pro, available under an MIT license (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)

A group of US agencies including the FBI and the NSA warns that Iran-linked hackers have targeted industrial control devices used in US critical infrastructure (Andy Greenberg/Wired)

Google rolls out an AI Enhance button for Photos on Android globally, offering automated lighting and contrast adjustments, and video playback speed controls (Andrew Romero/9to5Google)

Elon Musk amends his OpenAI lawsuit to ask that damages he might win be awarded to OpenAI's charity arm and that Altman be removed from OpenAI's nonprofit board (Jessica Toonkel/Wall Street Journal)

Anthropic says Mythos Preview achieves 93.9% on SWE-bench Verified, compared with 80.8% for Opus 4.6, and 77.8% on SWE-bench Pro, versus 53.4% for Opus 4.6 (Michael Nuñez/VentureBeat)

Q&A with OpenAI President Greg Brockman about OpenAI's research direction, how far it can push Codex, closing Sora, betting on text vs. world models, and more (Alex Kantrowitz/Big Technology)

Anthropic says Mythos Preview is a general-purpose model and found thousands of high-severity vulnerabilities, including some in every major OS and web browser (Anthropic)

Google updates Chrome with vertical tabs, a feature that Mozilla Firefox and Microsoft Edge have long offered, and a new full-screen layout in reading mode (Lance Whitney/ZDNET)

Interviews with Anthropic executives on why Claude Mythos Preview is a cybersecurity "reckoning", it is not releasing it publicly over misuse concerns, and more (Kevin Roose/New York Times)

Waterloo-based Mappedin, which uses AI and LiDAR to create and maintain 3D digital maps of indoor spaces, raised $24.5M, bringing its total funding to $35M (Chris Metinko/Axios)

Anthropic's Project Glasswing launch partners include AWS, Apple, Broadcom, Cisco, CrowdStrike, Google, Microsoft, Nvidia, and Palo Alto Networks (David Gewirtz/ZDNET)

Anthropic announces Project Glasswing, a cybersecurity initiative that will use its Claude Mythos Preview model to help find and fix software vulnerabilities (Anthropic)

Anthropic commits up to $100M in usage credits for Project Glasswing, along with $4M in direct donations to open-source security organizations (Greg Otto/CyberScoop)

Anthropic says it will make Claude Mythos Preview available to 40+ organizations that maintain critical software and doesn't plan to make it generally available (Lucas Ropek/TechCrunch)

Sources say Apple will announce its foldable iPhone in September alongside the iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max, rebutting a report about production delays (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

The UK says Russia-linked hacking group APT28 is hijacking popular internet routers from MikroTik, TP-Link, and others to steal credentials and redirect traffic (Ryan Gallagher/Bloomberg)

Los Angeles-based Hermeus, which aims to build unmanned hypersonic fighter aircraft, raised $200M led by Khosla Ventures and $150M in debt at a $1B valuation (Sean O'Kane/TechCrunch)

Asus Zenbook A16 review: 48GB of RAM is great for $1,599 and Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme is speedy, but the chassis feels cheap and the battery life lags rivals (Andrew E. Freedman/Tom's Hardware)

True Footage, which uses AI trained on years of appraisal data to generate property valuations, raised a $40M Series C led by Cox Enterprises' Socium Ventures (Natalie Breymeyer/Axios)

Spotify expands Prompted Playlists, its AI feature for creating playlists, to include podcasts, for Premium users in the US, Canada, the UK, and other countries (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

The Trump administration proposes cutting CISA's budget for 2027 by $707M+ to help the agency refocus on its "core mission", not "weaponization and waste" (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)

Intel says it will join Elon Musk's Terafab AI chip complex project along with SpaceX, xAI, and Tesla to help produce processors for robotics and data centers (Deborah Sophia/Reuters)

Aria Networks, which builds what it calls the world's first AI-native network to work with any AI chip, raised a $125M Series A from Sutter Hill and others (Juby Babu/Reuters)

Q&A with Sundar Pichai on the history of Google and AI, speed and Search, Google's AI comeback, bottlenecks, capital allocation, how Google works, and more (John Collison/Cheeky Pint)

