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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
A deep dive into Apple Watch and Health efforts; sources: iOS 27 to get a revamped AirPods control panel and default support for AirPlay rivals like Google Cast — Also: iOS 27 AirPods, Genmoji and AirPlay details. — Now over a decade old, the Apple Watch is in need of a shake-up as the health and fitness wearables market pivots.
More: MacRumors, Android Authority, 9to5Mac, Memeburn, Livemint, PhoneArena, Gizmodo, The Verge, Cult of Mac, Digital Trends, AppleInsider, iClarified, and The Next Web
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Forums: r/airpods, r/AppleWatch, r/apple, and MacRumors Forums
| New York Times: |
How the Trump admin gutted the CFTC, ousting enforcers and appointing industry-friendly officials, as Trump family got into crypto and prediction markets — Last fall, a high-stakes struggle unfolded inside the red brick walls of an obscure federal agency.
More: Blockonomi, The Block, Raw Story, Truthout, The Existentialist Republic, Cointelegraph, and crypto.news
X: @wmiddelkoop, @daveweigel, @sbmccallister, @camrmackenzie, @rorytyer, @jason_kint, and @julie_bush
Bluesky: @beverlymann19, @robertscotthorton, @bradlander, @lavidagata, @annmlipton, and @socialmedialab.ca. Mastodon: @dangillmor@mastodon.social
Forums: r/anticapitalism, r/LegalNews, r/politics, and r/neoliberal
| New York Times: |
A look at the scourge of smartphone thefts in London, as victims describe receiving texts threatening them into unlinking Apple IDs from stolen iPhones — Tens of thousands of smartphones were reported stolen in the British capital in recent years. For some victims, losing their phone was only the beginning.
Bluesky: @harrymccracken.com
| @bookwormengr: |
A look at DeepSeek's model optimization to reduce HBM use, potentially enabling domestic memory, ASIC, and CPU makers to create a Chinese AI hardware ecosystem — Have you ever wondered, how DeepSeek may make money, and lot of it? They didn't come up with competitive coding plans like GLM, MoonShot and MiniMax.
More: Memeburn. X: @kyleichan, @jetpen, @rohanpaul_ai, @theopeningmove1, @teortaxestex, @xiz25, @datachaz, @rohanpaul_ai, @mark_k, @dan_jeffries1, @pstasiatech, @rohanpaul_ai, and @agraylin
| Bloomberg: |
More: DeepSeek, South China Morning Post, Implicator.ai, The Next Web, Engadget, Tech in Asia, Reuters, The Decoder, and The Tech Portal
X: @kimmonismus, @jukan05, @deepseek_ai, @yuchenj_uw, @goodalexander, @zerohedge, @healthranger, @vaibhavsisinty, @rish404, and @jahooma
Forums: Hacker News, Hacker News, r/hermesagent, r/DeepSeek, and r/singularity
| Kate Conger / New York Times: |
Demand for security engineers is surging, with job postings up 11% YoY in Q1, driven by threats from AI-generated code and models like Mythos and GPT-5.4-Cyber — Austin Cowan had expected a quiet year. — The headhunter, who helps Fortune 100 companies find and attract cybersecurity executives … | Nikkei Asia: |
At an IEEE conference, Huawei proposed a new chip scaling law and said it aims to design chips with transistor density equivalent to 1.4nm by 2031 — TAIPEI — Huawei Technologies on Monday said it has found a new way to design chips to bring its semiconductor capabilities close …
More: Bloomberg, Silicon Republic, Business Standard, The Information, Business Today, Wall Street Journal, Reuters, Huawei, South China Morning Post, Reuters, Blockonomi, The Next Web, DigiTimes, Türkiye Today, ANI News, Hürriyet Daily News, PhoneArena, The Register, CNBC, and TechNode
X: @sino_market, @alex_intel_, @jukan05, @anshelsag, @andrewcurran_, @anshelsag, @jeffreytowson, and @jukan05. Forums: r/hardware
| Martin Arnold / Financial Times: |
The ECB summons Eurozone banks to a meeting on Tuesday to discuss risks posed by the latest AI models and hopes US banks with Mythos access will share lessons — Supervisor to stress seriousness of risks to financial system at hastily arranged meeting — The European Central Bank …
More: Silicon Republic, The Register, The Next Web, Bloomberg, and Tech in Asia
| Océane Herrero / Politico: |
Sources: execs from Meta, Google, and Amazon met with Vatican officials in April, as part of a quiet lobbying push ahead of Pope Leo XIV's first AI encyclical — As Leo XIV prepares his first encyclical, technology firms and Western diplomats have worked to make their case inside the Vatican.| Joann S. Lublin / Wall Street Journal: |
A growing number of execs are creating AI digital twins to manage tasks; Reid Hoffman says “Reid AI” has delivered 75+ addresses and presentations since 2024 — In a glimpse into the future, a small number of executives have created AI replicas to take over some of their responsibilities
LinkedIn: Paul Jurcys, PhD and Judy Albers
| Meghan Bobrowsky / Wall Street Journal: |
A profile of Meta CTO Andrew “Boz” Bosworth, a top lieutenant of Mark Zuckerberg who is leading the gargantuan effort to transform Meta into an AI-first company — Andrew Bosworth, Meta's outspoken chief technology officer, has a new mission: transforming the company's workforce using AI
More: Business Today
| Charles Clover / Financial Times: |
The UK, outpaced by the US and China in AI, is turning to experimental technologies like neuromorphic computing in search of computing sovereignty — Military capability depends increasingly on data centres. Now governments outpaced in AI are looking to experimental technologies.| Sean O'Kane / TechCrunch: |
Quartermaster, which is building an analytics platform and a SmartMast, with sensors on a ship's mast to relay real-time maritime data, raised a $43M Series A — Oceans — to state the obvious — are big. That makes it hard for governments, shipping companies, and insurance providers … | Ben Jiang / South China Morning Post: |
A look at Xiaomi's AI push to future-proof its hardware and EV ecosystem, as it recently committed ~$8.8B in AI investments over the next three years — Xiaomi is betting on artificial intelligence to future-proof its sprawling hardware empire, pouring massive resources into open-source models … | Melissa Shin / Bloomberg: |
Plenary Americas LP, La Caisse's infrastructure arm, agrees to acquire and take private Canadian database company ISC for $872M, expected to close in Q3 — The infrastructure arm of Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec will take Canadian database company Information …
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