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Apple announces its 2025 App Store Award winners and names visual planner Tiimo as the iPhone App of the Year; many of the winning apps have AI integrations (techcrunch.com)
8 days ago iPhone AI Apple

OnePlus launches US preorders for the $899.99+ OnePlus 15 after receiving FCC clearance, which had been delayed due to the US government shutdown (www.theverge.com)
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Subaru Owners Are Ticked About In-Car Pop-Up Ads For SiriusXM (tech.slashdot.org)
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Meta Poaches Apple Design Exec Alan Dye (tech.slashdot.org)
8 days ago Apple

A US federal judge rules that OpenAI must produce 20M anonymized ChatGPT user logs in the copyright lawsuit brought by the New York Times and other news outlets (www.reuters.com)
8 days ago New York

7AI, which builds AI agents that analyze and triage cybersecurity alerts, raised a $130M Series A at a ~$700M valuation, bringing its total raised to $166M (www.wsj.com)
8 days ago AI

A profile of AI hearing aid startup Fortell, which has raised $150M so far and is targeting affluent clients in NYC with a $6,800 device that uses a custom chip (www.wired.com)
8 days ago Startup AI

Flex, which offers AI-based financial services, credit, and more to mid-sized companies, raised a $60M Series B led by Portage, source says at a $500M valuation (www.reuters.com)
8 days ago AI

'End-To-End Encrypted' Smart Toilet Camera Is Not Actually End-To-End Encrypted (it.slashdot.org)
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New Homes In London Were Delayed By 'Energy-Hungry' Data Centers (news.slashdot.org)
8 days ago Energy London

Sources: Meta plans deep budget cuts to its metaverse efforts in 2026, potentially as high as 30% and most likely including layoffs as early as January (www.bloomberg.com)
8 days ago Layoffs Budget

Sources: last summer, Sam Altman reached out to at least one rocket maker, Stoke Space, for OpenAI to secure a controlling stake; the talks are no longer active (www.wsj.com)
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Taiwan's interior ministry announces a one-year ban on access to Chinese social media app Xiaohongshu, aka RedNote, citing 1,700+ fraud cases since 2024 (www.reuters.com)
8 days ago China Taiwan Ban

The EU expects to launch a formal bidding process for its AI gigafactories in early 2026 and close it in summer 2026, as the bloc seeks to catch up with the US (www.wsj.com)
8 days ago AI

AI legal software startup Harvey raised $160M led by a16z at an $8B valuation, up from $3B after raising $300M in February, taking its funding in 2025 to $760M (www.nytimes.com)
8 days ago Startup AI

Yann LeCun says his unnamed AI startup will not receive financial backing from Meta, will focus on advanced AI world models, and hints it will be Paris-based (www.bloomberg.com)
8 days ago Startup AI Paris

The EU says it is gathering information and feedback from ~200 stakeholders on Google's offer to fix alleged antitrust violations linked to its ad tech business (www.bloomberg.com)
8 days ago Google

University of Virginia professor Ken Ono, one of the world's most prominent mathematicians, joins AI startup Axiom Math, which is building an “AI mathematician” (www.wsj.com)
8 days ago Startup AI Mathematics Virginia

Sources: Amazon, the USPS' top customer with $6B+ in revenue in 2025, is considering ending its deal at the end of 2026 and expanding its own delivery network (www.washingtonpost.com)
8 days ago Amazon

A look at “TSMC Village” in North Phoenix, as TSMC brings an influx of skilled workers from Taiwan who face challenges like adapting to a sprawling suburbia (www.nytimes.com)
8 days ago Taiwan

Malaysian authorities are using drones, power sensors, and tips to hunt Bitcoin miners over power theft, which cost a state energy company $1.1B over five years (www.bloomberg.com)
8 days ago Bitcoin Energy Drone Malaysia

Chip giants' efforts to turn Phoenix into a US hub may hinge on training local workers; an estimated 115K local chip jobs are set to be created in four years (www.nytimes.com)
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Documents: Foxconn's subsidiaries and China's Luxshare plan expansions in Vietnam to boost gaming device production, reinforcing Vietnam's supply chain role (www.reuters.com)
8 days ago China Vietnam

How TSMC, Intel, and Amkor are transforming Phoenix into the US' chip hub, investing tens of billions and showing the difficulties of large-scale US projects (www.nytimes.com)
8 days ago Intel

DealBook Summit: Palantir CEO Alex Karp says “the more constitutional you want to make” the US' Caribbean boat strikes “the more you're going to need” Palantir (gizmodo.com)
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Ofcom fines AVS Group, which runs 18 adult sites, £1M+ under the OSA, the largest penalty so far, and threatens action against a “major social media company” (www.ft.com)
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Jimmy Wales says Wikimedia is working with Big Tech on AI deals similar to Google and reader donations are “not to subsidize OpenAI costing us a ton of money” (www.reuters.com)
8 days ago Google AI

Top Journal Retracts Study Predicting Catastrophic Climate Toll (news.slashdot.org)
8 days ago Climate

Sources: Beijing-based Cambricon plans to more than triple its AI chip production to 500K units in 2026, including 300K of its advanced Siyuan 590 and 690 chips (www.bloomberg.com)
8 days ago AI

Google DeepMind's mechanistic interpretability team details why it shifted from fully reverse-engineering neural nets to a focus on “pragmatic interpretability” (www.alignmentforum.org)
8 days ago Google

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