Could Apple soon owe Europe a ton of money as they are the first to run afoul of the DMA? Could Meta soon join OpenAI as part of Apple Intelligence. Why food delivery apps are seeing plunging usage in NYC and Seattle. And a big new AI focused bill in California that AI startups are worried about.

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• Brussels accuses Apple of breaking EU ‘gatekeeper’ rules (FT)
• Apple is first company charged with violating EU’s DMA rules (The Verge)
• Apple Won’t Roll Out AI Tech In EU Market Over Regulatory Concerns (Bloomberg)
• Apple, Meta Have Discussed an AI Partnership (WSJ)
• Delivery Drivers Got Higher Wages. Now They’re Getting Fewer Orders. (WSJ)
• AI Doesn’t Kill Jobs? Tell That to Freelancers (WSJ)
• ‘Little Tech’ brings a big flex to Sacramento (Politico)

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The government has banned Kaspersky antivirus sales in the US. People are losing their minds over Claude 3.5 Sonnet from Anthropic. Soon all devices can pair to your iPhone as easily as AirPods do. And, of course, the Weekend Longreads Suggestions.

Links:

• US bans sale of Kaspersky software citing security risk from Russia (TechCrunch)
• Anthropic claims its latest model is best-in-class (TechCrunch)
• Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet wows AI power users: ‘this is wild’ (VentureBeat)
• New iOS 18 API brings AirPods setup experience to third-party accessories (9to5Mac)
• SpaceX unveils backpack-sized ‘Starlink Mini’ satellite internet antenna for $599 (CNBC)

Weekend Longreads Suggestions:

• Why are mobile game ads so weird and bad? (Sherwood)
• From Infocom to 80 Days: An oral history of text games and interactive fiction (ArsTechnica)
• The song Stevie Nicks wrote to “haunt” Lindsey Buckingham (Far Out)

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Ilya Sutskever wants to go straight to Safe Superintelligence, do not pass go, but do probably collect hundreds of millions of dollars. Is Perplexity ignoring robots.txt files? Xreal’s hybrid AR glasses play. And how many apps did Apple sherlock at WWDC last week?

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Links:

• Ilya Sutskever Has a New Plan for Safe Superintelligence (Bloomberg)
• Perplexity Is a Bullshit Machine (Wired)
• For Apple’s AI Push, China Is a Missing Piece (WSJ)
• Xreal’s new gadget is a phone-sized Android tablet just for your AR glasses (The Verge)
• iOS 18 could ‘sherlock’ $400M in app revenue (TechCrunch)

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