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As the 2026 FIFA World Cup begins, there is still no clear replacement for "Sports Twitter", which was a perfect second-screen experience during live events (@a_webster / The Verge) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

Challenger, Gray & Christmas: out of ~398K US jobs cuts in 2026 through May, employers cited AI as the reason for ~88K of them, up from ~54K in all of 2025 (@r_hyunsoo / Sherwood News) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

Nothing CEO Carl Pei says memory is now the costliest phone component, accounting for 50%+ of BOM in some models, and predicts phone prices will rise into 2027 (Stevie Bonifield / The Verge) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

US export controls on Anthropic reignite debate in India over the country's AI ambitions, which are increasingly tied to tech developed and governed in the US (@jagmeets13 / TechCrunch) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

US officials: the Trump administration's decision to impose export controls on Anthropic followed multiple tense calls between Dario Amodei and admin officials (Politico) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

Companies are grappling with whether and how to curb employee wagers on prediction markets that may use confidential info, as platforms tighten their own rules (Financial Times) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

Q&A with labor researcher Molly Kinder on her recent, widely discussed "Messy Middle" essay on AI-driven disruption of knowledge jobs and how to address it (@caseynewton / Platformer) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

Source: the White House imposed export controls on Mythos partly over suspicions a China-linked group had accessed it (@reedalbergotti / Semafor) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

How the AI boom is revolutionizing US stock markets, as hyperscalers cut buybacks and boost capex, including Alphabet's planned ~$85B in equity offerings for AI (@rbrtrmstrng / Financial Times) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

Source: the White House is unlikely to extend export restrictions on Anthropic's Mythos 5 to other AI companies, citing Anthropic's refusal to fix jailbreaks (@leomschwartz / The Information) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

European political figures say Anthropic disabling access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 is a "wake-up call" about the risks of depending on the US for AI tech (Nathan Rennolds / Associated Press) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

Report: opponents blocked or delayed at least 75 US data center projects in Q1 2026 worth ~$130B; data center opposition groups doubled to 833 across 49 states (@akarl_smith / NBC News) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

David Sacks says Dario Amodei refused to "fix the jailbreak or de-deploy the model" after "a highly credible trusted partner" reported a Fable jailbreak (@davidsacks) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

Sources: Amazon CEO Andy Jassy is among tech leaders who raised concerns with Trump officials about Mythos 5, setting in motion new export restrictions (The Information) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

US barring foreign nationals, including Anthropic employees, from accessing Fable 5 and Mythos 5 marks a new chapter in the US dictating how Anthropic operates (New York Times) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

A review of The Yahoo Boys, a deeply reported book on four online scammers in Lagos, Nigeria, exploring how and why they scam and the local impact of the trade (Jessica Loudis / Bloomberg) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

Luta Security CEO says US government restrictions on Mythos follow a jailbreak report by Amazon researchers and calls the restrictions a "complete overreaction" (@amrithramkumar / Wall Street Journal) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

After years of false dawns, Big Tech, startups, and governments are betting on commercially useful quantum computers by 2030, as skeptics worry about hype (@mikepeeljourno / Financial Times) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

An interview with Corning CEO Wendell Weeks on risk-sharing provisions that protect the company in multibillion-dollar fiber deals with Nvidia, Meta, and Amazon (@mims / Wall Street Journal) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

South Korea's "semiconductor belt" town Dongtan has become one of the fastest-rising affluent areas, driven by windfall bonuses for Samsung and SK Hynix workers (@danielrtudor / Financial Times) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)