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Meghan Bobrowsky / Wall Street Journal:
Sources describe efforts to build and use internal AI tools at Meta, including Mark Zuckerberg building a CEO agent to help him do his job better  —  Meta Platforms chief uses the tool to get information faster as the company seeks to embrace artificial intelligence in all it does
Bloomberg:
Elon Musk announces Terafab, an Austin-based project run by Tesla and SpaceX to manufacture robotics, AI, and space data center chips for Tesla, xAI, and SpaceX  —  Elon Musk said his Terafab project — a grand plan to eventually manufacture his own chips for robotics, artificial intelligence …
Aaron Tilley / The Information:
CEO of Halide-maker Lux Optics, Ben Sandofsky, sues his co-founder Sebastiaan de With, now on Apple's design team, alleging improper use of funds and stolen IP  —  Last summer, Apple held talks to acquire Lux Optics, a tiny startup that makes Halide, one of the most popular and critically acclaimed camera apps in the App Store.
Kevin Roose / New York Times:
A look at “tokenmaxxing”, a status game where employees at a number of companies compete on leaderboards to show how much AI they're using  —  An engineer at OpenAI processed 210 billion “tokens” — enough text to fill Wikipedia 33 times — through the company's artificial intelligence models …
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Profile of John Ternus, likely Tim Cook successor, who shapes Apple's hardware portfolio, is expanding his domain within Apple, and his visibility to the public  —  Current and former employees and executives who've worked closely with Ternus, most of whom requested anonymity to discuss …
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Peter Kafka / Business Insider:
Reality Labs lost $80B+, but it still makes all of Meta's hardware, and reflects Mark Zuckerberg's desire to run a business without Google or Apple as middlemen  —  Follow Peter Kafka … - It's easy to dunk on Mark Zuckerberg and Meta for burning $80 billion on the metaverse and then moving on.
Yue Wang / Forbes:
A look at Huawei-backed Yuanjie, a maker of photonic chips used in AI data center optical interconnects, whose stock has surged 780% over the past year  —  Huawei-backed Yuanjie Semiconductor Technology makes photonic chips used in optical interconnects in AI data centers.
Reuters:
Poste Italiane says it will launch a €10.8B cash-and-share offer to fully acquire Telecom Italia; Poste is already Telecom Italia's largest shareholder  —  Italian majority-state-owned national postal service Poste Italiane (PST.MI) said on Sunday it was launching a cash-and-share offer …
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