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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
A look at Apple's plans to enhance satellite connectivity in its products, Siri's Gemini upgrade, new 2026 Macs, a Health+ service, and the future of Fitness+ — Apple is planning a series of upgrades to its satellite features for the iPhone and its smartwatches.
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| Financial Times: |
The UK is investigating whether ~700 of its Chinese-made Yutong electric buses can be remotely deactivated; Norway found that Yutong can render buses inoperable — Investigation comes after Norway found Yutong vehicles could be ‘stopped or rendered inoperable’ by Chinese company| Nikou Asgari / Financial Times: |
The demand for cold-storage crypto wallets is soaring, as hardware wallet maker Ledger reports its best year, with “triple-digit millions” in 2025 YTD revenue — So-called cold storage wallets allow digital currency holders an alternative to holding their tokens directly on an exchange
More: BeInCrypto, The Block, DL News, crypto.news, Cointelegraph, and CryptoSlate. LinkedIn: Lance McGrath
| Alicia Park / Forbes: |
Zurich-based DeepJudge, which builds customized search indexes for law firms that plug into AI tools like ChatGPT, raised a $41M Series A at a $300M valuation — Legal tech startup DeepJudge has raised $41 million to build out customized search engines for law firms. — I cover tech and innovation.
More: DeepJudge, Pulse 2.0, and Bloomberg Law
| Felice Maranz / Bloomberg: |
A look at Rigetti Computing and D-Wave Quantum, whose shares have surged over 1,900% in the past year as the potential of quantum computing captivates investors — Rigetti Computing Inc. and D-Wave Quantum Inc. make products that so far have few real world applications.
More: Wall Street Journal and Motley Fool
| Wall Street Journal: |
Selloff in bitcoin and ether is tanking shares of crypto‑treasury companies like Strategy and BitMine; Strategy's valuation is down from ~$128B in July to ~$70B — Selloff in bitcoin and other digital tokens hits crypto-treasury companies — The hottest crypto trade has turned cold.
More: Crypto Briefing, Coinspeaker, ZyCrypto, crypto.news, and Cointelegraph
| Chris Metinko / Axios: |
Procurement Sciences, whose AI software helps its customers find and build proposals for government contracts, raised a $30M Series B led by Catalyst Investors — Procurement Sciences, a government contracts software developer, secured a $30 million Series B led by Catalyst Investors …
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| Keith Bradsher / New York Times: |
China suspends export restrictions for a year on five critical minerals to the US, including gallium and germanium, used to make certain types of semiconductors — The changes would make it easier for American firms to obtain key minerals, delivering on what the White House said the two countries had agreed to at last month's summit.
More: Dow Jones Newswires, UPI, Daily Sabah, and Axios
| Magdalena Petrova / CNBC: |
Investment in subsea cable projects is expected to reach $13B between 2025 and 2027, almost 2x the amount invested between 2022 and 2024, driven by AI buildout — Over 95% of international data and voice call traffic travels through nearly a million miles of underwater communication cables.
More: Sherwood News
| Janne Knodler / Bloomberg: |
As US schools adopt AI, a look at the growing use of AI-powered monitoring tools like GoGuardian to scan students' chatbot conversations for signs of self-harm — As US educators embrace AI in the classroom, firms are selling software to flag mentions of self-harm, raising concerns over privacy and control.
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Forums: r/artificial and r/Futurology
| Sebastian Pellejero / Reuters: |
The Alpha Arena experiment gave six frontier models $10K each to trade crypto derivatives over two weeks: losses ranged from Qwen3 Max's $652 to GPT-5's $5,679 — Turn an artificial-intelligence bot into a trader and it acts all too human. Over a two-week span, six frontier models were seeded …
More: Alpha Arena and New York Post
| Reuters: |
In DeepSeek's first public appearance since R1's success, a senior researcher told a state-run conference he was pessimistic about AI's impact on humanity — - DeepSeek makes first public appearance in almost a year — Company has kept low profile since global breakout in January
More: South China Morning Post, Ian Betteridge, and Gizmodo
| Ashley Belanger / Ars Technica: |
An interview with Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle on copyright lawsuits that threatened to bankrupt the nonprofit, fair use, IA's future, AI, and more — This month, the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine archived its trillionth webpage, and the nonprofit invited … | Peter Landers / Wall Street Journal: |
Chinese robotaxi companies' tech and rider experience are generally similar to Waymo's, as they build businesses at home while also expanding internationally — While U.S. companies dominate their home market, other countries look to China for driverless technology
More: Motley Fool, InsideEVs, Jalopnik, Tech Buzz China Insider, Techreport, The Driverless Digest, and Barchart.com
Forums: r/technology and r/SelfDrivingCars
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