GoDaddy integrates Cloudflare's AI Crawl Control into its hosting platform, enabling site owners to block, permit, or possibly monetize automated crawler access (Alistair Barr/Business Insider)

Natter, an AI platform for large-scale video conversation insights, raised a $23M Series A led by Renegade Partners and says it grew revenue 5x in 2025 (Chris Metinko/Axios)

Adobe launches Acrobat Spaces, a free AI-based study tool to help students generate flashcards, mind maps, quizzes, and Express presentations without logging in (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

Silicon Valley investors say annual recurring revenue, a popular metric with AI startups, cannot be trusted because it has no SEC definition and can be massaged (Annie Bang/Bloomberg)

Q&A with UpScrolled founder Issam Hijazi, who says the non-algorithmic social app hit 5M users, mainstream apps were censoring pro-Palestinian content, and more (Katie Drummond/Wired)

Kalshi signs a deal with Fox Corp. to integrate its forecasts into Fox News, Fox Business Network, Fox One, and Fox Weather, following deals with CNN and CNBC (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)

Google is updating Gemini to add a UI that triggers support hotline referrals and a "help is available" module when chats indicate potential crises like suicide (Mark Bergen/Bloomberg)

The US IRS is yet to issue guidelines on whether prediction market gains should be taxed as derivatives, gambling winnings, or income, worrying accountants (Kate Knibbs/Wired)

Analysis: Gemini 3-based AI Overviews are accurate ~90% of the time, meaning across 5T+ searches per year, tens of millions of answers are erroneous every hour (New York Times)

The US Treasury says Robinhood and BNY will work with the federal government to handle tax-sheltered "Trump Accounts" for children when they launch this summer (Stacy Cowley/New York Times)

MLB rolls out "robot umps", or an Automated Ball-Strike System, using Sony-made advanced cameras to help officiate games, but it often validates human umpires (Austin Carr/Bloomberg)

South Korea is deploying thousands of ChatGPT-enabled social care robots to help elderly people; over-65s now account for ~20% of the country's 51M people (Financial Times)

Polymarket plans to launch the CTF Exchange V2 upgrade within the next three weeks, including a rebuilt trading engine and a native, USDC-backed USD stablecoin (Daniel Kuhn/The Block)

Sources: Meta has an internal leaderboard dubbed "Claudeonomics" where employees compete on AI-token usage and earn rewards like "Token Legend" status (Jyoti Mann/The Information)

Israel-based Q-Factor, which is developing a quantum computer based on neutral atom technology, emerges from stealth with a $24M seed led by NFX and TPY Capital (Sophie Shulman/CTech)

A cryptography engineer calls for urgent rollout of post-quantum cryptography schemes, saying the risk of inaction is now unacceptable, after Google's warning (Filippo Valsorda)

OpenAI announces a Safety Fellowship program for external researchers, engineers, and practitioners to study the safety and alignment of advanced AI systems (OpenAI)

A look at the gold rush for firms claiming to help brands get cited by AI search tools, via tactics like hiding instructions behind "Summarize with AI" buttons (Mia Sato/The Verge)

A Taiwan intelligence report to lawmakers says China is targeting Taiwan to obtain its chip manufacturing tech and talent to break through global "containment" (Reuters)

Sources: AI music startup Suno's licensing talks with UMG and Sony have stalled; labels argue that AI tools like Suno rely on human-made music and should pay (Anna Nicolaou/Financial Times)

Oracle reinstates the CFO role, appointing Hilary Maxson after Safra Catz became principal financial officer in 2014, amid investor scrutiny over AI spending (Jaspreet Singh/Reuters)

A look at Tencent-backed Even Realities, which makes $600 G2 smartglasses with no camera; Omdia says AI smartglasses shipments grew 322% YoY to 8.7M in 2025 (William Langley/Financial Times)

Sources: Apple is facing issues in the test phase of its foldable iPhone that are taking longer than expected to resolve, potentially delaying mass production (Nikkei Asia)

Sources: Jeff Bezos' Project Prometheus hires xAI co-founder Kyle Kosic from OpenAI and has hundreds of staff across its San Francisco HQ, London, and Zurich (Financial Times)