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| Tom's Hardware: |
Apple unveils the $599+ MacBook Neo, with a 13-inch Liquid Retina display, an A18 Pro chip, side-firing speakers, a 1080p webcam, two USB-C ports, and Touch ID — Apple debuts a new entry-level MacBook at just the right time — Apple finally took the wraps off its long-rumored budget laptop.
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| Hartley Charlton / MacRumors: |
Apple's MacBook Neo has two USB-C ports with different specs: one is USB-C 3 with up to 10 Gb/s transfer speeds, and the other is USB-C 2, limited to 480 Mb/s — The MacBook Neo's two USB-C ports have two different specifications, with one being limited to USB 2 speeds.
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| Stevie Bonifield / The Verge: |
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| Washington Post: |
Sources: the US used Palantir's Maven Smart System, integrated with Claude, to find and prioritize 1,000 targets within the first 24 hours of its attack on Iran — Advanced AI technology is identifying targets in Iran and quickly prioritizing them, supporting the massive military operations carried out by U.S. and Israeli forces.
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| The Information: |
Leaked Friday memo: Dario Amodei called OpenAI's DOD deal “safety theater”, said DOD dislikes Anthropic in part for not giving “dictator-style praise to Trump” — Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on Friday told employees that a deal OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman struck …
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| Reuters: |
Sources: some investors push Anthropic to de-escalate its DOD dispute and avoid the “supply-chain risk” designation; source: some Anthropic-DOD talks continue — Some Anthropic investors are racing to contain fallout from the AI research lab's dispute with the Pentagon …
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| Hyunsu Yim / Reuters: |
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| Leah Nylen / Bloomberg: |
Google announces an Android app store program and lower developer fees to resolve Epic's antitrust litigation and comply with new rules in Europe and elsewhere — Alphabet Inc.'s Google unveiled a new system for apps on its Android phones and tablets Wednesday, agreeing to easier access …
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LinkedIn: Aurash Mahbod and Lee Rawles
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| Julie Jargon / Wall Street Journal: |
A US lawsuit says Gemini sent a man to find an android body it could inhabit, before he died by suicide; Google says it sent him to crisis hotlines “many times” — A new lawsuit alleges Google's chatbot sent a Florida man on missions to find an android body it could inhabit.
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| Matt Kapko / CyberScoop: |
Authorities from 14 countries shut down LeakBase, seize its domains, and arrest multiple people allegedly tied to the cybercrime forum, which had 142K+ members — The marketplace was one of the world's largest hubs for cybercrime with more than 142,000 members.
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| Sam Reynolds / CoinDesk: |
Polymarket removes long-running markets that let users bet on if a nuclear weapon will be detonated, amid the Iran strikes; a 2025 contract had $1.7M+ in volume — Nuclear weapon-themed markets aren't new on the prediction market platform, but public outcry about the contracts has apparently forced the platform to delete them.
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| Amy Fan / New York Times: |
Analysis: since 2025's end, Polymarket users rarely bet large sums on US strikes by the next day; the day before the Iran strikes, 150+ accounts made such bets — Polymarket users placed hundreds of bets of at least $1,000 predicting an imminent American strike, raising concerns about insider trading.
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| Jason Schreier / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Sony no longer plans to release its big single-player PlayStation 5 games on PC, a major strategy shift that sees it returning to console exclusivity — The video-game publisher no longer plans to put out PC ports of PlayStation games such as ‘Ghost of Yotei’
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Bluesky: @jasonschreier and @jasonschreier
| Reuters: |
Google, Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, OpenAI, and others sign a pledge at the White House to bear the cost of new electricity generation to power their data centers — Google (GOOGL.O), Microsoft (MSFT.O), Meta (META.O), Amazon (AMZN.O) and several artificial intelligence companies signed a pledge …
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| Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information: |
Source: OpenAI is preparing to launch GPT-5.4, with an “extreme” reasoning mode and a 1M-token context window, matching past models but up from GPT-5.2's 400K — OpenAI's next GPT model is coming—and soon, according to a person with knowledge of it.| CNBC: |
Broadcom reports Q1 revenue up 29% YoY to $19.31B, vs. $19.18B est., AI revenue up 106% to $8.4B, and announces a $10B share buyback program — Broadcom reported better-than-expected earnings and revenue and issued a strong forecast for the current period as the chipmaker continues to benefit from the artificial intelligence boom.| Jason Snell / Six Colors: |
Apple changes its CPU terminology alongside the M5 Pro and M5 Max, renaming “performance cores” to “super cores” and “efficiency cores” to “performance cores” — One of the most surprising parts of Apple's announcement on Tuesday of new M5 Pro …
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| Fortune: |
Source: a16z Crypto is targeting around $2B for its fifth fund and plans to close the raise by the end of the first half of 2026 — The largest player in the crypto venture world is back on the fundraising circuit. The blockchain arm of Andreessen Horowitz, also known as a16z crypto … | Karissa Bell / Engadget: |
New Mexico child safety trial: Mark Zuckerberg downplayed Meta's own research on how the company's apps affect teens; Adam Mosseri made similar comments — Instagram chief Adam Mosseri made similar comments during his testimony. — Jurors in a New Mexico child safety trial heard testimony from Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg today.
More: Associated Press, The Independent, India TV News, Devdiscourse News Desk, KRQE-TV, and MLex
| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Corning unveils Gorilla Glass Ceramic 3 for smartphones, promising better protection against years of drops, first launching on the upcoming Motorola Razr Fold — Corning has announced Gorilla Glass Ceramic 3, a new upgrade to smartphone cover glass that promises protection against years of drops …
More: Corning, SammyGuru, Droid Life, and Digital Trends
| The Information: |
Sources: OpenAI has held early talks with The Trade Desk to sell ads, and it has projected ads could help double consumer ChatGPT revenue this year to $17B — OpenAI has held early talks to partner with The Trade Desk, a publicly traded ad tech company, to help the ChatGPT maker sell ads …
Bluesky: @edzitron.com
| Igor Bonifacic / Engadget: |
OpenAI releases a dedicated Codex app for Windows with native sandboxing and support for PowerShell developer environments, after launching on macOS a month ago — At the start of February, OpenAI upgraded its Codex coding app to give it the ability to manage multiple AI agents.
More: PCWorld, Thurrott, PCWorld, TestingCatalog, The New Stack, The Decoder, Neowin, Implicator.ai, and MakeUseOf. X: @openaidevs
| Wall Street Journal: |
Kraken says its banking unit won “master account” access to the US Fed's core payment systems, making it the first crypto company that can move money like banks — ‘Master account’ approval gives firm access to the same payment rail as thousands of banks and credit unions
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Bluesky: @grahamsteele and @rmac
| Ryan Whitwam / Ars Technica: |
Google Pixel 10a review: long battery life and a good camera with no bump, but weak gaming performance and barely an upgrade from the Pixel 9a — Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. — Google's budget Pixels have long been a top recommendation for anyone who needs a phone …
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