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Financial Times:
Sources: Apple is intensifying CEO succession planning as Tim Cook, now 65, may step down as early as next year, with John Ternus seen as the likely successor  —  iPhone maker's board is preparing for its longtime leader to step down as early as next year  —  Apple is stepping …
Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:
Some experts question Anthropic's claims of cyberattack breakthroughs using its tools, noting that white-hat hackers report modest gains from AI-aided hacking  —  Researchers from Anthropic said they recently observed the “first reported AI-orchestrated cyber espionage campaign” …
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple to launch 3 high-end iPhones next fall, with lower-end iPhones and likely new Air in Q2 2027; Mac Pro gets deprioritized; Jeff Williams retires  —  Apple's iPhone is getting its biggest makeover yet — both to its features and release schedule.  Here's what's happening to the company's flagship product.
Jeffrey Dastin / Reuters:
Sources: Demis Hassabis pursued a Nobel as a DeepMind goal and favored high-minded work over short-term revenue or a stronger AI race position for Alphabet  —  Demis Hassabis has spent much of the past decade trying to unlock the secrets of the universe through artificial intelligence.
Meghan Bobrowsky / Wall Street Journal:
A profile of Meta Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun, reportedly leaving after being sidelined, who says LLMs are a dead end for AGI and backs world models instead  —  Yann LeCun invented many fundamental components of modern AI.  Now he's convinced most in his field have been led astray by the siren song of large language models.
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Apple updates App Review Guidelines to require apps to disclose and obtain users' permission before sharing personal data with third-party AI providers  —  Apple on Thursday introduced a new set of App Review Guidelines for developers, which now specifically state that apps must disclose …
Blake Brittain / Reuters:
A California federal jury says Apple must pay Masimo $634M for infringing a blood-oxygen patent used in Watch workout and heart-rate alerts; Apple will appeal  —  A federal jury in California said on Friday that Apple (AAPL.O) owes medical-monitoring technology company Masimo (MASI.O) …
Wall Street Journal:
A look at the global AI data center buildout, its limits, and ROI concerns; in 2025, US capacity that is built, underway, planned, or stalled has topped 80 GW  —  Record capital expenditures and data-center planning run up against the ground truths of physical infrastructure
Financial Times:
Sources: Vinted is exploring a share sale that could value the company at ~€8B; Vinted says it expects 2025 revenue to cross €1B+, up from €813M in 2024  —  Deal would highlight second-hand fashion start-up's rapid expansion and provide an exit for some early investors
Heather Knight / New York Times:
A cat's killing by a Waymo robotaxi sparked outrage in San Francisco, as some questioned why deaths caused by human drivers don't get the same level of concern  —  At Delirium, a dive bar in San Francisco's Mission District, the décor is dark, the drinks are strong, and the emotions are raw.
Valida Pau / The Information:
Dealogic: 51 US tech IPOs raised $16.8B in 2025, driven by AI and crypto, above the past three-year average but far below 2021's 127 IPOs raising $74.4B  —  The drought in initial public offerings ended this year, led by big winners in AI and crypto, but gains were rare for companies outside those industries.
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
OpenAI says ChatGPT will now avoid em dashes if users tell it to; em dashes have become telltale signs that supposedly signals text written by AI  —  OpenAI says ChatGPT will now ditch the em dashes if you tell it to.  The telltale sign that supposedly signals text written by AI has popped …

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Washington Post:
Trump nominates Sarah B. Rogers, a State Department official, as chief executive of USAGM, after a judge ruled Kari Lake has been illegally running the agency

Elias Schisgall / Wall Street Journal:
BuzzFeed warns that it lacks the resources to fund its cash obligations over the next year and is exploring options, as it reports a Q4 loss of $26.8M

Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Disney has sold out all its available commercial inventory for its Oscars telecast on Sunday; source: the event drew 18 returning sponsors and 24 new ones

More News

Molly Taft / Wired:
Data Center Watch: local opposition blocked or delayed 17 US data center projects worth $98B in Q2 2025, vs. 16 projects worth $64B from May 2024 to March 2025
Karissa Bell / Engadget:
X replaces DMs with Chat, a new messaging system that it says is E2EE, supports file sharing, video calling, and more, rolling out first to iOS and the web
Yun Li / CNBC:
Filing: Berkshire Hathaway discloses a $4.3B stake in Alphabet in Q3, a surprising move given Warren Buffett's reluctance toward high-growth, tech-driven stocks

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Bloomberg:
Google says it plans to invest $40B through 2027 in three new data centers in Texas, including one co-located with a new solar and battery energy storage plant
Theo Wayt / The Information:
Elon Musk says Grok 5 would be released “in Q1 sometime”, later than a deadline he previously set of releasing the model by the end of 2025
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