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| Karoline Leavitt / @presssec: |
White House Press Secretary says the $100K H-1B fee is not an annual fee and it is a “one-time fee that applies only to the petition” in the upcoming lottery — To be clear: 1.) This is NOT an annual fee. It's a one-time fee that applies only to the petition. 2.) Those who already hold H-1B visas and are currently outside of the country right now will NOT be charged $100,000 to re-enter. H-1B visa holders can leave and re-enter the
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| Erin Doherty / CNBC: |
Trump says Lachlan and Rupert Murdoch may be involved in the ownership group for TikTok US, Michael Dell and Larry Ellison will also likely be part of the group — President Donald Trump said in an interview that aired Sunday that conservative media baron Rupert Murdoch and his son Lachlan …
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| Katie Tarasov / CNBC: |
Interviews with Apple's Tim Millet, Arun Mathias, and Kaiann Drance on the new neural accelerators in A19 Pro GPU cores, C1X modem, N1 wireless chip, and more — iPhone Air is the big newcomer among Apple's latest lineup that went on sale Friday, but inside the slim phone's raised plateau …
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| Elizabeth Chamberlain / iFixit News: |
iPhone Air teardown: clever use of space by placing the logic board above the 12.26 Wh battery, the same cell used in Apple's MagSafe Battery pack, and more — iPhone Air Teardown — To be honest, we were holding our breath for the iPhone Air. Thinner usually means flimsier, harder to fix, and more glued-down parts.
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| Reuters: |
A look at life in online scam compounds run by Chinese gangs on the Myanmar-Thai border, with purported Thai immigration officials luring trafficking victims — SCAMMED INTO SCAMMING Across Southeast Asia, a multibillion-dollar fraud industry has emerged, staffed in part by victims of trafficking.
LinkedIn: Poppy McPherson and Devjyot Ghoshal
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| Bloomberg: |
A profile of Derek Li, founder of China's top adaptive learning edtech Squirrel AI, whose business is fueled by the country's relentless academic pressure — Derek Li pulled his sons out of school to be taught by artificial intelligence. Now he's betting the US is ready for machine-led learning.
LinkedIn: Cedric Lee
| Divsha Bhat / Rest of World: |
A look at UAE-based Khazna, a real estate company that builds and rents out data centers and controls 70% of the country's operational data center capacity — UAE's largest data center operator Khazna is challenging Western assumptions while building regional dominance.
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| Nikita Ostrovsky / Time: |
UK-based startup Mantic ranked #8 in the Metaculus forecasting cup that asks entrants to predict 60 geopolitical events, the first time an AI made the top 10 — Reactions to Kimmel's suspension, Trump publicly rebukes Putin, and more … For Vassalo, AIs' unfair advantage solves …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
The FTC's 2023 lawsuit against Amazon goes to trial this week, alleging it used misleading tactics to entice people into Prime and made cancellation difficult — Trial begins this week on FTC allegations that e-commerce giant uses misleading tactics to entice and keep customers
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| Financial Times: |
Diplomats say the EU is moving to exclude Meta, Apple, Google, and Amazon from the new Financial Data Access system to protect the bloc's “digital sovereignty” — Germany argues groups such as Apple and Meta are excluded to protect Europe's ‘digital sovereignty’| John Thornhill / Financial Times: |
A review of Tim Berners-Lee's new book This is for Everyone, while his startup Inrupt, which aims to commercialize the Solid web protocol, struggles to scale — The World Wide Web inventor criticises the ‘rage bait’ of algorithms and social media — and advocates tighter user control of personal data| Martin Arnold / Financial Times: |
The UK FCA has improved its crypto registration process, reducing approval times and increasing acceptance rate after criticism it was too slow and restrictive — Regulators in Britain are facing calls to be more accommodating to the fast-growing sector — The UK financial watchdog … | Melissa Heikkilä / Financial Times: |
Researchers suggest LLM-powered medical AI tools understate the severity of symptoms in female patients and show less “empathy” toward Black and Asian patients — Large language models reflect biases that can lead to inferior healthcare advice to female, Black and Asian patients| The Guardian: |
Inside the Jaguar Land Rover cyberattack, which forced a shutdown of most systems and is likely to cost the company hundreds of millions of pounds — Being a carmaker where ‘everything is connected’ has left JLR unable to isolate its plants or functions, forcing a shutdown of most systems
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