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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Apple's internal chatbot deserves a public release; sources say Apple nears production of M5 MacBook Pros, MacBook Airs, and two monitors for Q4 2025 or Q1 2026  —  Apple should release its internal ChatGPT-like app publicly to give its revamped AI system more credibility.
Dominic Chopping / Wall Street Journal:
The UK government underwrites a £1.5B loan to Jaguar Land Rover as the carmaker reels from a cyberattack that has crippled its production for around a month  —  The loan is to support the company's cash reserves and help it pay suppliers  —  The U.K. government has stepped …
Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog:
DeepMind says video models like Veo 3 could become general purpose foundation models for vision, like LLMs for text, using zero-shot “chain-of-frames” reasoning  —  LLMs took the ability to predict the next token and turned it into general purpose foundation models for all manner …
More: Google DeepMind.  LinkedIn: Saurin Patel and Topi Manu.  Bluesky: @simonwillison.net
Forums: Hacker News, r/singularity, and r/singularity
Jason Nelson / Decrypt:
Caltech says it built the world's largest neutral-atom quantum computer, with 6,100 qubits, 13 second coherence, 10x longer than previously, and 99.98% accuracy  —  Caltech physicists have created the largest neutral-atom quantum computer to date, trapping 6,100 cesium atoms as qubits in a single array.
Mark Bergen / Bloomberg:
London-based Evantic Capital, founded by ex-Sequoia VC Matt Miller, raised a $400M fund, with ~12.5% coming from 135 “legends”, including CEOs, a novel strategy  —  Matt Miller left Sequoia Capital last December and, like many longtime venture capitalists, chose to start his own fund.
More: Sifted
Yuan Gao / Bloomberg:
Singapore-based Neptune Robotics, which makes robots to clean the underside of giant ships, raised $52M and aims to use AI to help clean ~150 ships per month  —  Neptune Robotics, which makes robots that clean the underside of giant ships, raised $52 million to accelerate its artificial intelligence-fueled global expansion.
Devi Shastri / Associated Press:
Several US states have passed bills to ban or restrict AI mental health treatment, as experts say state laws lag behind the fast-moving AI therapy landscape  —  In the absence of stronger federal regulation, some states have begun regulating apps that offer AI “therapy” …
Julie Bort / TechCrunch:
London-based Paid, which helps AI agent providers monetize and track costs, raised a $21.6M seed led by Lightspeed, a source says at a $100M+ valuation  —  Manny Medina, previously best-known as the founder of sales automation startup Outreach ($4.4 billion valuation), has wowed investors with his young startup, Paid.
The Information:
How Nvidia's large investments in AI startups and data centers act like a form of financial stimulus, potentially artificially inflating demand for its GPUs  —  Even by the standards of one of the most prodigious dealmakers in tech, the past month or so has been a head-spinning one for Nvidia's Jensen Huang.
New York Times:
A look at China's Ministry of State Security, which has been reshaped by Xi Jinping to be the primary driver of cyber espionage campaigns like Salt Typhoon  —  Fears of U.S. surveillance drove Xi Jinping, China's leader, to elevate the agency and put it at the center of his cyber ambitions.
X: @mrbcyber, @brad_setser, and @marykissel.  Bluesky: @jonatomic.  Forums: r/cybersecurity

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CNN:
Sources: Pete Hegseth pushed for two F-15 crew members rescued from Iran to join a 60 Minutes story; Bari Weiss lobbied Hegseth to give CBS exclusive access

Jack Dunn / Variety:
Leaked report: Paramount leaving California “would result in losses of 2,750 and 5,550 job-years”, and economic losses between $1.01B-$2.03B for the state

Sarah Rumpf / Mediaite:
Jimmy Kimmel's interview with Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico crosses 8M views on YouTube, with interview clips going viral on Instagram and Facebook

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Jeff Kauflin / Forbes:
A profile of digital micro-lender Tala, which has $340M in annualized revenue but remains unprofitable 11 years in, as it plans to double its lending in 2027

Earlier Picks

Jonathan Vanian / CNBC:
A look at AI-powered “nudify” tools, which make it fast and easy to make nonconsensual, deepfake porn, and the limited legal options available to their victims
More: CNBC.  X: @jonathanvanian and @sal19
LinkedIn: Slavko Kovačević, CNBC, Michael Glenmullen, and Ari Levy.  Bluesky: @mantzarlis.com.  Forums: r/technology
Rodney Brooks:
iRobot co-founder Rodney Brooks details why humanoid robots won't learn human-level dexterity from current methods, how to make them safe for humans, and more
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