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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
How Apple may adjust to the US tariffs; sources: the iPhone 17 Pro's camera panel will span the width of the phone and will be the same color as the device  —  After years of avoiding iPhone price hikes in the US, Apple could finally be forced to to make increases.
Wall Street Journal:
Analysis: newly announced US tariffs for goods from China could raise the bill of materials for the iPhone 16 Pro with 256GB of storage from ~$550 to ~$850
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft unveils a demo of Quake II generated using its Muse AI model, with limited playability in a browser, as part of the company's Copilot for Gaming push  —  Microsoft's Muse AI model is now available as an AI-generated Quake II tech demo. … Microsoft unveiled its Xbox AI era earlier …
Meta:
Meta launches Llama 4 Maverick with 400B parameters and Scout with 109B parameters and a 10M context window, and previews Behemoth with 2T total parameters  —  Takeaways  — We're sharing the first models in the Llama 4 herd, which will enable people to build more personalized multimodal experiences.
More: Bloomberg, PYMNTS.com, The Verge, Microsoft Azure, CryptoSlate, iPhone in Canada Blog, TechTalks, Constellation Research, Cautious Optimism, Unite.AI, Cryptopolitan, The Decoder, WinBuzzer, Livemint, Digital Trends, About Amazon, Cointelegraph, The Cloudflare Blog, Research & Development World, Hugging Face, iClarified, AIN, VentureBeat, Simon Willison's Weblog, CNBC, Simon Willison's Weblog, Analytics India Magazine, TipRanks Financial, and Android Central
Bluesky: @chirag, @jeremymorrell.dev, @seldo.com, @simonwillison.net, @timkellogg.me, @ericflo, and @taumuyi
Threads: @chriscox, @natolambert, @jjackyliang, @rpn, @ajassy, @satyanadella, @latentchat, @latesttechtalk, @russsalakhutdinov, @nvidiadeveloper, @zuck, @alphasignal.ai, @omarsar0, @natolambert, @arunsasi99, @aaldahle, @natolambert, @1ar.io, @han_fang_, @vthallam, @doreturn.in, @documentingmeta, @zuck, @aaldahle, @zuck, @ericflo, and @yannlecun.  Instagram: Mark Zuckerberg
X: @davidsacks47, @ahmad_al_dahle, @jeremyphoward, @aiatmeta, @natolambert, @levie, @natolambert, @dylan522p, @clementdelangue, @skrishnan47, @burkov, @redhat_ai, @satyanadella, @bindureddy, @bindureddy, @kalomaze, @yampeleg, @garymarcus, @abacaj, @burkov, @artificialanlys, @willccbb, @lmarena_ai, @tobi, @alexocheema, @sundarpichai, @cloudflaredev, @ritakozlov_, @cloudflare, @togethercompute, @groqinc, @basetenco, @openrouterai, @openrouterai, @nearcyan, @bindureddy, @nearcyan, @miles_brundage, @miles_brundage, @miles_brundage, @miles_brundage, @miles_brundage, @levelsio, @emollick, @lmarena_ai, @emollick, @clementdelangue, @drjimfan, @dorialexander, @emollick, @dorialexander, @eliebakouch, @nearcyan, @simonw, @deanwball, @emollick, @maximelabonne, @brbcatonfire, @charliebholtz, @iscienceluvr, @michaelsayman, @abhisk_kadian, @bhutanisanyam1, @dextersjab, @risphereeditor, @clementdelangue, @natalianeverova, @iscienceluvr, @huggingface, @krishnanrohit, @simonw, @dorialexander, @deanwball, @xlr8harder, @jconorgrogan, @sharan0909, @4xiom_, @sharan0909, @ariaurelium, @maximelabonne, @manohar_paluri, @alew3, @maximelabonne, @giffmana, @tomosman, @rsdgpt, @asaddhamani, @the_ai_investor, @middleclassdesi, @andymstone, @btibor91, @_impl, @ashter_haider, @deryatr_, @bradthilton, @burny_tech, @matthewberman, @rsalakhu, @loredanacrisan, @bindureddy, @_arohan_, @jpineau1, @eaccelerate_42, @madiator, @frameworkputer, @astonzhangaz, @naklecha, @cfgeek, @deanwball, and @rishdotblog
LinkedIn: Andrew Feldman and Sean Bell.  Facebook: Mark Zuckerberg
Forums: Hacker News, r/ABoringDystopia, r/singularity, r/artificial, r/technology, r/singularity, r/LocalLLaMA, Lobsters, and Slashdot
Cheyenne MacDonald / Engadget:
Mark Zuckerberg says Meta will share news about a Llama 4 Reasoning model “in the next month”
Ryan Browne / CNBC:
Paris-based Pennylane, which makes cloud-based accounting software, raised €75M, doubling its valuation to €2B, led by Sequoia and with Alphabet among investors  —  French accounting software firm Pennylane has doubled its valuation to 2 billion euros ($2.16 billion) in a new 75 million euro funding round.
Shanti Das / The Guardian:
Analysis: child begging livestreams are actively promoted by TikTok's algorithm and TikTok profits from the content despite having policies against begging  —  Exploitation fears as people in extreme poverty perform stunts and beg for virtual gifts  —  Three young children huddle in front of a camera …
Xinmei Shen / South China Morning Post:
DeepSeek and Tsinghua University researchers detail an approach combining reasoning methods to let LLMs deliver better and faster results to general queries  —  In collaboration with Tsinghua University, DeepSeek developed a technique combining reasoning methods to guide AI models towards human preferences
More: arXiv.org and VentureBeat
Bluesky: @timkellogg.me and @timkellogg.me.  Mastodon: @yogthos@social.marxist ….  Forums: r/DeepSeek

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Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Arkansas PBS severs ties with the PBS network, the first state public TV system to do so since Congress cut CPB funds, citing the annual $2M+ membership cost

Pamela McClintock / The Hollywood Reporter:
Disney's Zootopia 2 surpasses $1B at the global box office, the fastest PG-rated film to do so after just 17 days in release

Trip Gabriel / New York Times:
R. Bruce Dold, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist at the Chicago Tribune, where he became editor-in-chief and publisher, is dead at 70

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Krystal Hu / Reuters:
SandboxAQ, which uses quantum computing to develop AI, raised a $150M Series E extension from Google, Nvidia, and others, taking its total funding to $950M+

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Makena Kelly / Wired:
Sources: DOGE is hosting a “hackathon” in Washington DC next week to build a “mega API” for accessing all IRS data, with Palantir as a possible partner
Joseph Bambridge / Politico:
OpenAI and Google reject the UK's proposal to allow training AI on copyrighted work without permission unless rights holders opt out to “reserve their rights”
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