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Sources: Apple is working on a foldable device the size of two iPad Pros for 2028, a Magic Mouse revamp, and an AirTag with triple the range of the current one — Apple's new vision for the future of computing is a giant, iPad-like foldable device. Also: The company rethinks the mouse …
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| Margaux Nijkerk / CoinDesk: |
Electric Capital annual survey: total developers working in crypto fell 7% YoY globally, and Solana was the most popular blockchain among new developers — Ethereum remained the blockchain with the most devs, and the overall population of software builders in crypto was flat, the VC firm said in its annual survey.| Anna Edgerton / Bloomberg: |
TikTok critics like Marco Rubio, Jacob Helberg, and Brendan Carr are set for senior roles in Trump's administration, emphasizing Trump's murky stance on the app — - Longtime China critic Helberg named under secretary of State — Rubio pushed for congress's TikTok divest-or-ban law last year
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| Stephanie Stacey / Financial Times: |
Workers are adopting generative AI faster than companies can issue guidelines on how to do so; a survey says ~25% of the US workers already use the tech weekly — Staff are adopting large language models faster than companies can issue guidelines on how to do so| Natasha Singer / New York Times: |
How tech is stoking cycles of violence in US schools, with students using phones and social media to arrange, provoke, record, and spread school brawl videos — Ricardo Martinez, an 11th grader, was in his high school lunchroom in April when a mass brawl erupted.
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| Aimee Ortiz / New York Times: |
US officials: hackers likely accessed the personal data of hundreds of thousands of Rhode Islanders, and there's a “high probability” sensitive info was stolen — An “international cybercriminal group” harvested the personal data of potentially hundreds of thousands of people …
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| Michael Acton / Financial Times: |
Arm and Qualcomm's chip licensing dispute heads to trial in Delaware, in a high-stakes battle set to last about a week over Qualcomm's $1.4B Nuvia acquisition — Legal fight that started with a $1.4bn acquisition has severely strained companies' relationship| Financial Times: |
Sources: Revolut staff and early investors offloaded nearly $1B in stock in a secondary sale since August 2024, after the UK granted Revolut its banking license — Secondary share sales have allowed early investors and staff to crystallise paper gains at $45bn valuation
X: @maxkarpis
| Jack Ryan / Bloomberg: |
Fastmarkets: the price of gallium, a metal used to make chips, rose to $595 per kilogram on December 13, the highest since 2011, after China restricted exports — - Metal has applications in semiconductors and TV screens — Prices assessed by Fastmarkets reached $595 per kilogram| Jo Constantz / Bloomberg: |
How some companies are using AI agents: McKinsey for client onboarding, insurer Nsure to handle customer requests, and Accenture to support its marketing team — AI agents go beyond chatbots. “This is really the rise of digital labor.” — If you're just getting up to speed on chatbots and copilots, you're already falling behind.| William Langley / Financial Times: |
Chinese merchants are rapidly expanding their presence on Russian e-commerce platforms like Ozon Global and Wildberries to find new markets and avoid US tariffs — Ozon and Wildberries welcome Chinese sellers looking for new markets as sanctions hit both countries' traders| Suzanne Vranica / Wall Street Journal: |
Ad giants Omnicom and Interpublic's merger shows how the industry is preparing for an AI-driven upheaval, which is squeezing out creative talent — Two advertisers are combining into a $30 billion behemoth to harness the data, tech and AI expertise now dominating Madison Avenue—and all the marketing you seeSponsor Posts
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