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October 26, 2025, 9:35 PM

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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
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.
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 …
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
Alex Heath / Sources:
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.
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.
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%.
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.”
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.
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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