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Sources: Apple plans to launch iPhone 18 Pro models, a thin iPhone 18, and a foldable iPhone in fall 2026 but the standard iPhone 18 in spring 2027 — After years of incremental changes to the iPhone, Apple is mixing things up much more dramatically. Later this year it's expected to introduce …
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X: @tgod34748 and @waynema
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: Huawei is building an advanced chip production line in Shenzhen and is the key player behind three plants, as satellite imagery shows rapid development — Rapid expansion of Shenzhen facilities designed to break dependence on foreign technologies — Huawei is building a production line …
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| Tim Starks / CyberScoop: |
President Trump's fiscal 2026 budget proposal suggests slashing $491M from CISA's ~$3B budget, claiming the cut “refocuses CISA on its core mission” — A budget summary doesn't give specific details on which programs it would cut, instead providing a broad outline. — Learn more.
More: White House, WinBuzzer, and The Hill
| Bloomberg: |
An in-depth look at the impact of stratospheric pollution from satellite reentries on the ozone layer, as Starlink and others launch more internet satellites — Elon Musk's SpaceX has more than 7,000 satellites in orbit to create its Starlink internet constellation.
More: JGR Atmospheres, The Guardian, and Ars Technica
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Forums: r/technology, r/space, and Slashdot
| New York Times: |
Sensor Tower: Temu cut US digital ad spending by an estimated 31% and Shein by 19% in the two week period from March 31 as the de minimis exemption is closed — For Meta, Alphabet and other platforms, the elimination of the tariff exemption for inexpensive goods is already cutting into advertising revenue.
More: Wired, The Straits Times, The Western Journal, ZeroHedge News, CNN, The Economic Times, KXTV, Newsmax, Axios, and New York Post
| Ian Johnston / Financial Times: |
Ookla: Starlink use rose by 35% above average in Spain and Portugal on April 28, as a widespread electricity outage exposed vulnerabilities in telecoms networks — Widespread electricity outage on the Iberian peninsula exposed vulnerabilities in telecoms — Spanish and Portuguese mobile …
X: @redskullpro and @imnotharryjames
| Chloe Cornish / Financial Times: |
Filings: Abu Dhabi-based AI group G42 set up a US company to boost its presence in the country, as the UAE plans to invest tens of billions of dollars in the US — State-backed group accelerates investment plans as it deepens collaboration over the technology
X: @rwang07
| Financial Times: |
Inside Japan's Disco Corp, which makes ~75% of the world's chip cutting tools, and where no staffer has a boss, with decisions made using a currency called Will — It's the start of another day for an ordinary Tokyo salaryman. On a rain-drenched Monday morning, the engineer stows …
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X: @raffasadun, @cordeliaj, and @davidkeo
LinkedIn: Thomas Ableman and Max Lintott
| Joanna Stern / Wall Street Journal: |
Wearing three AI-powered devices, the $50 Bee Pioneer, $199 Limitless Pendant, and $159 Plaud NotePin, shows how the wearables can be useful but also creepy — The Bee, Limitless and Plaud wearables record everything you say and use AI to provide summaries, to-do's—and a slightly terrifying glimpse of the future
LinkedIn: Hunter Walk, Prabhakar Sharma, Frank Schirrmeister, Avinash Patil, and Rehan Farooq
| Sara Gharaibeh / Bloomberg: |
The UAE will add AI to public school curriculum, including ethical awareness and foundational concepts, for kindergarten pupils through to 12th grade this year — The United Arab Emirates will introduce artificial intelligence to the public school curriculum this year …
More: Arabian Business
| Brian Merchant / Blood in the Machine: |
Duolingo's “AI-first” announcement highlights the unfolding AI jobs crisis, with attrition in creative fields, hiring cuts, declining freelance incomes, more — On Monday, April 29th, Luis von Ahn, the billionaire CEO of the popular language learning app Duolingo …
Bluesky: @bcmerchant, @bcmerchant, and @bcmerchant
| Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE: |
Doppel, which provides an AI-powered social engineering detection service for enterprises, raised a $35M Series B led by Bessemer at a $205M valuation — Cybersecurity startup Doppel Inc. today disclosed that it has closed a $35 million funding round led by Bessemer Venture Partners.
More: Doppel, MSSP Alert, FinSMEs, Forbes, and VC News Daily
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| Jeff St. John / Canary Media: |
Rhode Island-based Utilidata, which develops AI-enabled smart meters and grid control devices with Nvidia chips for energy utilities, raised a $60.3M Series C — Utilidata and Nvidia think their AI-enabled smart meters can help solve tricky grid challenges, from growing data center demand to more rooftop solar and EVs.
More: Wall Street Journal, Latitude Media, Heatmap News, Utilidata.com, and FinSMEs. LinkedIn: Alex Brown
| Zoltan Vardai / Cointelegraph: |
Polygon Labs spinout Miden, a zero-knowledge proof-based blockchain project focused on high scalability, raised a $25M seed led by a16z Crypto, 1kx, and Hack VC — A16z Crypto led a $25 million investment round into Miden, an independent blockchain project spun out of Polygon Labs.
More: CoinDesk, Polygon Blog, The Block, Fortune, CoinGape, NFTgators, and crypto.news
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