My thanks to WorkOS for sponsoring DF last week to promote Auth.md, their new open protocol for AI agent registration.
Sign-up forms were built for humans in browsers, so how do AI agents programmatically register with services? That’s the question Auth.md aims to answer. By exposing a single, machine-readable Markdown file at your service root, AI agents can dynamically discover your OAuth Protected Resource Metadata, parse required scopes, and authenticate seamlessly.
Markdown, baby. Who’d have thunk it?
With native support in WorkOS AuthKit, you can now implement this protocol out of the box, giving AI tools a standardized, secure way to log into your application. Read the Auth.md docs, and watch its on-stage introduction at the MCP Night: Agent Night keynote.
Ben Thompson, in his weekly free column at Stratechery:
On one hand, I actually don’t begrudge Anthropic not wanting to
help its competitors; on the other hand, what should be
blisteringly clear is that Anthropic does not think that anyone
else other than them should eve...
Jonathan Edwards reporting for The Washington Post:
President Donald Trump’s name is off the Kennedy Center.
Crews at the performing arts venue started removing it from the
front of the building around 3 a.m., several hours after the
center missed a federal judge’s two-week deadline to do so.
The judge had ruled that the decision by the center’s board of
trustees to rename it was illegal.
From Apple’s Developer site:
To ensure getting started with a large cloud model is as
accessible as possible, developers in the App Store Small Business
Program with fewer than two million first time App Store downloads
will be able to use Apple Foundation Models running...
Anthropic:
The US government, citing national security authorities, has
issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable
5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside
the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees.
...
Recorded in front of a live audience at The California Theatre in San Jose on Tuesday 9 June 2026, special guests Joanna Stern and Nilay Patel join John Gruber to discuss Apple’s announcements at WWDC 2026.
Immersive 3D video with spatial audio: Available exclusively in S...
Apple’s Developer app lets you download local copies of every session, including the State of the Union, except the keynote. Why this is I don’t know. But if you want a local copy, you can grab it from YouTube.
Speaking of the State of the Union, the full version runs just over an hour, but Apple cut together a 4.5-minute recap. If you haven’t watched the full thing you should at least watch that recap.
Thomas Regnier, spokesperson for the European Commission, in a statement posted to LinkedIn (with edited video, if you’d like to watch him read parts aloud):
What is the true story behind Apple’s decision not to roll out
“Siri AI” in the EU?
This decision is Apple’s and...
Apple Newsroom, in an Apple Newsroom post Monday:
According to EU regulators, the DMA requires Apple to give any AI
system nearly unlimited access to a user’s device, as well as the
ability to act on that access autonomously without a user’s
ongoing visibility and contro...
Steven Spielberg, on The Rest Is Entertainment on YouTube:
I approached Cubby Broccoli after Jaws was a big hit. I’d always
wanted to make a James Bond film from the day I saw Dr. No, so I
called Cubby after Jaws and volunteered. I said, “If you need a
director, I would ...
Chance Miller, at 9to5Mac on Monday:
Apple’s Siri team, led by Craig Federighi, held a post-WWDC
keynote tech talk with members of the press this afternoon to
talk through iOS 27 and the new Siri AI. During the talk,
Federighi shared more details about Apple’s collaborat...
Perhaps the worst UI crime in MacOS 26 Tahoe was the inexplicable decision to add inscrutable, distracting icons next to every item in the menu bar. You will recall Jim Nielsen writing about it, rightly describing it as exactly the sort of thing that Mac users look down upon...
My favorite Apple updates are not the flashy new features, but the quiet little touches: annoyances fixed, workflows made smoother, rough edges sanded down, and longstanding flaws thoughtfully reworked. To me, they’re the clearest sign of a company that cares about its craft.
Here’s a collection from a WWDC26 screen-grab, organized for easier reading, on improvements coming later this year.
If you can make it in person, you should come. The California Theater is a beautiful big theater and tickets are still available.
You can also watch tonight’s show in live stereoscopic immersive in the Theater app from Sandwich Vision on Vision Pro. A purchase of the ticket to the live show, the Theater app for $12.99, is also good for replay forever — with surprise bonus features included. It’s a fun, truly immersive way to experience the show.
