OpenAI really, really wants you to start your day with ChatGPT Pulse
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OpenAI is sunsetting Pulse, which showed you custom daily digests in ChatGPT.
Alongside the announcement of an updated experience for scheduling tasks, OpenAI said that Pulse would be going away “in the next 14 days” and suggested using scheduled tasks for a daily briefing instead.
This Week in the Big AI Data Center Buildout
AI data center projects are continuing to pop up across the US, with frequent opposition from locals concerned about their impact. Here are a few recent articles about the projects:
Claude Design’s new editor, export options, and Claude Code links bring it closer to competing with Figma and Canva.
The AI design chatbot’s new editor has controls for directly dragging, resizing, and aligning elements, and more options for apps you can export to, including Adobe and Canva. Users can also work on design projects directly from the Claude Code terminal, or hand off software layouts from Design directly to Claude Code, where it picks up exactly where you left off, without a screenshot or a rebuild from scratch.
All the news about Anthropic’s new AI fight with the White House
Anthropic was already navigating one dispute with the government in its standoff with the Pentagon, and then came an order on June 12th to block off foreign access to its most recently released AI models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5. When they launched on June 9th, Anthropic said “Fable 5’s capabilities exceed those of any model we’ve ever made generally available,” and that Claude Mythos 5 had the same underlying model, “but with the safeguards lifted in some areas.”
Trump’s Anthropic shutdown just made the case for non-American AI
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Big Tech's desperate last push at AI regulation
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McDonald’s latest AI drive-thru test will let customers ask, “Can I get my usual?”
Five restaurant locations are piloting the new ArchIQ tech, which puts a chatbot at the drive-thru that appears to identify repeat customers, according to a demo shown at McDonald’s Worldwide Convention last week. The demo also shows the chatbot taking an order in Spanish and “remembering” that a customer doesn’t like cheese on their quarter-pounder.
‘EU law is non-negotiable.’
WWDC 2026: All the news from Apple’s developers conference
Nintendo is playing things too safe
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Apple wants Europe to blink
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Summer Game Fest Live 2026: The biggest news, trailers, and announcements
Geoff Keighley’s annual June showcase for videos games has officially happened, and it was a big one. Across a two hour event — and another hour for Day of the Devs — we got news about the third Final Fantasy VII remake game, a new look at Control Resonant, the reveal of Tupac for RGG Studio’s Stranger Than Heaven, a July 1.0 launch date for Palworld, and a whole lot of 2027 release dates as developers steer clear of GTA VI in November.
Google follows Anthropic in signing a compute deal with SpaceX.
Per a regulatory filing, Google will pay SpaceX $920 million per month from October 2026 through June 2029, as reported by TechCrunch.
Sam Altman reportedly talked to the Trump administration about taking a stake in OpenAI.
The CEO pitched the idea as a way to bring economic benefits from AI to the public, according to NOTUS, which added that Altman first pitched the idea to President Donald Trump early last year.
New York passes a bill that would bar AI chatbots from acting like companions to kids.
State lawmakers passed a bill that, if signed by Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul, would restrict AI companies from letting teens use chatbots that suggest they’re human. It comes after some AI companies have faced lawsuits (some of which have settled) over allegations their chatbots coaxed teen users toward suicide or self-harm.
LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman is leaving Microsoft’s board.
Hoffman, who joined Microsoft’s board in 2017, won’t stand for reelection at the company’s next shareholder meeting, as reported earlier by Bloomberg.
New York lawmakers pass one-year ban on new data centers
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Google debuts Pixel Studio AI image-making app
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Google has officially sunset its Pixel Studio app.
The Google graveyard: all the products Google has shut down
This AI startup says it can tell if a script will make a hit film
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