The BBC is now the world’s most visited news site, a feat it achieved by… collapsing a little less than its competition? As 37 of the world’s 50 most visited news sites saw their reach shrink, the BBC’s 1.9% decline in traffic from last year was enough to move it to the top of the rankings. Check out the full list. 

The S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 fell sharply as chip stocks and AI giants plunged, while the Russell 2000 closed higher. Losses were concentrated in tech and energy, the only two sectors to decline yesterday.

Beijing may spend roughly 2 trillion yuan ($295 billion) over the next five years to build a nationwide network of AI-focused computing hubs, according to a Bloomberg report.

China’s latest push suggests Beijing has increasingly treated computing power as a strategic national resource, similar to electricity or transportation infrastructure. The latest blueprint would push that strategy further by connecting fragmented regional data centers into a national computing network.

A Chinese planning document from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology targets 2028 for connecting major computing hubs into a unified national system. Much of that infrastructure is expected to be concentrated in regions such as Inner Mongolia, Ningxia, and Gansu, where abundant land and relatively inexpensive power can support energy-intensive AI workloads. The Chinese documents also highlight the scale of China’s AI ambitions: the country now has more than 6,200 AI companies and an AI industry worth more than $176.9 billion (1.2 trillion yuan), official data shows.

The modern smartphone is a miracle of capability and a nightmare of usability. Apple’s latest Apple Intelligence updates with Siri AI could change that.

Siri AI represents a completely new UX paradigm. Instead of forcing you to navigate an endless sea of icons, Siri is designed to become a unified, intelligent layer that operates across your phone’s apps and features. Mobile AI’s real promise isn’t answering trivia, editing photos, or summarizing emails; it’s acting on your behalf to finally collapse the grid.

However, we don’t actually know yet what’s working inside this initial developer beta. If WWDC 2024 taught us anything, it’s to remain highly skeptical of Apple’s stage demos. Two years ago, the tech giant promised a revolution with Apple Intelligence, only to deliver a sluggish, watered-down rollout of betas that missed its initial launch and lacked flagship features like on-screen awareness. There is a very real chance this early beta is a framework of future promises rather than a functional assistant.

A voice assistant isn’t helpful if it can only search Apple Mail or drop pins on Apple Maps. For Siri to actually save us from the app grid, it has to work seamlessly with the software we actually use: Spotify, Google Maps, Uber, Slack, and WhatsApp. Apple, of course, cannot write the code for these third-party platforms. It needs developers to build the bridges — integrating App Intents and APIs so Siri can “see” and “act” inside their apps.

By shipping the iOS 27 beta to developers immediately, Apple is laying the foundation they need to build these integrations before the fall consumer launch. It’s an admission of a hard truth: Apple — with the help of Google, of course — could build the smartest AI models in Cupertino, but if Siri remains trapped in Apple’s proprietary apps, this ambitious new UX fails on arrival.

Claude Fable 5 will cost twice as much as Claude Opus 4.8, Anthropic’s current flagship model. The company also released Claude Mythos 5, but only for trusted partners for testing. This comes at a crucial moment for the company, as it recently filed for an IPO and closed a funding round valuing it at $965 billion.