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John Ternus, senior VP of Hardware Engineering, will become Apple's next CEO on September 1; Tim Cook will become executive chairman of Apple's board — Apple said on Monday that John Ternus is succeeding Tim Cook as CEO, with Cook assuming the role of executive chairman on Sept. 1.
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| Apple: |
Apple says Johny Srouji, who most recently served as senior VP of Hardware Technologies, will assume an expanded role leading Hardware Engineering — Apple today announced that, effective immediately, Apple executive Johny Srouji will become chief hardware officer.
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| Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
Amazon agrees to invest up to $25B in Anthropic, on top of the $8B that it has already invested; Anthropic commits to spend $100B+ on AWS over the next 10 years — Amazon has agreed to invest up to $25 billion in Anthropic, on top of the $8 billion that it's poured into the artificial intelligence startup …
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| David McCabe / New York Times: |
Filing in California's antitrust lawsuit: CA accuses Amazon of price-fixing by pressuring brands to ask competing retailers to increase prices on some products — The state claimed the e-commerce giant pressured brands like Levi's and Hanes to ask competing retailers to raise prices on certain products.| Kimi AI: |
Moonshot introduces Kimi K2.6, an open-weight model that it says shows strong improvements in long-horizon coding tasks, available under a modified MIT License — We are open sourcing our latest model, Kimi K2.6, featuring state-of-the-art coding, long-horizon execution, and agent swarm capabilities.
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| Erin Woo / The Information: |
Sources say Google has created a strike team to improve its coding models; Sergey Brin told DeepMind staffers they must aggressively pivot to catch up on agents — Google has assembled a strike team of researchers and engineers to improve its AI coding models, according to three people …
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| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
OpenAI rolls out Chronicle, which builds memories from screen captures to make Codex more aware of context, as a research preview for Pro subscribers on macOS — Last week, OpenAI released an all-new version of Codex for Mac that includes the best example of AI-driven computer use yet.
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| Emily Steel / New York Times: |
A US jury finds Uber liable for a sexual assault by a driver in 2019, handing Uber a second consecutive defeat in its first trials of 3,000+ pending lawsuits — The ride-hailing giant has now lost the first two of more than 3,000 pending federal lawsuits. — A federal jury in North Carolina … | Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Q&A with Canva CEO Melanie Perkins on the company's growth in enterprise, competing with AI labs, token pricing, investing in its own models, and more — Today, I'm talking with Melanie Perkins, founder and CEO of Canva, a popular online design tool. — I always enjoy talking with Melanie.| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
WhatsApp says it is testing a new subscription called WhatsApp Plus, which includes features like expanded pinned chats, custom lists, and new chat themes — WhatsApp is testing a new subscription tier, similar to Instagram Plus and Snapchat+, that lets users pay for customized icons, themes, ringtones, and more.| André Beganski / Decrypt: |
RaveDAO's RAVE has lost $6.6B+ in market cap and its price has sunk ~98% since Saturday, after ZachXBT called on exchanges to probe if it was being manipulated — RaveDAO's token cratered this weekend after blockchain sleuth ZachXBT called on exchanges to investigate trading tied to its surging token.
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| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Deezer says AI-generated tracks now account for 44% of daily uploads, totaling ~75K tracks per day and 2M+ per month, but account for just 1-3% of consumption — Deezer announced on Monday that AI-generated tracks now represent 44% of all new music uploaded to its platform.| a16z: |
A new media company called MTS launches for “monitoring the situation” across tech, business, politics, and culture, with backing from a16z and others — Thrilled to announce our investment in a new media company called MTS (short for Monitoring the Situation).
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| Washington Post: |
A profile of far-right influencer Nick Fuentes, who has been kicked off most mainstream social media but made ~$900K from “fanatical” donors since early 2025 — Summary — Kristine Kasubienski's donation appeared on viewers' screens four hours into the live stream of Nick Fuentes … | Edward Zitron / Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At: |
Docs: Microsoft plans to eventually move GitHub Copilot from request- to token-based billing, as the week-over-week cost to run it has nearly doubled since Jan. — Executive Summary: — Internal documents reveal that Microsoft plans to temporarily suspend individual account signups … Sponsor Posts
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Copilot to autopilot: Why no single safeguard is enough — Microsoft designed a layered model that lets an AI agent resolve network incidents on its own within defined boundaries.
Copilot to autopilot: Why no single safeguard is enough — Microsoft designed a layered model that lets an AI agent resolve network incidents on its own within defined boundaries.
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