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| Diana Olick / CNBC: |
CBRE: NYC becomes the top tech talent market for the first time with 394,300 jobs, beating the Bay Area's 375,730, amid SF job cuts and NYC finance sector hires — It should come as no surprise that the number of artificial intelligence-specific tech workers is growing rapidly …
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LinkedIn: Andrew Yeung, Lukas Ault, Matt Walters, Gaurav Misra, Brian Biege, and Nate Glubish. Bluesky: @counternotions. Threads: @anildash. Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to
Forums: Hacker News and r/nyc
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple is cutting 200+ jobs, including ~100 positions from the Vision Pro unit and another 100 from the Siri team, as it focuses on new devices and AI — Apple Inc. is cutting jobs across teams responsible for the Siri digital assistant and the Vision Pro headset …
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Forums: r/VisionPro, r/apple, and MacRumors Forums
| Claude: |
Anthropic says Mythos 5 is now in public beta in Claude Security for Enterprise users, and it is working with providers to embed Mythos 5 in defensive tools — No items found. — Reading time — min — https://claude.com/blog/bringing- claude-mythos-5-to-more-defenders
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| Bloomberg: |
DeepSeek unveils an experimental multimodal version of its V4 Flash model, saying it nears the performance of Anthropic's Opus 4.8 on multimodal agentic tests — DeepSeek unveiled an experimental AI model that can understand visual prompts, saying the tool nears the performance of an advanced model by US rival Anthropic PBC.
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| CNBC: |
How the memory boom is reshaping Micron's hometown of Boise, Idaho: new millionaires, job growth, traffic, soaring housing costs, and uneven wealth distribution — Dave Petso has been a wealth manager in Boise, Idaho since the 1980s. His business has survived multiple recessions …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Walmart, which has long resisted contactless Tap to Pay payments, says its stores will get the tech, which supports Apple Pay and Google Pay, by the end of 2026 — Apparently, hell has frozen over. Walmart on Friday said it will finally accept payments via both Apple Pay and Google Pay at its stores …
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Bluesky: @harrymccracken.com and @caseym.org
Forums: r/AppleWallet and Slashdot
| Financial Times: |
A Dutch regulator fines Uber €825M for deactivating driver accounts through automated systems without informing them, in the second largest fine under GDPR — Regulator says ride-hailing group deactivated driver accounts through automated systems without adequately informing them
More: Reuters, Associated Press, Bloomberg, DutchNews.nl, Quartz, Nairametrics, and RTÉ
Forums: r/technology, r/worldnews, r/news, and r/uberdrivers
| Jenny Lee / CNBC: |
Samsung unveils a $65.1B-$79.5B shareholder return package for 2026, combining dividends and share buybacks, calling it “the largest ever by a Korean company” — Samsung Electronics has announced a shareholder return package, marking a blockbuster week for shareholder returns …
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| Financial Times: |
A look at London cab drivers' concerns and pushback against robotaxis, as Waymo and Wayve race to make London their European launch pad for driverless services — Some drivers are considering skulduggery in an attempt to show the limits of autonomous vehicles.| Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: |
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X: @sawyermerritt and @kirstenkorosec
Forums: r/SelfDrivingCars and r/teslamotors
| Ashley Gold / Axios: |
The US DOJ and TikTok reach a $400M settlement to resolve allegations TikTok violated COPPA; the DOJ filed the lawsuit in 2024 — The Justice Department and TikTok, along with parent company ByteDance, have reached a $400 million settlement to resolve allegations of violating children's online privacy laws …
More: TechCrunch, Bloomberg, Reuters, US Department of Justice, Variety, and Channel NewsAsia. X: @ashleyrgold
| Jamie John / Financial Times: |
Filings: Apple paid Ireland $17B in taxes in 2025, 40% of its $43B in global corporate income tax total, after an EU court ordered it to pay €13B in back taxes — New filings highlight iPhone maker's global tax liabilities — Apple paid Ireland $17bn in taxes last year …
More: MacRumors, Reuters, AppleInsider, iPhone in Canada, iClarified, MacTech.com, The Irish Times, Irish Independent, and Irish Examiner
Forums: r/apple and MacRumors Forums
| Dina Bass / Bloomberg: |
Anthropic hires Amir Salek, who ran Google's TPU business until 2022, to join its compute team as part of a push to develop its own chips — Anthropic PBC has hired Amir Salek, a founder of the custom chip program at Alphabet Inc.'s Google, as the AI lab lays the groundwork for a push into making its own semiconductors.| Laura Bratton / The Information: |
Source: OpenAI's VP of sales in the Americas, Kaylin Voss, resigned a week after Denise Dresser left, prompting others on the sales team to consider resigning — Kaylin Voss, OpenAI's vice president of sales in the Americas, has resigned a week after her former boss, Denise Dresser …
Bluesky: @okane.fyi
| Tim Fernholz / TechCrunch: |
Space data center startup Starcloud raised a $250M extension, at a $2.3B valuation, to its March $170M Series A; source: Nvidia invested $25M — Starcloud, a startup developing satellites that can perform AI inference in orbit, told TechCrunch that it has added a $250 million extension to its March $170 million Series A funding round.| Omarchy News: |
DHH launches Omacom Foundation, a non-profit supporting his Omarchy Linux distro, with $8M in funding from Michael Dell, Jack Dorsey, Patrick Collison, others — It's time to dream big. Omarchy Quattro has given people a chance to experience what the malleable computer of the future looks like, and they like it (a lot!).
X: @jack, @dhh, @dhh, @jaredpalmer, @eastdakota, @dhh, @dhh, @dhh, @dwr, and @jasonfried
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