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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple is working on a major Health app revamp and an AI doctor service, planned for H1 2026, and M5 updates for the iPad Pro and MacBook Pro this year — Apple is preparing its biggest health care push to date with a revamped app and AI doctor service.
More: Benzinga, AppleInsider, PCMag, Digital Trends, Engadget, The Information, PhoneArena, iDownloadBlog.com, Forbes, MacRumors, Moneycontrol, Apple Must, Neowin, Laptop Mag, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, Patently Apple, iClarified, iPhone in Canada Blog, Cult of Mac, and The Mac Observer
Bluesky: @joshuafoust.com, @amyhoy, @aaronblackshear, @fasterandworse.com, and @hypervisible. Mastodon: @mergesort@macaw.social. Threads: @carnage4life
X: @tylerbishop, @flyosity, @markgurman, @markgurman, @vnchocotaco, and @markgurman
Forums: r/Biohackers, r/StockMarket, r/technology, r/technews, r/apple, and MacRumors Forums
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google announces it is rolling out Gemini 2.5 Pro Experimental to all Gemini users, after initially launching it for Gemini Advanced subscribers on March 25 — In a rather unexpected move, Google announced Saturday that it is rolling out the latest 2.5 Pro (experimental) model to all (free) Gemini app users.
More: Engadget, Tom's Guide, Android Police, Digital Trends, Gizchina.com, and Neowin
Bluesky: @viticci.macstories.net. X: @geminiapp, @adonis_singh, @mikesharkai, @qiaochuyuan, @omarsar0, @dylan522p, @geminiapp, @mckaywrigley, @ai_for_success, @geminiapp, @silasalberti, @matthewberman, @kimmonismus, @shakeelhashim, @officiallogank, @geminiapp, @officiallogank, @joecarlsonshow, and @officiallogank
Forums: r/GoogleGeminiAI and r/singularity
| Bloomberg: |
A look at inZOI, a new life simulation game by South Korean studio Krafton that aims to appeal to players in Asia, where The Sims never gained popularity — inZOI, a new life-simulation video game, gets more realistic and more multicultural — Most people have fantasized about inhabiting someone else's life.
More: PC Gamer, IGN, PCGamesN, Inverse, Game Rant, Game Rant, Beebom, DSOGaming, Game Rant, Game Rant, Destructoid, Dexerto, Digital Trends, Game Rant, TechPowerUp, KRAFTON, Game Rant, VideoGamer, Digital Trends, Screen Rant, IGN, Tech Xplore, and 80 Level
X: @jackofallgames7, @playinzoi, @thesims, @inversedotcom, @cecianasta, @cecianasta, @playinzoi, @pcgamesn, and @playinzoi. LinkedIn: Cecilia D'Anastasio
| Bloomberg: |
Ethereum is struggling to keep the interest of investors and developers, having fallen out of step in an industry transformed by the embrace of Donald Trump — Vitalik Buterin was long viewed as the wunderkind of the cryptocurrency world. — The gawky, playful founder of Ethereum …
More: Cryptopolitan, Bitcoin Insider, crypto.news, CoinGape, The Coin Republic, and Coinpedia Fintech News
X: @007ofwallst and @crypto
| Financial Times: |
Marketing executives say big brands are allocating small amounts of their ad budget to X, seeking to avoid being perceived as boycotting Elon Musk's platform — Marketers want to avoid being seen as boycotting billionaire's social media platform — Big brands are allocating small amounts …
More: Benzinga and Howie Town
Bluesky: @eicathomefinn, @robertscotthorton, @emilprotalinski, and @librariancapital
| Manish Singh / India Dispatch: |
Bernstein: AI could erode India's $350B services export sector as AI replaces entry-level engineers at “higher precision and speed” at a fraction of the cost — AI subscriptions replace Indian engineers at “higher precision and speed” — For decades, India's economic promise …
| Bloomberg: |
How Klarna's Walmart deal ahead of its IPO put long-simmering tensions between Klarna CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski and Affirm CEO Max Levchin on public display — Even by Sebastian Siemiatkowski's standards, it's been a wild month. — The chief executive officer of buy now …
More: Affirm Holdings, Inc.
| Steven Sinofsky / Hardcore Software: |
A look at the new, open-source Model Context Protocol for connecting LLMs to data sources and why its success depends on overcoming middleware challenges — There's a long history of “middleware” in our industry. Everyone wants it. There's always a hot one, but it rarely makes to the finish line and often disappoints.
| New York Times: |
A look at the RainbowEx crypto Ponzi scheme, which ensnared 16,000 people in San Pedro, Argentina; different versions of the scam have emerged around the world — In San Pedro, Argentina, 16,000 people, a fifth of the population, signed up for a cryptocurrency exchange where everyone won.
Forums: r/Buttcoin
| Maya Dharampal-Hornby / Sifted: |
Cambridge, UK-based Camgraphic, which is developing graphene-based photonics chips for AI, HPC, autonomous cars, and other applications, raised a €25M Series A — The money will be used to develop the startup's R&D operations in Pisa and establish a pilot manufacturing line in Milan
More: FinSMEs and University of Cambridge
| Wency Chen / South China Morning Post: |
Chinese chip equipment manufacturer SiCarrier debuted ~30 “domestically controllable” products at the Semicon China show, as China pushes for chip self-reliance — The equipment start-up kept a low profile until this week, when it unveiled about 30 new products at the Semicon China show
More: Reuters, South China Morning Post, TechPowerUp, Tech Xplore, and Tom's Hardware. Bluesky: @kentindell
| Sharon Goldman / Fortune: |
Dyna Robotics, which is building AI-powered robots to help businesses automate repetitive tasks like chopping food, emerged from stealth with a $23.5M seed — When Instacart acquired Lindon Gao's self-checkout shopping startup, Caper AI, for $350 million in 2021, it marked a big win …
More: Dyna Robotics. X: @jasonma2020, @kristacanfield, and @sharongoldman
LinkedIn: Lindon Gao, Brian Zhan, and Bill Trenchard
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