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Ben Thompson:

To that end, while I understand why many people were underwhelmed by this WWDC, particularly in comparison to the AI extravaganza that was Google I/O, I think it was one of the more encouraging Apple keynotes in a long time. Apple is a company that went too far in too many areas, and needed to retreat. Focusing on things only Apple can do is a good thing; empowering developers and depending on partners is a good thing; giving even the appearance of thoughtful thinking with regards to the App Store (it’s a low bar!) is a good thing. Of course we want and are excited by tech companies promising the future; what is a prerequisite is delivering in the present, and it’s a sign of progress that Apple retreated to nothing more than that.

Link: stratechery.com/2025/apple-retreats/

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I’ve got iOS 26 installed on a spare phone already, and I like the new UI a lot. In addition to just plain looking cool, Apple has tackled a lot of longstanding minor irritants. For example, the iOS contextual menu for text selections — the one with Cut/Copy/Paste. For year...

Stephen Hackett, noting the biggest news of the day:

Something jumped out at me in the macOS Tahoe segment of the WWDC keynote today: the Finder icon is reversed. […]

The Big Sur Finder icon has been with us ever since, and I hope Apple reverses course here.

I’m obviously joking about this being the biggest news of the day, but it really does feel just plain wrong to swap the dark/light sides. The Finder icon is more than an icon, it’s a logo, a brand.

Link: 512pixels.net/2025/06/wwdc25-macos-tahoe-breaks-decades-of…

The process of learning and experimenting with LLM-derived technology has been an exercise in humility. In general I love learning new things when the art of programming changes […] But LLMs, and more specifically Agents, affect the process of writing programs in a new and confusing way. Absolutely every fundamental assumption about how I work has to be questioned, and it ripples through all the experience I have accumulated. There are days when it feels like I would be better off if I did not know anything about programming and started from scratch. And it is still changing.

— David Crawshaw, How I program with Agents

Tags: coding-agents, ai-assisted-programming, generative-ai, ai-agents, ai, llms

OpenAI hits $10 billion in annual recurring revenue fueled by ChatGPT growth

Noteworthy because OpenAI revenue is a useful indicator of the direction of the generative AI industry in general, and frequently comes up in conversations about the sustainability of the current bubble.

OpenAI has hit $10 billion in annual recurring revenue less than three years after launching its popular ChatGPT chatbot.

The figure includes sales from the company’s consumer products, ChatGPT business products and its application programming interface, or API. It excludes licensing revenue from Microsoft and large one-time deals, according to an OpenAI spokesperson.

For all of last year, OpenAI was around $5.5 billion in ARR. [...]

So these new numbers represent nearly double the ARR figures for last year.

Tags: openai, llms, ai, generative-ai

WWDC: Apple supercharges its tools and technologies for developers Here's the Apple press release for today's WWDC announcements. Two things that stood out to me: Foundation Models Framework With the Foundation Models framework, developers will be able to build on Apple Int...

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Location: The California Theatre, San Jose
Showtime: Tuesday, 10 June 2025, 7pm PT (Doors open 6pm)
Special Guest(s): Indeed
Price: $50

A different type of show this year, and I’m excited for it. If you can make it, you should come. You’ll even enjoy the prelude, mingling with fellow DF readers and listeners.

Link: ti.to/daringfireball/the-talk-show-live-from-wwdc-2025

Scharon Harding, writing at Ars Technica: “Just disconnect your TV from the Internet and use an Apple TV box.” That’s the common guidance you’ll hear from Ars readers for those seeking the joys of streaming without giving up too much privacy. Based on our research and t...

Filipe Espósito, in a scoop for 9to5Mac all the way back in October: 9to5Mac has learned details about the new project from reliable sources familiar with the matter. The new app combines functionality from the App Store and Game Center in one place. The gaming app is no...

Parshin Shojaee, Iman Mirzadeh, Keivan Alizadeh, Maxwell Horton, Samy Bengio, and Mehrdad Farajtabar, from Apple’s Machine Learning Research team: Recent generations of frontier language models have introduced Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) that generate detailed thinking...

Mark Gurman, in his eve-of-WWDC Power On column at Bloomberg: The Liquid Glass interface is going to be the most exciting part of this year’s developer conference. It will also be a bit of a distraction from the reality facing Apple: The company is behind in artificial i...

Mark Gurman, in his eve-of-WWDC Power On column at Bloomberg: The Liquid Glass interface is going to be the most exciting part of this year’s developer conference. It will also be a bit of a distraction from the reality facing Apple: The company is behind in artificial i...

Qwen3 Embedding New family of embedding models from Qwen, in three sizes: 0.6B, 4B, 8B - and two categories: Text Embedding and Text Reranking. The full collection can be browsed on Hugging Face. The smallest available model is the 0.6B Q8 one, which is available as a 639MB ...

It's been a long time coming, but we finally have some promising LLMs to try out which are trained entirely on openly licensed text! EleutherAI released the Pile four and a half years ago: "an 800GB dataset of diverse text for language modeling". It's been used as the basis ...

Kyle Hughes, in a brief thread on Mastodon last week: At work I’m developing a new iOS app on a small team alongside a small Android team doing the same. We are getting lapped to an unfathomable degree because of how productive they are with Kotlin, Compose, and Cursor. ...

For [Natasha] Lyonne, the draw of AI isn’t speed or scale — it’s independence. “I’m not trying to run a tech company,” she told me. “It’s more that I’m a filmmaker who doesn’t want the tech people deciding the future of the medium.” She imagines a future in which indie film...