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Anthropic and the White House Are Quietly Making Up, With an IPO on the Line
Key Takeaways A months-long dispute between the Trump administration and Anthropic is showing signs of easing across parts of the US government as the company prepares to go public. Anthropic met Treasury Secretary Bessent, helping Trump’s team shape the June 2 executive order on model testing. Anthropic was excluded from…
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Apple Approves Poke as the First Standalone AI Agent on iMessage, Three Days Before WWDC
Key Takeaways Poke became the first AI agent approved for Apple Messages for Business, expanding platform access beyond major brands. It manages planning, calendars, health, smart home, and photo edits via text, processing around 100 million messages. Approval required clear AI labeling, live operator fallback, partner testimonies, and Apple-compliant interface…
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Google Brings Gemma 4 12B and AI Edge Gallery to Mac: Frontier-Grade AI Now Runs on Your Laptop, Offline
Key Takeaways Gemma 4 12B delivers performance comparable to Google’s 26-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts model while running locally on consumer laptops with 16GB of RAM. AI Edge Gallery for macOS includes five offline Gemma models: Gemma-4-12B-it, Gemma-4-E2B-it, Gemma-4-E4B-it, Gemma-3n-E2B-it, and Gemma-3n-E4B-it. Google also launched AI Edge Eloquent for macOS, a free on-device…
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Meta Spins Supernatural VR Fitness Out as Independent Company; Coaches Are Back, but Prices Are Up
Key Takeaways Supernatural Health launches on Meta Quest this fall, restoring coaches and raising subscriptions to $180 yearly and $20 monthly. Meta’s Supernatural stops new workouts immediately and shuts down on December 3, 2026, requiring subscriber migration. Supernatural Health is led by original Within founders Chris Milk and Aaron Koblin,…
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Microsoft Scout Launches on OpenClaw, The Same Technology Nadella Once Called a Virus
KEY TAKEAWAYS Scout runs on OpenClaw, the open-source agent framework that hit 300,000 GitHub stars three months after its January 2026 launch. Users name their own Scout instance, in demos it was named Sebastian, and give it ongoing feedback so it adapts to their specific work patterns over time. Scout…
