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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple is already taping out M7 with major NPU upgrades, and plans M7 Ultra with 1.5TB RAM, and M8, for 2028; new Pencils are coming with a new iPad Pro — Also: New Apple Pencils are coming. — Apple's new Mac chip road map represents the company's latest move to rebuild …
More: 9to5Mac, The Verge, 9to5Mac, Appleosophy, Cult of Mac, Digit, AppleInsider, Digital Trends, MacRumors, iClarified, Wccftech, iPhone in Canada, Gizmodo, iThinkDifferent, and The Mac Observer
X: @markgurman, @markgurman, @markgurman, @markgurman, @markgurman, @mweinbach, @firstadopter, @markgurman, and @markgurman
Forums: r/apple, r/ipad, and MacRumors Forums
| The Economic Times: |
Anthropic says it is extending Claude Fable 5 access on all paid plans, as well as keeping Claude Code's weekly rate limits 50% higher, through July 19 — In a post on X, the company said, “We're extending Claude Fable 5 access on all paid plans, as well as keeping Claude Code's weekly rate limits 50% higher, through July 19.”| Bloomberg: |
OpenAI, Meta, and SpaceXAI may be able to put pressure on Anthropic by emphasizing cost efficiency, as business customers increasingly scrutinize AI spending — Three prominent artificial intelligence developers released new models over the past week. They all promise to be more advanced …
More: Implicator.ai
| Benedict Evans: |
More: Howie Town. LinkedIn: Shivakumar Krishnamurthy and Benedict Evans
Bluesky: @akhilrao, @davidcrespo, and @claeshs
| Nathan Lambert / Interconnects AI: |
Open weight AI models are facing an existential policy test in the US, with Anthropic leading a campaign against Chinese models over distillation concerns — Staring down the barrel of policy action that could make open models a permanent second class citizen. — ∙ Paid
X: @sorukumar, @pattoniumbot, @yashetal, @josephjacks_, @aijoey, @shareastronomy, and @bahradx
| Bloomberg: |
Memo: Tang Jie, founder of Z.ai, the Chinese lab behind the GLM models, argues frontier AI capabilities should stay “as open and widely accessible as possible” — The founder of Chinese AI lab Zhipu argued that frontier artificial intelligence should remain broadly accessible rather …
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| Sam Learner / Financial Times: |
Users of AI coding tools are flooding open-source projects with low-quality contributions, overwhelming maintainers and potentially eroding community engagement — Our obsession with AI code-writing tools is overwhelming the web's unsung human caretakers. If you are reading the digital version …
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Apple's OpenAI lawsuit follows months of simmering tensions and highlights OpenAI's hardware chief Tang Tan's strained relationship with former boss John Ternus — When iPhone engineer Chang Liu quit for a job at OpenAI's nascent hardware division, Apple Inc. says he left with more than just years of experience.
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| M.G. Siegler / Spyglass: |
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X: @exoticspice101, @givnerariel, and @mgsiegler
| Financial Times: |
A profile of Asha Sharma, an outsider elevated by Satya Nadella to lead Xbox, where she made sweeping job cuts and shed game studios within her first few months — Elevated to fix Microsoft's struggling gaming division, she is making tough decisions about its future
More: Bloomberg, GamingBolt, The American Bazaar, and Breitbart
| Zusha Elinson / Wall Street Journal: |
A look at the growing anti-AI movement in the Bay Area, as the disappearance of Sam Kirchner, co-founder of a hard-line activist group, has the movement on edge — The resistance to artificial intelligence is growing over fears about human extinction—but one activist's disappearance has the movement on edge| Wen-Yee Lee / Reuters: |
A Taiwanese minister says TSMC plans two more advanced chip packaging plants in Chiayi Science Park, with all four expected to generate $9.35B+ in annual output — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC) (2330.TW) will add two advanced chip packaging plants in the Chiayi Science Park …
More: Taipei Times, Focus Taiwan, and Tech Times
| Wall Street Journal: |
A look at ADI Predictstreet's troubled launch, marked by tiny trading volumes, withdrawal bugs, and other issues, as it tried to challenge Kalshi and Polymarket — ADI Predictstreet bungled a World Cup ticket giveaway, users say — Vukašin Petrović was elated … | Grace Kay / The Information: |
Sources: Cursor is building a general-purpose AI agent codenamed Sand, aimed at non-developers, that handles emails, texts, and documents to rival Claude Cowork — Cursor is developing a general-purpose AI agent meant to compete with popular tools like Anthropic's Claude Cowork … | Bloomberg: |
Phia, a shopping app co-founded by Phoebe Gates that has raised $43.5M, appears to be using fake clicks or “cookie stuffing” to claim affiliate commissions — Phia, an advertising startup co-founded by Phoebe Gates, daughter of billionaire Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates …
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| Naomi Rea / Financial Times: |
How museums are using AI chatbots to reach new audiences, as some museum staff worry AI-generated inaccuracies and bias could undermine them as trusted sources — Touted as a way to engage visitors and boost funding, new tools are triggering concerns around trust and ethics
X: @bradsmi and @museumoffreedom
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