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May 25, 2026, 1:25 AM

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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.
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.
@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.
Bloomberg:
DeepSeek says it will lower V4 Pro API prices by 75% to $0.435/1M input and $0.87/1M output tokens, making permanent the discount prices set to expire on May 31  —  DeepSeek said it will make permanent a steep discount on its flagship V4-Pro model, maintaining prices for developers at a quarter of their original level.
Financial Times:
How the AI boom is transforming global M&A, now dominated by the AI-driven race to control the world's energy, fiber networks, and computing capacity  —  Deals hit record highs, unloved companies turn sexy and PE finds a new gold mine.  Up until this week, NextEra Energy …
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
Nicole Nguyen / Wall Street Journal:
Hands-on with a pre-release build of Google Docs Live, an AI-powered voice tool for drafting documents, rolling out this summer to AI Pro and Ultra subscribers  —  An exclusive look at Docs Live, Google's new speech-powered AI project manager and writing partner  —  Microsoft Word brought word processing to the masses.
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 …
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