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A look at the network of group chats that surged in 2020 as a place where Silicon Valley leaders allied with the new right, revolving around Marc Andreessen — 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 unlikely — 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 into Apple's iPhone manufacturing process, which uses ~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| 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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| 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 subscribers' video engagement — The audio platform has branched out to video and has given its podcasters a raise as the war for creator talent heats up.| 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 … | David Heinemeier Hansson / HEY: |
Google won the browser wars fair and square, and the web will be far worse off if Google is forced to sell Chrome, 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.
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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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| Yazhou Sun / Bloomberg: |
Munich-based ARX Robotics, which makes self-driving, modular battlefield robots, raised €31M led by HV Capital and plans to build a plant in southwest 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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| Dylan Patel / SemiAnalysis: |
A look at Microsoft freezing ~1.5GW of data centers set for 2025 and 2026; Microsoft has walked away from significantly more than 2GW of non-binding contracts — Over the last few months, there have been a number of headlines raising concerns about Microsoft's reduction …
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| Brody Ford / Bloomberg: |
IBM says it plans to invest $150B in the US over the next five years to fuel the economy and to “accelerate its role as the global leader in computing” — IBM plans to invest $150 billion in the US over the next five years, including funds for research and development and manufacturing mainframe and quantum computers.| Andrea Jiménez / Washington Post: |
How AI tools like Autistic Translator and Goblin Tools are helping neurodiverse people better understand social situations, as some worry about overreliance — For people living with autism, experiencing awkward or confusing social interactions can be a common occurrence.
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