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🤖 Claude Fable Developed Its Own Internal Language
During reinforcement learning, Claude Fable started using an unreadable internal style with strange jargon, unusual punctuation, and emojis in long rollout sessions. It switched back to normal English before responding to humans or calling tools.
Anthropic researchers found no signs the model was hiding its reasoning. Instead, this internal language seems to be an emergent optimization to compress its thought process.
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🍓 Dyson grows AI-powered strawberries
Dyson built large high-tech greenhouses in the UK where strawberries grow on 5.5-meter vertical structures that rotate like a Ferris wheel. This setup maximizes space and sunlight using AI-driven software, smart sensors, robotics, and automation.
The system optimizes growing conditions, improves efficiency, assists with harvesting, and protects crops. Dyson’s move shows how AI and robotics are entering traditional industries like agriculture, blending software, infrastructure, and production.
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🤖 Anthropic launches Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5
Anthropic released Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5. Claude Fable 5 is a Mythos-class model with cybersecurity protections for broad use. It leads on nearly all benchmarks in code, analytics, vision, and science, widening its lead as tasks get harder.
Mythos 5 is the same model without security limits, available only to Project Glasswing members. Both cost $10/$50 per million tokens, less than half the price of Mythos Preview. Stripe migrated 50 million lines of Ruby code in a day using these models, a task that took months before.
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🍏 Apple adds slider to adjust liquid glass effect
Apple introduced a new slider to control the "liquid glass" effect in its interface. The slider adjusts transparency from barely visible to fully saturated, with icons indicating the extremes.
The liquid glass effect changes the look of interface elements by varying their transparency and density. Users can now fine-tune this visual feature to their preference.
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🍏 Apple adds Write With Siri and photo reframing
Apple will embed Write With Siri directly into the keyboard, enabling natural language shortcuts like messaging friends when leaving the office. Photo processing will use a feature called reframing, letting users shift the camera angle on existing photos to improve composition, but full access requires iCloud+.
Developers can integrate Apple Intelligence into their apps, with all data processed locally for speed. However, this AI support remains English-only, unchanged since 2022.
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🎁 China launches first underwater data center
China activated the world's first underwater data center near Shanghai at the end of May. It runs on 192 server racks powered almost entirely by offshore wind turbines, using seawater for cooling through a sealed copper pipe system that cuts electricity use by nearly 23%.
The data center currently operates at 2.3 MW with a planned capacity of 24 MW, enough to power 20,000 homes. Its underwater location reduces land use by 90% compared to traditional centers.
This approach aims to save fresh water and energy but raises questions about long-term durability underwater and environmental impact on marine life.
While some explore orbital data centers, China is testing the ocean as a new frontier.
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🤖 ChatGPT can now send emails from chat
ChatGPT apps can now perform real actions in connected apps, including sending and editing emails. Important actions require user approval and have built-in security checks.
This lets users send and edit emails directly within the chat interface. ChatGPT acts more like a full work assistant by handling confidential tasks safely.
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Apple II released on this day in 1977.
It cost $7,100, adjusted for inflation.
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🤖 ChatGPT adds Dreaming for memory updates
ChatGPT now uses Dreaming to update its memory in the background by reviewing chat history and synthesizing current facts. This replaces the old static list of facts that often became outdated or irrelevant.
Dreaming tracks changes like a planned trip turning into a past event, for example updating 'user is going to Singapore' to 'user was in Singapore in July 2025.' OpenAI cut its computing cost by 5 times, making it ready for wider rollout.
The feature is live only for Plus and Pro users in the US so far, with other regions and plans coming soon.
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🧱 LEGO launches largest Sagrada Família set
LEGO's new set 21065 Sagrada Família has 12,060 pieces, making it the largest in the company's history. The completed model stands 62 cm tall, 47 cm wide, and 39 cm deep.
The set recreates the iconic basilica with 18 symbolic towers, three detailed facades, and a forest-like interior. Builders follow the real construction sequence, starting from the apse and crypt to the Glory facade.
It launches on November 1, priced at $800. LEGO points out this lets fans finish the masterpiece themselves, unlike the real cathedral still under construction after more than a century.
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🖥 Microsoft boosts qubit stability with Majorana 2
Microsoft's new quantum chip, Majorana 2, extends qubit lifetime to 20 seconds on average, reaching up to a minute in the best cases. This marks a 1000x stability improvement over last year's model.
