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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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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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