Tech
AI Summary
- AI continues its relentless march with key figures like Meredith Whittaker cautioning against treating chatbots as friends, while Nobel laureate John Jumper departs DeepMind for Anthropic, signaling intense competition in the AI research space.
- The tech industry is seeing strategic moves in AI, with Snap spinning off its AI video team and Elastic acquiring Deductive AI, alongside reports of AI inference startup Baseten raising significant funding, indicating major investment and restructuring around AI technologies.
- Hardware and infrastructure remain critical, as highlighted by ASML facing scrutiny over potential chip tool sales to China and Google achieving a 50% IPv6 adoption rate, underscoring the ongoing importance of foundational tech advancements.
- The evolving landscape of consumer tech includes new iOS features, Aura's innovative e-ink photo frame, and discussions around the future of car infotainment systems, with manufacturers reconsidering Android Auto.
- Emerging technologies and market shifts are evident in areas like fusion startups attracting substantial investment, Waymo recalling robotaxis due to safety concerns, and the broader implications of governmental AI policies, such as potential bans impacting brands.
Sources
TechCrunch
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Signal’s Meredith Whittaker wants you to remember that AI chatbots ‘are not your friends’
16 hours ago
by Anthony Ha
AI, Security, Meredith Whittaker, signal"These are not your friends. These are not conscious beings. These are not sentient interlocutors.”
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In the Weights is your new AI-centric vanity search
17 hours ago
by Anthony Ha
AI, in th weights, Joey Flynn, thomas dimsonSo ... what's your In the Weights score?
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Founders Fund’s outlier bet on humanely killed fish
18 hours ago
by Connie Loizos
Robotics, Startups, TC, Delian Asparouhov, saif khawaja, shinkei systemsShinkei makes a refrigerator-sized robot called Poseidon to kill fish quickly and humanely.
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Nobel laureate John Jumper is leaving DeepMind for rival Anthropic
20 hours ago
by Anthony Ha
AI, Anthropic, Google, John JumperJumper isn't the only big name leaving Google DeepMind.
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Every new iOS 27 feature that’s worth knowing about
21 hours ago
by Lauren Forristal
Hardware, Apps, Apple, wwdc, Apple Maps, apple wallet, evergreens, iOS 27While it's not flashy like Apple’s new Siri AI and Apple Intelligence upgrades, there are still a number of additions to iOS 27 worth looking at.
Hacker News
- A 3D voxel game engine written in APL 4 hours ago
- Google Hits 50% IPv6 4 hours ago
- Developers don't understand CORS (2019) 11 hours ago
- Zigzag Decoding with AVX-512 4 days ago
- Loupe – A iOS app that raises awareness about what native apps can see a day ago
Engadget
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NASA is testing a rover that can drive faster and lift its wheels to climb obstacles
18 hours ago
by Cheyenne MacDonald
SpaceThe space agency shared footage of tests with its Ernest prototype rover.
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Epic is working on a 'ground-up rebuild' of its launcher that will be 5x faster
19 hours ago
by Jackson Chen
GamingLauncher V2 will go through a private beta before a public release.
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NASA's Swift Boost mission will launch later this month to rescue a falling telescope
19 hours ago
by Mariella Moon
SpaceNASA mission to save a falling space telescope is ready to launch.
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Claude Guillemot, one of Ubisoft's co-founders, has died in a plane crash
21 hours ago
by Jackson Chen
GamingThe crash reportedly happened on an airstrip near the western coast of France on June 19.
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How to personalize the screensaver on your Kindle
21 hours ago
by Mariella Moon
TabletsOnce you remove lockscreen ads and toggle on book covers, here's what else you can do to customize your Kindle's screensaver.
