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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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| 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: Daily Sabah
| 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
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| 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 … | 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 … | 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.| 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| Sean O'Kane / TechCrunch: |
Rivian spins off Mind Robotics as a new stand-alone industrial AI and robotics company; Mind Robotics raised a $115M seed led by Eclipse — Rivian has created its second spinoff company this year: an industrial AI and robotics venture called Mind Robotics.| George Steer / Financial Times: |
A look at Dominari Holdings and Yorkville Advisors, two little-known boutique banks that have helped finance the Trump family's flurry of crypto deals this year — Dominari Holdings and Yorkville Advisors are benefiting from close connections with Eric and Donald Trump JrSponsor Posts
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