Daring Fireball

Ryan Whitham, writing for Ars Technica back in April:
European regulators are proposing several broad changes to the wayAI tools operate on Android phones. Some of this isstraightforward, like allowing third-party AI tools to be invokedsystem-wide via hot words or button presses. This might alsoinclude...

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...

Ben Thompson, in his weekly free column at Stratechery:
On one hand, I actually don’t begrudge Anthropic not wanting tohelp its competitors; on the other hand, what should beblisteringly clear is that Anthropic does not think that anyoneelse other than them should even be making frontier LLMs....

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 thefront of the building around 3 a.m., several hours after thecenter missed a federal judge’s two-week deadline to do so.The judge had ruled that the decision by the center’s board oftrustees...