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Jesse Coghlan / Cointelegraph:
Trump signs an EO to establish a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve and a Digital Asset Stockpile using BTC and other digital assets forfeited in criminal or civil cases  —  US President Donald Trump signed an executive order to establish a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve “just a few minutes ago,” says crypto tsar David Sacks.
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Nikou Asgari / Financial Times:
Trump's Strategic Bitcoin Reserve, which will hold only assets that have been forfeited, disappoints traders who hoped the government would begin buying bitcoin
John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
Apple confirms that it is delaying the “more personalized Siri” Apple Intelligence feature and anticipates rolling it out “in the coming year”  —  Here's a statement I got this morning from Apple spokeswoman Jacqueline Roy, verbatim:
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: the White House is weighing measures to restrict DeepSeek, including banning its app from US app stores, because of national security concerns  —  Trump administration also considers broader measures against the AI model over national-security concerns
NewsGuard's Reality Check:
NewsGuard audit: the 10 top AI chatbots, including ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini, repeated false claims from a pro-Kremlin disinformation network 33% of the time  —  An audit found that the 10 leading generative AI tools advanced Moscow's disinformation goals by repeating false claims …
Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg:
Reflection AI, which wants to achieve superintelligence through autonomous coding agents, emerges from stealth with a $105M Series A and $25M in seed funding  —  Reflection AI is building coding agents that can function autonomously.  —  Two top researchers from Google's artificial intelligence lab DeepMind …
Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac:
A Brazilian judge gives Apple 90 days to allow sideloading on iOS in Brazil, saying the “limitations” imposed by Apple on developers could deter new competitors  —  After the EU forced Apple to implement major changes to how iOS and the App Store work for European users …
Financial Times:
Analysis: the $TRUMP memecoin generated $314M from token sales and $36M in fees within three weeks of its launch, likely fueling conflict of interest concerns  —  Donald Trump's crypto project made at least $350mn from the launch of his memecoin, a windfall that is likely to fuel concerns …
Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
Kuo: Apple plans to start mass producing a $2,000+ book-style foldable iPhone in Q4 2026, with a ~7.8" “crease-free” inner display and a ~5.5" outer display  —  Apple's first foldable iPhone should arrive around the end of 2026 or early 2027 with a book-style design and a premium price tag …
Tim Hardwick / MacRumors:
Kuo: Apple is developing an updated C1 modem chip for mass production in 2026 with mmWave support and improved power consumption and transmission speed

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Jordan Novet / CNBC:
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Marc Caputo / Axios:
The US State Department says it will use AI to review social media accounts to revoke visas of students who seem to support designated terror groups like Hamas
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch:
The US Secret Service, Europol, and others take down and seize Garantex, a Russian cryptocurrency exchange accused of being associated with ransomware hackers
Jessica E. Lessin / The Information:
Sources: Larry Page has formed Dynatomics, which is trying to use LLMs to create highly optimized designs for various objects and then have a factory build them
CoinDesk:
In a Tucker Carlson interview, Sam Bankman-Fried says he was becoming closer to the GOP in the lead-up to his arrest and that played a role in his sentencing
Mariella Moon / Engadget:
Reddit adds tools like Post Insights, Post Recovery, and Post Check, which helps users see if what they are posting potentially goes against a subreddit's rules
Andrew Liszewski / The Verge:
1Password now lets users add specific physical locations to items like passwords, which then show up in its mobile app's Nearby section when the user is close
Emma Roth / The Verge:
DuckDuckGo says AI answers are out of beta and now get info from across the web, not just Wikipedia; setting AI answers to “often” shows them ~20% of the time
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