☕️ Anthropic warns that AI will soon be able to improve itself

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💥 Anthropic warns that AI will soon be able to improve itself

🍎 5 things to expect at WWDC 2026

🇺🇸 US weighs government stakes in AI firms

👓 Meta hides face-recognition code in smart glasses app

👀 Cloudflare CEO says bot internet traffic has overtaken humans

Plus: 🎁 11 other news you might like, 🧰 6 tools, and 📚 4 papers.

💥 Anthropic warns that AI will soon be able to improve itself LINK

Anthropic is warning that AI systems will soon be able to build their own successors, a turning point it says "could come sooner than most institutions are prepared for" based on the current pace of progress.

To stop humans from losing control, the company is proposing a global slowdown or temporary pause on AI development, giving alignment research and societal structures time to catch up with the technology.

Anthropic admits a pause would need multiple well-resourced labs across several countries to stop under the same conditions and verify each other, and it points to nuclear-weapons treaties, which took decades, as a model.

🍎 5 things to expect at WWDC 2026 LINK

WWDC 2026 is shaping up to be a pivotal event for Apple, with the keynote expected to focus heavily on Siri, a wave of Apple Intelligence updates, iOS 27 changes for the iPhone Fold, and possible new hardware previews.

Siri is rumored to gain chatbot-like abilities and a dedicated app living inside the Dynamic Island, while reportedly running on Google's Gemini after Apple struck a deal to power its assistant with the rival AI.

iOS 27 is expected to be a Snow Leopard-style performance release, with a new Visual Intelligence feature across core apps, boosted image generation in Photos, AI-built Shortcuts, and possibly opening streaming protocols to apps like Google Cast.

🇺🇸 US weighs government stakes in AI firms LINK

The US government is in early talks with major AI companies about taking ownership stakes in the firms building frontier AI, with shares voluntarily handed over rather than purchased, according to a NOTUS report.

Sam Altman first pitched the stake idea to Donald Trump in early 2025 and has raised it again in recent weeks, with one option sending proceeds to a dividend paid to every American household.

Critics quoted in the report warn the setup makes the government both shareholder and referee of the same companies, while polling cited shows 55% of Americans think AI will do more harm than good.

👓 Meta hides face-recognition code in smart glasses app LINK

Meta has quietly placed face-recognition code for its smart glasses inside a phone app already downloaded by millions, according to a WIRED analysis that outside experts independently reproduced on their own devices.

Three AI models tied to a feature called NameTag now sit on customers' phones, with one detecting faces, one cropping them, and a third encoding them into biometric data.

Facial recognition is not switched on, but an Electronic Frontier Foundation researcher who tested the code said it appears partly functional, while Meta spokesperson Andy Stone claimed on X the "feature doesn't exist."

👀 Cloudflare CEO says bot internet traffic has overtaken humans LINK

Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince says bot traffic has now overtaken human traffic on the internet for the first time, arriving earlier than his prediction of late 2027 due to fast-growing agentic traffic.

Cloudflare's data shows that between 52 and 62 percent of daily internet traffic comes from bots, with the past week averaging 57.4 percent bots and 42.5 percent humans, including search crawlers and AI bots.

By country, Gibraltar leads with 92.1 percent bot traffic, followed by Singapore at 76.3 percent, Iran at 76.2 percent, Ireland at 72.8 percent, and the Netherlands at 68.8 percent, driven by AI agents scraping and acting for users.

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📚 Trending papers & reports

GPS jamming from space has been traced to a constellation of Russian early warning satellites, which have caused scores of powerful signal disruptions across Europe, Greenland, and Canada since 2019.LINK

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