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A closer look at the iPhone 17 “Air”, which lays the foundation for major design changes in future devices, including possible portless and foldable iPhones — Apple's upcoming iPhone 17 “Air” will foreshadow a move to slimmer models without charging ports.
More: 9to5Mac, The Verge, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, AppleInsider, AppleInsider, Cult of Mac, and Digital Trends. Forums: r/apple
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Garry Tan says ~80% of YC's W25 batch is AI focused, and the cohort is growing significantly faster than past ones, with actual revenue, thanks to “vibe coding” — Silicon Valley's earliest stage companies are getting a major boost from artificial intelligence.
More: TechCrunch. X: @tmrohan, @ashrust, and @garrytan. LinkedIn: Priyankka Mani. Forums: r/artificial
| Catherine Thorbecke / Bloomberg: |
The hype around AI agent Manus doesn't represent a second DeepSeek moment, but reveals that Chinese startups can compete with US companies building AI products — The viral AI agent from a Chinese startup isn't about research breakthroughs, it's about creating competitive consumer products.
More: Hyperdimensional, The Economist, and Unite.AI
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Baidu releases Ernie X1, an AI model that articulates its reasoning similarly to DeepSeek R1, and upgrades its flagship foundation model to Ernie 4.5, both free — The Ernie X1 model by China's internet search leader works similarly to DeepSeek R1 — which shocked Silicon Valley … | Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: |
Google's Gemma 3 and Cohere's Command A, which require just one or two Nvidia H100 chips to run, hint at an industry-wide push for more efficient AI software — Nearly two months after the viral success of China's DeepSeek prompted a reckoning over how much tech companies spend … | Financial Times: |
Spotify slashed nearly €500M in marketing, R&D spending, and general administrative expenses in 2024, which helped the company swing to a net income of €1.1B — The Swedish music streaming service's size now gives it a durable advantage over rivals — Spotify has found its groove.| Scroll.in: |
Jio and Airtel, which initially opposed Starlink, partnered with the company following Modi's meeting with Musk and Trump's decision to impose tariffs on India — The announcements about Starlink's tie-ups with the Indian telecommunication giants follow Trump's decision to impose reciprocal tariffs on India from April 2.| Financial Times: |
Current and former Meta employees describe how Joel Kaplan has risen over the past decade to become Mark Zuckerberg's most trusted political fixer — Meta's newly promoted head of global affairs has masterminded social media giant's pivot towards Donald Trump| Katherine Hamilton / Wall Street Journal: |
Etsy and eBay are starting to embrace tactics popularized by social media platforms, such as algorithm-based personalization, as a way to stay relevant — Companies are starting to emulate some of the tactics popularized by Instagram, TikTok and Pinterest to help boost sales
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| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Bluesky proposes letting users indicate if their data can be used for AI training, web archiving, and more; critics see it as a reversal of its prior statements — Social network Bluesky recently published a proposal on GitHub outlining new options it could give users to indicate whether …
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| Francisco Rodrigues / CoinDesk: |
21Shares plans to liquidate actively managed bitcoin and ether futures ETFs ARKC and ARKY, after $1.66B+ in outflows from US-listed spot bitcoin ETFs in March — The firm is liquidating its ARK 21Shares Active On-Chain Bitcoin Strategy ETF and ARK 21Shares Active Bitcoin Ethereum Strategy ETF amid the downturn.| Jennifer Elias / CNBC: |
Google and other companies are considering bringing back in-person job interviews, as some startups sell AI tools that let engineers cheat in virtual interviews — After landing internship offers from Amazon, Meta and TikTok, computer science student Chungin “Roy” Lee has decided to move to San Francisco.| Jackson Healy / Courthouse News Service: |
Former Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick sues G/O Media over March 2024 Gizmodo and Kotaku articles accusing him of workplace harassment and discrimination — Robert Kotick accused the media company of knowingly lying about since-dismissed workplace sex harassment and discrimination charges.
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