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iPhone Duo teardown: 5/10 repairability, a foldable record, but some screens crack along the fold, possibly because a hinge support bar fails to drop far enough — Apple's folding iPhone finally made it to our teardown table. Some owners' screens didn't make it through setup.| Elon Musk / @elonmusk: |
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Meta plans to raise $95B to finance its AI expansion, including a $35B underwritten equity offering, backed by cornerstone investors Nvidia, AMD, and Broadcom — Chipmakers Nvidia, AMD and Broadcom will act as cornerstone investors — Meta is planning to raise $95bn in a stock offering … | Johnny Rodgers / Building Slack: |
Inside Slack's Salesforce culture clash: Benioff had ~1 hour with CEO Butterfield pre-deal and didn't use Slack; Butterfield quit after a Davos celebrity panel — I needed a keyboard. — I stood at my reserved desk on the 7th floor of Salesforce's tower in Vancouver around 9am.| Max Woolf's Blog: |
A look at OpenAI's and Anthropic's aggressive price cuts between June and October, driven by low switching costs and heavy competition from open-weight models — Let's look at a quick timeline of the major LLM model announcements from both OpenAI and Anthropic over the past few months.| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
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Elvis Presley's rightsholders sue Anthropic over 274 songs allegedly used to train its models, seeking $41M+; Anthropic says it disagrees and will defend itself — The $41 million lawsuit contends that the A.I. company used Presley's music to train its models without permission.| Washington Post: |
Cathedral, a months-old cybersecurity startup founded by ex-DOGE staffers, says it breached Anthropic's internal systems in under 12 hours using AI agents — The start-up firm Cathedral has told makers of the Claude chatbot that its researchers were able to quickly penetrate sensitive systems, a report reviewed by The Post shows.| New York Times: |
A look at TSMC's initial Phoenix fab, which has achieved chip output rates comparable to its Taiwan facilities, as its Taiwanese engineers teach US workers — On July 5 the Northwest Chinese Baptist Church in Phoenix opened its weekly Mandarin service with a verse from the Old Testament.| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple tweaked macOS for its OLED touch MacBook Pro, due Wednesday, with a dynamic interface that adapts to whether touch or the trackpad was last used — Also: The company rolls out a retail store tool to reduce wasted inventory. — Apple's touch-screen MacBook Pro will arrive on Wednesday … | Financial Times: |
A look at Toyota's robotics expansion, including its Walden spinoff and a $6.4B annual plan to deploy 400K factory robots, as it competes with Tesla and China — Japanese group uses 20 years of research to commercialise intelligent robots — Toyota is setting its sights on becoming … | Alexandra Alter / New York Times: |
A profile of former Google VP and Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer, whose startup Dazzle is building an AI assistant to help non-tech enthusiasts with mundane tasks — Marissa Mayer has reinvented herself as a start-up founder, with a team of 10 engineers — a fraction of the armies of programmers … | Joanna Glasner / Crunchbase News: |
California startups have raised a record $385B across seed to growth rounds so far in 2026, or 75%+ of all US startup funding; early and seed stage raised ~$62B — California companies have scooped up more than three-fourths of all U.S. startup funding this year. That, per Crunchbase data, is an apparent record share.| Bloomberg: |
Alphabet, Amazon, and Microsoft are expected to report double-digit gains in revenue this week, as investors grow impatient with AI capex and seek returns — Three of the biggest and most important technology companies in the world are expected to show healthy growth when they report earnings this week.
We can build it. Can we judge it? — As agentic AI shortens the path from idea to shipped code, journey evaluation becomes a critical design skill.
The best sales leaders aren't job hunting. Here's how to reach them without months of cold outreach. — Our team came from Box, Square, and Brex, so we already know the GTM leaders worth meeting.
App Spotlight: Map My Client Location for Zoho CRM — App Spotlight brings you hand-picked solutions that enhance your Zoho apps and tools. Visit Zoho Marketplace to explore all of our apps, integrations …
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Salesforce data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.
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