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| Ming-Chi Kuo: |
Kuo: suppliers plan to ship less than 1M iPhone fold units in 3Q26, which may push the start of device pre-orders and sales to Q4, with weeks of delivery delays — My latest industry survey indicates that assembly shipments for the foldable iPhone in 2H26 will be roughly 7-8 million units …
More: Forbes, Digital Trends, iClarified, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, iThinkDifferent, AppleInsider, and Notebookcheck. X: @mingchikuo
| New York Times: |
Analysis: ~1M $TRUMP retail buyers lost a combined $3.81B, while ~500K mostly-early wallets captured $4B in gains, a textbook memecoin wealth transfer — A report from a cryptocurrency analytics firm details how those who bought the Trump memecoin have fared, with most retail investors having lost money …
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X: @kenvogel, @senblumenthal, @davidfrum, @scott_wiener, @jeffjarvis, @senblumenthal, @kbandersen, @bluegeorgia, and @cgasparino. Bluesky: @deanbaker13. Mastodon: @jeffjarvis@mastodon.social
| Simon Sharwood / The Register: |
AWS says Mechanical Turk will no longer accept new customers and that it is placing the crowdsourcing service in maintenance, signaling its future retirement — Workers who use OG crowdsourcing platform say AWS is closing accounts — Amazon Web Services will stop accepting new customers … | Financial Times: |
Bending Spoons' Nasdaq IPO caps its 50+ deals across 10+ years that transformed the Italian startup into a highly leveraged internet company with ~$4.4B in debt — Nasdaq listing caps more than a decade of deals that transformed an Italian start-up into a global internet company
More: TechCrunch
| Wency Chen / South China Morning Post: |
ByteDance's Doubao and Alibaba's Qwen will disable humanlike and user-created agents before July 15, as China's anthropomorphic AI interaction rules take effect — Two of China's major consumer-facing artificial intelligence apps, ByteDance's Doubao and Alibaba Group Holding's Qwen …
More: Bloomberg, TechNode, The Next Web, and Tech Times
| Patricia Kowsmann / Wall Street Journal: |
Chainalysis: addresses linked to Iran, Russia, North Korea, and other US-sanctioned entities received $100B+ in crypto last year, almost 8x the amount in 2024 — Blacklisted entities handled $100 billion in crypto in 2025, financing terrorism and weapons — Iran, Russia, North Korea …
More: PYMNTS and Wu Blockchain
| Eli Tan / New York Times: |
A look at Threads and Q&A with its head Connor Hayes, as the platform passes 500M MAUs and increasingly resembles Reddit with its focus on community features — Meta's office in San Francisco. Threads aims to reach one billion users.Ian C. Bates for The New York Times| Nilesh Christopher / Los Angeles Times: |
How ByteDance is making Hollywood inroads with its Seedance video generator, thanks to low pricing, striking realism, and features like timeline-based prompting — - 8 min Click here to listen to this article … - A viral AI video of Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise sparked industry outrage …
More: TechCrunch, Fortune, The Decoder, and TestingCatalog AI News
| John Keilman / Wall Street Journal: |
How companies like Nvidia and Neura Robotics are building safety systems for humanoid robots to minimize risks like a bipedal robot losing stability — Companies say electronics, sensors and engineering will allow the robots to work alongside people — Humanoid robots marched through … | Aisha Down / The Guardian: |
Source calls UK- and OpenAI-touted plans in 2025 for Stargate's ~£20B Cobalt site a PR stunt; OpenAI and Nscale failed to visit Cobalt or lodge planning forms — Exclusive: £20bn of ‘potential’ £30bn AI investment touted by UK ministers appears to have been hypothetical
More: Forbes and The Next Web
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| Kate O'Keeffe / Bloomberg: |
A US federal judge ordered the DOD to shield Alibaba from a law that led lobbyists to drop it as a client while she weighs the measure's constitutionality — A federal judge ordered the Pentagon to give Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. a reprieve from a law that caused all of its lobbyists to drop …
More: The Next Web and DigiTimes
| Katherine Bindley / Wall Street Journal: |
How some high-income families use AI-powered private schools and tutors, such as Alpha School, to teach their children life skills and tailor their curriculum — People who can afford to send their grade-school kids anywhere are choosing new alternative education
More: The Verge, The Decoder, and Daily Mail
X: @jeffjarvis. LinkedIn: Don Soifer and Robert Kelchen. Bluesky: @hypervisible.blacksky.app. Mastodon: @jeffjarvis@mastodon.social
| Grace Kay / The Information: |
Tesla rolls out its Robotaxi service without a safety monitor in Miami, its fifth city, as it aims to expand to a dozen US states by the end of 2026 — Tesla said it rolled out its Robotaxi service in Miami on Friday, according to a post from its social media account on X.
More: Engadget, Mashable, Pulse 2.0, Yahoo Finance, and Refresh Miami
| Josh Zoffer / Financial Times: |
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