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Tim Cook is stepping down as CEO of Apple. Here’s a look at his 15-year legacy, from new products and services to China expansion.
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Apple’s John Ternus will run one of the world’s most powerful companies; the job is a minefield
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AI research lab NeoCognition lands $40M seed to build agents that learn like humans
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Apple’s Cal AI crackdown signals it’s still policing the App Store
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SusHi Tech Tokyo isn’t a conference — it’s a deal room with 60,000 people
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ChatGPT’s new Images 2.0 model is surprisingly good at generating text
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Sam Altman throws shade at Anthropic’s cyber model, Mythos: ‘fear-based marketing’
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Clarifai deletes 3 million photos that OkCupid provided to train facial recognition AI, report says
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Former Pinterest team redesigns email with Extra — and it’s actually good
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AI Dungeon maker Latitude unveils Voyage, a platform for creating AI-powered RPGs
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Ransomware negotiator pleads guilty to helping ransomware gang
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Bond, a new social media platform, wants to use AI to help you kick your doomscrolling habit
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YouTube expands its AI likeness detection technology to celebrities
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Amazon taps Sweden’s Einride for its electric big rigs
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Revolut eyes valuation of up to $200B in eventual IPO
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With US spy laws set to expire, lawmakers are split over protecting Americans from warrantless surveillance
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What’s the key to better vegan cheese? Microbreweries, one startup says.
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Cash App is targeting a new kind of customer: 6- to 12-year-olds
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GRAI believes AI can make music more social, not replace artists
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Yelp’s updated AI assistant can answer questions and book a restaurant or service in one conversation
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Google now offers two research agents: Deep Research, replacing its December preview release, and Deep Research Max, both available via Gemini API paid tiers (The Keyword)
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Reliable Robotics, which is developing autonomous aircraft systems for cargo flights, raised $160M led by Nimble Partners, pushing its valuation to ~$1B (Cailley LaPara/Bloomberg)
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Adobe announces a $25B stock repurchase program through April 30, 2030; Adobe shares have fallen around 30% so far this year (Zaheer Kachwala/Reuters)
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The US DOJ says a former ransomware negotiator pleaded guilty to helping cybercriminals extort companies in cyberattacks in five different incidents (Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai/TechCrunch)
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Roblox reaches settlements totaling $35.8M with the AGs of West Virginia, Alabama, and Nevada over child-safety protections (Cecilia D'Anastasio/Bloomberg)
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An interview with Sam Altman and Greg Brockman on OpenAI's restructuring, cutting Sora, "personal AGI", Anthropic's "fear-based marketing" for Mythos, and more (Core Memory)
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Core Scientific plans to raise $3.3B via a junk bond sale to finance its shift from crypto mining to building AI data centers and leasing them to CoreWeave (Francisco Rodrigues/CoinDesk)
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Sources: following Manus probe, Chinese authorities ordered at least one other prominent AI startup, MiroMind, not to send talent and research out of China (Washington Post)
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Mozilla says its Firefox 150 release includes fixes for 271 vulnerabilities identified using early access to Anthropic's Mythos Preview (Lily Hay Newman/Wired)
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NeoCognition, which wants to build AI agents that self-learn like humans, emerges from stealth with a $40M seed co-led by Cambium Capital and Walden Catalyst (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)
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ChatGPT Images 2.0 is available globally to ChatGPT and Codex users, with a more powerful version for paying subscribers; its knowledge cutoff is December 2025 (Reece Rogers/Wired)
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OpenAI says ChatGPT Images 2.0 comes in Instant and Thinking variants and can generate images of up to 2K resolution and in multiple aspect ratios (Zac Hall/9to5Mac)
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OpenAI says that ChatGPT Images 2.0 has a stronger understanding of non-Latin text rendering in languages like Japanese, Korean, Hindi, and Bengali (Amanda Silberling/TechCrunch)
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Draft IPO prospectus: SpaceX debt grew from $14B in 2024 to $23B in 2025, tied to a $4.5B lease deal with Valor Equity for AI equipment such as chips for xAI (The Information)
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OpenAI releases ChatGPT Images 2.0 with new "thinking capabilities", allowing it to search the web to help it create multiple images from a single prompt (Emma Roth/The Verge)