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Sources: Apple is working on a vapor chamber for the next iPad Pro in 2027 and plans to start selling ads in its Maps app as early as next year — Apple is working on a vapor chamber to improve cooling and performance in an iPad Pro slated for as early as 2027.
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| Hartley Charlton / MacRumors: |
Swift releases Swift SDK preview for Android, allowing developers to build Android apps in Swift and making it easier to share code across iOS and Android — The first preview release of the Swift SDK for Android was published this week, allowing developers to build Android apps in Swift …
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| Cristina Criddle / Financial Times: |
Employees are increasingly using AI to create ultra-realistic fake expense receipts; AppZen and others attribute the rise to advances in image generation models — Business software groups warn that top AI models are increasingly being used to create ultra-realistic fake receipts
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| Financial Times: |
Inside OpenAI's deals with Nvidia, Oracle, and AMD, where sources say Sam Altman largely relied on his executive team, with little input from outside advisors — Altman tapped a handful of in-house dealmakers over his bankers and lawyers to design huge web of infrastructure agreements
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Sources: Sam Altman's brain-computer interface startup Merge Labs hires Mikhail Shapiro, who works on noninvasive techniques for neural imaging and control — The hire suggests that Merge is taking a much less invasive approach than Elon Musk's Neuralink. Also: Sources IRL and reactions to yesterday's Snap scoop.
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| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says Trump and Xi will “consummate” a TikTok deal on Thursday in South Korea, confirming a final US-China agreement on the sale — The United States and China are ready to move forward on a TikTok deal, according to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.
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| Bloomberg: |
The US AI data center boom is consuming capital, power, and people that the rest of the economy needs, and is crowding out Trump's manufacturing revival plans — Spending on factory construction is down 2.5% so far this year, while that for data centers is up almost 18%.
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Q&A with Zocdoc CEO Oliver Kharraz on the patient scheduling platform's telehealth expansion, its policy of not providing medical advice through AI, and more — Today's Decoder episode is a special one: I'm talking to Zocdoc CEO Oliver Kharraz, and we chatted live onstage at the TechFutures conference here in New York City.
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| Judy Lagrou / Bloomberg: |
Artemis: $10B+ was moved through stablecoins in August, up from $6B in February and more than double YoY, following President Trump's signing of the Genius Act — Consumers and businesses are using stablecoins - digital tokens pegged to the dollar - to make real-world purchases and payments … | Wall Street Journal: |
How building robotic hands that match human dexterity remains a major technical obstacle to deploying humanoid robots in factories and for caregiving jobs — Armies of humanoid robots are poised to march into the world's factories. But before they're ready to turn a wrench, they must solve what Elon Musk calls “the hands problem.”| Francisco Rodrigues / CoinDesk: |
Rumble plans to roll out a bitcoin tipping feature, developed in partnership with Tether, to its 51M creators in December; Tether has invested $775M in Rumble — The feature is developed with Tether and was announced at the Plan ₿ Forum in Lugano, Switzerland.
More: Bitcoin Insider, The Block, Cryptonews, Blockonomi, Cointelegraph, and Decrypt
| Valida Pau / The Information: |
Sources: AI chip startup SambaNova is exploring a sale after it struggled to complete a fundraising round; SambaNova was last valued at $5B in 2021 — Artificial intelligence chip startup SambaNova Systems is exploring a sale, after it struggled to complete a fundraising round, according to people with direct knowledge of the matter.| Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: |
French online carpooling marketplace BlaBlaCar says India now accounts for ~33% of its carpool passengers and expects to reach ~150M passengers globally in 2025 — Every few weekends, 21-year-old student Lavanya Jain opens the BlaBlaCar app to find a lift from Noida on the outskirts … | Jowi Morales / Tom's Hardware: |
Microsoft says its Gaming Copilot feature, which recently hit Windows 11 as a public beta, uses screenshots to understand in-game events, not to train AI models — Microsoft says it isn't using your data to train its AI. … However, one user complained on ResetEra forums …
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