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Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac:
Kuo: Apple plans a cheaper MacBook powered by iPhone 16 Pro's A18 Pro chip and with a ~13" display, expected to enter mass production in late 2025 or early 2026  —  Apple's current entry-level laptop is the $999 MacBook Air, but analyst Ming-Chi Kuo believes Apple is aiming to launch an even more affordable model soon.
Marcus Mendes / 9to5Mac:
Kuo expects Apple to mass produce a Vision Pro with M5 in Q3 2025, a Vision Air in Q3 2027, a Vision Pro with a new design and XR glasses in H2 2028, and more
Will Knight / Wired:
Microsoft says its new AI tool diagnoses diseases with 80% accuracy vs. doctors' 20%; Mustafa Suleyman calls it a “step toward medical superintelligence”  —  The tech giant poached several top Google researchers to help build a powerful AI tool that can diagnose patients and potentially cut health care costs.
Associated Press:
Canada rescinds its Digital Services Tax “in anticipation of” a trade deal with the US, with trade talks resuming; the tax was set to go into effect on Monday  —  Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney says trade talks with U.S. have resumed after Canada rescinded its plan to tax U.S. technology firms.
NPR:
Sources: the US DHS, in partnership with DOGE, has built the first-ever searchable national citizenship data system, pulling from SSA and immigration databases  —  The Trump administration has, for the first time ever, built a searchable national citizenship data system.
Lux Alptraum / The Verge:
How performers on OnlyFans and other adult sites are using LLMs for creative inspiration, amid a rise of adult-specific LLMs like sex worker chatbot GPTease  —  'It lets me operate at 90 percent when I'm at 30 percent.'  —  When Ela Darling began performing in porn at the tail end of the 2000s …
Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch:
Spotify revamps its Discover Weekly playlist after ten years, adding new genre filters for Premium users, and says users streamed 100B+ tracks via the playlist  —  Spotify's Discover Weekly playlist, which shares new listening recommendations every Monday, is getting an update.
Julie Bort / TechCrunch:
Campfire, which offers AI-powered ERP and accounting services, raised a $35M Series A led by Accel  —  AI-powered accounting startup Campfire announced Monday that it has raised a $35 million Series A led by Accel, with participation from Foundation Capital, Y Combinator, Capital49, and angel investors including Mercury's CFO Dan Kang.
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Soo-Hyang Choi / Bloomberg:
Bank of Korea temporarily halts preparations for the second phase of its pilot initiative testing program for a central bank digital currency, scheduled for Q4  —  South Korea's central bank has halted its digital currency pilot program, signaling diminishing enthusiasm for state-led digital currencies …
Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch:
Cursor launches a web app and Slack integration for managing AI coding agents from mobile and desktop  —  The company behind Cursor, the viral AI coding editor, launched a web app on Monday that allows users to manage a network of coding agents directly from their browser.
MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC:
Robinhood announces an expanded offering of tokenized US stocks across Europe, crypto staking in US, a Layer 2 blockchain for real-world asset settlement, more  —  CANNES — Fifteen years after flipping burgers at a McDonald's and teaching himself to code at night in a cramped apartment near …
Samantha Subin / CNBC:
SEC filing: Oracle signed multiple large cloud agreements, including one that is expected to contribute $30B+ in annual revenue starting in FY28; ORCL jumps 5%+  —  Oracle shares jumped more than 5% after a recent filing showed a cloud deal that would add over $30 billion annually.
Gené Teare / Crunchbase News:
A look at the rise of $5B+ unicorns, which make up 13% of ~1,600 unicorns but hold $3.5T of $6T total valuation; 17 startups joined the $5B+ club in H1 2025  —  Editor's note: This article is part of a series looking at how the venture and startup landscape has evolved over the past 10 years.

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@nytimespr:
A NYT headline on Friday “misstated” NATO's full name as the “North American Treaty Organization”; the NYT says a correction appears in Saturday's print edition

The Hollywood Reporter:
The WGA and AMPTP reach a tentative four-year agreement, up from WGA's usual three-year deal; it includes AI training protection and health plan increases

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