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Kuo: A20 chips in iPhone 18 models will be made using TSMC's 2nm process, as TSMC's trial production of 2nm chips reached yields well above the 60-70% range — Apple supply chain analyst Ming-Chi Kuo today reiterated that the A20 chip in iPhone 18 models will be manufactured with TSMC's 2nm process.| Coco Feng / South China Morning Post: |
Tencent unveils Hunyuan T1, a new reasoning AI model powered by its Hunyuan Turbo S AI model, and claims it rivals DeepSeek's R1 in both performance and pricing — Tencent Holdings has unveiled a new artificial intelligence (AI) reasoning model, Hunyuan T1, that rivals DeepSeek's R1 in both performance and pricing.
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Sources: The Bot Company, co-founded by ex-Cruise CEO Kyle Vogt to make AI-powered household robots, raised $150M at a $2B valuation, up from $550M in May 2024 — Kyle Vogt, former CEO of self-driving car company Cruise, has raised $150 million in a new funding round led by Greenoaks … | Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson / Semafor: |
An interview with Affirm co-founder Max Levchin on hitting profitability, international expansion, building an “Affirm mafia”, DOGE, friendship with Musk, more — This article first appeared in The CEO Signal. Request an invitation. — THE SIGNAL INTERVIEW| Caroline O'Donovan / Washington Post: |
A look at Amazon's suit against the Consumer Product Safety Commission, claiming the agency is unconstitutional, an argument favored by the Trump administration — The company's lawsuit argues it shouldn't have to cooperate with the Consumer Product Safety Commission, which oversees recalls of dangerous goods.
More: Engadget, Retail TouchPoints, and eVille Times
| Eliza Gkritsi / Politico: |
X suspends several accounts belonging to opposition figures in Turkey, amid extensive protests sparked by the arrest of President Erdogan's main political rival — Suspensions affect accounts spreading information about the widespread demonstrations. — Elon Musk's social media platform X …
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| Bloomberg: |
A profile of StubHub CEO Eric Baker, who, according to the company's S-1, holds 5.2% of Class A shares but controls over 90% of the votes through Class B shares — This time it isn't concert tickets Eric Baker is selling. It's shares of StubHub Holdings Inc., the company he co-founded and has owned on and off for a quarter century.
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Filings review: Builder.ai, which raised $450M from Microsoft and others, used an auditor with links to founder Sachin Duggal; Duggal resigned as CEO last month — Findings related to one of UK's best-funded tech start-ups raises alarm with corporate governance experts| Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
Democratic Senators helping Trump's strongest Senate allies repeal Section 230 could give the Trump administration unprecedented power to control online speech — At the exact moment when Donald Trump and his MAGA allies are actively dismantling democratic institutions and working to silence critics …
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| Rhiannon Williams / MIT Technology Review: |
OpenAI, in partnership with MIT, releases its first study on how ChatGPT use affects emotional well-being, including differences in how men and women respond — OpenAI says over 400 million people use ChatGPT every week. But how does interacting with it affect us? Does it make us more or less lonely?
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| Berber Jin / Wall Street Journal: |
Index Ventures, Wiz's largest outside shareholder with a 13% stake, is set to turn its $245M investment into $4.3B from Wiz's pending sale to Alphabet for $32B — Index Ventures is set to earn a 250-fold return on its seed money in a startup Google has agreed to buy
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| Bloomberg: |
A profile of Jed McCaleb, the billionaire who was behind Mt. Gox and XRP, as his aerospace startup Vast looks to build a private space station with SpaceX — Crafting and launching a space station that can keep humans alive comfortably in orbit is no easy feat. — Jed McCaleb made a fortune in cryptocurrency.
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