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| Rolfe Winkler / Wall Street Journal: |
In an interview, Tim Cook says Apple price hikes are “unavoidable” to offset surging memory and storage chip costs, and “the situation has become unsustainable” — The CEO tells the Journal in an exclusive interview that soaring costs make price increases ‘unavoidable’
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| The Information: |
Noam Shazeer leaves Google to join OpenAI as lead for architecture research; he rejoined Google as a Gemini co-lead in 2024 during the $2.7B Character.AI deal — Noam Shazeer, the Google DeepMind researcher whose work underpinned the generative AI boom, is joining OpenAI, the AI firm told staff on Wednesday.| Hugo Lowell / Wired: |
Trump administration officials say Anthropic must ensure Fable 5's guardrails can't be circumvented before rerelease; experts say that may not be possible — Trump administration officials tell WIRED that if Anthropic wants to rerelease Fable 5, it will need to ensure the model's guardrails can't be circumvented.
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| New York Times: |
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| Richard Lawler / The Verge: |
Midjourney unveils its first hardware product, the Midjourney Scanner, an ultrasound-based full-body scanner; it is unclear how AI fits into the medical effort — The AI image generator says this side project will be ‘in many ways superior to even MRI machines.’
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: Amodei, Altman, and Hassabis called for US-led collaboration on AI rules at the G7 summit; Macron and Modi raised concerns over the US' block of Mythos — Dario Amodei is supported by rival Sam Altman in call for international co-operation — Anthropic chief executive Dario …
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| Kai Nicol-Schwarz / CNBC: |
Intel stock jumps around 9% in premarket trading, after Trump said “Apple has agreed to work with Intel to design and build its Chips in America” — Intel's stock rose 9% in premarket trading on Thursday, after President Donald Trump said the semiconductor company had agreed …
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| Michael J. de la Merced / New York Times: |
Businesses have started using Kalshi to hedge business risks; Kalshi says institutional trading volume on its platform has grown 800% since November 2025 — Platforms like Kalshi let millions wager on sports and pop culture. They're now hoping institutions will use them for big-ticket trading like hedging.
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| Jeremy Hsu / Ars Technica: |
Nvidia researchers unveil ENPIRE, an agent harness framework that develops robotic self-improvement strategies for physical tasks with minimal human supervision — What happens when you give AI coding agents a lab full of robotic arms, some compute resources, and a “generous token budget” for teaching the robots various tasks?
More: NVIDIA, Tech Times, Decrypt, The Decoder, and Tom's Hardware
| Andy Robinson / Video Games Chronicle: |
Epic says Unreal Engine 6, planned for early access in late 2027, will unify UE5 and Unreal Editor for Fortnite, add Claude and Gemini integrations, and more — Epic has detailed Unreal Engine 6, which it says will prominently integrate generative AI models to allow developers to …
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| New York Times: |
SpaceX's all-stock Cursor deal illustrates the power of public markets, which could help SpaceX narrow the gap with Anthropic and OpenAI through acquisitions — Shares in Elon Musk's SpaceX have been on a tear, giving the rockets and artificial intelligence company financial resources to box out competitors.
