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| Brian Westover / PCMag: |
MacBook Pro 16" (M5 Max) review: “Super core” architecture and 40-core GPU deliver beastly performance, but still retains a five-year-old design — Outstanding — THE BOTTOM LINE — Pros & Cons — “Super core” architecture delivers incredible performance
More: The Verge, Tom's Hardware, Gizmodo, Macworld, 9to5Mac, Ars Technica, Tom's Guide, CNET, Six Colors, TechRadar, Tyler Stalman on YouTube, Justin Tse on YouTube, Alex Ziskind on YouTube, Hardware Canucks on YouTube, Notebookcheck, Creative Strategies, No Film School, Creative Bloq, LaptopMedia.com, and Kotaku
| John Higgins / The Verge: |
Apple Studio Display XDR review: great reference picture modes, much improved camera, and 120Hz support on newer Macs, but expensive at $3300 and only for Macs — It's been almost exactly four years since Apple released the 5K Studio Display that so many wanted, even if it didn't really deliver as a high-end display.| Jack Queen / Reuters: |
Anthropic sues to block the DOD from designating it a supply chain risk, says the designation is unlawful and violates its free speech and due process rights — Anthropic on Monday filed a lawsuit to block the Pentagon from placing it on a national security blacklist, escalating …
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| Maxwell Zeff / Wired: |
More than 30 staffers from OpenAI and Google, including DeepMind chief scientist Jeff Dean, file an amicus brief in support of Anthropic in its fight with DOD — Google DeepMind chief scientist Jeff Dean is among the AI researchers and engineers rushing to Anthropic's defense.| Kate Knibbs / Wired: |
Jay Graber is stepping down as Bluesky CEO, saying a “seasoned operator focused on scaling and execution” is needed; VC Toni Schneider is named interim CEO — Venture capitalist Toni Schneider will take over as interim CEO as Bluesky's board of directors hunts for a permanent replacement.
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple delayed the release of its smart home display, planned for this month, until later this year to let the company finish work on the new Siri — Apple Inc.'s artificial intelligence struggles are rippling through its product plans, forcing the company to delay a long …
More: Engadget, MacRumors, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, The Mac Observer, Cult of Mac, and Digital Trends
| OpenAI: |
OpenAI agrees to acquire Promptfoo, which fixes security issues in AI systems being built and is “trusted by 25%+ of Fortune 500”, to fold into OpenAI Frontier — Accelerating agentic security testing and evaluation capabilities in OpenAI Frontier
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| Charles Lamanna / Microsoft 365 Blog: |
Microsoft launches Copilot Cowork, integrating Anthropic's Claude Cowork tech into Microsoft 365 Copilot and using Work IQ to ground its actions in work data — AUDIENCE — Try Microsoft 365 Copilot — Available on desktop and mobile devices — If you have used Copilot …
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LinkedIn: Charles Lamanna, Larry Cannell, and Nicole Herskowitz
| Brody Ford / Bloomberg: |
Microsoft launches E7, which bundles Office tools and Copilot, for $99/user/month, a 65% jump; of its 450M+ business users in January, ~3% also paid for Copilot — Microsoft Corp. is launching a new bundle of workplace software with the aim of getting more people to use its artificial intelligence tools for the office.
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LinkedIn: Jared Spataro, Mala Anand, and Judson Althoff
| Allison Johnson / The Verge: |
iPhone 17e review: MagSafe, 256GB of base storage, and the camera are great, but no always-on display and 60Hz makes the iPhone 17 a better deal for $200 more — The iPhone 17E is a better value than the 16E was when it arrived, but that should matter to basically nobody.
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| Nathan Ingraham / Engadget: |
| Mark Bergen / Bloomberg: |
UK data center developer Nscale raised a $2B Series C led by Aker and 8090 Industries at a $14.6B valuation and adds Sheryl Sandberg and Nick Clegg to its board — Nscale, a UK developer for artificial intelligence data centers, has raised $2 billion in funding and added a trio …
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LinkedIn: Josh Payne and Alex Sharp
| David Gewirtz / ZDNET: |
Anthropic debuts a Code Review feature for Claude Code, which uses agents working in teams to check pull requests for bugs, available in research preview — ZDNET's key takeaways — Anthropic launches AI agents to review developer pull requests. — Internal tests tripled meaningful code review feedback.
More: Claude, TechCrunch, The New Stack, MarkTechPost, and Digital Trends
X: @trq212, @bcherny, @yuchenj_uw, and @claudeai
| Vicky Ge Huang / Wall Street Journal: |
Nasdaq partners with Kraken to develop a framework for 24/7 tokenized stock trading, targeting a 2027 launch, focusing on corporate governance like proxy voting — Nasdaq sought approval in September to let investors trade tokenized versions of its listed stocks and other exchange-traded products| Steve Dent / Engadget: |
Qualcomm unveils the Arduino Ventuno Q, a single-board computer for AI and robotics applications, powered by Dragonwing IQ8 processor and 16GB of RAM — It marries a Qualcomm processor with a microcontroller and comes with 16GB of RAM. — Qualcomm, which purchased microcontroller board …
More: Qualcomm, Crypto Briefing, Arduino Blog, TechCrunch, HotHardware, The Verge, eeNews Europe, and Notebookcheck
| Alanna Durkin Richer / Associated Press: |
The DOJ reaches a settlement in its antitrust lawsuit against Ticketmaster and Live Nation in a case that alleged an illegal monopoly over live events in the US — Justice Department lawyers announced Monday that they'd reached a settlement in their antitrust lawsuit against Ticketmaster …
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| Bloomberg: |
OpenClaw mania hits China: AI labs launch tools to help users deploy OpenClaw, a Shenzhen district drafts a policy encouraging free OpenClaw services, and more — Chinese software shares surged Monday after local government agencies joined tech leaders such as Tencent Holdings Ltd …
More: The Verge, TechNode, South China Morning Post, Reuters, WinBuzzer, and The Information
| Jake Angelo / Fortune: |
NBC News poll of 1,000 registered voters: just 26% had a positive view of AI, while 46% had a negative view, the third worst net negative score of all topics — Artificial intelligence has permeated nearly every part of daily American life. It's being adopted across the professional sphere …
More: Gizmodo and CNET
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| Bloomberg: |
Kalshi partners with XP, Brazil's largest brokerage firm with 4.8M active clients in December 2025, to list event contracts, its first international expansion — Prediction market platform Kalshi Inc. is expanding outside the US for the first time, partnering with Brazil's XP Inc. to list event contracts.
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