{"id":74172,"date":"2026-06-15T11:26:20","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T11:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/74172\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T11:26:20","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T11:26:20","slug":"fortune-tech-anthropics-five-alarm-fire-apples-siri-ai-reviewed-alibaba-may-buy-pupu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/74172\/","title":{"rendered":"Fortune Tech: Anthropic\u2019s five-alarm fire, Apple\u2019s Siri AI reviewed, Alibaba may buy Pupu"},"content":{"rendered":"

Good morning. How about that SpaceX<\/a> IPO, eh? Word on the street here in Los Angeles is that all those SpaceX employees are going to push up the already-high price of real estate in the region.<\/p>\n

Despite the company\u2019s official relocation to Texas, about a third of SpaceX\u2019s 22,000-strong workforce remains in Hawthorne, a small city 12 miles south of central L.A. Many of them own shares in the company. Many of them are part of the more than 4,000 that became paper millionaires when SPCX closed at about $161 on Friday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Where to put one\u2019s winnings? L.A. real estate is rarely a bad bet, but based on my conversations with aerospace execs in the area, there\u2019s broad hope that some of the more entrepreneurial SpaceX vets take their newfound riches and reinvest it in new ventures in \u201cThe Gundo<\/a>,\u201d \u201cSpace Beach<\/a>,\u201d and beyond. Fingers crossed.<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s tech news below. \u2014Andrew Nusca
P.S. Speaking of L.A. chatter, how electrifying was that USA-Paraguay World Cup game? I could watch those Balogun goals<\/a> on repeat for hours.<\/p>\n

Want to send thoughts or suggestions to\u00a0Fortune Tech?\u00a0Drop a line\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Anthropic rushes to put out its latest fire in Washington\"Anthropic<\/a>Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei testifies during a Senate hearing on July 25, 2023 in Washington, D.C.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Alex Wong\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

Somewhere, the Amodei siblings are surely thinking: If only we were able to build our AI company without so much politics.<\/p>\n

Anthropic has reportedly sent a squad of staffers to Washington in an attempt to smooth over the administration\u2019s abrupt move to ban<\/a> foreign governments, companies, and individuals from using Anthropic\u2019s new Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models.<\/p>\n

Senior Anthropic executives and U.S. officials including Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and National Cyber Director Sean Cairncross \u201cspent several hours on calls Saturday\u201d discussing the models, according to the Wall Street Journal<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Both sides reportedly seemed keen to resolve the issue, but it\u2019s not yet clear what a compromise might entail. Access to both models\u2014Fable is the \u201csafe for general use\u201d version of Mythos\u2014remains suspended.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not the first clash between the two entities. Months ago, the U.S. military labeled Anthropic a \u201csupply chain risk\u201d after it refused to honor a request to lift safety guardrails.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s odd about this latest clash is that Anthropic coordinated with the White House on the deployment of Mythos. But according to Business Insider<\/a>, soon after the release of the models, \u201ctop administration officials developed fresh doubts that the AI’s guardrails were as secure as the company had suggested.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Those doubts came courtesy of Amazon researchers<\/a>, who showed that they were able to evade some of Fable\u2019s safeguards.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe disagree that the finding of a narrow potential jailbreak should be cause for recalling a commercial model deployed to hundreds of millions of people,\u201d Anthropic wrote. \u201cIf this standard was applied across the industry, we believe it would essentially halt all new model deployments for all frontier model providers.\u201d \u2014AN<\/p>\n

Apple\u2019s Siri AI: \u2018Just good enough\u2019<\/p>\n

By now, there isn\u2019t a soul in Silicon Valley who doesn\u2019t know that Apple has been working furiously to catch up to the industry on AI.<\/p>\n

Now, the question: Do its new Siri AI and Apple Intelligence features stack up?<\/p>\n

According to longtime Apple watcher<\/a> Mark Gurman, the features are \u201cfar from groundbreaking\u201d but \u201cgood enough to start pulling the company out\u201d of the hole it\u2019s dug for itself.<\/p>\n

