Sources: Intel asks its leading PC partners, including those in the US, China, and Taiwan, to use more 18A CPUs, citing better supply than chips on older nodes (Nikkei Asia)

Meta says Threads now has 500M MAUs, adds a "Your Algo" tool that lets users control what they see in their feed, and brings Communities out of beta (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)

Italy's competition regulator opens a probe into Apple under the DMA over the interoperability of iOS and iPadOS with alternative cloud services (Cristina Carlevaro/Reuters)

Anthropic says its senior leaders met Trump admin officials on June 15, but no resolution was reached and both sides are working to resolve things quickly (Leo Schwartz/The Information)

Sources: Trump officials weighed Anthropic export controls weeks before forcing its models offline, after a dispute over Mythos access for a China-linked firm (Washington Post)

Filing: the US DOJ asks court to dismiss an NAACP suit over xAI's gas turbines, saying xAI is integral to US' military operations, including the Iran War (Molly Taft/Wired)

Memo: CTO Andrew Bosworth said Meta did "an atrocious job" sharing Applied AI's vision, promising employees better communication, career growth, and more perks (Wired)