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In today's Techpresso:

💬 Apple considers OpenAI and Anthropic for Siri

💥 Cloudflare debuts “Pay per Crawl”, a marketplace that lets sites charge AI crawlers per crawl

🧠 Meta announces its Superintelligence Labs

🦾 Amazon's robot workforce now exceeds one million

⚖️ Apple fails to dismiss US government antitrust lawsuit

🏛️ US Senate removes controversial ‘AI moratorium’ from budget bill

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💬 Apple considers OpenAI and Anthropic for Siri LINK
  • Apple is reportedly in talks with OpenAI and Anthropic to explore replacing Siri's current backend with a version of either Claude or ChatGPT models.
  • The company asked both firms to develop special LLM versions that can run directly on Apple's own secure Private Cloud Compute infrastructure for user privacy.
  • This potential shift comes as Apple's internal AI team is said to struggle with poor morale, making it difficult to deliver major improvements to its technology.
💥 Cloudflare debuts “Pay per Crawl”, a marketplace that lets sites charge AI crawlers per crawl LINK
  • Cloudflare's new Pay per Crawl marketplace experiment lets website owners charge AI companies a set rate for every single crawl of their content.
  • In a major policy shift, new domains set up with Cloudflare will now automatically block all AI crawlers by default to give owners control.
  • New data reveals OpenAI’s crawler scraped websites 17,000 times for every one referral, showing a huge imbalance compared to Google’s search crawler activity.
🧠 Meta announces its Superintelligence Labs LINK
  • Meta announced its new Meta Superintelligence Labs, staffed by poaching top AI researchers from key rivals including OpenAI, Google DeepMind, and Anthropic.
  • The initiative brings Meta's FAIR research group and other teams under one umbrella, focusing on developing next-generation AI models and personal superintelligence.
  • In response, OpenAI is recalibrating employee compensation, with its research chief accusing Meta of using pressure tactics like "exploding" bonuses to lure staff.
🦾 Amazon's robot workforce now exceeds one million LINK
  • The company has deployed its one millionth robot across its fulfillment centers, bringing its automated workforce closer in number to its 1.5 million human employees.
  • A new AI system called DeepFleet now functions like a traffic controller for robots, improving their travel efficiency by 10 percent using internal data and SageMaker.
  • The growing robot fleet includes a variety of specialized machines like the bipedal robot Digit and Sparrow, a robotic arm that picks individual items from totes.
⚖️ Apple fails to dismiss US government antitrust lawsuit LINK
  • A US judge rejected Apple’s motion to dismiss the Department of Justice antitrust lawsuit, clearing the way for a trial that will examine its core businesses.
  • The lawsuit alleges the company created technical roadblocks to block rivals' smartwatches, prevent "super apps," and limit access to its digital wallet and messaging.
  • Even as Apple adds features like RCS, the DOJ may seek regulations modeled on the EU DMA to force more options and open up its NFC reader.
🏛️ US Senate removes controversial ‘AI moratorium’ from budget bill LINK
  • The US Senate voted 99-1 to remove a provision that would have blocked states from setting their own AI regulation for the next ten years.
  • Silicon Valley executives supported the "AI moratorium" to prevent an unworkable patchwork of state regulation that they argued could stifle AI innovation.
  • Bipartisan opposition arose from senators who warned the ban would harm consumers and let powerful AI companies operate with very little government oversight.

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Trending research and tools

OpenFLOW: a tool for creating beautiful isometric infrastructure diagrams that runs in your browser, works offline, and saves all data locally. LINK
OpenFile: a free, self-hostable continuation of the IRS Direct File program that lets people file their taxes. LINK
Small Language Models and the Future of Agentic AI: this paper suggests that smaller, more efficient language models are better for building AI agents that can take action to complete tasks. LINK
Pluto: an enhanced version of the Lua programming language that adds modern features while remaining highly compatible with existing Lua code and tools. LINK
Nimtable: an open-source web interface for browsing, managing, and analyzing Apache Iceberg tables from different data catalogs. LINK
CertMate: a system to manage SSL certificates across many different cloud and DNS providers, simplifying security for modern applications. LINK

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