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💥 Anthropic reveals Claude Opus 4.7

⚡ Musk asks chipmakers to move at "light speed"

👀 Apple sends Siri engineers to AI coding bootcamp

🏴‍☠️ Spotify just won $322 million from music pirates it can’t find

🏛️ Google and Pentagon discuss classified AI deal

🛰️ Starlink outage disrupts US Navy drone tests

🎁 + 15 other news & articles you might like

🧰 + 6 trending tools

📚 + 3 trending papers & reports

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💥 Anthropic reveals Claude Opus 4.7 LINK
  • Opus 4.7 improves on Opus 4.6 in advanced software engineering, with particular gains on the most difficult coding tasks, handling complex long-running work with rigor while devising ways to verify its own outputs.
  • Though less broadly capable than Claude Mythos Preview — which remains Anthropic's most powerful and best-aligned model — Opus 4.7 beats Opus 4.6 across a range of benchmarks in coding, vision, and document reasoning.
  • Anthropic trained Opus 4.7 with efforts to differentially reduce its cyber capabilities below Mythos Preview, and is using its deployment to test safeguards before an eventual broad release of Mythos-class models.
⚡ Musk asks chipmakers to move at "light speed" LINK
  • Musk's team asked chipmaking equipment suppliers like Applied Materials, Tokyo Electron, and Lam Research to move at "light speed," seeking fast price quotes and delivery timelines for gear needed to build the Terafab project.
  • The Terafab joint venture between Tesla and SpaceX plans to start with a pilot line processing 3,000 wafers per month, with a goal to begin silicon manufacturing by 2029, though no fixed orders have been placed yet.
  • Samsung proposed giving Tesla more capacity at its planned Texas factory instead of directly supporting Terafab, while Intel said it would join the initiative after Musk visited its Santa Clara office.
👀 Apple sends Siri engineers to AI coding bootcamp LINK
  • Apple is sending a group of fewer than 200 Siri engineers to a multi-week bootcamp where they will learn to code using AI tools, according to a report from The Information.
  • AI coding tools like Anthropic's Claude Code and OpenAI's Codex have already taken off in other parts of Apple, with some teams allocating large budgets specifically for Claude Code.
  • The bootcamp comes ahead of WWDC26 on June 8, where Apple is expected to announce a revamped Siri powered by Google's Gemini models after multiple delays and leadership changes.
🏴‍☠️ Spotify just won $322 million from music pirates it can’t find LINK
  • Spotify and the three major labels won a $322 million default judgment against Anna's Archive after the pirate activist group scraped 86 million songs from Spotify's platform.
  • Judge Jed Rakoff awarded Spotify $300 million and UMG, WMG, and Sony Music $22.2 million collectively, plus a permanent injunction requiring internet service providers to block the website.
  • Enforcing the ruling will be difficult because the operators behind Anna's Archive remain unknown, and the group has previously relaunched on new domain names to avoid shutdowns.
🏛️ Google and Pentagon discuss classified AI deal LINK
  • Google is in talks with the Pentagon to strike a classified AI deal that would let the Department of Defense run its Gemini models in classified settings for all lawful uses.
  • During negotiations, Google has proposed contract language that would block its AI from being used for domestic mass surveillance or autonomous weapons without appropriate human control.
  • The deal would help Alphabet grow its government ties as the US pushes to embed artificial intelligence into its processes to cut costs and speed up administrative work.
🛰️ Starlink outage disrupts US Navy drone tests LINK
  • A global Starlink outage last August knocked out communications for two dozen unmanned Navy vessels during a drone test off the California coast, halting operations for nearly an hour.
  • Internal Navy documents show multiple test disruptions tied to SpaceX's satellite network, including an April 2025 incident where Starlink struggled under the high data load of controlling several drones.
  • The incidents highlight Pentagon risks from depending heavily on a single company, SpaceX, which holds a near-monopoly in low-earth orbit communications and space launches for the US military.

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Other news & articles you might like

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  • Canva’s AI assistant can now call various tools to make designs for you LINK
  • YouTube now lets you hide Shorts LINK
  • TSMC first-quarter profit rises 58%, beats estimates as AI demand fuels record run LINK
  • EU Is Rolling Out an Online Age Verification App That Could Become the Global Blueprint LINK
  • OpenAI updates its Agents SDK to help enterprises build safer, more capable agents LINK
  • Meta raises Quest 3 and Quest 3S prices due to RAM shortage LINK
  • Alphabet could make over $100B from SpaceX IPO: report LINK
  • Boston Dynamics’ robot dog now reads gauges and thermometers with Google's AI LINK
  • Feds will require data centers to show their power bills LINK
  • Apple and Google are reportedly pointing users to 'nudify' apps LINK
  • Apple Hits Record 30% Recycled Content Across All Products in 2025 LINK
  • Engineer open-sources DIY radar system that's 95% cheaper than $250,000 commercial offerings, has 20 kilometer range LINK

🧰 Trending tools

Clutch: Choosing an AI agency is tough, so skip the hype and pick firms vetted by real clients on Clutch, where verified reviews show real results instead of polished pitch decks. Find top AI developers on Clutch
Subspace: a network-as-a-service platform that optimizes real-time application performance through global infrastructure for gaming, video, voice, and latency-sensitive apps. LINK
X-Pilot: converts documentation into video courses using programmatic rendering via Remotion, ensuring accurate formulas, diagrams, and code without AI hallucinations. LINK
Resend CLI 2.0: command-line tool for building, testing, and sending transactional emails with developer-friendly workflows and improved deliverability to avoid spam folders. LINK
FunKey: a Mac menu bar app that adds realistic mechanical keyboard and mouse click sounds to enhance typing feedback and make work more engaging. LINK
Google Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS: converts text to speech with multi-speaker support, inline audio control, and 70+ languages for building voice agents and content applications. LINK
Subagents in Gemini CLI: enables AI agents to delegate specialized tasks to other agents within Google's Gemini command-line interface for complex workflows. LINK

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📚 Trending papers & reports

Bringing AI to Finance: Your free guide to understanding how intelligent automation is transforming finance teams, improving accuracy, and accelerating day-to-day operations. Get the free AI guide.
> Lyra 2.0 is a framework that generates persistent 3D worlds by maintaining per-frame geometry to retrieve relevant past frames and training with self-augmented histories, preventing spatial forgetting and temporal drifting during long camera trajectories. LINK
> Large language models produce more inaccurate information and hallucinations for users with lower English proficiency, less education, and those from outside the US, making them least reliable for the most vulnerable users. LINK
> Personalized AI systems for investing fail because investor behavior changes over time, contradicts itself, and lacks clear right answers, unlike stable preference domains where these systems currently work. LINK

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