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| Apple: |
Apple refreshes the 14" and 16" MacBook Pro with M5 Pro and M5 Max: up to 4x faster LLM prompt processing, up to 2x faster SSD speeds, and 1TB of base storage — The world's best pro laptop raises the bar again with blazing-fast CPU and GPU performance, plus up to 2x faster SSD speeds and 1TB of starting storage
More: Daring Fireball, Apple on YouTube, MacRumors, MacStories, The Information, PYMNTS.com, Michael Tsai, Bloomberg, Ars Technica, ZDNET, Digital Trends, 9to5Mac, Android Headlines, iClarified, MacTech.com, CNBC, Neowin, Gizmodo, Mashable, The Mac Observer, TechEBlog, PCMag, VideoCardz.com, SlashGear, AppleInsider, Fortune India, 9to5Mac, Tom's Guide, TechCrunch, XDA Developers, CGMagazine, PhoneArena, Six Colors, Rolling Out, Moneycontrol, iPhone in Canada, Cult of Mac, and PetaPixel
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Forums: Hacker News, r/hardware, r/mac, r/apple, and r/macbookpro
| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
Apple unveils the M5 MacBook Air in 13" and 15" sizes, boosting its starting price by $100 to $1,099 and doubling base storage to 512GB, shipping from March 11 — Apple has officially announced the new M5 MacBook Air. While the starting price has increased by $100, it now comes with double …
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X: @mkbhd, @nathievr, @segalink, @mweinbach, @alz_zyd_, @joannastern, @raywongy, @leakerapple, and @adrianweckler. LinkedIn: Christy Jones
Forums: r/macgaming, r/macbook, r/apple, r/technology, and r/hardware
| Apple: |
Apple updates the $1,599+ Studio Display and unveils a $3,299+ 27" 5K Studio Display XDR, with a 120Hz refresh rate, a mini-LED backlight, and up to 2,000 nits — Studio Display XDR is the world's best pro display, featuring a 27-inch 5K Retina XDR display with a mini-LED backlight …
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LinkedIn: Antoine Rosset, Scott Joyce, and Lance Lin. Bluesky: @johnspurlock.com. Mastodon: @viticci@mastodon …
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| Apple: |
Apple unveils the M5 Pro and M5 Max, offering a new Apple-designed Fusion Architecture, a next-generation up-to-40-core GPU with Neural Accelerators, and more — Built using the new Apple-designed Fusion Architecture, M5 Pro and M5 Max feature an advanced CPU, a next-generation GPU with Neural Accelerators …
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| Engadget: |
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X: @markgurman and @markgurman
| George Hammond / Financial Times: |
Sam Altman says OpenAI amended its DOD contract to ensure “the AI system shall not be intentionally used for domestic surveillance of US persons and nationals” — Sam Altman says company is working with defence department on provisions covering mass surveillance
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| Dylan Butts / CNBC: |
Sam Altman says the DOD affirmed that OpenAI's tools wouldn't be used by agencies like the NSA, and services to them would need a further contract modification — OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said Monday that the company “shouldn't have rushed” its recent deal with the U.S. Department of Defense and outlined revisions to the agreement.
More: TechCrunch, Techdirt, Slate, Futurism, The Guardian, The Decoder, Observer, UPI, PCWorld, and MS NOW
Bluesky: @karlbode.com, @linh.social, @langdongrant, and @wittywebhandle
Forums: r/UnderReportedNews, r/politics, r/BetterOffline, r/news, and r/technology
| The Keyword: |
Google launches Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite, which it says delivers “enhanced performance” at a fraction of the cost of larger models and outperforms 2.5 Flash — Get best-in-class intelligence for your highest-volume workloads. … Today, we're introducing Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite …
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| OpenAI: |
OpenAI releases GPT-5.3 Instant, which it says delivers more accurate answers and better-contextualized results when searching the web, for all ChatGPT users — Today, we're releasing an update to ChatGPT's most-used model that makes everyday conversations more consistently helpful and fluid.
