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Sources: the White House's move to restrict Mythos 5 came after it ordered Anthropic to revoke South Korea-based SK Telecom's access over alleged ties to China (www.wired.com)
2026-6-18 China Korea

Snap unveils $2,195 Specs, its first “fully standalone” AR glasses, which have a 51-degree field of view, set to ship “this fall” in the US, the UK, and France (www.theverge.com)
2026-6-18 France AR

Filing: Roelof Botha has joined the board of SpaceX as an independent director, seven months after stepping down as Sequoia steward (fortune.com)
2026-6-18 SpaceX

Google confirms it has ended production of the Nest Mini and Nest Audio, but existing devices will continue to be fully supported (www.techadvisor.com)
2026-6-18 Google

Noam Shazeer leaves Google to join OpenAI as lead for architecture research; he rejoined Google in 2024 as part of the Character.AI deal and was Gemini co-lead (www.theinformation.com)
2026-6-18 Google AI

At AWS Summit, AWS announced Continuum, which uses AI to find and fix code vulnerabilities, Context, which organizes company data for AI agents, and more (www.geekwire.com)
2026-6-18 AI

Frontier, a group including Stripe, Google, Salesforce, and newly joined Anthropic, commits $915M to buy carbon-removal credits, on top of $1B already pledged (www.wsj.com)
2026-6-18 Google Salesforce

Microsoft Working To Patch 'RoguePlanet' Zero-Day (it.slashdot.org)
2026-6-18 Microsoft

Trump administration officials say Anthropic must ensure Fable 5's guardrails can't be circumvented before rerelease; experts say that may not be possible (www.wired.com)
2026-6-18 Trump

Study: Mistral and other open-source AI models are among the worst at filtering out Russian disinformation; Mistral's top model ranks 47 out of 60 tested models (www.ft.com)
2026-6-18 Russia AI

Smartphone Market To Shrink 15% This Year Due To Memory Crisis (mobile.slashdot.org)
2026-6-18

Apple's planned move of Hide My Email aliases to private.icloud.com will let services easily distinguish them from normal iCloud email addresses and block them (arseniyshestakov.com)
2026-6-18 Apple

Google to use UK and EU user IP addresses for ad personalization (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-6-18 Google

Mastodon adds email newsletters, letting writers send their posts directly to subscribers' inboxes, even to readers without a Mastodon account (techcrunch.com)
2026-6-18

Carvana Is Turning Dealerships Into 'Playgrounds,' Test-Drive Centers With Sales All Online (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-6-18

In an interview, Tim Cook says Apple price hikes are “unavoidable” to offset surging memory and storage chip costs, and “the situation has become unsustainable” (www.wsj.com)
2026-6-18 Interview Apple Tim Cook

Snap's stock closed down 8.14% on Wednesday, after the company launched the $2,195 Specs AR glasses on Tuesday; SNAP is down ~41% YTD (techcrunch.com)
2026-6-18 AR

Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI Back Linux Foundation's Appia AI Standards Initiative (linux.slashdot.org)
2026-6-18 Linux Google Microsoft AI

Bernie Sanders proposes legislation to create a sovereign wealth fund financed via a one-time 50% stock tax on AI companies that reach $200M in annual AI sales (apnews.com)
2026-6-18 Tax AI

Anthropic updates Claude Design with design system imports, bidirectional integration with Claude Code, lower token consumption, and more export destinations (venturebeat.com)
2026-6-18

Sources: Apple is testing a second-generation iPhone Air, planned for spring 2027, with a second rear camera for ultrawide-angle photos and better battery life (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-18 iPhone Apple Battery

Epic says Unreal Engine 6, planned for early access in late 2027, will unify UE5 and Unreal Editor for Fortnite, add integrations with Claude and Gemini, more (www.videogameschronicle.com)
2026-6-18

Anthropic Employees Accuse Trump Administration of Targeting Them (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-6-18 Trump

Sources: Amodei, Altman, and Hassabis called for US-led collaboration on AI rules at the G7 summit; Macron and Modi raised concerns over the US block on Mythos (www.ft.com)
2026-6-18 AI

Sources: Dario Amodei and Demis Hassabis called for a US-led coalition to shape AI rules and standards at a closed-door meeting at the G7 summit on Wednesday (www.cnbc.com)
2026-6-18 AI

AI Will Lead To Labor Shortages, Bezos Says In Optimistic Talk (slashdot.org)
2026-6-18 AI

This refurbished Apple Watch Series 11 is on sale for $325 while stock lasts (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-6-18 Apple

Epic Games Announces Lore Open-Source Version Control System (news.slashdot.org)
2026-6-18

A look at chaos inside Anthropic after disabling Fable 5 and Mythos 5 with less than 90 minutes of notice, as some staff wonder if Trump is bullying the startup (www.nytimes.com)
2026-6-18 Trump Startup

Paris-based Comand AI, which is developing AI-based command-and-control software for military operations, raised a €32M Series A led by Blossom Capital (resiliencemedia.co)
2026-6-18 AI Paris

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