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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: foldable iPhone feels durable, fits well in a pocket, has useful iPad-like app layouts, excels as a camera viewfinder but lacks telephoto and Face ID — Also: Get ready for iPhone price hikes. — Apple is about to bring some of its product magic back with its first foldable iPhone.
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| Telegraph: |
Sources: Iran-linked hackers shut down a small UK power plant for four days, coinciding with a wave of Iran-affiliated attacks on US water utilities — Unprecedented cyber attack believed to be most successful of its kind — Tony Diver , Political Editor. Rozina Sabur , National Security Editor.
More: RedState, New York Post, Financial Times, GB News, Legal Insurrection, The Irish Times, Breitbart, The i Paper, Joe.My.God., NewsMax.com, Security Affairs, Metro.co.uk, The Guardian, CNBC, Washington Examiner, BBC, TMCnet, Human Events, and The Sun
Forums: Hacker News, r/DeepStateCentrism, r/ukpolitics, and r/unitedkingdom
| Raffaele Huang / Wall Street Journal: |
The careers of Z.ai's Tang Jie and Moonshot AI's Yang Zhilin, once teacher and pupil at Tsinghua University, show that China's AI leap is no sudden development — University lab nurtured the computer scientists who are using ingenuity and imitation to chase down Anthropic and OpenAI; ‘they know perfectly how to monetize their work’
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: some of Nvidia's top customers have been told that prices will jump 15%+ on systems, including Vera Rubin and Grace Blackwell, starting in early 2027 — Some of Nvidia Corp.'s biggest customers have been told that the prices of servers containing its artificial intelligence chips …
More: CNBC, Implicator.ai, Tom's Hardware, Taipei Times, The Information, Seoul Economic Daily, Blockonomi, Bitcoin Insider, Financial Express, Korea JoongAng Daily, Coinpaper, Livemint, The Asia Business Daily, The Decoder, Reuters, The Next Web, Notebookcheck, and Tech in Asia
X: @business, @deitaone, @edzitron, @stocksavvyshay, and @stocksavvyshay
Forums: r/news, r/irenstocks, r/NVDA_Stock, r/MU_Stock, r/NBIS_Stock, r/technology, and r/NvidiaStock
| Robbie Whelan / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Nvidia plans to use its $6B deal with Poolside to build an open-weight AI model to compete with Chinese models like DeepSeek and Kimi — A sweeping agreement with startup Poolside aims to build an open AI ecosystem in the U.S. to compete with Chinese heavyweights and American AI giants| Reuters: |
Alibaba plans to raise ~$10B in a follow-on share offering to fund AI investments; sources: it plans to offer 710M shares at a 3.6% discount to Friday's close — China's Alibaba (9988.HK) on Sunday launched a HK$80-billion ($10.2 billion) share placement to fund artificial intelligence-related development.| George Hammond / Financial Times: |
Ramp data: Fable 5, launched in June, has plateaued at ~11% of spending on Anthropic tools, as companies shift to cheaper models; Opus 5 surpassed Fable 5 — AI lab's Fable 5 has met with sluggish demand from corporate clients — Anthropic's US customers are using cheaper alternatives … | Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: |
Sources: Flipkart Minutes, the quick commerce service of Walmart's Flipkart, is now delivering 1.1M-1.2M orders per day, up from ~390K-400K in November 2025 — Indian startups spent years getting consumers accustomed to having groceries and everyday goods delivered within minutes.| Rohail Saleem / Wccftech: |
Ox Alpha, a “stealth model” from an unknown AI lab with a 1M-token multimodal context and capacity for 100T tokens/day, goes viral after launching on OpenRouter — When an unknown AI lab drops an anonymous model - Ox Alpha - for free, while declaring that they have the capacity …
More: OpenRouter, Business Insider, Implicator.ai, Bloomberg, Tech Times, NPowerUser, and Techstrong.ai
X: @openrouter, @opencode, @kimmonismus, @teortaxestex, @andrewcurran_, @lisley494341191, @teortaxestex, @jeremiahdillon, @patrickc, @moleh1ll, @kimmonismus, @pilvar222, @haider1, @nilaykothari, @ziwenxu_, @selfatonements, @skalskip92, @tokengremlin, @haider1, @tim_dettmers, @swarooprm7, @haider1, @be_arsh, @tanmaigo, @alexatallah, @vaibhavsisinty, @gaelbreton, @haider1, @babayagatwt, @elshayib_, @vamsibatchuk, @leo_linsky, @jrysana, @brandonjcarl, @teortaxestex, @bindureddy, @heyitsmilac, @karanc_12, @kimmonismus, @mr_salio, @hakmgpt, @unclecode, @niklasdev, @timjayas, @ziwenxu_, @vidhisharmx, @opencode, @kimmonismus, @omarsar0, @evanotero, @altryne, and @scaling01. Bluesky: @timkellogg.me
Forums: r/InterstellarKinetics and r/Futurology
| Financial Times: |
Semiconductor cram schools are flourishing in Seoul as applications to Samsung and SK Hynix surge, fuelled by record earnings and eye-catching worker bonuses — Private tutors teach semiconductor basics and help polish CVs for hopefuls looking to join lucrative sector| Jeffrey Kopp / CNBC: |
A profile of Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers, who is presiding over US state AGs' social media addiction lawsuit against Meta and oversaw the Musk v. Altman trial — It's been a crazy four months for Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers. — The judge in the Northern District of California spent late April … | Financial Times: |
The popularity of risky leveraged chip ETFs in South Korea prompted regulators to cap individual exposure and mandate a weeklong investor education course — Leveraged single-stock ETFs attracted billions of dollars of net inflows even as they plunged during market sell-off| Sonja Wind / Bloomberg: |
Apparel retailers like Zalando, Zara, and ASOS are betting on AI virtual fitting rooms to create a better online shopping experience and cut costly returns — Buying clothes online can leave shoppers frustrated and retailers drowning in returned goods. Now brands hope that AI-powered tools will deliver the perfect fit.| Anna Heim / TechCrunch: |
London-based Inherent, founded by DeepMind alumni and with $50M in seed funding, says its new Faraday agent beats GPT-5.5 at reproducing research paper findings — Inherent, a London AI lab founded by Google DeepMind alumni, says its AI agent just outperformed much larger models from Anthropic and OpenAI using a fraction of the size.Sponsor Posts
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