If you missed it, Apple\u2019s new features include web-informed answers, additional systemwide actions, and what the company calls \u201conscreen awareness\u201d and \u201cpersonal context understanding.\u201d (Much of this was first announced in 2024; it\u2019s due for wide release this fall.)<\/p>\n

Gurman says those last two in particular \u201csped up workflows\u201d across devices for things like moving a calendar appointment, finding a particular email, and retrieving a person\u2019s recommendations originally made via email or text message.<\/p>\n

It also seems like the new Siri is connecting the dots a lot better than the old one. \u201cThe new Siri can handle many of the tasks an everyday consumer would throw at OpenAI\u2019s ChatGPT, Google Gemini or Anthropic\u2019s Claude,\u201d Gurman writes\u2014essential since that style of interaction is increasingly the default for users.<\/p>\n

Issues remain, including sluggishness, dropped queries, and a lack of understanding of what\u2019s on the user\u2019s screen. But it\u2019s still a beta release after all.<\/p>\n

\u201cBased on my usage of several AI tools over the past three years,\u201d Gurman writes, \u201cthe new Siri is roughly competitive with where the leading chatbots were about six months ago.\u201d You know what? We\u2019ll take it. \u2014AN<\/p>\n

Alibaba may buy Pupu for $1.5 billion<\/p>\n

Alibaba has reportedly offered $1.5 billion to buy Pupu, the Fujian fresh grocery delivery company.<\/p>\n

The sum, as reported by Bloomberg<\/a>, is more than double the bid from PE-backed Sun Art Retail and is part of a broader move to take market share from rival Meituan, which in February announced its $717 million acquisition of fresh grocer Dingdong\u2019s China business.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But don\u2019t let the fierce competition in the fresh grocery category distract you\u2014this is just one battle in a broader war between China\u2019s Big 3 e-commerce kings.\u00a0<\/p>\n

For years, Alibaba, Meituan, and JD.com have been locked in a destructive price war, driven by subsidies, that grew so economically damaging that the Chinese government stepped in.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Since then, the companies have turned toward consolidation as a strategy for growth, putting a different kind of pressure\u2014antitrust\u2014on Beijing.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Meituan\u2019s Dingdong deal is pending approval by regulators; expect the same for the possible sale of privately held Pupu, one of the last major independent grocers standing. Last year Pupu raked in more than RMB 30 billion (approx. $4.43 billion) via a 10-city network in China. \u2014AN<\/p>\n

More tech<\/p>\n

\u2014Satya Nadella:<\/a> \u201cThe real opportunity [in AI] is not in picking the best model but instead in building a learning loop on top of models where human capital and token capital compound.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014Health wearables are having a moment<\/a>, with Oura and Whoop on track for IPOs.<\/p>\n

\u2014Sundar Pichai tells Stanford grads:<\/a> \u201cWe don’t get to choose the world we graduate into, but we do get to choose how we frame our circumstances.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014ByteDance may buy AI chips<\/a> from Shanghai\u2019s Iluvatar CoreX and\/or Beijing\u2019s Baidu.<\/p>\n

\u2014Frank founder Charlie Javice<\/a>, convicted of defrauding JPMorgan Chase, seeks a pardon from President Trump.<\/p>\n

\u2014Chinese drivers are using DIY workarounds<\/a> to foil Tesla\u2019s distracted-driving controls.<\/p>\n

\u2014AI was the reason behind about 88,000<\/a> of the almost 400,000 U.S. job cuts that have taken place this year so far.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Good morning. How about that SpaceX IPO, eh? Word on the street here in Los Angeles is that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74173,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[10495,1483,53,319,2817,40885,387,10639,132,24534,2752,24535,320,2008,2806,658,141,2616],"class_list":["post-74172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anthropic","tag-alibaba-group","tag-alphabet","tag-anthropic","tag-apple","tag-baidu","tag-beijing-bytedance-technology","tag-china","tag-fortune-tech","tag-google","tag-jd-com","tag-jpmorgan-chase","tag-meituan","tag-microsoft","tag-no-copyright","tag-satya-nadella","tag-spacex","tag-sundar-pichai","tag-tesla"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}