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Lora Kelley / New York Times: 2 hours ago

In recent months, several companies like Airtable, Handshake, and Opendoor have announced that they are “refounding”, as they scramble to add new AI features

Monique Mulima / Bloomberg: 4½ hours ago

Digital asset treasuries, one of the hottest trends in public markets in H1 2025, saw a dramatic reversal in H2; SharpLink stock has fallen 86% from its peak

John Pavlus / Fast Company: 7 hours ago

A profile of Byron Cook, a VP at Amazon who is leading the company's effort to reduce AI hallucinations with a feature called Automated Reasoning Checks

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:

Sources: Apple's chip chief Johny Srouji told Tim Cook that he is seriously considering leaving soon; some execs floated elevating him to the CTO role

Matthias Bastian / The Decoder:

ChatGPT head says screenshots of ChatGPT ads are “either not real or not ads”; OpenAI's research chief says “anything that feels like an ad” is now turned off

SemiAnalysis:

A technical deep dive into Amazon's Trainium3 accelerator, including its server SKUs' specifications, silicon design, power budget, and bill of materials

John Pavlus / Fast Company:

A profile of Byron Cook, a VP at Amazon who is leading the company's effort to reduce AI hallucinations with a feature called Automated Reasoning Checks

Monique Mulima / Bloomberg:

Digital asset treasuries, one of the hottest trends in public markets in H1 2025, saw a dramatic reversal in H2; SharpLink stock has fallen 86% from its peak

Kat Tenbarge / Wired:

Some Reddit moderators say a surge of AI slop on the site is eroding its authenticity and could lead to a feedback loop of AI models training on AI content

Lora Kelley / New York Times:

In recent months, several companies like Airtable, Handshake, and Opendoor have announced that they are “refounding”, as they scramble to add new AI features

Sam Kriss / New York Times:

A look at various quirks in AI-generated prose, mainly influenced by “overfitting” in AI models, as humans increasingly mimic AI language in writing and speech

Tyler Kingkade / NBC News:

Parents are pressuring LA Unified, the second-largest US school district, to reduce mandatory student screen time on school-issued iPads and Chromebooks

Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:

Netflix agrees to acquire WBD's studios and streaming business in an $82.7B cash-and-stock deal, including debt, to close after WBD splits in two in Q3 2026

Andy Greenberg / Wired:

A look at Phreeli, a privacy-focused phone carrier that lets users sign up with only a ZIP code and uses an encryption system based on “zero-knowledge proofs”

OpenRouter:

An analysis of 100T+ tokens from the past year shows reasoning models now represent over half of all usage, open-weight model use has grown steadily, and more

Bloomberg:

A US judge rules Google must renegotiate annually any contract that makes its search engine or AI app the default on smartphones and other devices

Jyoti Mann / Business Insider:

Leaked memos: Meta is delaying the release of its MR glasses codenamed “Phoenix” from H2 2026 to H1 2027 for “more breathing room to get the details right”

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