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May 19, 2025, 8:20 AM

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Bloomberg:
Sources detail Apple's AI efforts, John Giannandrea's tenure, Craig Federighi's reservations to invest in generative AI, and its acquisitions, including Siri  —  Insiders say continued failure to get artificial intelligence right threatens everything from the iPhone's dominance to plans for robots and other futuristic products.
Bloomberg:
Nvidia unveils NVLink Fusion, letting customers use its NVLink to pair non-Nvidia CPUs or accelerators with Nvidia's products in their own rack-scale setups  —  Nvidia Corp. Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang outlined plans to let customers deploy rivals' chips in data centers built around its technology …
Kimberley Kao / Wall Street Journal:
Nvidia plans to build an AI supercomputer with Foxconn and Taiwan's government to support local researchers and enterprises; TSMC plans to use the system  —  The company also said it is deepening partnerships with Taiwan's system manufacturers  —  Nvidia is deepening its partnerships …
Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg:
A profile of Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, who transformed himself from an academic into a CEO; as of mid-April, Anthropic was on track for $2B in annual revenue  —  Dario Amodei has transformed himself from an academic into the CEO of a $61 billion startup.  —  Anthropic Chief Executive …
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Reuters:
Xiaomi CEO Lei Jun says on Weibo that the company invested ~$1.9B to build its Xring O1 chip and plans to invest $6.9B+ in chip design over the next decade  —  China's Xiaomi will launch its highly-anticipated YU7 electric sports utility vehicle on Thursday, as well as other products …
Micah Lee / Wired:
How a hacker breached the Signal knockoff app TeleMessage in about 20 minutes thanks to a basic misconfiguration, leading to sensitive data spilling out  —  The company behind the Signal clone used by at least one Trump administration official was breached earlier this month.
David Mack / Slate:
Viral TikTok videos of AI bots interviewing job candidates and sometimes glitching are bringing attention to a practice more companies have embraced since 2023  —  “Tell me about a time when—when—let's.  Let's circle back.  Tell me about a time when—when—let's."
Financial Times:
How the UK's Met Office, alongside Google DeepMind, Nvidia, Microsoft, IBM, and others, are leveraging AI to enhance weather forecasting accuracy and detail  —  Rapidly advancing technology is helping meteorologists to make more accurate and detailed forecasts even further into the future
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