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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: Livemint, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, Memeburn, iClarified, PhoneArena, Gizmodo, Digital Trends, AppleInsider, The Verge, The Next Web, and Cult of Mac
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Forums: r/apple, r/AppleWatch, r/airpods, 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: The Block, Cointelegraph, crypto.news, The Existentialist Republic, Truthout, and Raw Story
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| @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.
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| 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.
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Forums: Hacker News, Hacker News, r/hermesagent, r/DeepSeek, and r/singularity
| 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
| 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 …
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| 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 … | 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.
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| 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.| 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 …
More: Plenary and Information Services …
| 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 …
More: TechCrunch
| David Oks: |
Rising DRAM prices are driving “forced premiumization” in the smartphone market in India and Africa, as consumers in the sub-$200 segment risk being priced out — The global memory crunch and the great repricing of consumer electronics — One of the most remarkable things …
More: The Next Web and Crypto Briefing
X: @sakurayukiai. LinkedIn: Will Webster. Bluesky: @vortexegg.com. Forums: Hacker News and r/hardware
| Financial Times: |
Sources: Uber weighs a higher bid after it approached a major Delivery Hero shareholder with a €38-per-share bid, valuing the group at €11.5B+, but was rebuffed — San Francisco based-group approached major shareholder in German food group — Uber's board met on Saturday … | 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: The Register, Reuters, Reuters, South China Morning Post, Huawei, and TechNode. Forums: r/hardware
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