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Meta plans to raise $95B to finance its AI infrastructure, including $35B in public equity offerings, backed by cornerstone investors Nvidia, AMD, and Broadcom — Chipmakers Nvidia, AMD and Broadcom will act as cornerstone investors — Meta is planning to raise $95bn … | Elizabeth Chamberlain / iFixit News: |
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.| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
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Modern AI panic reflects “cognitive mercantilism”, a zero-sum worldview where intelligence is hoarded as a scarce supply-side commodity managed by elites — AI panic weirdly resembles the anxiety that accompanied early capitalism — I've been reading Joyce Appleby's The Relentless Revolution … | Max Woolf's Blog: |
A look at OpenAI's and Anthropic's aggressive price cuts from June through September, driven by low switching costs and pricing pressure from open-weight models — Let's look at a quick timeline of the major LLM model announcements from both OpenAI and Anthropic over the past few months.| Elon Musk / @elonmusk: |
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Inside Slack's Salesforce culture clash: Benioff didn't use Slack and had ~1 hour with CEO Butterfield pre-deal; Butterfield quit after a Davos will.i.am panel — I needed a keyboard. — I stood at my reserved desk on the 7th floor of Salesforce's tower in Vancouver around 9am.| Washington Post: |
Cathedral, a months-old cybersecurity startup founded by ex-DOGE staffers, says it breached Anthropic's internal systems in under 12 hours using AI agents — The start-up firm Cathedral has told makers of the Claude chatbot that its researchers were able to quickly penetrate sensitive systems, a report reviewed by The Post shows.| New York Times: |
A look at TSMC's initial Phoenix fab, which has achieved chip output rates comparable to its Taiwan facilities, as its Taiwanese engineers teach US workers — On July 5 the Northwest Chinese Baptist Church in Phoenix opened its weekly Mandarin service with a verse from the Old Testament.| Derrick Bryson Taylor / New York Times: |
Elvis Presley's rightsholders sue Anthropic over 274 songs allegedly used to train its models, seeking $41M+; Anthropic says it disagrees and will defend itself — The $41 million lawsuit contends that the A.I. company used Presley's music to train its models without permission.| 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 …
We can build it. Can we judge it? — As agentic AI shortens the path from idea to shipped code, journey evaluation becomes a critical design skill.| Joanna Glasner / Crunchbase News: |
California startups have raised a record $385B across seed to growth rounds so far in 2026, or 75%+ of all US startup funding; early and seed stage raised ~$62B — California companies have scooped up more than three-fourths of all U.S. startup funding this year. That, per Crunchbase data, is an apparent record share.| Bloomberg: |
Alphabet, Amazon, and Microsoft are expected to report double-digit gains in revenue this week, as investors grow impatient with AI capex and seek returns — Three of the biggest and most important technology companies in the world are expected to show healthy growth when they report earnings this week.| 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 …
We can build it. Can we judge it? — As agentic AI shortens the path from idea to shipped code, journey evaluation becomes a critical design skill.
The best sales leaders aren't job hunting. Here's how to reach them without months of cold outreach. — Our team came from Box, Square, and Brex, so we already know the GTM leaders worth meeting.
App Spotlight: Map My Client Location for Zoho CRM — App Spotlight brings you hand-picked solutions that enhance your Zoho apps and tools. Visit Zoho Marketplace to explore all of our apps, integrations …
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Salesforce data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.
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