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A look at seven rebuttals to Apple's paper on limitations of Large Reasoning Models, and why none make a compelling case (Gary Marcus/Marcus on AI)
https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/seven-replies-to-the-viral-apple

Seven replies to the viral Apple reasoning paper – and why they fall short
Also: another paper that seals the deal

The Echo of a Mentor’s Nudge https://www.mustafatorun.me/the-echo-of-a-mentors-nudge/

The Echo of a Mentor’s Nudge
Reflections on how mentorship shaped my journey — and why I applied to be a TechWomen mentor.

America250, the nonprofit organizing the US Semiquincentennial celebration, says it received sponsorship commitments from Oracle, Amazon, Coinbase, and Palantir (Meridith McGraw/Wall Street Journal)
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Anthropic details how it built its multi-agent Claude Research system, claiming significant improvements in internal evaluations over single-agent systems (Anthropic)
https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/built-multi-agent-research-system

How we built our multi-agent research system
On the the engineering challenges and lessons learned from building Claude's Research system

A look at Apple's upgrades to CarPlay, iPadOS, and visionOS, and the new Liquid Glass redesign of its operating systems announced at WWDC (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters

Pactum, which helps companies automate supplier negotiations with AI and secure more favorable contractual terms, raised a $54M Series C led by Insight Partners (Maria Deutscher/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2025/06/09/pactum-raises-…

Pactum raises $54M for its procurement automation platform - SiliconANGLE
Pactum raises $54M for its procurement automation platform - SiliconANGLE

The US SEC rescinds 14 rules the agency proposed under the Biden Administration, including two relating to DeFi and digital asset custody (Martin Young/Cointelegraph)
https://cointelegraph.com/news/sec-axes-biden-era-proposed-rules-o…

Amazon plans to invest ~$13B in Australia from 2025 to 2029 to develop its data center infrastructure, as demand for cloud computing and AI grows in the country (Ainslie Chandler/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Taiwan imposes export controls on Huawei, SMIC, and some of their subsidiaries, restricting their access to tech and equipment necessary for AI chip production (Debby Wu/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Researchers find Llama 3.1 recalls large parts of popular copyrighted books, possibly weakening AI industry claims that such memorization is fringe behavior (Timothy B. Lee/Understanding AI)
https://www.understandingai.org/p/metas-llama-31-can-recall-42-perc…

Meta's Llama 3.1 can recall 42 percent of the first Harry Potter book
New research could have big implications for copyright lawsuits against generative AI.