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John Ternus, senior VP of Hardware Engineering, will become Apple's next CEO on September 1; Tim Cook will become executive chairman of Apple's board — Apple said on Monday that John Ternus is succeeding Tim Cook as CEO, with Cook assuming the role of executive chairman on Sept. 1.
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| Apple: |
Apple says Johny Srouji, who most recently served as senior VP of Hardware Technologies, will assume an expanded role leading Hardware Engineering — Apple today announced that, effective immediately, Apple executive Johny Srouji will become chief hardware officer.
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
In an email to employees, Johny Srouji details newly combined hardware engineering and hardware technologies division, organized across five key areas — Apple Inc.'s newly combined hardware engineering and hardware technologies division will be organized across five key areas, its new leader told staffers on Monday.
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| Marcus Mendes / 9to5Mac: |
Apple says Tim Cook, as executive chairman, “will assist with certain aspects of the company, including engaging with policymakers around the world” — Apple confirmed today that although Tim Cook will be leaving the role of Apple CEO come September, he'll still be involved in a key area of the company.
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| Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
Amazon agrees to invest up to $25B in Anthropic, on top of the $8B that it has already invested; Anthropic commits to spend $100B+ on AWS over the next 10 years — Amazon has agreed to invest up to $25 billion in Anthropic, on top of the $8 billion that it's poured into the artificial intelligence startup …
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: Jeff Bezos' Project Prometheus is close to a $10B fundraising deal, which includes an initial $6.2B raise in November, at a $38B post-money valuation — Company code-named Project Prometheus is working on models for industrial applications — Jeff Bezos is close to a $10bn fundraising deal …
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| David McCabe / New York Times: |
Filing in California's antitrust lawsuit: CA accuses Amazon of price-fixing by pressuring brands to ask competing retailers to increase prices on some products — The state claimed the e-commerce giant pressured brands like Levi's and Hanes to ask competing retailers to raise prices on certain products.| Kimi AI: |
Moonshot introduces Kimi K2.6, an open-weight model that it says shows strong improvements in long-horizon coding tasks, available under a modified MIT License — We are open sourcing our latest model, Kimi K2.6, featuring state-of-the-art coding, long-horizon execution, and agent swarm capabilities.
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| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
OpenAI rolls out Chronicle, which builds memories from screen captures to make Codex more aware of context, as a research preview for Pro subscribers on macOS — Last week, OpenAI released an all-new version of Codex for Mac that includes the best example of AI-driven computer use yet.
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| Erin Woo / The Information: |
Sources say Google has created a strike team to improve its coding models; Sergey Brin told DeepMind staffers they must aggressively pivot to catch up on agents — Google has assembled a strike team of researchers and engineers to improve its AI coding models, according to three people …
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Forums: r/singularity and r/accelerate
| Eunice Xu / South China Morning Post: |
Chinese PCB maker Victory Giant surges ~57% in its Hong Kong trading debut after raising ~$2.6B in its IPO, the largest in the city so far this year — Nvidia supplier raises US$2.6 billion in its IPO as investors rush to cash in on the AI infrastructure boom
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| Emily Steel / New York Times: |
A US jury finds Uber liable for a sexual assault by a driver in 2019, handing Uber a second consecutive defeat in its first trials of 3,000+ pending lawsuits — The ride-hailing giant has now lost the first two of more than 3,000 pending federal lawsuits. — A federal jury in North Carolina … | Anthony Capaccio / Bloomberg: |
The US Air Force cancels RTX's ground-control network for the US' next generation of GPS satellites after years of delays and cost overruns — The Air Force on Monday canceled RTX Corp.'s ground-control network for the US's next generation of GPS satellites after years of delays and cost overruns.| André Beganski / Decrypt: |
RaveDAO's RAVE has lost $6.6B+ in market cap and its price has sunk ~98% since Saturday, after ZachXBT called on exchanges to probe if it was being manipulated — RaveDAO's token cratered this weekend after blockchain sleuth ZachXBT called on exchanges to investigate trading tied to its surging token.
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| The GitHub Blog: |
Microsoft pauses new GitHub Copilot signups for Pro, Pro+, and Student tiers, tightens usage limits, removes Opus models from Pro, and limits Opus 4.7 to Pro+ — As shared in our recent blog post, we're making the following changes to Copilot plans for individuals as part of our ongoing efforts …
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