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October 27, 2025, 12:10 AM

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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
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.
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.
Sneha Kumar / Reuters:
Australia sues Microsoft for allegedly misleading ~2.7M Microsoft 365 users into accepting a price hike for Copilot plans while hiding cheaper non-AI options  —  - Microsoft 365 personal plan price increased by 45%  — Cheaper ‘classic’ plan only revealed during cancellation process
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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