Sources: X let go of 20+ staffers in nontechnical roles ahead of a SpaceX IPO; X staff have been told to focus on growing revenue since xAI brought on a CRO — Redundant roles have been removed as the social-media company tries to boost profit and integrate with Musk's space-exploration company
Sources: Apple plans to open up Siri to run any AI service via App Store apps in iOS 27, dropping ChatGPT as exclusive partner in Apple Intelligence and Siri — Apple Inc. plans to open Siri to outside artificial intelligence assistants, a major move aimed at bolstering the iPhone as an AI platform.
ARC Prize Foundation unveils ARC-AGI-3, an AI benchmark with simple video-game-like scenarios designed to measure on-the-fly reasoning rather than memory recall — ARC-AGI-3 tests whether models can reason through novel problems, not just recall patterns, a task even top systems still struggle to do.
Reddit says it will label automated accounts that provide a service to users and will require accounts suspected of being bots to verify they are human — Would-be Reddit competitor Digg just shut down because it couldn't get a handle on the bots overrunning its site.
Anthropic announces an “auto mode” that enables Claude Code to make permission-level decisions while preventing destructive actions like mass file deletion — ZDNET's key takeaways — Claude's auto mode reduces permission prompts for developers.
Kalshi announces new guardrails to preemptively block politicians, athletes, and others from trading in their relevant markets — Prediction market Kalshi plans to block athletes, coaches and officials from betting on their sports and to block political candidates from trading on their campaigns, Axios has learned.
Doc: Kalshi and Polymarket CEOs are investing in a VC fund, led by two early Kalshi employees, that is raising up to $35M to back prediction market startups — The CEOs of Kalshi and Polymarket are locked in a brutal fight to dominate the white-hot prediction market sector.