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| Ben Smith / Semafor: |
A look at the sprawling group chat network that surged in 2020 as a place for Silicon Valley leaders to talk candidly, with Marc Andreessen playing a key role — THE SCOOP — Last Thursday morning, a bit before 10 am in Austin and nearly 11 pm in Singapore, Joe Lonsdale had enough of Balaji Srinivasan's views on China.
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
While Apple's iPhone manufacturing in India matches China in quality, making the extraordinarily complex 20th anniversary iPhones outside China remains doubtful — Apple has begun breaking up its AI and machine learning organization by moving pieces to other parts of the company.
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| Financial Times: |
A deep dive on Apple's iPhone manufacturing process, including 2,700 parts from 187 suppliers in 28 countries; just 30 suppliers have no presence in China — The administration wants the iPhone to be manufactured in America. The components that power it show why that is highly impractical| Nicole Nguyen / Wall Street Journal: |
While Big Tech is largely spared from tariffs, small companies making devices like baby monitors face price hikes, shortages, and degrading product quality — Big Tech was spared. Small Tech is looking for ways to survive. — It's a brave new world for makers of high-tech stuff.| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Huawei has approached some clients about testing the technical feasibility of the Ascend 910D, its newest AI chip that it hopes will beat Nvidia's H100 — Superpower rivalry over semiconductors heats up despite Washington's attempts to block Beijing
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| Prachi Verma / The Economic Times: |
India faces a shortage of agentic AI professionals, with executives estimating fewer than 100K in the country while demand is projected to hit ~200K by 2026 — India is grappling with a critical shortage of agentic AI professionals as demand surges, driven by the shift towards sophisticated AI agents capable …
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| Jeff Horwitz / Wall Street Journal: |
Test conversations with some Meta AI digital companions, including celebrity-voiced ones, show them engaging in sexual chats even when users identify as minors — Chatbots on Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp are empowered to engage in ‘romantic role-play’ that can turn explicit.
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Mastodon: @harrymccracken@mastodon … and @dramypsyd@ohai.social
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LinkedIn: Jake Shapiro and Sarah Gardner
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| Jessica Testa / New York Times: |
Spotify says it has paid $100M+ to podcast publishers and creators since January 2025 via a new creator program based on Premium subscriber video engagement — The audio platform has branched out to video and has paid more than $100 million to podcast publishers this year as the war for creator talent heats up.| Yazhou Sun / Bloomberg: |
German defense startup ARX Robotics, which makes self-driving, modular battlefield robots, raised €31M led by HV Capital and plans to build a plant in England — ARX Robotics, a German defense startup backed by NATO's technology fund, has raised venture capital funding for the second …
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| CBS Mornings on YouTube: |
Geoffrey Hinton fears AI companies are under-investing in safety research, embracing military usage, and sharing model weights while pushing for less regulation — Nobel laureate Geoffrey Hinton, often called a “godfather of artificial intelligence,” spoke with Brook Silva-Braga …
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| David Heinemeier Hansson / HEY: |
Google Chrome won the browser wars fair and square, and the web will be worse off if Google is forced to sell it, even to atone for ad market monopoly abuses — The web will be far worse off if Google is forced to sell Chrome, even if it's to atone for legitimate ad-market monopoly abuses.
| Andrea Jiménez / Washington Post: |
How AI tools like Autistic Translator and Goblin Tools are helping those with autism and other neurodiverse people understand social situations — For people living with autism, experiencing awkward or confusing social interactions can be a common occurrence.
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