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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Samsung is nearing a deal to invest in Perplexity, preload Perplexity's app on Samsung devices, add Perplexity search to Samsung's browser, and more — The two companies are in talks to preload Perplexity's app and assistant on upcoming Samsung devices and integrate …
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| Edith Hancock / Wall Street Journal: |
Apple appeals the EU's iOS interoperability order under the DMA, saying the requirements create “a process that is unreasonable, costly, and stifles innovation” — Companies face fines of up to 10% their worldwide annual turnover if the EU decides they are flouting its Digital Markets Act
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
A look at Apple's AI plans for WWDC; sources say it is testing its 3B, 7B, 33B, and 150B models via an internal Playground tool, and will name macOS 26 as Tahoe — Apple, a year after debuting its AI platform, will do little at WWDC to show it's catching up to leaders like OpenAI and Google.
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| Matthew Garrahan / Financial Times: |
An interview with Jony Ive and Laurene Powell Jobs on tech's next chapter, meeting in 1997, Steve Jobs, Apple, Powell Jobs backing LoveFrom in 2019, and more — After Apple, the Silicon Valley visionaries are looking to artificial intelligence to shape the future again
More: MacRumors, The Verge, AppleInsider, The Guardian, Benzinga, 9to5Mac, Forbes, Fortune, Spyglass, and Apple Must
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Meta aims to help brands fully create and target ads using AI by the end of 2026, including images and budgetary goals, expanding its current AI tools — AI-powered advertising is part of CEO Mark Zuckerberg's vision for the company's future — Meta Platforms is betting that automation is the future of ads.
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| Scharon Harding / Ars Technica: |
A deep dive into Apple TV's privacy features shows that Apple's streaming device is more private than the vast majority of alternatives, save for dumb TVs — Using the Apple TV app or an Apple account means giving Apple more data, though. … Among smart TVs, streaming sticks …
More: MacRumors. Mastodon: @mookie@wantstoruletheworld …. Forums: r/apple, r/technews, r/privacy, Ars OpenForum, and MacRumors Forums
| Melissa Heikkilä / Financial Times: |
A UK government trial of 20K+ civil servants using Microsoft Copilot for three months found that they saved 26 minutes per day on average, or two weeks per year — Staff used Microsoft's Copilot to help draft documents and summarise meetings — Simply sign up to the Artificial intelligence myFT Digest …
More: Windows Central, ComputerWeekly.com, GOV.UK, and Microsoft
| Barbara Moens / Financial Times: |
The EU Commission fines European takeaway groups Delivery Hero and Glovo €329M for taking part in an “online food delivery cartel”, ending its July 2024 probe — European Commission says European food delivery groups shared trade secrets — Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT … | Emily Mullin / Wired: |
Paradromics inserted its Connexus brain implant in a patient and removed it after ~10 minutes during epilepsy surgery on May 14, a first for the Neuralink rival — Paradromics, a brain-computer interface startup, inserted its brain implant in a person—briefly—in an early test of its technology.| Maureen Farrell / New York Times: |
US asset management firms like Blackstone, KKR, and BlackRock are pouring hundreds of billions into AI data centers, creating “oversupply” and bubble concerns — Private equity firms like Blackstone are using their clients' money to buy and build data centers to fuel the artificial intelligence boom.| The Insider: |
A look at Russian GRU Unit 29155's hacking department, which started as a lone operator in 2012, and its involvement in cyberattack and disinformation campaigns — Russian GRU Unit 29155 is best known for its long list of murder and sabotage ops, which include the Salisbury poisonings in England …
More: DataBreaches.Net. Bluesky: @twmcltd, @christogrozev, and @theins.press. Mastodon: @campuscodi@mastodon.social
Forums: r/espionage and r/craftofintelligence
| Nikkei Asia: |
SoftBank and Intel form Saimemory, a company to develop a prototype within two years of stacked DRAM chips for AI that consume ~50% of the power of current HBM — TOKYO — SoftBank and Intel are developing a type of memory for artificial intelligence expected to consume much less electricity …
More: TechPowerUp, Capacity Media, Benzinga, The Register, Electronics Weekly, and Tom's Hardware
| Le Monde: |
Paris' public prosecutor says it charged 25 people, including six minors, over a spate of kidnappings and attempted abductions targeting crypto executives — Twenty-five people, including six minors, were charged in Paris over a spate of kidnappings and attempted abductions in France's cryptocurrency world …
More: crypto.news, Blockhead, Cointelegraph, The Block, and Cryptopolitan
| Cory Weinberg / The Information: |
Filing: neobank Chime plans to sell ~26M shares in its IPO at $24 to $26, valuing it a $10.3B to $11.1B; co-founders Chris Britt and Ryan King each own 4% to 5% — Banking app Chime plans to sell shares in an initial public offering at a price that would value it at between $10.3 billion and $11.1 billion …
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