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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple's chip chief Johny Srouji told Tim Cook that he is seriously considering leaving soon; some execs floated elevating him to the CTO role — Apple Inc., long the model of stability in Silicon Valley, is suddenly undergoing its biggest personnel shake-up in decades …
More: Gizmodo, Engadget, Implicator.ai, The Verge, The American Bazaar, AppleInsider, Forbes, WinBuzzer, 9to5Mac, iClarified, BGR, and COINOTAG
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Forums: r/hardware and r/apple
| Matthias Bastian / The Decoder: |
ChatGPT head says screenshots of ChatGPT ads are “either not real or not ads”; OpenAI's research chief says “anything that feels like an ad” is now turned off — Paid ChatGPT users recently reported seeing a prompt labeled “Shop for home and groceries.
More: Business Insider and The Information
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| Kat Tenbarge / Wired: |
Some Reddit moderators say a surge of AI slop on the site is eroding its authenticity and could lead to a feedback loop of AI models training on AI content — Reddit is considered one of the most human spaces left on the internet, but mods and users are overwhelmed with slop posts in the most popular subreddits.
More: Business Insider. Bluesky: @glenngabe, @drsmith, @informor, @jtlg, and @rodneyabrooks
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Forums: r/Foodforthought, r/technology, and r/thescoop
| Tyler Kingkade / NBC News: |
Parents are pressuring LA Unified, the second-largest US school district, to reduce mandatory student screen time on school-issued iPads and Chromebooks — A growing contingent of public school parents say school-mandated iPads, particularly in elementary and middle schools, are leading to behavior problems.
More: masslive.com and HotAir
Bluesky: @professler, @aaronguhreen, @capecodcritter, @rwidome, @tktk, and @bengoggin
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| Sam Kriss / New York Times: |
A look at various quirks in AI-generated prose, mainly influenced by “overfitting” in AI models, as humans increasingly mimic AI language in writing and speech — If only they were robotic! Instead, chatbots have developed a distinctive — and grating — voice.
More: Read Max and The Algorithmic Bridge
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| SemiAnalysis: |
A technical deep dive into Amazon's Trainium3 accelerator, including its server SKUs' specifications, silicon design, power budget, and bill of materials — Step-Function Software & System Improvements, “Amazon Basics” GB200 NVL36x2, NL72x2/NL32x2 Scale Up Rack Architecture, Optimized Perf per TCO, Trainium4
More: AI News
| John Pavlus / Fast Company: |
A profile of Byron Cook, a VP at Amazon who is leading the company's effort to reduce AI hallucinations with a feature called Automated Reasoning Checks — Byron Cook, a VP and distinguished scientist at Amazon, is helping the company use an obscure type of AI to minimize artificial intelligence's worst side effect.| Daniel Thomas / Financial Times: |
Netflix agrees to acquire WBD's studios and streaming business in an $82.7B cash-and-stock deal, including debt, to close after WBD splits in two in Q3 2026 — Deal will transform US tech company into the dominant player in Hollywood — Netflix has agreed an $83bn takeover of Warner Bros Discovery …
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| Ted Johnson / Deadline: |
| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
A look at Phreeli, a privacy-focused phone carrier that lets users sign up with only a ZIP code and uses an encryption system based on “zero-knowledge proofs” — Privacy stalwart Nicholas Merrill spent a decade fighting an FBI surveillance order.
More: TechRadar. X: @privacy_guides, @j84woodard, and @privacy_guides
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| OpenRouter: |
An analysis of 100T+ tokens from the past year shows reasoning models now represent over half of all usage, open-weight model use has grown steadily, and more — An Empirical 100 Trillion Token Study with OpenRouter — Malika Aubakirova*Alex Atallah†Chris Clark†Justin Summerville†Anjney Midha*
More: Implicator.ai. X: @swyx, @tokenbender, @emollick, @openrouterai, @openrouterai, @openrouterai, @xanderatallah, @emresarbak, @openrouterai, @xlr8harder, @openrouterai, @scaling01, @a16z, and @natolambert. Bluesky: @timfduffy.com
| Bloomberg: |
A US judge rules Google must renegotiate annually any contract that makes its search engine or AI app the default on smartphones and other devices — Alphabet Inc.'s Google must renegotiate any contract to make its search engine or artificial intelligence app the default for smartphones … | Jyoti Mann / Business Insider: |
Leaked memos: Meta is delaying the release of its MR glasses codenamed “Phoenix” from H2 2026 to H1 2027 for “more breathing room to get the details right” — - Meta delays the release of its “Phoenix” mixed reality glasses to 2027, aiming to “get the details right.”
More: TechCrunch, Engadget, Tech in Asia, UploadVR, and Reuters
| Bloomberg: |
Short seller Grizzly shorts London-listed Trustpilot, alleging the review site pressures businesses to pay for subscriptions; Trustpilot refutes the claims — Shares in Trustpilot Group Plc had their steepest ever one-day drop after Grizzly Research said it holds a short position and published …
More: Grizzly Research, The Guardian, The Times, City A.M., Reuters, Reuters, Telegraph, and The Times
| Abram Brown / The Information: |
Source: Microsoft is in talks to design future custom chips with Broadcom, which would involve Microsoft switching its business from Marvell — Microsoft is in talks to design future custom chips with Broadcom, which would involve Microsoft switching its business from Marvell …
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