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iPhone Duo teardown: 5/10 repairability, a foldable record, but some screens crack along the fold, possibly because a hinge support bar fails to drop far enough — Apple's folding iPhone finally made it to our teardown table. Some owners' screens didn't make it through setup.
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| Elon Musk / @elonmusk: |
Elon Musk says SpaceX closed $40B in GPU debt, debt markets have shut off credit for AI data center companies, and 200+ neoclouds face “death and consolidation” — Pretty much. As of the past few weeks, debt markets have almost entirely shut off access to money for any company that doesn't have substantial revenue independent of AI data centers. SpaceX closed $40B of debt for GPUs, but we're investment grade and have Starlink & launch revenue. That means...
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple tweaked macOS for its OLED touch MacBook Pro, due Wednesday, with a dynamic interface that adapts to whether touch or the trackpad was last used — Also: The company rolls out a retail store tool to reduce wasted inventory. — Apple's touch-screen MacBook Pro will arrive on Wednesday …
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| M.G. Siegler / Spyglass: |
Amazon Bee Frontier review: a simple $75 AI wearable that excels at always-on listening, summarizing conversations, and suggesting follow-up actions — Amazon's quiet, listening AI wearable is also pretty killer? — I'm not sure people really understand what is coming with AI and wearables.| Financial Times: |
A look at Toyota's robotics expansion, including its Walden spinoff and a $6.4B annual plan to deploy 400K factory robots, as it competes with Tesla and China — Japanese group uses 20 years of research to commercialise intelligent robots — Toyota is setting its sights on becoming … | Ann Davis Vaughan / The Information: |
Data center tenants now demand $5M+ per day in late-delivery fees, up from $1M in spring 2026, spawning new “delay-in-delivery” coverage from brokers like Marsh — This spring, Mike Mathews, who leads the global digital infrastructure practice at insurance broker Marsh …
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| Ananta Agarwal / Nikkei Asia: |
India's chip design startups near production with government support, but low volumes, high fab costs, and supply chain bottlenecks hinder commercialization — BENGALURU — Propelled by government support, India's chip design startups are nearing commercial production … | Tom Matsuda / Financial Times: |
The iTunes Store is re-emerging as a venue for big pop stars, including Taylor Swift, to hawk collectibles to superfans and bolster their chart positions — Record labels and artists including Taylor Swift and Ariana Grande are using the throwback music store to bolster their chart position and cash in on their fandom| Alexandra Alter / New York Times: |
A profile of former Google VP and Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer, whose startup Dazzle is building an AI assistant to help non-tech enthusiasts with mundane tasks — Marissa Mayer has reinvented herself as a start-up founder, with a team of 10 engineers — a fraction of the armies of programmers …
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| Maria Curi / Axios: |
Lawmakers and Hill staffers in both parties say AI leaders are becoming a political liability as they swing between claims of prosperity and existential dangers — Washington has always viewed Silicon Valley as culturally strange. But the current crop of AI leaders is becoming …
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| Michael Roddan / The Information: |
Sources detail how Ramp investors Joe Lonsdale and Keith Rabois pushed US lawmakers to probe rival Airwallex's China ties after Airwallex scrapped a Ramp deal — In April 2025, Eric Glyman, co-founder and co-CEO of Ramp, received some bad news: A deal was falling apart.| Bloomberg: |
High-frequency trading firms such as Jane Street are investing in AI and chip startups and neoclouds, and building data centers to gain an edge in the AI era — High-frequency trading firms are even building their own data centers as they compete for an edge in the AI era.| Terrence O'Brien / The Verge: |
Moderators of r/opensource ban submissions of projects using, made by, or intended for AI, exclude non-English speakers over AI translation concerns, and more — The opensource subreddit's new rules against AI have sparked a revolt. … The post made Saturday evening opens by saying …
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| Bloomberg: |
DongA Ilbo: SK Hynix gained ~$15B on its Kioxia stake earlier in 2026, and plans to return ~$12B to shareholders via a special dividend — SK Hynix Inc.'s shares bucked a broad selloff in AI-related stocks thanks to the prospect of a hefty dividend payout related to the South Korean memory maker's stake …
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