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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: The Verge, 9to5Mac, 9to5Mac, The Hans India, Gizchina, Digital Trends, Appleosophy, iClarified, Cult of Mac, Phandroid, Digit, Wccftech, iPhone in Canada, Gizmodo, iThinkDifferent, The Mac Observer, MacRumors, AppleInsider, and AppleInsider
X: @markgurman, @markgurman, @markgurman, @markgurman, @markgurman, @mweinbach, @firstadopter, @markgurman, and @markgurman
Forums: r/ipad, r/apple, 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 …
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| 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
| Mark Bergen / Bloomberg: |
Munich-based defense tech startup Helsing raised a $1.8B Series E from Dragoneer, Iconiq, and others at an $18B valuation; Germany made a €270M order this year — Helsing has raised a financing round at a valuation of $18 billion from investors including the growth equity arm …
More: CNBC, Reuters, Resilience Media, and Helsing
| Sam Learner / Financial Times: |
AI coding tool users 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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Bluesky: @stephenkb, @davidcrespo, @tobyn, @frankpasquale, @rich-harris.dev, @olihawkins.com, @samlearner, and @samlearner. Mastodon: @bagder@mastodon.social
| 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| 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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| 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
| 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| Aarian Marshall / Wired: |
Docs: Uber lobbied for a “phased transition” to AVs, giving it an edge over self-driving developers; Uber says AV industry proposals overlook drivers' rights — In at least two places, Uber has pushed a policy that could give it an advantage over developers of self-driving cars.
More: Motley Fool. X: @tszzl, @ethanmckanna, @ethanmckanna, and @signulll. Bluesky: @aarianmarshall. Forums: r/technology
| Wen-Yee Lee / Reuters: |
A Taiwanese minister says TSMC plans two more advanced chip packaging plants in the Chiayi Science Park, with all four set 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: CNBC, Dow Jones Newswires, The Asia Business Daily, Taipei Times, Focus Taiwan, and Tech Times
| Nathaniel Rich / New York Times: |
A look back at the 2007 heist of a Verizon data center in London, highlighting the role of physical data security as cyber defenses grow more sophisticated — Terry Ellis's fixer wore an overcoat, a multicolored ascot, a Rolex. He had a husky voice and a good suntan.
More: Pixel Envy
| Julie Jargon / Wall Street Journal: |
Eating disorder therapists say patients are increasingly using AI chatbots for advice, while AI also appears to be directing more patients to helplines — Even a chatbot trained on nutrition and fitness research that dispenses reasonable-sounding guidance can become a deadly influence| 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 …
X: @aosipovich
| 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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Bluesky: @joyoftech and @carlquintanilla
Forums: r/apple, r/siliconvalley, r/law, r/ArtificialInteligence, r/artificial, r/tech_x, and Slashdot
| M.G. Siegler / Spyglass: |
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X: @exoticspice101, @givnerariel, and @mgsiegler
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