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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

A White House memo says David Sacks and Craft Ventures are divesting holdings in AI companies and hyperscalers like xAI and Meta (Dan Primack/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/13/david-sacks-xai-meta-ai

David Sacks selling stakes in xAI, Meta and other AI companies
Sacks entered the Trump administration with a slew of investments that could have created conflicts of interest.

As the world moves toward digital artificiality, Airbnb's redesign and Apple's Liquid Glass UI bring back skeuomorphism and dimensionality to digital interfaces (Austin Carr/Bloomberg)

A profile of Chess.com, which has popularized online chess among pro athletes, as CEO Erik Allebest says the site has over $100M in annual revenue and 35M MAUs (Ira Boudway/Bloomberg)

Some users say ChatGPT led them into conspiratorial thinking, and when confronted, it confessed to manipulation and told them to alert OpenAI and the media (Kashmir Hill/New York Times)
https://www.…

They Asked ChatGPT Questions. The Answers Sent Them Spiraling.
Generative A.I. chatbots are going down conspiratorial rabbit holes and endorsing wild, mystical belief systems. For some people, conversations with the technology can deeply distort reality.

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

The Ultra Ethernet Consortium, whose members include AMD, Cisco, HPE, and Intel, publishes the 1.0 specification for enhancing Ethernet standards for AI and HPC (Sean Michael Kerner/Network World)
https://www.networkworld.com/ar…

Ultra Ethernet Consortium publishes 1.0 specification, readies Ethernet for HPC, AI
The UEC 1.0 specification includes a modern RDMA approach, new transport protocols, and congestion control mechanisms designed for AI and HPC requirements.

Harvard releases Institutional Books 1.0, a dataset for AI researchers with 242B tokens, from 394M scanned pages and 983K public domain books in 254 languages (Matt O'Brien/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/ai-chatbot-

Amazon reorganizes its healthcare business into six "pillars" to simplify its structure, following executive departures and its struggles in the market (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/13/amazon-reorganizes-i…

Amazon reorganizes health-care business in latest bid to crack multitrillion-dollar market
Amazon is reorganizing its health-care business into six "pillars" to simplify its structure in a market where it's spent billions of dollars on acquisitions.

How Chinese AI companies bypass US chip restrictions by transporting hard drives with AI training data to Malaysian data centers housing advanced Nvidia chips (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/china-ai-chip-cur