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Apple says it will spend $500B+ in the US over the next four years, hire 20,000 US workers, and produce AI servers in Texas, after Tim Cook met with Trump — - Company to begin producing Apple Intelligence servers in Texas — $500 billion planned to be invested in US over next four years
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| Dan Gallagher / Wall Street Journal: |
Analysis: Apple's announcement of spending over $500B in the US over four years is in line with what one might expect it to spend anyway, given its financials — One big benefit to being the size of Apple AAPL 0.95%increase; green up pointing triangle is the ability to throw around huge numbers while in the normal course of business.
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| Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: |
Anthropic releases Claude 3.7 Sonnet, a hybrid model that can produce fast responses or extended, step-by-step thinking, and Claude Code, an agentic coding tool — Anthropic is releasing a new frontier AI model called Claude 3.7 Sonnet, which the company designed to “think” about questions for as long as users want it to.
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| Bloomberg: |
TD Cowen: Microsoft cancels leases for a substantial amount of US data centers, potentially due to over-investment fears; Microsoft plans to spend $80B in 2025 — - The company has pledged $80 billion toward computing capacity — Wall Street is questioning AI demand over the longer-term
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| Tanaya Macheel / CNBC: |
Robinhood says it received a letter from the SEC stating the agency is dropping its investigation into Robinhood Crypto, a sign of regulatory change under Trump — The Securities and Exchange Commission is dropping its investigation into Robinhood's crypto arm, the company revealed Monday.
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Chegg sues Google, saying AI Overviews hurt its traffic and revenue, as it mulls strategic options including getting acquired; CHGG drops 20%+ after hours — Chegg on Monday filed suit in federal district court against Google, claiming that artificial intelligence summaries of search results …
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| NBC News: |
Sources: the Elon Musk-directed OPM email asking federal staff about recent work requested no links or attachments as part of a plan to feed responses into AI — The revelation comes as federal workers face a midnight deadline to respond. — WASHINGTON — Responses to the Elon Musk-directed email …
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| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
The Trump admin has fired 130+ staff at CISA, replaced staff refusing DOGE access to networks, appointed a DOD CISO whose clearance was suspended in 2021, more — One month into his second term, President Trump's actions to shrink the government through mass layoffs, firings …
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| Davey Winder / Forbes: |
Google says it plans to use QR codes for Gmail account authentication, ditching SMS to “reduce the impact of rampant, global SMS abuse” — It is certainly no secret that using SMS text messages for security codes used to authenticate your identity is far from ideal.
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| Arjun Sha / Beebom: |
Microsoft quietly launched free, ad-supported desktop versions of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint for Windows, with banner and video ads and limited functionality — In Short — Microsoft has quietly introduced a free ad-supported Office that brings access to desktop Word, Excel, and PowerPoint without any subscription.
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Forums: r/Windows11 and Slashdot
| Maggie Eastland / Bloomberg: |
MongoDB buys Voyage AI for $220M and plans to integrate Voyage's retrieval tools for higher-quality AI outputs with real-time operational data for businesses — - Voyage to gain access to real-time, document-based storage — Combined firm aims to reduce hallucinations in AI applications
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Perplexity teases a web browser “for agentic search” called Comet that is “coming soon” — AI-powered search engine Perplexity says it's building its own web browser. — In a post on X on Monday, the company launched a sign-up list for the browser, which isn't yet available.
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| Juby Babu / Reuters: |
Zoom Q4: revenue of $1.18B, up 3.3% YoY, Enterprise revenue of $706.8M, up 5.9%, net income of $367.9M, up from $298.8M, sales forecast slightly under estimates — Zoom Communications (ZM.O) forecast annual revenue below Wall Street estimates on Monday, in a sign of weak demand for its wide range … | Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Sensor Tower: during Grok 3's release week, Grok mobile app downloads rose over 10x week over week; Similarweb: US web app daily visits rose from ~189K to 900K+ — Elon Musk's AI company, xAI, released Grok 3, its long-awaited flagship AI model, last week.| Wes Davis / The Verge: |
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