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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Tim Cook's increased mentions of Visual Intelligence hint it will be a major part of Apple's new wearables; sources: Apple considers a deep red iPhone 18 Pro — Apple CEO Tim Cook is signaling that Visual Intelligence will be the defining feature of the company's push into wearable AI devices.
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| Bijin Jose / The Indian Express: |
Sam Altman says currently “the idea of putting data centers in space is ridiculous” and that it is “not something that's going to matter at scale this decade” — Once allies at OpenAI, Sam Altman and Elon Musk are now sharply divided over the future of AI infrastructure.| AJ Dellinger / Gizmodo: |
Sam Altman says there is some “AI washing”, where companies blame AI for layoffs that they would otherwise do, alongside “real displacement by AI” of some jobs — Hold up, let him cook. — Sam Altman is starting to get the sneaking suspicion that companies might …
More: Implicator.ai, San Francisco Chronicle, NextBigWhat, and Fast Company
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| Garry Tan / Garry's List: |
Anthropic's data shows software engineering accounts for ~50% of its AI agent tool calls; the remaining verticals are greenfields most founders are overlooking — Anthropic's new data shows software engineering dominates agentic AI. For founders, that's not a warning. It's a treasure map.
More: Anthropic, TechRadar, and The Decoder
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| Sam Kim / Bloomberg: |
Trump calls on Netflix to fire board member Susan Rice or face “consequences,” after she said corporations that “take a knee” to Trump would be held accountable — Donald Trump called on Netflix to fire board member Susan Rice or “pay the consequences,” …
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| Molly White / Citation Needed: |
Analysis: the crypto industry has spent $288M+ on the 2026 US midterms so far, over double the 2024 cycle; crypto PAC Fairshake is the US' fifth most-funded PAC — With Trump faltering and their policy agenda incomplete, the crypto industry has moved at least $288 million toward the midterms …
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| Russell Brandom / TechCrunch: |
Open source projects like VLC and Blender are seeing a decline in the average quality of contributions, likely as AI coding tools lower barriers to entry — A world that runs on increasingly powerful AI coding tools is one where software creation is cheap — or so the thinking goes …
Bluesky: @johnspurlock.com
| Stephen Foley / Financial Times: |
Source Global: the US consulting market is set to grow 7% in 2026, the fastest pace in the post-COVID era, as companies seek advice on profiting from AI — Companies are seeking advice on how to provide energy to data centres and profit from artificial intelligence| Krishn Kaushik / Financial Times: |
India's AI Summit highlighted the limits of the country's AI ambitions, as the US and its tech companies largely dismissed India's push for global AI governance — The world's most populous country continues to struggle to find its place in an industry dominated by the US and China
More: The Morning Context and The Business Times
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| David Nield / Wired: |
Google is ending Gmailify and POP access in Gmail; new users will lose access in Q1 2026, and existing users will keep both features until later in 2026 — If you have multiple email accounts, your Gmail setup may soon need some reorganizing. — Google giveth, and Google taketh away.
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| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
English-language Wikipedia bans Archive.today after editors discover it was used to direct a DDoS attack and tampered with snapshots; 695K+ links to be removed — The English-language edition of Wikipedia is blacklisting Archive.today after the controversial archive site was used to direct …
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| Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
Amazon details how a Russian-speaking hacker used generative AI as part of a campaign that breached 600+ FortiGate firewalls across 55 countries in five weeks — Amazon is warning that a Russian-speaking hacker used multiple generative AI services as part of a campaign that breached … | FinSMEs: |
Salt Lake City-based Jump, a provider of AI tools for financial advisors to automate meeting prep and more, raised an $80M Series B led by Insight Partners — Jump, a Salt Lake City, UT-based provider of artificial intelligence (AI) solutions for financial advisors and other financial services providers …
More: Pulse 2.0, Jump, Business Wire, Ventureburn, VC News Daily, FinTech Global, Tech in Asia, and Axios
| Sam Kriss / Harper's: |
Interviews with Cluely's Roy Lee, Donald Boat, and other highly “agentic” young men, as agency becomes more valuable than technical skills in Silicon Valley — Tech's new generation and the end of thinking … Cluely and its co-founder Chungin “Roy” Lee were intensely, and intentionally, controversial.
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