More: 9to5Google, PCMag, Decrypt, Thurrott, Neowin, and The Decoder
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Forums: Hacker News, r/therapyGPT, r/accelerate, and r/OpenAI
| Marcus Schuler / Implicator.ai: |
More: MacRumors, TechCrunch, The New Stack, Crypto Briefing, iClarified, Digit, 9to5Mac, and Sherwood News
Bluesky: @daniloc.xyz, @tcarmody, and @paularmstrongtbd
| Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Anthropic recently surpassed $19B in run-rate revenue, up from $9B at the end of 2025 and roughly $14B a few weeks ago — Anthropic PBC is on track to generate annual revenue of almost $20 billion, a projection based on current performance, more than doubling its run rate from late last year …
X: @benbajarin, @jasonlk, and @deredleritt3r
| Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: |
Google adds new Android features, including custom calling cards, real-time location sharing in Google Messages, and luggage tracking with partner airlines — Google will let users of its Android mobile operating system set up custom calling cards and share their live location in messages …
More: The Keyword, The Keyword, The Keyword, 9to5Google, Android Police, XDA Developers, How-To Geek, Thurrott, ZDNET, TechCrunch, The Verge, Android Authority, Skift, Droid Life, and Android Headlines
X: @natlungfy and @mishaalrahman
| Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: |
Junyang Lin, a tech lead on Alibaba's Qwen team, abruptly steps down; two other members of the Qwen team also leave — Alibaba's Qwen AI project has lost one of its most visible technical leaders just a day after the Chinese tech giant unveiled its new Qwen 3.5 open-weight small models.| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
AWS warns of “unpredictable” Middle East operations after drones “directly struck” two UAE facilities and a drone strike near one of its Bahrain facilities — Amazon Web Services said late Monday two of its data centers in the United Arab Emirates and a facility …
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Bluesky: @rodneyabrooks, @carlquintanilla, @durumcrustulum.com, and @vanvidum. Mastodon: @nullagent@partyon.xyz
Forums: Hacker News, Hacker News, r/news, r/aws, r/programming, r/aws, r/news, r/PrepperIntel, and r/datacenter
| Joseph Cox / 404 Media: |
An internal DHS document shows CBP used location data sourced from the online ad industry to track phone locations; ICE has bought access to similar tools — Customs and Border Protection (CBP) bought data from the online advertising ecosystem to track peoples' precise movements over time …
More: Wired, Gizmodo, and Electronic Frontier Foundation
X: @adamscochran, @leahlibresco, and @tysonbrody
Bluesky: @sesmith.lol, @josephcox, @tyleraking.com, @cdt.org, and @campuscodi.risky.biz
Forums: r/technology, r/politics, and r/TrueReddit
| The Information: |
Source: OpenAI is developing an alternative to GitHub; the project is nascent, and the decision came after OpenAI engineers experienced an increase in outages — OpenAI is developing an alternative to GitHub, Microsoft's popular code repository that lets software engineers store … | Andre Revilla / Engadget: |
X announces a policy change suspending users from Creator Revenue Sharing for 90 days if they post AI-generated videos of an armed conflict without disclosure — The new policy is the platform's first rule requiring any kind of AI content disclosure. — X will suspend creators …
More: 404 Media, Gizmodo, Fox Business, The Economic Times, and TechCrunch
| Ashley Carman / Bloomberg: |
Audible launches a cheaper, $8.99/month streaming tier in the US, vs. $14.95/month for its premium plan, to rival Spotify; the plan includes ad-free podcasts — - New plan costs $8.99 in US versus $14.95 for premium offering — Offering includes ad-free podcasts available on Wondery+ app| Meghan Bobrowsky / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Meta is creating a new applied AI engineering organization that will have an ultra-flat structure and help bolster Meta's superintelligence efforts — New teams will have ‘flat structure’ with up to 50:1 ratio of individual contributors to managers| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
President Trump says the GENIUS Act is being “threatened and undermined” by banks, following their opposition to stablecoin yield payouts — U.S. President Donald Trump said in a post on Truth Social that the banking industry is trying to undermine the stablecoin bill he signed into law last year.| SvD: |
Investigation: Sama data annotators in Nairobi say they view private videos from Ray-Ban Meta glasses, like bathroom visits; ex-Meta staff say faces are blurred — Bank details, sex and naked people who seem unaware they are being recorded. Behind Meta's new smart glasses lies a hidden workforce …
More: Engadget, AppleInsider, Straight Arrow News, nextpit, PhoneArena, Sandra Rose, Gizmodo, The Decoder, The Deep View, and Euractiv
Bluesky: @hypervisible.blacksky.app, @noaasm, @ronanprice, @savasavasava.myatproto.social, @hypervisible.blacksky.app, @draglikepull, @draglikepull, and @geomblog. Threads: @katienotopoulos. Mastodon: @krazykitty@mamot.fr
Forums: Hacker News, r/BlackboxAI_, r/cybersecurity, r/technology, and Slashdot
| Thomas Ricker / The Verge: |
Google plans to move Chrome to a two-week release cycle, instead of the current four, starting with the Chrome 153 stable release on September 8 — The browser is moving from a four-week release cycle to two in September. … Starting in September, Google is moving its Chrome browser …
More: Chrome for Developers, The New Stack, 9to5Google, How-To Geek, Neowin, Thurrott, and Chrome Unboxed. LinkedIn: Mike Torres
| Lawfare: |
US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's and Trump's actions against Anthropic have serious legal issues, and its designation exceeds what the statute authorizes — On Feb. 27, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth designated Anthropic—the maker of the AI model Claude—a supply chain risk to national security.| Stevie Bonifield / The Verge: |
TikTok USDS says users “may temporarily experience lags in posting content” due to an issue at Oracle's Ashburn data center, the second Oracle outage in a month — TikTok users in the US may experience lag while trying to post content until the outage is resolved.| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Google adds a feature to let users with a Pixel 8 and newer connect their device to an external monitor via USB-C for a “desktop-like multi-window experience” — The Pixel 8 and up will display a desktop-like experience when connected to an external monitor.
More: Phandroid, Android Authority, Digital Trends, and Android Developers Blog
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