The breakthrough comes from switching superconducting materials from aluminum to lead, which better shields qubits from external noise that causes errors.
Longer qubit lifetimes bring practical quantum computing closer, enabling complex tasks like drug discovery and logistics optimization. Microsoft now aims for a scalable quantum computer by 2029, halving its previous timeline.
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🖥 Microsoft unveils AI agent OS Project Solara
At Build, Microsoft introduced Project Solara, an OS for devices running on AI agents instead of traditional apps. It replaces manual app use with voice-controlled intelligent agents.
Solara runs on Android’s corporate MDEP version, enabling small, efficient devices with familiar IT management and security.
Microsoft showed two concept devices: a desktop gadget like an Echo Show with face unlock, and a wearable badge with a camera and fingerprint scanner that activates the agent with one tap. The badge can transcribe conversations and share visuals with the agent.
These devices won’t be sold but serve as reference designs for manufacturers.
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😭 Microsoft unveils a desktop AI box for developers
Microsoft introduced the Surface RTX Spark Dev Box, a compact PC built around Nvidia’s new Arm-based RTX Spark chip.
The device is designed for local AI development and can run models with up to 120B parameters without relying on cloud infrastructure.
It comes preloaded with Windows 11, VS Code, WSL, and PowerShell 7, targeting developers building and testing AI applications.
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🤖 Anthropic launches Claude Fable 5 with Mythos tech
Anthropic released Claude Fable 5, the first public model built on its Mythos technology. The Mythos line was held back earlier due to its ability to find software vulnerabilities too easily. Fable 5 offers the same power but with strict safety limits.
Claude Fable 5 outperforms the previous flagship Claude Opus 4.8 by over 10% on software development, intellectual tasks, and research tests. It refuses to answer risky queries in cybersecurity, biology, and chemistry, handing those off to older models.
Pricing is steep: $10 per million input tokens and $50 per million output tokens. This is twice the cost of Claude Opus 4.8 but half what Mythos Preview users paid.
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🍏 Safari adds AI-powered extension creation
At WWDC, Apple introduced a way to create Safari extensions by describing what you want in plain language. Apple Intelligence then builds the extension automatically, demonstrated with Recipe Keeper, which saves and tracks cooking recipes from the web.
Safari has long lagged behind Chrome and Firefox due to strict developer rules limiting extensions. This new approach could fill that gap by letting users generate custom extensions without coding.
Apple also enhanced Passwords with AI that can log into sites and update compromised passwords automatically. Notify Me tracks specific page changes like price drops or restocks. Tabs get smart sorting into thematic groups, improving browser organization.
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🚀 NASA Releases Hollywood-Style Artemis III Trailer
NASA unveiled an official trailer for the Artemis III mission, styled like a Hollywood blockbuster. The trailer precedes the crew reveal scheduled for June 9.
Artemis III will test rendezvous and docking with commercial lunar landers in low Earth orbit. These landers are essential for future astronaut trips to the Moon's surface.
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🍏 Apple adds one-tap password reset
Apple will let users change passwords for all apps with leaks in one tap. The update works in Passwords and inside affected apps.
The iPhone logs into apps automatically and updates login details, simplifying password fixes.
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🍏 Tim Cook's Final Apple CEO Presentation
Tim Cook gave his last presentation as Apple CEO before stepping down. The event marked the end of an era for the company.
Apple will continue with WWDC in the coming days, revealing more details about new system features.
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🤖 Bots Make Up Majority of Web Traffic
According to Cloudflare Radar, 57.5% of all HTML page requests last week came from bots, including crawlers, AI data collectors, and scripts.
Only 42.5% were from real users in browsers.
JSON now accounts for 33.1% of all HTTP traffic, surpassing HTML at 12%.
JSON is used for machine-to-machine API calls, while HTML is what humans see in browsers.
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🤖 Claude writes most of its own code now
By May, over 80% of the code in Anthropic's production base was written by Claude. In Q2, engineers merged eight times more code daily than in 2024, thanks to Claude automating much of the development work.
Claude is a model that improves itself and writes code to build its next version. Humans still lead in setting goals and handling complex context, but agents already outperform people in research tasks with clear metrics.
In one AI safety experiment, agents improved solutions by 97% in a week, while humans managed 23%. Anthropic sees this self-improving cycle accelerating faster than expected and calls for coordination tools, including possible pauses in frontier AI development.
