Jay Peters / The Verge:
Instagram expands Your Algorithm to its main feed, letting users choose topics they want to see, and is working to support requests for people, moods, and more  —  Adam Mosseri wants AI to give users a sense of control over recommendations.  —  Instagram is going to let you tweak …

Abner Li / 9to5Google:
YouTube rolls out a new in-app messaging system for sharing videos and having 1:1 conversations; it discontinued its previous Messages feature in 2019  —  After testing got underway last year, YouTube is now more widely rolling out a new in-app messaging system.

Bloomberg:
Amazon secures a $17.5B loan from Citigroup and other banks, after selling CA$14B in bonds on Monday, the largest corporate debt offering in Canadian dollars  —  Soon after selling the biggest Canadian corporate bond sale on record, Amazon.com Inc. inked another multi-billion dollar financing …

Raphael Satter / Reuters:
CISA shortens the deadline for US agencies to fix the most critical vulnerabilities in their networks to three days, citing hackers' use of AI  —  The U.S. cyber defense agency said on Wednesday that government officials now have three days to deal with the most serious categories …

Laurie Chen / Reuters:
Chinese companies are implementing “quiet” AI-driven layoffs to avoid labor laws that require government approval for job cuts exceeding 10% of a workforce  —  Liu, a Hangzhou-based contractor at a large Chinese internet firm, says her employer began quietly firing contractors …

Jason Schreier / Bloomberg:
Sources: Microsoft's Xbox division is planning major layoffs next month and significant budget cuts for marketing and some other areas  —  Asha Sharma's first major cuts will arrive in July  —  Microsoft Corp.'s Xbox division is planning major job cuts next month as new Chief Executive …

Bloomberg:
Sources: Sea's Shopee is cutting hundreds of developer jobs globally; the reductions started this week and amount to about 8% of Shopee's developer workforce  —  Sea Ltd.'s Shopee is cutting hundreds of developer jobs globally, joining rivals across the world in slashing staff while they adopt AI …

Sam Sabin / Axios:
OpenAI says it has banned China-linked accounts that used ChatGPT to draft social media influence campaigns targeting US debates over tariffs and data centers  —  OpenAI has banned China-linked accounts that used ChatGPT to draft social media influence campaigns targeting U.S. debates …

Juby Babu / Reuters:
Oracle reports Q4 revenue up 21% YoY to $19.18B, vs. $19.1B est., and expects to raise ~$40B through a combination of debt and equity financing in FY 2027  —  Oracle (ORCL.N) reported fourth-quarter revenue that narrowly beat Wall Street expectations on Wednesday, amid growing concerns …

Anthropic:
Anthropic releases two policy proposals on how governments should address catastrophic risks and manage labor market disruption from advanced AI systems  —  AI is advancing at exponential speed, and the policymaking process was built for a slower world.  —  We are sharing two policy proposals to prepare for AI progress.

Dario Amodei:
An essay on policy responses to AI's exponential progress across regulation and public safety, macroeconomics and taxes, science, civil liberties, geopolitics  —  In one of the side plots to The Lord of the Rings, two of the Hobbits attempt to rouse Treebeard—a wise but ponderous sentient tree …

Paige Smith / Bloomberg:
OpenAI and Visa partner to let AI agents make purchases online after users give their permission and to explore enterprise applications for AI-driven payments  —  OpenAI and Visa Inc. are now allowing artificial-intelligence agents to make purchases online after users give their permission …

Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch:
Cybersecurity researchers complain that Claude Fable's guardrails are too strict, rejecting “innocuous tasks” like reading blog posts or performing code reviews  —  Anthropic released its latest model Fable on Tuesday, billing it as a public and limited version of its powerful and much-hyped cybersecurity model Mythos.

Tom Warren / The Verge:
Sources: Microsoft is restricting employees from using Claude Fable 5 because of Anthropic's new 30-day data retention requirements  —  Microsoft's legal teams are evaluating Anthropic's new data retention changes. … Anthropic released Claude Fable, its first Mythos-class AI model …