Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: Apple and OpenAI are preparing a major announcement of their partnership at WWDC; the new AirTag with a better chip is scheduled to arrive by mid-2025  —  Apple was caught flat-footed in the generative AI race, and the company will need to change its strategy if it wants to catch up.

Alfred Ng / Politico: How Vermont lawmakers passed a strict online data privacy law despite significant pushback from the tech industry; GOP Gov. Phil Scott is yet to sign the bill  —  State lawmakers from Maine to Oklahoma say the lessons they learned from battling industry over privacy bills can provide a new playbook to fight back.

Pew Research Center: About 38% of webpages that existed in 2013 are unavailable now and 8% of pages from 2023 are unavailable; 23% of news pages have at least one broken link  —  38% of webpages that existed in 2013 are no longer accessible a decade later  —  Table of Contents Table of Contents

Politico: A look at UK-based Faculty, which has been awarded UK government contracts for AI safety work without competition, raising questions about its political links  —  LONDON — Early 2000s, University College London: Four bright young things meet and bond over their shared love of physics and neuroscience.

Renee DiResta / The Guardian: How a rightwing smear campaign against NPR and its CEO Katherine Maher, who is on Signal Foundation's board, led Elon Musk to malign Signal  —  Rightwing media personalities on X transmuted a screed against NPR's CEO into a fight over encryption via the Transitive Property of Bad People

Daniel Thomas / Financial Times: Culture secretary Lucy Frazer says the UK is working on rules around the use of creative work for training AI after media and arts executives voiced concerns  —  Culture secretary Lucy Frazer says focus will be on transparency after media and arts executives voiced concern