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Sources: Apple plans three high-end iPhones next fall, with lower-end iPhones and likely a 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.
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| Cade Metz / New York Times: |
Sources: AI startup Project Prometheus raised $6.2B, including from Jeff Bezos, who will become co-CEO, his first operational role since leaving Amazon in 2021 — Called Project Prometheus, the company is focusing on artificial intelligence for the engineering and manufacturing of computers, automobiles and spacecraft.| Brandon Vigliarolo / The Register: |
Chinese toymaker FoloToy suspends sales of its GPT-4o-powered teddy bear, after researchers found the toy gave kids harmful responses, including sexual content — Consumer advocacy researchers at PIRG tested four AI toys, and none of them passed muster — Picture the scene …
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Empower: US BNPL use has grown to 91.5M users, with 25% financing groceries, as default rates accelerate and most loans aren't reported, creating “phantom debt” — When Nigel Morris tells you he's worried about the economy, you listen. As industry observers know … | 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.| 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” …
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The FT's Tim Cook retirement story could be a “trial balloon” from people close to him, if Cook decides to leave on a high note after Apple's Q1 earnings report — Might Tim Cook retire as CEO of Apple in early 2026? There are signs... Two weeks ago, Tim Cook turned 65.
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Tokyo-based Sakana AI raised a ~$135M Series B from MUFG, Khosla Ventures, and others at a ~$2.6B valuation, becoming Japan's most valuable unicorn — TOKYO — Artificial intelligence company Sakana AI has completed a funding round that pushed its value to approximately 400 billion yen … | Tech Policy Press: |
Freedom House's Freedom on the Net 2025 report: for the 15th straight year, global internet freedom is in decline; of the 72 countries surveyed, Kenya fell most — Since Tech Policy Press launched nearly five years ago, it has made a habit of reporting on the findings of the annual Freedom …
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Investigation: $28B+ in crypto tied to illicit activity flowed into crypto exchanges like Binance over the last two years, as President Trump embraces crypto — President Trump has started his own cryptocurrency business and vowed to make the United States the world's “crypto capital.”
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| Anika Collier Navaroli / Tech Policy Press: |
An interview with Chris Gilliard on his new book Luxury Surveillance, how smart wearables could normalize pervasive surveillance, X's political shift, and more — Audio of this conversation is available via your favorite podcast service. — Thanks for listening to another episode of the special podcast series, Through to Thriving.| Tim Higgins / Wall Street Journal: |
Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Sundar Pichai have each discussed lunar and orbital AI data centers, which could offer steady solar power with fewer regulations — Energy constraints in the artificial-intelligence race are causing tech companies to think out of this world
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| Min-Jeong Lee / Bloomberg: |
Tokyo-based Turing, which is developing an AI model for self-driving vehicles, raised a $99M Series A, sources say at a ~$388M valuation — Two of Japan's most promising tech firms together secured more than ¥35 billion ($230 million) of financing this week, underscoring growing investor interest …
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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 provide exit opportunity for some early investors in second-hand fashion start-up — Ivan Levingston in London and Richard Milne in Oslo
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