Apple has removed 1,213 apps from the AppStore at the request of the Russian authorities.

Apple regularly reports the number of requests it receives from various countries for personal data and app removal.

In 2025, 1,213 apps were removed, with the majority of them being removed at the request of Roskomnadzor.

This is an all-time record, followed by Vietnam (335 apps), China (196), South Korea (108), India (54), and the United States (39).

The US judicial system is facing the threat of collapse due to the influx of AI-generated lawsuits.

According to a study by scientists from MIT and the University of Southern California, almost 18% of lawsuits filed by citizens without professional lawyers now contain text generated by neural networks. As a result, the volume of court records per case increased by an average of 64% in the first six months.

The availability of language models has led to a sharp increase in the number of civil lawsuits filed by individuals who previously lacked the means to hire legal representation. In the United States, the percentage of such filings has skyrocketed from 11% to a record-breaking 16.8%. Federal judges have described this phenomenon as an "existential threat to the system," as court officials are spending their time reading and processing vast amounts of nonsensical documents generated by chatbots. Statistics show that plaintiffs without lawyers end up losing in 96% of cases.

🧸 Nostalgic toys are surging again (Pinterest trend signal)

— Pinterest’s 2026 trend report points to a strong comeback of “childhood” toys.
— Demand is driven by collectible drops, recognizable retro shapes, and giftable bundles.
— Visual identity matters: shoppers buy what they can spot in 1 second.

👉 Seller takeaway: test “nostalgia” SKUs as bundles/limited variants and invest in clean hero images + packaging shots.

Источник: Mercury News

The Shein scandal: the marketplace was accused of stealing prints from indigenous peoples, along with photos of their families.

A Canadian company based in Winnipeg, which uses indigenous (Indian) motifs in its clothing, accuses Shein of stealing 20 designs. According to the CEO, some of the designs were copied along with the company's name and the year it was founded.

The photos on the cards were posed by indigenous residents of Winnipeg. The company's founder, Michelle Cameron, claims that her five years of work have been stolen, including photos of her daughter posing for the brand. Shein quickly removed the ads from the platform and launched an internal investigation. Cameron responded by waiting for an apology.

In the United States, a man bought a $640 watch as a gift for his wife, but there was a mistake on the dial: instead of Trump, it read Rump.

AI girls helped an Ohio resident sell special equipment.

The man tried to do this for a very long time, but there were no customers. Then he used Midjourney to add top models to the photo of the product, leaving the old text.

So the click-through rate (CTR) increased by about 40 times, and the excavator suddenly became one of the most viewed lots on the website with ads.

🇪🇺 EU fines Temu €200 million under the Digital Services Act

• Regulators say Temu failed to do enough to prevent the sale of illegal and potentially unsafe products on its platform.
• The €200 million penalty is one of the first major enforcement actions under the EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA).
• Temu will now be required to strengthen risk assessments, content moderation, and transparency measures for consumers.

Seller takeaway:
Compliance and the ability to prove product origin are becoming major competitive advantages in the European market. As regulations tighten, sellers with proper documentation, traceable supply chains, and transparent operations will be in a stronger position.

Remote work has proven to be more dangerous for Zomer's careers than artificial intelligence.

The Federal Reserve Bank of New York called remote work the main reason for the hiring problems among young professionals. In March 2026, the unemployment rate among university graduates under the age of 29 increased to 5.6%. According to economists, companies' transition to remote work has contributed to 64% of this increase.

Employers are reluctant to hire inexperienced employees for remote positions due to the challenges of training them in isolation. With senior colleagues absent from the office, there is a lack of expertise transfer, leading companies to prioritize older candidates with more experience.

AI's role remains secondary, although in April, American companies reduced a record-breaking 21,900 employees due to the implementation of neural networks.

In China, advertising posters for the 1688.com platform (Alibaba for the domestic market) encourage students to go out and trade on the platform instead of getting a job after graduation.

Bots surpassed humans in the number of online requests for the first time.

According to Cloudflare Radar data as of June 6, humans create about 40% of requests to web pages, while bots, including AI agents, account for about 60%. Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince expected this shift to occur only by the end of 2027.

“This happened faster than I expected. I thought it would be the end of 2027, then the beginning of 2027, but agent traffic is growing so fast that bots have overtaken human traffic for the first time in the history of the internet," Prince said.

In South Korea, so-called "dopamine sites" are gaining popularity, where you can create a shopping cart, place an order, and complete the entire customer journey... without actually making a purchase.

For example, a user selects dishes on a fake food delivery app, clicks "order," and receives only a notification of successful checkout. There are no card charges or delivery services.

It may sound strange, but for many Zomers, the very process of selecting and purchasing has become a source of pleasure. This is especially true in the context of stress, anxiety, and the rising cost of living.

Sam Altman faces personal liability for a lawsuit about the harmful effects of ChatGPT on children.

The authorities of the U.S. state of Florida filed a lawsuit against the company OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman. This was announced at a press conference by the state's Attorney General James Utmaier.

This is the first lawsuit in the history of the United States against the creators of ChatGPT by the authorities of a separate state. The company is accused of deliberately concealing serious security threats in order to quickly commercialize the product before going public.

The plaintiffs are demanding that Altman be held personally responsible. The state is also seeking fines against the company and a ban on collecting personal data from children under the age of 13 without explicit parental consent.

The lawsuit alleges that the chatbot helped criminals plan violent acts, encouraged vulnerable users to harm themselves, and caused severe addiction in children.

Amazon editors have named the top 20 literary newcomers of 2026.

The shortlist includes the main fiction novels, memoirs and documentary investigations of recent months.

