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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: John Ternus gets ready to put his firm imprint on Apple's industrial design team, which has lost a true seat at Apple's exec table over the past decade  —  Also: The 2027 iPhone and AirPods plans.  —  The No. 1 priority for new Apple CEO John Ternus should be revamping …
Wall Street Journal:
Investigation: Polymarket is paying creators to make deceptive videos about winning bets, targeting users in the US, where its primary crypto platform is banned  —  The prediction market has flooded social media with deceptive videos by paid creators, according to a Wall Street Journal investigation
Aisha Down / The Guardian:
A speculative scenario titled “Europe 2031” projects economic and political instability in the EU if it fails to keep pace with the US and China in the AI race  —  A speculative thought-experiment warns the continent could pay a heavy price for lagging behind the US
Sophie Shulman / CTech:
Sources: Anduril has begun exploring the possibility of establishing operations in Israel and is in talks to recruit a local manager  —  Palmer Luckey's $61 billion startup considers local operations, partnerships, and investments in Israeli startups.  —  Anduril, the world's largest …
Caroline Petrow-Cohen / Los Angeles Times:
SF-based Humble Robotics, which is developing an electric, self-driving cabless freight truck with 200 miles range and 55 mph max speed, raised $24M  —  - 7 min Click here to listen to this article  — San Francisco startup Humble Robotics has raised $24 million to build an electric …
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Angela Cullen / Bloomberg:
Claude Guillemot, co-founder of Ubisoft and chairman of gaming hardware company Guillemot Corporation, died at 69 after a plane crash in France  —  Claude Guillemot, who co-founded French video-game publisher Ubisoft Entertainment SA with his brothers in 1986, has died, according to the company.
Nikkei Asia:
Japan's top five chip equipment makers posted their first-ever fall in combined China sales, down 10% in the year ended March 31, as China boosts local players  —  TOKYO — Japan's top five manufacturers of chipmaking equipment posted a 10% decline in combined sales to China for the year ended March 31 …
Kieran Smith / Financial Times:
Sources: Virgin Media O2 and VodafoneThree have deployed tech to disable phones stolen from their stores, after phone makers resisted broader antitheft measures  —  Virgin Media O2 and VodafoneThree's move comes after Apple and Samsung resisted calls to adopt broader measures

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Borys Kit / The Hollywood Reporter:
Netflix wins rights to the Sesame Street movie; Rideback, the production company behind live-action Lilo & Stitch and Aladdin movies, will produce the feature

New York Times:
People Inc., a major food content creator, is ramping up social media video production that emphasizes human-made recipes and testing to stand out from AI slop

Andy Baio / Waxy.org:
A case of brazen copyright infringement of John Koenig's The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, part of a trend where people use AI to repackage and replace sources

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Ella Creamer / The Guardian:
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Mishal Husain / Bloomberg:
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