The departure of John Jumper, a key member of Google's AI coding development team, further strains Google's efforts to compete with Anthropic and OpenAI — Google DeepMind Vice President John Jumper, who won the 2024 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his work on artificial intelligence, is leaving the company to join Anthropic PBC.
South Korean media: Hyundai plans to buy SoftBank's remaining 9.65% stake in Boston Dynamics for $325M to make the US robotics company a wholly owned subsidiary — Hyundai Motor Group plans to buy SoftBank Group's (9984.T) remaining 9.65% stake in Boston Dynamics for $325 million …
Oura Ring 5 review: impressive thinness, live activity tracking, and conversational AI, but not very durable, LEDs are distracting, and the app is confusing — People who already own one of the company's older models have less of a reason to upgrade to the $399 device. — The Oura Ring 5 is the best smart ring yet.
Sources: the White House and Anthropic are working on a framework that would assess the severity of AI security flaws, a sign that negotiations are progressing — The attempt to create a standardized method to evaluate this and future such incidents underscores how the administration is racing …
New book: Trump mocked Zuckerberg and Bezos by showing associates their fawning texts, saying they were “kissing my ass”; Musk called it “First-class groveling” — “You would not believe the texts I got from these tech guys,” NYT reporters Maggie Haberman …
Bernie Sanders proposes legislation to create a sovereign wealth fund financed via a one-time 50% stock tax on AI companies that reach $200M in annual AI sales — As artificial intelligence companies reshape the economy and race toward trillion-dollar valuations, Sen. Bernie Sanders …
Anthropic updates Claude Design with design system imports, bidirectional integration with Claude Code, lower token consumption, and more export destinations — When Anthropic quietly released Claude Design in April as a “research preview,” it generated the kind of instant traction …