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple is testing a second-generation iPhone Air, planned for spring 2027, with a second rear camera for ultrawide-angle photos and better battery life — Apple Inc. is preparing a second-generation iPhone Air for spring 2027, aiming to boost the appeal of the slimmed-down device … | Saritha Rai / Bloomberg: |
A PwC study suggests that AI is rewarding companies that use it to enhance human skills, while leaving further behind those that use it merely to cut costs — Artificial intelligence is pulling the global labor market in two opposite directions, rewarding companies that use AI to enhance human skills … | Robert McMillan / Wall Street Journal: |
Nation-state hackers are increasingly using preinstalled software on low-cost home devices to create residential proxy networks and mask cyberattack traffic — Nation-state cyberattackers are increasingly using residential proxy networks to mask their traffic, turning everyday electronics into a massive global threat
More: Tech Times
| Pew Research Center: |
A survey of US adults: 49% reported using chatbots in 2026, up from 33% in 2024, 24% said that they use chatbots on a daily basis, and 44% said they use ChatGPT — More Americans are using chatbots, and some are adopting AI summaries and smart speakers. But views about AI … | New York Times: |
Guardrails Alliance, a super PAC that raised $5M, launches to advocate for AI safety legislation and counter pro-industry lobbying, running ads for Alex Bores — The Guardrails Alliance, which has raised $5 million, is positioning itself as a populist effort that will take on the pro …
X: @mikeisaac and @mikeisaac
| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
AWS Summit: Amazon unveiled AWS Continuum, which uses AI to find and fix code vulnerabilities, AWS Context, which organizes company data for AI agents, and more — Amazon Web Services is announcing a new set of AI agents for businesses, developers, and individual users … | Summer Maxwell / Bloomberg: |
Verse Enterprises, which wants to provide energy-management software for 100 data centers by 2027, raised a $54M Series B from Nvidia and others — Verse Enterprises Inc. is betting batteries and solar can help data centers skip the line. — Long queues to get connected to the strained energy grid …
More: Yahoo Finance
| Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
A newly discovered data leak has exposed what appears to be a collection of Fortinet and FortiGate VPN credentials for 73,932 firewall URLs across 194 countries — A newly discovered data leak dubbed “FortiBleed” has exposed what appears to be a collection of Fortinet and FortiGate VPN credentials …
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Mastodon: @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social, @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social, and @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social. Forums: r/cybersecurity
| Angel Au-Yeung / Wall Street Journal: |
AI inference startup Baseten is raising $1.5B in a dual-tiered deal, with some investors putting in money at an $11B valuation and others at a $13B valuation — Baseten, part of a growing Silicon Valley ecosystem offering services to enable low-cost AI models, is raising $1.5 billion in a new round| Financial Times: |
Sources: JPMorgan Chase has stopped its staff in Hong Kong from accessing Anthropic's AI models, following a similar move by rival Goldman Sachs — Bank follows Goldman Sachs in preventing use of Claude in Asian financial hub — JPMorgan Chase has stopped its staff in Hong Kong …
More: The Next Web and Reuters
| CNBC: |
Report: DeepSeek's first external funding round has a non-negotiable term that investors should not poach its staff or encourage them to start own companies — China's DeepSeek has a precondition for its $7.4 billion maiden fundraise: no poaching the AI lab's talents.| Financial Times: |
A Blackstone-led consortium agrees to take control of software company Medallia from Thoma Bravo, which will lose the entire $5B it invested in Medallia — Blackstone-led consortium to take over software company and inject $150mn to help cut its debt load — A Blackstone-led consortium …
More: Bloomberg
| Axios: |
Trump, who entered office opposing AI regulation, is shaping the industry through case-by-case interventions without clear rules, creating major uncertainty — The Trump administration entered office promising to get government out of the AI industry's way. It hasn't worked out that way.| Chris Martin / Tech Advisor: |
Google confirms it has ended production of the Nest Mini and Nest Audio, but they “will continue to be fully supported” with updates, patches, and customer care — But it's not all bad news — We had a feeling it was coming, but we now have confirmation from Google …
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| Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge: |
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X: @googlehome, @stufflistings, @rosterloh, @newsfromgoogle, @anishkattukaran, and @google. Forums: r/GooglePixel
| Margi Murphy / Bloomberg: |
A look at 764, an online group the FBI declared domestic terrorists due to members manipulating teen girls into sharing sexual pictures and cutting themselves — 764 is a global group of online sadists pushing kids to harm themselves, their pets and their families. The FBI calls it a new wave of terrorism.
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| Heesu Lee / Bloomberg: |
The Bank of Korea warns rising bonuses at some South Korean chipmakers could fuel broader wage growth and consumer spending, complicating the inflation outlook — South Korea's artificial intelligence-driven semiconductor boom may wind up complicating the inflation outlook …
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