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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 …
More: MacRumors, Gizmodo, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, AppleInsider, The Next Web, iClarified, and AppleInsider
X: @markgurman and @markgurman
Forums: r/apple and MacRumors Forums
| 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
More: Engadget, TechCrunch, RuntimeWire, Blockchain.News, and The Verge
X: @neilmhta, @eclaireoh, @kevintdugan, @joonlee, @madhavchanchani, @dan_bernstein_, and @bobpickard
LinkedIn: Alex Igelman and Caitlin Ostroff
| 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
More: Gizmodo, Implicator.ai, Blockonomi, Fortune, and Telegraph
X: @deanwball, @afinetheorem, @dioscuri, @dadajudith, @leemakiyama, @skibidiblazor, @newlefteviews, @kashprime, @vincesitzmann, @mtslive, @julianstoeckle, @dadajudith, @dadajudith, @robertwiblin, @tomekkorbak, and @s_oheigeartaigh. LinkedIn: Aisha Kehoe Down
Forums: r/NBIS_Stock and r/technology
| 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.
More: TheGamer, TechCrunch, New York Times, Tom's Hardware, Video Games Chronicle, Daily Sabah, Kotaku, Türkiye Today, Associated Press, SFist, San Francisco Chronicle, The Wrap, TMZ.com, The Next Web, The Sun, IGN, Business Insider, PC Gamer, Suggest, Forbes, Dexerto, Polygon.com, ScreenRant, Deadline, Gamereactor UK, Mirror, Fox Business, DayOne, and Insider Gaming
Forums: Hacker News, r/business, r/pcmasterrace, and r/Splintercell
| Mariana Catacci / CNN: |
Brazil takes its National Civil Defense warning platform offline after suspected hackers send an unauthorized alert to mobile phones in several states — An unauthorized alert bearing a mysterious message that was sent to cell phones in several states across Brazil on Saturday morning … | 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 … | Gregory Zuckerman / Wall Street Journal: |
A look at Jane Street's push to supercharge trading with AI and become a major AI investor; it invested $1B in CoreWeave in April and has a stake in Anthropic — The firm has surged from a handful of staffers to 3,500 with plans to recruit more than 500 employees this year.| 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 … | 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| Marilen Martin / Bloomberg: |
As Europe falls behind the US and China in consumer AI, its engineering companies and AI startups are turning to industrial AI applications to boost efficiency — Pressure to become more efficient has Europe racing to bring artificial intelligence to the shop floor.
More: Tech in Asia and Taipei Times
| Mishal Husain / Bloomberg: |
Q&A with Signal's Meredith Whittaker on why online child safety efforts risk mass surveillance, leaving the markets that demand weakening of encryption, more — Meredith Whittaker has spent years arguing that privacy is a prerequisite for a free society.
More: The Next Web, TechCrunch, and Bloomberg Podcasts on YouTube
Bluesky: @hypervisible.blacksky.app and @heatherburnstech
Forums: r/technology and r/Futurology
| Bloomberg: |
SoftBank says it is struggling to find startups in Latin America ready for major investments and has completed only two new deals over the past two years — SoftBank Group Corp. is struggling to find startups in Latin America ready for major investments, underscoring how sharply the tech boom …
X: @business
| Ella Creamer / The Guardian: |
Granta says it will stop publishing short story contest winners or join publishing partnerships it doesn't control after AI use allegations against a winner — Literary magazine will no longer engage in ‘external publishing partnerships’ after Commonwealth prize furore
More: The Bookseller. X: @penprince_, @brecht_dp, and @mirandahqv. Mastodon: @patrickhadfield@mastodon.scot
| Dana Goldstein / New York Times: |
A look at “humanizer” and “autotyper” apps that help students evade AI-detection software by slowly auto-typing essays and making AI text sound less robotic — Big tech companies and small start-ups are using social media to hype new tools that allow students to trick teachers and A.I. detectors.
More: Joanne Jacobs, Futurism, Cult of Mac, The Next Web, and Digital Trends
Forums: r/artificial and r/ArtificialInteligence
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