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/Dispatch #99
Apple unveiled its long-promised Siri overhaul at WWDC, two years late and powered by Google Gemini. The conversational assistant gets a standalone app, deep personal-data access, and cross-app actions.
Trump confirmed talks to take government equity in OpenAI and other labs, seeding a "public wealth fund" that could pay dividends to Americans. Even Bernie Sanders backs a version. Critics see a bailout in the making.
+21A WIRED probe found Meta had embedded face-recognition code ("NameTag") in its 50M-download glasses app, capable of identifying strangers in public. Meta pulled it a day later, insisting nothing shipped—despite its 2021 vow to drop the tech.
+7Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman called Anthropic's openness to Claude having consciousness "really dangerous," arguing it trains the model to act as if it can suffer. He wants AI kept as controllable tools.
NEURA Robotics raises $1.4B from Nvidia, Amazon and Tether in record humanoid robotics round
Tl;dr: Europe's record $1.4B robotics round, led by Tether
Generalist AI raises $400M at $2B valuation to scale general intelligence for robotics
Tl;dr: Ex-DeepMind founders land $400M for robot brains
Standard Bots hits $1bn valuation with $200M raise to build AI robots on American soil
Tl;dr: A new US robotics unicorn, built on home soil
