AI Reading for Tuesday June 10

Apple keeps AI a bit lower-key after over-promising last year, seems to be really lagging Google but has a few tricks up its sleeve.

Apple tiptoes with modest AI updates while rivals race ahead - Ars Technica

Apple WWDC 2025: the 13 biggest announcements - The Verge

Apple adds AI features at WWDC - Bloomberg

Also vibecoding in Xcode - TechCrunch

Apple’s Spotlight upgrades look like a power-user dream, taking feature from Alfred and Raycast - The Verge

Apple Announces Foundation Models Framework for Developers to Leverage AI - MacRumors

Apple claims major AI advance with image generation technology rivaling DALL-E and Midjourney - VentureBeat

Zuckerberg Is Personally Recruiting New ‘Superintelligence’ AI Team at Meta - Bloomberg

Meta Is Creating a New A.I. Lab to Pursue ‘Superintelligence’ - NY Times

wut: OpenAI taps Google in unprecedented cloud deal despite AI rivalry and Microsoft alliance, sources say - Reuters

ChatGPT experienced (ing?) an outage - TechRadar

A lot of stuff not working for me this morning, not just ChatGPT. Not sure if this is even going out. The struggle is real.

OpenAI claims to have hit $10B in annual recurring revenue - TechCrunch

OpenAI updates ChatGPT's voice mode with more natural-sounding speech - TechCrunch

A top Wall Street analyst used ChatGPT and Gemini to assess Google risks. He came away impressed. - Business Insider

Researcher pits AIs against each other in Diplomacy. OpenAI's o3 model won by using deception, Google's Gemini 2.5 succeeded through positional power plays, while Anthropic's Claude tended to prioritize peace over victory. - Business Insider

Amazon to invest $20 billion in Pennsylvania to expand cloud infrastructure, less than a week after announcing $10b in North Carolina - Reuters

News Sites Are Getting Crushed by Google’s New AI Tools (might not be just the AI) - The Wall Street Journal

Huawei chips are one generation behind US, both China and US overstate its progress, but firm is finding workarounds - Reuters

AI Is Coming for Your Job, Much Faster Than Anyone Thought - Decrypt - Decrypt

IT unemployment jumps from 4.6% to 5.5% in US: Janco. Slim pickings outside of AI, bot babysitters, blockchain bullshit - The Register

TIL Accenture has 800,000 employees worldwide - Bloomberg

probably wrong but these are some numbers from ChatGPT. my base case thesis would be AI might take over a lot of low-value-added coding, ops, support stuff, make a 25% dent in these numbers

LLM costs are coming down fast. - Snellman

How to find the right business use cases for generative AI - break things down, do evals, consider all the costs - MIT Sloan

The arrival of truly intelligent, always-on, AI-native sales engines is dismantling the way we’ve structured go-to-market for 20 years. - Hacker Noon

Takeaways from the AI Engineer World’s Fair: The startup playbook is being rewritten in real-time - GeekWire

Artificial intelligence can be an invaluable learning tool — if you learn to avoid the pitfalls - Financial Times

How to get the most out of Google's free (for now) AI Studio - Fast Company

Using AI to plan a honeymoon. In other news, there are still travel agents? - Business Insider

AI can’t burn out like a doctor but also can’t care like a doctor - The BMJ

Study finds AI boosting radiologists' efficiency up to 40% without sacrificing accuracy - www.healthday.com

China orders trial of aged care robots that can cook, clean - The Register

AI to look at all your expenses and tell you how much you’re wasting on avocado toast and lattes - The Verge

Deepfakes and misinformation — how to tell the facts from the fiction - Financial Times

The Pentagon is gutting the team that tests AI and weapons systems. - MIT Technology Review

The British government announced that it will allow limited self-driving pilots on UK roads as early as next year. Uber and British AV firm Wayve are gearing up. - WIRED

After cars destroyed in protests, Waymo suspends operations in parts of LA and San Francisco - SiliconANGLE

Waymo halts service in downtown Los Angeles amid ICE protests - Los Angeles Times

How Austin became the new robotaxi capital of America - Fast Company

Swedish ‘Vibe Coding’ Startup Lovable in Talks for \$1.5 Billion Valuation. - Bloomberg

Replit, which in the same space and ballpark valuation, was out trashing their cybersecurity recently. From their head of dev relations - - Matt's Website

The strange story of Kalshi's non-deal with xAI, tweets deleted, Bloomberg story retracted. - Hacker Noon

Musk’s ownAI claims he took Stephen Miller’s wife LOL - The Daily Beast

End-to-end encryption but we've got the keys, GTFO xAI - A Few Thoughts on Cryptographic Engineering

Claude’s AI-written blog about AI is no more. - TechCrunch

Web pioneer Tim Bray is not a fan of AI - ongoing by Tim Bray

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