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April 28, 2025, 7:40 AM
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Ben Smith / Semafor:
A look at the sprawling group chat network that surged in 2020 as a place for Silicon Valley leaders to talk candidly, with Marc Andreessen playing a key role  —  THE SCOOP  —  Last Thursday morning, a bit before 10 am in Austin and nearly 11 pm in Singapore, Joe Lonsdale had enough of Balaji Srinivasan's views on China.
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
While Apple's iPhone manufacturing in India matches China in quality, making the extraordinarily complex 20th anniversary iPhones outside China remains doubtful  —  Apple has begun breaking up its AI and machine learning organization by moving pieces to other parts of the company.
Financial Times:
A deep dive on Apple's iPhone manufacturing process, including 2,700 parts from 187 suppliers in 28 countries; just 30 suppliers have no presence in China  —  The administration wants the iPhone to be manufactured in America.  The components that power it show why that is highly impractical
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Huawei has approached some clients about testing the technical feasibility of the Ascend 910D, its newest AI chip that it hopes will beat Nvidia's H100  —  Superpower rivalry over semiconductors heats up despite Washington's attempts to block Beijing
Prachi Verma / The Economic Times:
India faces a shortage of agentic AI professionals, with executives estimating fewer than 100K in the country while demand is projected to hit ~200K by 2026  —  India is grappling with a critical shortage of agentic AI professionals as demand surges, driven by the shift towards sophisticated AI agents capable …
Furquan Ameen / Rest of World:
Experts say that India is behind China in deep tech innovation due to its historical focus on services, lower R&D investment, and a brain drain of AI talent
Jeff Horwitz / Wall Street Journal:
Test conversations with some Meta AI digital companions, including celebrity-voiced ones, show them engaging in sexual chats even when users identify as minors  —  Chatbots on Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp are empowered to engage in ‘romantic role-play’ that can turn explicit.
Jessica Testa / New York Times:
Spotify says it has paid $100M+ to podcast publishers and creators since January 2025 via a new creator program based on Premium subscriber video engagement  —  The audio platform has branched out to video and has paid more than $100 million to podcast publishers this year as the war for creator talent heats up.
CBS Mornings on YouTube:
Geoffrey Hinton fears AI companies are under-investing in safety research, embracing military usage, and sharing model weights while pushing for less regulation  —  Nobel laureate Geoffrey Hinton, often called a “godfather of artificial intelligence,” spoke with Brook Silva-Braga …

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