The full list of the main books of the year so far:

📍Kin (Tayari Jones) is a novel about the growing up of two friends in the American South in the era of segregation.
📍London Falling (Patrick Radden Keefe) is a documentary investigation into the mysterious death of 19-year-old Zach Brettler in 2019, who fell from the balcony of a luxurious London skyscraper.
📍Yesteryear (Cara Claire Burke) is a satire about a beauty blogger who is suddenly transported to the 19th century.
📍Strangers (Bell Burden) is a memoir about divorce and the sudden collapse of a long-term marriage.
📍Night Objects (Eli Rafael) — a detective story about the dark secrets of an elite boarding school.
📍Land (Maggie O'Farrell) — a family saga about life on a remote Irish peninsula.
📍American Men (Jordan Ritter Conn) — the story of four completely different Americans.
📍Cherry Baby (Rainbow Rowell) is a romantic drama about self-acceptance and a second chance at love.
📍Nothing Tastes as Good (Luke Dumas) is a body horror about society's unhealthy fixation on appearance.
📍Crux (Gabriel Tallent) is a touching story of a strong friendship forged through rock climbing.
📍Transcription (Ben Lerner) is an ironic novel about people's obsession with recording their entire lives on smartphones.
📍Famesick (Lena Dunham) is a memoir by the creator of the TV series Girls about her public life and her struggle with chronic illness.
📍A Far-Flung Life (M. L. Stedman) is a deep family drama set in the Australian outback.
📍Five (Ilona Bannister) is a psychological thriller about five strangers at a train station in London.
📍Into the Blue (Emma Brodie) is a romantic drama about the power and inevitability of first love.
📍John of John (Douglas Stewart) is a new book by a Booker Prize winner about mysteries on a remote Scottish island.
📍Mad Mabel (Sally Hepworth) is a witty and sad family story.
📍The Calamity Club (by Katherine Stokett) is a novel by the author of The Help about the survival of women during the Great Depression.
📍Homebound (by Porsha Alan) is a philosophical fiction about finding one's place in the world.
📍Lady Tremaine (by Rachel Hochhauser) is a reinterpretation of the Cinderella story from the perspective of her "evil" stepmother.

The US has banned access to top-tier AI Anthropic.

The US government has ordered Anthropic to close access to advanced models Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all non-citizens of the country for national security reasons. Since the company does not have a passport verification system, the developers had to disable these neural networks for all users in general.

Analysts believe that citizenship checks will soon become the norm for other AI giants.

DeepSeek is preparing one of the largest AI rounds in China's history.

The Chinese AI startup is preparing to raise about 50 billion yuan – approximately 531.5 billion rubles.

According to Dao Insights, such a round could value the company at 400 billion yuan.

Potential investors may include:
📍Tencent
📍CATL
📍 JD.cоm
📍NetEase
📍China's National AI Fund.

It is also reported that DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng may invest around 20 billion yuan through his affiliated fund, High-Flyer. If the deal goes through, it will be one of the largest private tech rounds in China's history.

OpenAI's loss has increased eightfold.

OpenAI's net loss for 2025 amounted to 39 billion dollars against 5 billion a year earlier. Research and development last year cost 19 billion dollars, sales and marketing—almost 6 billion.

The company's expenses are still covered by investors: this year, it raised \$122 billion at a valuation of \$730 billion. Additionally, the company is preparing for an IPO with a potential valuation of over $1 trillion.

Gemini Project Co-Head Noam Shazir leaves Google for OpenAI.

The developer announced this on the social network X. According to insiders, at OpenAI, he will lead the direction of architectural research.Shazeer is one of the key creators of modern neural networks and a co-author of the fundamental 2017 paper “Attention Is All You Need,” which described the transformer architecture (the basis for GPT and Gemini).

His departure is called a major loss for Google: in August 2024, the corporation paid for the technological licensing of his startup Character. AI about $2.7 billion, in fact, for the sake of Shazeer's return to the staff.

The specialist himself received about $1 billion from the deal. Google confirmed Shazir's departure.

Ian Lekun called Elon Musk's AI lab a failure and warned about the industry's bubble.

In an interview with CNBC, the founder of the startup AMI Labs and a Turing Award winner called Elon Musk's xAI project "something of a failure." According to him, the company is no longer able to compete on equal terms with OpenAI and Anthropic.

The scientist believes that the main reason for the difficulties is a shortage of staff: almost all of the key co-founders have left the startup, and Musk's strict management style has made it extremely difficult to hire top talent. Additionally, Lekun pointed out that xAI has been renting out its data center computing power to competitors (including Google and Anthropic) in order to recoup its massive investment in infrastructure. Lekun also warned about the potential risk of a large financial bubble in the AI market.

He noted that the costs of running large models are not decreasing fast enough, and the largest laboratories continue to incur huge losses and artificially lower their rates.

Etsy, a marketplace specializing in handmade goods, launched the "Shop Other Jeffs" campaign.

The platform is reminding everyone that there are not only billionaire Jeff Bezos and Amazon, but at least 5,000 other Jeffs in the world—Etsy sellers who sell furniture, ceramics, lamps, and various other handmade goods.

Amazon users will be able to design products using AI.

The Alexa for Shopping app has a new feature that allows users to create their own designs for products such as t-shirts, hoodies, and water bottles by describing the idea in the Amazon Shopping app or on the Amazon.com website. The tool uses artificial intelligence. All users need to do is describe their desired design, and the feature will instantly create it.

Customers can share these designs with their friends and family and order similar products. Amazon takes care of everything else, from production to delivery.

Creating merchandise is free, and customers only pay for the products they purchase. All products are made to order and delivered with the option of Prime delivery. This feature is now available to all US customers.