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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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| 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| 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.| 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| 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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| 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
| 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, Jalopnik, Tech Buzz China Insider, Techreport, The Driverless Digest, and Barchart.com. Forums: r/SelfDrivingCars
| 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 … | Financial Times: |
Nasdaq had its worst 5-day run since April, falling 3% for the week as the combined market value of eight most valuable AI-related stocks fell by about $800B — Nasdaq falls 3% over the five-day period as investors worry about sky-high valuations — US companies closely tied …
More: TechCrunch, Gizmodo, Yahoo Finance, Wall Street Journal, Times of India, Fast Company, New York Post, Dow Jones Newswires, NBC News, CNN, and Benzinga. Forums: Lobsters
| 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 … | Allie Garfinkle / Fortune: |
Tala Health, which plans to roll out AI agents to help clinicians improve patient care next year, raised a $100M seed led by Sofreh Capital — Ritankar Das, founder of Titan Holdings. — TITAN HOLDINGS — Ritankar Das wants the holding company to make its comeback.| Mihir Sharma / Bloomberg: |
OpenAI, Alphabet, and Perplexity offering free access to their paid tiers in India suggests the country may be the biggest and safest bet for broad AI adoption — Everyone is looking for the next big AI bet. They're searching for energy-rich places that can run data centers cheaply … | Jonathan Burgos / Forbes: |
Several of Asia's top tycoons and conglomerates are joining the data center race as tech giants plan $240B in APAC hyperscale expansion over the next five years — The buildout of AI infrastructure in the Asia-Pacific is in high gear. Masayoshi Son and Mukesh Ambani are among the region's wealthiest taking the lead.| Meir Orbach / CTech: |
Israel-based RAAAM, whose “GCRAM” on-chip memory tech aims to deliver up to 10x power savings relative to high-density SRAM, raised a $17.5M Series A led by NXP — RAAAM Memory Technologies' “GCRAM” promises denser, lower-power on-chip memory as the semiconductor industry races to support next-generation AI processors.Sponsor Posts
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