1. Apple spent two years behind on AI. Its plan is to rebuild Siri from scratch — again Apple walks into WWDC on Monday with the worst AI track record of any company its size, and a counterintuitive read on what that means.

2. The S&P 500 Won't Waive Its Profit Rule for SpaceX, and OpenAI and Anthropic Just Lost Their Shortcut On June 4, S&P Dow Jones Indices declined to change its rules for SpaceX. The company had requested unusually fast entry into leading stock indexes as a condition of its planned market debut.

3. OpenAI's New Prompt-Injection Defense Ships With an Admission: It Won't Stop the Attacks OpenAI now sells a fix for one of the AI agent's oldest weaknesses, and the fix comes pre-labeled as incomplete.

In Brief

• Shared investors back both OpenAI and Anthropic Venture firms are funding both leading AI labs rather than betting on a winner, with one investor comparing the strategy to owning Pepsi and Coke stock. The overlap blurs the rivalry as both companies head toward public markets.

• Sriram Krishnan resigns as White House AI advisor Krishnan is leaving his post shaping the Trump administration's AI policy. He reportedly plans to start a new institution to keep influencing that policy from outside government.

• Meta built an AI-generated clickbait feed inside its app Meta added a "For You" section to its standalone Meta AI app that fills a feed with clickbait-style stories. The topics, images, and text are all machine-generated.

• Microsoft's AI products are struggling to sell WIRED reports Microsoft's AI offerings aren't moving and GitHub has hit repeated problems. VP Scott Hanselman addressed whether the company is now playing catch-up.

• Developer halves a data center after local protests A developer cut a planned data center by 50% following community opposition. He said the team felt "beaten up" and had "no choice" but to shrink the project.

• Estonia benchmarks which LLMs resist Russian propaganda The Estonian government tested dozens of models on their handling of Russia's "strategic narratives." The benchmark ranks which models best refuse to repeat state disinformation.

• Data center operators address water use under scrutiny Hyperscalers face criticism over their effect on water quality and availability. Operators are now adopting methods to cut consumption at their facilities.

• Shelbyville mayor insults residents opposing a $2 billion data center A proposed data center split the Indiana city, and Mayor Scott Furgeson was filmed saying only people in "shitty houses" put up "No Data Center" signs. The remark escalated an already heated local fight.

• Apple weighs adding cameras to its next AirPods Apple is considering camera sensors in future AirPods. Battery life and privacy stand as the main obstacles to shipping the feature.

• Ars Technica warns viral humanoid robot demos mislead The piece argues staged robot demonstrations distort public estimates of what machines can actually do. It offers a guide to reading viral clips skeptically.

• Founders bet on in-person "together tech" against the AI wave Mirror founder Brynn Putnam raised money for Board, a startup built around in-person games and social experiences. DIY cyberdeck makers pushing users to "touch grass" are also drawing attention.

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