The Verge
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Sony’s Xperia 1 VIII is still a phone for the fans
an hour ago
by Dominic Preston
Gadgets, Mobile, Phone Reviews, Phones, Reviews, Sony, TechThe 1 VIII doesn’t look much like any Xperia that’s come before. The Xperia 1 VIII marks an attempt at a step change for Sony's flagship phone line. Not only has it had an aesthetic overhaul, but Sony has also revamped the camera system, dropping the continuous optical zoom telephoto that's defined the last four generations of Xperia phone . It's not all different. Sony staples like a 3.5mm headphone jack and microSD card slot remain, and a few specific design touches, like a thick front bezel that fits stereo speakers, have stayed intact. Sony's ambitious pricing hasn't changed either:
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The Atlantic created a searchable database of the music used to train AI
18 hours ago
by Terrence O’Brien
AI, Entertainment, Music, NewsAtlantic reporter Alex Reisner recently uncovered four datasets of music being used to train AI models and made them fully searchable for the public. Two of the sets are absolutely enormous at 12 million and 9 million tracks. The other two are much smaller, but still represent a significant amount of training data at over 100,000 songs each. According to Reisner, the sets have been downloaded thousands of times and, while it's impossible to know exactly who has used them, Google and Stability have both confirmed they have in research papers. Some of the sources, like the Free Music Archive
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Musician and YouTuber Hainbach on ‘Breath of the Wild’ and Swiss Army Knives
21 hours ago
by Terrence O’Brien
Creators, Entertainment, Interview, Music, Report, Streaming, Tech, YouTubeIndulging in the “Dark Souls of synthesis.” | Image: Aleksander Stojanov / Hainbach Stefan Paul Goetsch, better known as Hainbach, is a German experimental composer, artist, and YouTuber who is perhaps most famous for making music with laboratory equipment and scientific instruments. He describes it as being like the " Dark Souls of synthesis ." Despite using "hard mode" production techniques that often rely on telephone line testing equipment and gear salvaged from nuclear testing facilities, Hainbach is also incredibly prolific , releasing six albums in 2025 alone, along with a handful of singles and EPs. His latest, Gentle Hum
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Moves of the Diamond Hand is an unfinished, irresistibly weird dice-based RPG
a day ago
by Adi Robertson
Games Review, GamingFrom its opening minutes, Moves of the Diamond Hand is upfront about what it offers: You're going to have a lot of strange conversations, and you're going to roll a lot of dice. Get on board with this proposition, and the reward is one of the most creative roleplaying games I've seen in years, even if its many mysteries won't be resolved until 2027. Moves of the Diamond Hand is an Early Access videogame available on PC, macOS, and steamOS (including the Steam Deck, where I played it) from musician and game designer Cosmo D. The game looks and feels
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Toy Story has the right take on tech
a day ago
by David Pierce
Gadgets, Installer, Streaming, TechHi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 133, your guide to the best and Verge -iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, happy belated Juneteenth, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage .) This week, I've been reading about Sam Bankman-Fried and PE Guy and admin nights (which we should totally all do together one of these days), listening to Paul McCartney on Song Exploder , trudging through the bugs of the iOS 27 beta in order to use the good new Siri, once again trying and failing to switch to YouTube
Wired
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Wooting 60HE v2: Peak Keyboard Perfection
an hour ago
by Henri Robbins
Gear, Gear / Reviews, Gear / Products / Gaming, Product, ReviewWooting’s 60HE v2 isn’t just a terrific Hall Effect keyboard. It’s a fantastic keyboard period.
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The Best NAS Devices for Your Home After Months of Testing
2 hours ago
by Simon Hill
Gear, Gear / Buying Guides, Gear / Products / Computers, Buying, GuideNetwork-attached storage (NAS) provides accessible shared space on your home network. After testing, these are my favorite NAS devices.
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28 Tips to Take Your ChatGPT Prompts to the Next Level
2 hours ago
by David Nield
Gear / How To and Advice, Gear, Hello, WorldSure, anyone can use OpenAI’s chatbot. But with smart engineering, you can get way more interesting results.
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If You’re Searching for a New Skillet, Consider Stainless Steel
2 hours ago
by Joe Ray
Gear, Gear / How To and Advice, Smart, KitchenStainless-steel pans may lack nonstick coatings, but they’re unfussy, they sear well, and they’re built for a lifetime of hard work.
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Buying a Used iPhone Makes More Sense Than Ever
2 hours ago
by Boone Ashworth
Gear, Gear / Gear News and Events, UpcycleWith Apple raising prices soon, you can save a lot of money by buying a used handset or upgrading an older device—safe in the knowledge that it'll last longer than ever.