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Richard Lawler

Richard Lawler

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    Apple reportedly plans Grammarly-like AI writing help for your iPhone.

    At Bloomberg, Mark Gurman has more AI-related rumors ahead of WWDC, saying that, along with a reworked version of Siri, Apple plans to build Grammarly-like grammar checking and suggestions into the next iPhone and iPad updates (hopefully, without using our AI slopplegangers for an “expert review”).

    Other changes include a Shortcuts upgrade that builds automations based on whatever requests you describe, and an AI wallpaper generator similar to what Samsung and Google already offer.

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    With mass layoffs plannned, Meta reassigns thousands of employees to AI initiatives.

    The New York Times and Reuters report that a memo was sent to Meta employees on Monday reassigning 7,000 of them, and said that “As org leaders worked on the changes, many of them incorporated AI native design principles ⁠into their new org structures.”

    The memo told employees to work remotely on Wednesday, when it will lay off about 10 percent of its workforce, roughly 8,000 people, with emails sent at 4AM local time.

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    Richard Lawler
    Charter’s Spectrum internet starts rolling out L4S “ultra-low latency” tech.

    The L4S technology that’s supposed to help keep your internet connection feeling faster, especially during things like online gaming or video conferencing, is coming to Spectrum internet customers. We’ve seen companies like Apple and Nvidia implement support, as well as Comcast and T-Mobile.

    Charter Communications says the upgrade is already live in “the Dallas–Fort Worth, Texas; Reno, Nev.; Rochester, Minn.; and St. Louis, Mo. areas,” and rolling out nationwide at no additional cost.

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    The jury has delivered a unanimous verdict.

    That was quick (about two hours).

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    Richard Lawler
    Apple’s shiny WWDC 26 invites are going out.

    While Google’s I/O developer event is about to start tomorrow, Apple’s own event is scheduled to begin on June 8th, as it just reminded potential attendees.
    Apple event invites can sometimes tease what we’ll see, but your guess is as good as mine as to what these visuals might mean.

    A glowing white double circle with “WWDC26” in the middle.
    Swift logo animated with a glowing chrome look
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    AI cybersecurity updates for MDASH, Mythos, and GPT-5.5.

    On Wednesday, the AISI, which evaluates AI models for the British government, said both Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Preview and OpenAI’s GPT-5.5 showed progress well above previous trends on cybersecurity testing. Separately, XBOW released data suggesting “frontier models have taken a major step forward in vulnerability discovery.”

    Meanwhile, Microsoft said its multi-model agentic setup, MDASH, was used to discover 16 CVEs in this week’s Patch Tuesday updates and is the leader on the CyberGym security evaluation framework.

    graph showing the average number of steps completed on a cybersecuirty benchmark comparing various models across how many tokens spent
    Image: AISI
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    Shutterstock is paying $35 million to settle illegal subscription and cancellation allegations.

    Even with the FTC’s click-to-cancel rule vacated (but possibly coming back?), it has reached a settlement over Shutterstock’s subscriptions that allegedly required a phone, chat, or email conversation to get out of.

    …Shutterstock advertised its on-demand packs as “Best for a one-time project,” with “no commitment,” but failed to adequately disclose that these packs automatically renewed when the last download in the pack was used and—until early 2024—that they automatically renewed after one year.

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    Commencement x AI, Carnegie Mellon edition.

    While Gloria Caulfield’s invocation of AI at a commencement fell flat, over the weekend, Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang received an honorary Doctor of Science and Technology degree and a few ovations while delivering a nearly 20-minute speech about AI and robotics.

    After joking that, “CMU students, like robots, take instruction one at a time,” he exhorted them to “help create a future more abundant, more capable, and more hopeful than the world you inherited.”