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Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg:
Sources: Meta is considering deep budget cuts to its metaverse efforts in 2026, potentially as high as 30% and most likely including layoffs as early as January  —  Meta Platforms Inc.'s Mark Zuckerberg is expected to meaningfully cut resources for building the so-called metaverse …
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Apple confirms that VP of Human Interface Design Alan Dye is leaving the company to join Meta; Tim Cook says Apple UI Designer Stephen Lemay will replace Dye  —  Meta Platforms Inc. has poached Apple Inc.'s most prominent design executive in a major coup that underscores a push …
John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
Apple replacing Alan Dye with career designer Stephen Lemay may fix Jony Ive's mistake of putting Dye, who has a brand and ad background, in charge of UI design  —  In my post earlier today on the then-breaking news that Alan Dye has left Apple to join Meta as chief design officer (a new title at the company 1), I wrote:
Mark Zuckerberg / @zuck@threads.com:
Mark Zuckerberg announces a creative studio in Meta's Reality Labs led by Alan Dye, who will be joined by Senior Director of Apple Design Team Billy Sorrentino
Peter S. Goodman / New York Times:
A look at “TSMC Village” in North Phoenix, as TSMC brings skilled workers from Taiwan who struggle with adapting to a sprawling suburbia and summer temperatures  —  Skilled workers from Taiwan engaged in the chip industry have found ways to ease the transition to America while making an imprint on Greater Phoenix.
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Apple announces its 2025 App Store Award winners and names visual planner Tiimo as the iPhone App of the Year; many of the winning apps have AI integrations  —  Apple on Thursday shared its annual list of App Store Award winners, continuing its tradition of celebrating the best apps and games of the past year.
Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg:
DealBook Summit: Dario Amodei suggests some AI companies are taking on too much risk by “YOLO-ing” and committing to spend hundreds of billions on data centers  —  Anthropic PBC Chief Executive Officer Dario Amodei suggested that some artificial intelligence companies are taking …
Stephen Nellis / Reuters:
Nvidia says GB200 Blackwell AI servers, which pack 72 chips in one unit, boost performance 10x over H200 servers for MoE models like Moonshot's Kimi K2 Thinking  —  Nvidia (NVDA.O) on Wednesday published new data showing that its latest artificial intelligence server can improve the performance …
Bloomberg:
Jensen Huang says “we don't know” if China would accept Nvidia's H200 AI chips should the US relax export controls on them, after a meeting with President Trump
Barbara Moens / Financial Times:
The European Commission opens a new antitrust investigation into Meta over its rollout of its AI assistant in WhatsApp; the probe will not fall under the DMA  —  Brussels concerned that US tech group's business terms may prevent competition from third-party AI providers
Will Douglas Heaven / MIT Technology Review:
OpenAI is testing training LLMs to produce “confessions”, or self-report how they carried out a task and own up to bad behavior, like appearing to lie or cheat  —  OpenAI is testing another new way to expose the complicated processes at work inside large language models.
Blake Brittain / Reuters:
A US federal judge rules that OpenAI must produce 20M anonymized ChatGPT chat logs in the copyright lawsuit brought by The New York Times and other news outlets  —  OpenAI must produce millions of anonymized chat logs from ChatGPT users in its high-stakes copyright dispute with the New York Times …
The Hacker News:
React discloses a React Server Components flaw that allows unauthenticated remote code execution; Wiz says 39% of cloud environments have vulnerable instances  —  A maximum-severity security flaw has been disclosed in React Server Components (RSC) that, if successfully exploited, could result in remote code execution.
Sam Sabin / Axios:
The US DOJ indicts two Virginia twin brothers, Muneeb and Sohaib Akhter, for allegedly deleting 96 US government databases while working as Opexus contractors  —  The Justice Department arrested Virginia-based twin brothers who formerly worked at a federal contractor on Wednesday …
Dwarkesh Patel / Dwarkesh Podcast:
Thoughts on AI progress and why AI labs' actions hint at a worldview in which AI models will continue to fare poorly at generalization and on-the-job learning  —  Why I'm moderately bearish in the short term, and explosively bullish in the long term  —  What are we scaling?
Steven Levy / Wired:
A profile of AI hearing aid startup Fortell, which has raised $150M so far and is targeting affluent clients in NYC with a $6,800 device that uses a custom chip  —  AI-powered startup Fortell has become a secret handshake for the privileged hearing-impaired crowd who swear by the product.
Dominic Preston / The Verge:
OnePlus launches US preorders for the $899.99+ OnePlus 15 after receiving FCC clearance, which had been delayed due to the US government shutdown  —  The phone starts at $899.99. … OnePlus has launched its delayed US preorders for the flagship OnePlus 15, almost a month after the phone was revealed.
More: 9to5Google
Abner Li / 9to5Google:
Google debuts Workspace Studio, a no-code tool for creating, designing, managing, and sharing AI agents, for users on Business, Education, and Enterprise plans  —  After teasing at I/O 2024 and announcing this April, Google today is launching Workspace Studio as a new automation tool that lets you …
Ece Yildirim / Gizmodo:
DealBook Summit: Palantir CEO Alex Karp says “the more constitutional you want to make” the US' Caribbean boat strikes “the more you're going to need” Palantir  —  Alex Karp vows to use his “whole influence” on immigration and defense policy.  —  Read Later Read Later

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Ted Johnson / Deadline:
President Trump says that he will attend this year's White House Correspondents' Association dinner, marking the first time he will do so as president

Jennifer Maas / Variety:
David Ellison says Paramount plans to combine Paramount+ and HBO Max into one streamer with 200M+ subscribers, but will let HBO “operate with independence”

Dade Hayes / Deadline:
Lachlan Murdoch says Fox News expects CNN under the Ellisons to be a “strong competitor”, but adds that “running news is hard”

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Humeyra Pamuk / Reuters:
The Trump administration orders enhanced vetting of H-1B applicants and their families for past work in “censorship”, including fact-checking and online safety
Berber Jin / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: last summer, Sam Altman reached out to at least one rocket maker, Stoke Space, for OpenAI to secure a controlling stake; the talks are no longer active
Bloomberg:
Intel shelves plans to spin off or sell a stake in its networking division, NEX, after deciding that the business is more likely to succeed as an internal unit
Kelly Cloonan / Wall Street Journal:
Snowflake and Anthropic announce a multiyear $200M deal to make Anthropic's Claude models available on Snowflake's platform and deploy AI agents for enterprises
Arsheeya Bajwa / Reuters:
Micron says it will exit its Crucial consumer business by February 2026, as it doubles down on advanced memory chips for AI data centers, amid a supply shortage
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