Hope to see you there tonight, one way or the other.
Julie Bort, TechCrunch:
But the most telling detail wasn’t what Apple announced. It was
how it chose to show some things off. Many of the Apple
Intelligence demoes featured someone standing, phone in hand,
pressing buttons or using voice commands in real time, while
anot...
Apple Newsroom yesterday:
This new version of Siri is built on Apple Intelligence, allowing
Siri to draw on personal context understanding and help users find
what they need in the moment across messages, emails, photos, and
more. For example, users can ask Siri to find ...
Apple Newsroom:
These new capabilities are powered by the next generation of Apple
Foundation Models, custom-built in collaboration with Google and
its Gemini models for deeply integrated Apple Intelligence
experiences. These latest models run on device and on servers
us...
Sign-up forms were built for humans in browsers, so how do AI agents programmatically register with services?
Enter auth.md. By exposing a single, machine-readable Markdown file at your service root, AI agents can dynamically discover your OAuth Protected Resource Metadata, parse required scopes, and authenticate seamlessly.
With native support in WorkOS AuthKit, you can now implement this protocol out of the box, giving AI tools a standardized, secure way to log into your application.
Mark Gurman, reporting (?) for Bloomberg two short months ago:
Apple Inc. plans to open Siri to outside artificial intelligence
assistants, a major move aimed at bolstering the iPhone as an AI
platform. The company is preparing to make the change as part of a
Siri overha...
Paulo Andrade, last month, “Using SwiftUI to Build a Mac-Assed App in 2026”:
I recently launched the macOS version of Shopie, an app I first
released on the iOS App Store late last year. Shopie helps you
keep track of products you’re interested in by letting you create
w...
Alberto Romero:
AI is like religion. Either you believe it changes everything, or
you don’t believe at all. There is no moderate position; nobody
believes in AGI “more or less,” just like nobody is “casually
religious.” If God exists, the only coherent response is to
reo...
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Ben Sandofsky, writing on the Lux Camera blog:
After decades of shooting digital, I returned to analog
photography in 2023. I thought it would be challenging, given the
limited selection of film stocks, only to be surprised by how
freeing it felt. It felt so much better ...
Lesley Stahl, Bill Whitaker, and Jon Wertheim, in a memo to the 60 Minutes staff obtained by The New York Times (gift links):
We have had a hard time deciding whether to stay at 60 Minutes.
We’re still deeply upset by the firings of Tanya and Draggan,
strong leaders who ...
Josh Marshall:
In a hearing today about the president’s bulldozing of the East
Wing of the White House and plans to build a vast ballroom, a
judge asked if the president could also bulldoze the Statue of
Liberty and be subject to no legal challenge. The DOJ lawyer,
Yaako...
Laura Hazard Owen, writing for Nieman Journalism Lab back in April:
I used Claude to help me scrape the 200 most recent tweets from 18
large publishers’ X accounts and track the engagement (likes +
comments + retweets) on each. Six of those publishers have
paywalls: Bloo...
Nate Silver, back in April, under the headline “Social Media Is Turning Into a Freak Show”, where by “social media” he mostly discusses Twitter/X:
But what does that remaining traffic consist of? I recently came
across a bubble chart depicting the Twitter accounts that
h...
I can’t see why Apple would want to get involved with a company
like this though. Gurman’s report makes it sound like his sources
are inside Apple, but man, this “Apple + Perplexity” thing feels
more like something Perplexity would be seeding than one that
Apple executives would be leaking.
Perplexity is still occasionally in the news (often not in good ways), but it seems to me they’ve slipped into the “afterthought” tier of AI startups — which is exactly why they started leaning into clownish stunts last year. Everyone who previously suggested Apple should — or even might — buy them has gone silent.
Ed Morrissey, writing for Hot Air, thinks Scott Pelley got what he deserved and Bari Weiss is doing a good job running CBS News:
And Pelley forgot the Golden Rule: He who has the gold makes the
rules. Instead, Pelley convinced himself of his own virtue and
torched his ow...
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