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| Zoë Schiffer / Wired: |
Memo: OpenAI's Mark Chen responds to Meta offers, says it feels like “someone has broken into our home and stolen something” and OpenAI is “recalibrating comp” — As Mark Zuckerberg lures away top research talent to Meta, OpenAI executives say they're ‘recalibrating comp,’ according to an internal memo.
More: TechCrunch, South China Morning Post, The Economic Times, The Hans India, Business Standard, Livemint, Neowin, WinBuzzer, The Information, and The Guardian
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X: @kimmonismus, @mikeisaac, @bgurley, @signulll, @morqon, @bonybean, @bonybean, and @signulll
Forums: r/OpenAI and r/singularity
| 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.
More: MacRumors, AppleInsider, Tom's Guide, Livemint, Neowin, and Cult of Mac
| 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 — In a blog post today, analyst Ming-Chi Kuo detailed his updated roadmap forecast for Apple's headset and smart glasses markets.
More: Ming-Chi Kuo, MacRumors, GSMArena.com, iClarified, Livemint, Laptop Mag, and The Mac Observer
X: @scobleizer, @scobleizer, and @mingchikuo
Forums: r/VisionPro and r/apple
| 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.
More: Schneier on Security. Bluesky: @rachelcoldicutt and @marypcbuk
Mastodon: @lauren@mastodon …, @peter@thepit.social, and @scottwilson@infosec.exchange
Forums: r/NoShitSherlock, r/Fuckthealtright, r/esist, r/Defeat_Project_2025, r/conservativeterrorism, r/LegalNews, r/EnoughMuskSpam, r/politics, r/fivethirtyeight, r/behindthebastards, r/FreeSpeech, r/AnythingGoesNews, r/KnowledgeFight, r/50501, r/NPR, r/Foodforthought, r/suppressed_news, r/AntiTrumpAlliance, r/privacy, r/technology, r/somethingiswrong2024, r/itshappeninghere, r/TheLib, r/law, r/neoliberal, and r/democrats
| 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.
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Bluesky: @oritart.ca, @spudislander45, @youcaughtscott.com, @sashafury, and @jamoeberl. X: @fp_champagne
LinkedIn: Pete Rhodes and Kim G C Moody
Forums: r/StockMarket, r/ndp, r/CanadaPolitics, r/Conservative, r/onguardforthee, r/technology, r/Economics, r/worldnews, and r/neoliberal
| Noah Smith / Noahpinion: |
Elon Musk calls the Senate tax bill “utterly insane” as it raises taxes on nuclear and geothermal energy and battery storage, which are crucial for AI training — Trump's “Big Beautiful Bill” is an attack on American energy production. — There are many things to despise …
More: Washington Post, The Colorado Sun, New York Times, implicator.ai, Reuters, SiliconANGLE, CleanTechnica, The Hill, Cryptopolitan, and Politico
Bluesky: @vegasmick and @quinnypig.com
X: @elonmusk, @davidsacks, @sdamico, @atrupar, @noahpinion, @teddyschleifer, @nrmarda, @nrmarda, @douglewinenergy, @jessepeltan, @armanddoma, and @elonmusk
LinkedIn: Shawn Kelly and Guido Palazzo
Forums: r/politics, r/NoShitSherlock, r/centrist, r/environment, and r/climate
| Wall Street Journal: |
A profile of OnlyFans' secretive founder Leo Radvinsky, as the platform's parent company is considering a sale for as much as $8B, according to sources — Leo Radvinsky is asking as much as $8 billion for the platform he popularized for sex workers and others producing explicit content, even as he personally avoids the spotlight
Forums: r/technology
| Anthony D'Alessandro / Deadline: |
The F1 movie gives Apple its first box office hit, opening to $144M worldwide and $55.6M in the US; it was pushed on Apple Music, Podcasts, Fitness+, and Wallet — It's a win for racing car movies. It's a win for Zack Van Amburg and Jamie Erlicht led Apple Original Films on the big screen …
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Bluesky: @carnage4life, @mehdirhasan, @chickenpuppet.online, @lauridonahue, and @itablet. Threads: @asif1qbal
X: @mgsiegler, @maxwinebach, @naughtyrobot725, @calebcsw, and @rollingstone. LinkedIn: Randy Greenberg
Forums: r/blankies and r/formula1
| James Rundle / Wall Street Journal: |
Tel Aviv-based Cato Networks, whose tools help protect remote workforces, raised a $359M Series G at a $4.8B+ valuation, taking its total funding to $1B+ — Network security company plans to expand use of artificial intelligence with cash injection — Cyber company Cato Networks … | Bloomberg: |
GOP Senators agree to change a provision in the tax bill from a 10-year ban on state AI regulation to a 5-year ban with carve outs for issues such as copyrights — The Senate is poised to approve a controversial provision preventing some US states from regulating artificial intelligence … | Benicia Tan / Bloomberg: |
PitchBook: Australian startups raised $3.4B in 2024, down from 2021's $6.5B peak; 39% of early-stage capital in Australia came from overseas vs. 21% in the US — Australian startups lag far behind the US and China in funding raised despite the country's historical effectiveness at creating unicorns.
LinkedIn: Mick Liubinskas
| Peter Whoriskey / Washington Post: |
Jim Chanos, who famously shorted Enron, calls Michael Saylor's bitcoin strategy “financial gibberish”, as Saylor inspires several copycats like Trump Media — Michael Saylor earned billions selling company stock to buy bitcoin. Jim Chanos, who famously shorted Enron, is suspicious.| Kevin Williams / CNBC: |
Baidu open source its Ernie 4.5 LLM models; some say this could cement China's AI leadership, while others doubt it will be a “DeepSeek moment” — On Monday, Chinese technology giant Baidu plans to make its Ernie generative AI large language model open source … Sponsor Posts
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