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Apple's iOS 27 beta 5 contains references to six unreleased iPhones: iPhone Air 2, iPhone 18 Pro, iPhone 18 Pro Max, iPhone 18, iPhone Ultra, and iPhone 18e (Filipe Esposito/Macworld)

Apple's iOS 27 beta 5 contains references to six u...

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IBM and Together AI sign a $240M, multi-year deal to build an AI inference cluster on IBM Cloud, using Nvidia's HGX B300 systems, to support open-source models (Anhata Rooprai/Reuters)

IBM and Together AI sign a $240M, multi-year deal ...

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Big Tech's AI boom echoes the 1870s railroad expansion, and Nvidia shifting risk to institutional capital may expose investors if revenues fail to materialize (Ben Thompson/Stratechery)

Big Tech's AI boom echoes the 1870s railroad expan...

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An NYC bill, backed by Mayor Zohran Mamdani, calls for Amazon, FedEx, and others to directly employ thousands of delivery workers; the bill could pass this fall (Bloomberg)

An NYC bill, backed by Mayor Zohran Mamdani, calls...

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xAI co-founder Igor Babuschkin's River AI raised $1B led by General Catalyst to build home or small business computer servers capable of running AI locally (Cade Metz/New York Times)

xAI co-founder Igor Babuschkin's River AI raised $...

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How India's IT services sector, which employs 6M people, contributes ~7% of GDP, and generates $300B+ annually, is shedding jobs as AI automates formulaic work (Financial Times)

How India's IT services sector, which employs 6M p...

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OpenAI is hiring a power-trading lead to manage commodity hedging across its expanding data center power portfolio, as tech companies seek reliable electricity (Julian Hast/Bloomberg)

OpenAI is hiring a power-trading lead to manage co...

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How a wave of disinformation on Facebook, WhatsApp, TikTok, Instagram, and Telegram contributed to a surge of migrants from Morocco to Spain's Ceuta enclave (New York Times)

How a wave of disinformation on Facebook, WhatsApp...

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A look at London-based AI startup Cosine, which is building a frontier model with UK government backing, as some question if it has the talent and resources (Financial Times)

A look at London-based AI startup Cosine, which is...

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Intel raised $20B in an upsized share sale, up from the $15B it was targeting; sources say the sale drew $100B+ in demand; INTC is up ~146% in 2026 so far (Bloomberg)

Intel raised $20B in an upsized share sale, up fro...

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A look at Western Australian police's first live facial recognition trial, which has scanned 130,000+ people since June, raising accuracy and privacy concerns (ABC)

A look at Western Australian police's first live f...

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Owner of 1.5M-page site PatronView on a year of fighting scrapers: 214:1 bot-to-human page loads, 35K Claude crawls per referred user, Amazon bot referred none (Nick Gray/PatronView)

Owner of 1.5M-page site PatronView on a year of fi...

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Singapore raises its 2026 GDP growth forecast to 4.5%-5.5% from 2%-4%, citing stronger-than-expected global AI investment and improved external demand (Bloomberg)

Singapore raises its 2026 GDP growth forecast to 4...

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Anthropic says Claude models in the EU will now add invisible watermarks to generated text and C2PA metadata to generated files, to comply with the EU AI Act (Thomas Claburn/The Register)

Anthropic says Claude models in the EU will now ad...

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Sources: Anthropic is courting investors for what could be the biggest IPO ever, touting rapid growth and plans to address mounting public backlash against AI (Wall Street Journal)

Sources: Anthropic is courting investors for what ...

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Sources: investor interest in Situational Awareness surged after it nearly blew up on leveraged positions; the fund says it's not accepting new capital for now (Matt Levine/Bloomberg)

Sources: investor interest in Situational Awarenes...

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Sources: Anthropic agreed to a 20-year, $9.1B compute deal with Riot Platforms for 191 MW of capacity at a Rockdale, TX campus; RIOT jumps ~25% after hours (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg)

Sources: Anthropic agreed to a 20-year, $9.1B comp...

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How a clause in Elon Musk's Tesla pay package, worth up to ~$1T, could provide him a shortcut around lofty performance targets if Tesla merged with SpaceX (Wall Street Journal)

How a clause in Elon Musk's Tesla pay package, wor...

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