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An interview with Jony Ive and Laurene Powell Jobs on tech's next chapter, meeting in 1997, Steve Jobs, Apple, Powell Jobs backing LoveFrom in 2019, and more — After Apple, the Silicon Valley visionaries are looking to artificial intelligence to shape the future again
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X: @camilomoresala, @kylascan, @kylascan, and @parkerortolani. LinkedIn: Nicholas Thompson. Forums: MacRumors Forums
| Edith Hancock / Wall Street Journal: |
Apple appeals the EU's iOS interoperability order under the DMA, saying the requirements create “a process that is unreasonable, costly, and stifles innovation” — Companies face fines of up to 10% their worldwide annual turnover if the EU decides they are flouting its Digital Markets Act
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Sources: Meta aims to help brands fully create and target ads using AI by the end of 2026, including images and budgetary goals, expanding its current AI tools — AI-powered advertising is part of CEO Mark Zuckerberg's vision for the company's future — Meta Platforms is betting that automation is the future of ads.
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: xAI is launching a $300M secondary stock offering that values the group at $113B, allowing staff to sell shares to new investors — Deal to allow investors to buy into group following March takeover of X — Tabby Kinder, George Hammond and Hannah Murphy in San Francisco, and Ivan Levingston in London
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| Scharon Harding / Ars Technica: |
A deep dive into Apple TV's privacy features shows that Apple's streaming device is more private than the vast majority of alternatives, save for dumb TVs — Using the Apple TV app or an Apple account means giving Apple more data, though. … Among smart TVs, streaming sticks …
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Mastodon: @mookie@wantstoruletheworld …. Forums: r/apple, r/technews, r/privacy, Ars OpenForum, and MacRumors Forums
| Maya Goldman / Axios: |
FDA debuts agency-wide AI tool meant to help scientific reviewers and others streamline their work and, soon, to identify high-priority targets for inspections — The Food and Drug Administration on Monday is launching an agency-wide generative AI tool aimed at helping scientific reviewers … | Belle Lin / Wall Street Journal: |
Snowflake agrees to acquire Crunchy Data, a cloud-based database service that helps businesses and government agencies use PostgreSQL, a source says for ~$250M — The cloud data company aims to attract customers who want to build their own artificial intelligence agents
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| Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: |
Character.AI rolls out features like AvatarFX for video generation, plus Streams and Scenes for creating and sharing videos with characters on a new social feed — A platform for chatting and roleplaying with AI-generated characters, Character.AI announced on Monday that it is rolling out a slate of multimedia features.
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| Michael Acton / Financial Times: |
Alphabet offers to spend $500M+ over ten years to rebuild its global compliance structure, in a settlement proposal for an antitrust lawsuit from shareholders — Latest move comes as tech giant is attacked on multiple legal fronts that threaten its break-up
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| David Heaney / UploadVR: |
Sources: Meta is prioritizing an ultralight Horizon OS headset with a compute puck, instead of a traditional Quest 4, to ship in 2026 — Meta is prioritizing shipping an ultralight Horizon OS headset with a tethered compute puck in 2026, multiple sources tell UploadVR.
X: @lunayian, @heaney555, @olusayof, @scobleizer, @motorsep, and @josethevrtech
| Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: |
Neuralink raised a $650M Series E from ARK Invest, Founders Fund, G42, Human Capital, Sequoia, Thrive, and others; it was reportedly valued at ~$9B pre-money — Elon Musk's brain computer interface startup Neuralink closed a $650 million funding round, the company announced in a blog post on Monday.
More: The Economic Times and Neuralink Blog
| Melissa Heikkilä / Financial Times: |
A UK government trial of 20K+ civil servants using Microsoft Copilot for three months found that they saved 26 minutes per day on average, or two weeks per year — Staff used Microsoft's Copilot to help draft documents and summarise meetings — Simply sign up to the Artificial intelligence myFT Digest …
More: GeekWire, GOV.UK, Neowin, ComputerWeekly.com, Microsoft, and Windows Central
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
X aims to roll out an “XChat” messaging feature “with encryption, vanishing messages and the ability to send any kind of file” to all users this week — Elon Musk on Sunday announced that a new version of X's Direct Messaging (DM) feature, XChat …
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| Maureen Farrell / New York Times: |
US asset management firms like Blackstone, KKR, and BlackRock are pouring hundreds of billions into AI data centers, creating “oversupply” and bubble concerns — Private equity firms like Blackstone are using their clients' money to buy and build data centers to fuel the artificial intelligence boom.
Bluesky: @justinhendrix and @ekp
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