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🎩 Tech Leaders Play Mafia on YouTube
The venture fund Founders Fund gathered 13 tech stars, including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Anduril cofounder Palmer Luckey, Figma founder Dylan Field, Signal creator Moxie Marlinspike, and biohacker Brian Johnson, to play the classic game Mafia. The entire session was recorded and posted online.
Players received secret roles as either townsfolk or mafia. The game lasted five rounds where bluffing and outsmarting opponents were the only weapons. The goal was to eliminate the opposing side through deduction and deception.
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⌨️ Asus ROG launches quirky Mystery Box keycaps
Asus ROG released a set of six keycaps sold as a Mystery Box Edition 20, marking the brand's 20th anniversary. Buyers get miniature ROG gadget replicas on crystal stalagmite stands, but the exact items remain unknown until opened.
The set includes tiny versions of the Gladius mouse, Raikiri controller, Claymore keyboard, Delta headset, and two ROG logo variations. Two keycaps have moving parts: the Chariot chair spins manually, and the Claymore keyboard splits into two pressable halves.
This playful release is clearly designed to encourage multiple purchases to collect all variants, especially the rarest keycaps.
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📊 Ray Dalio Predicts AI Bubble Burst
Investor Ray Dalio says the AI bubble will burst in the next few years unless startups start making billions. Currently, AI companies spend about 8 times more than they earn. The sector needs to generate $2 trillion annually by 2030 to justify current investments.
Dalio compares the AI bubble to past tech bubbles like dotcoms, where stock prices rose on hype but lacked real profits. He acknowledges AI will change the world but doubts its economic viability so far.
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🍏 Apple is building an iPhone feature to detect theft in real time
Apple is reportedly working on a system that automatically locks an iPhone if it detects that the device was snatched from its owner.
The feature would use motion data and proximity signals from nearby Apple Watches. If the phone detects a sudden grab, increasing distance from the watch, and an unfamiliar location or Wi-Fi network, it can trigger additional security protections.
The goal is to stop thieves from accessing settings, passwords, or account controls on an already unlocked device.
What's interesting is that this is both a security feature and another ecosystem advantage. The more Apple devices you own, the more signals the system can use to protect them.
Android has offered a similar Theft Detection Lock feature for some time. The difference is that Apple appears to be tying the experience more closely to its broader device ecosystem.
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🤖 OpenAI's top user burns 100B tokens monthly
Sam Altman revealed that OpenAI's most active internal user consumes over 100 billion tokens each month. He also noted an external client uses even more.
To put it in perspective, 100 billion tokens equal about 125 million pages or roughly 100,000 copies of War and Peace every month.
Token consumption records have surged about a million times in recent years, showing extreme scale even for enterprise use.
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🤖 Anthropic launches CLI for Claude API
Anthropic introduced CLI called ant to manage all Claude API resources from the terminal. Commands like ant models list and ant messages create let users interact directly with the platform.
The CLI supports defining agents in YAML and deploying them with a single command. This turns agents into version-controlled configurations that fit into Git workflows and CI/CD pipelines.
This approach is common in agent frameworks but now is officially integrated into Anthropic's Claude ecosystem, simplifying infrastructure management for developers.
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💻️ Nvidia launches DLSS 4.5 Ray Reconstruction
Nvidia introduced DLSS 4.5 Ray Reconstruction at Computex, compatible with all GeForce RTX cards including older RTX 20 series.
It uses a second-generation neural network trained on Nvidia’s supercomputer to clean up ray tracing noise by reconstructing missing pixels while combining denoising and resolution scaling.
This new engine delivers 35% more compute power and uses 20% more parameters at the same speed.
Nvidia claims it improves lighting accuracy and image stability in motion, reducing artifacts like ghosting in games such as Indiana Jones and refining screen noise effects in Alan Wake 2.
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🏎 Honda revealed its first passenger eVTOL flight
Honda quietly completed the first flight of its passenger eVTOL on April 1, but only disclosed it weeks later. The company has been developing the aircraft since the early 2020s, mostly out of public view.
Like projects from Joby Aviation and Archer Aviation, Honda is betting on electric vertical takeoff aircraft as a future alternative to short-distance air travel.
Honda's design uses 8 propellers, which the company says improves safety and reduces noise compared to helicopters.
Its biggest differentiator is range: while many eVTOLs target around 100 km, Honda's hybrid design aims for up to 400 km.
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