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Sources: Apple is already taping out M7 with major NPU upgrades, and plans M8 and M7 Ultra with 1.5TB RAM for 2028; new Pencils are coming with a new iPad Pro (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

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Users of AI coding tools are flooding open-source projects with low-quality contributions, overwhelming maintainers and potentially eroding community engagement (Sam Learner/Financial Times)

Users of AI coding tools are flooding open-source ...

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A look at the growing anti-AI movement in the Bay Area, as the disappearance of Sam Kirchner, co-founder of a hard-line activist group, has the movement on edge (Zusha Elinson/Wall Street Journal)

A look at the growing anti-AI movement in the Bay ...

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AirDNA: during the FIFA World Cup group stage, platforms such as Airbnb saw 52K+ new listings in US host cities, while hotel bookings fell short of expectations (Financial Times)

AirDNA: during the FIFA World Cup group stage, pla...

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NYC-based Vendelux, a live B2B event information platform for CMOs and marketing and sales teams, raised a $50M Series B led by Tribeca Venture Partners (Lucia Moses/Business Insider)

NYC-based Vendelux, a live B2B event information p...

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EU Justice Commissioner Michael McGrath says the EC is set to propose new digital rules by year-end aimed at protecting consumers from online spending traps (Laura Dubois/Financial Times)

EU Justice Commissioner Michael McGrath says the E...

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A look at Bending Spoons' hiring process: the company, which owns Vimeo, AOL, and Evernote, received 800,000 job applications last year and made only 286 hires (Ben Cohen/Wall Street Journal)

A look at Bending Spoons' hiring process: the comp...

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Current AI market dynamics point to frontier models becoming commodity infrastructure as the token crunch eases, with value shifting to products built on top (Benedict Evans)

Current AI market dynamics point to frontier model...

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Psychologist Peter Gray argues that school stress, not smartphone use, is the main driver of the teen mental health crisis, challenging Jonathan Haidt's thesis (Kaitlyn Tiffany/The Atlantic)

Psychologist Peter Gray argues that school stress,...

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Apple's lawsuit could sidetrack OpenAI's hardware aspirations for years, or possibly forever, as the startup gets into yet another controversy and messy divorce (M.G. Siegler/Spyglass)

Apple's lawsuit could sidetrack OpenAI's hardware ...

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Apple's OpenAI lawsuit follows months of simmering tensions and highlights OpenAI's hardware chief Tang Tan's strained relationship with former boss John Ternus (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Apple's OpenAI lawsuit follows months of simmering...

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Filing: Google urged the European Commission not to target DNS resolvers, VPNs, or IPs to fight piracy, calling the measures ineffective and easily circumvented (Ernesto Van der Sar/TorrentFreak)

Filing: Google urged the European Commission not t...

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US software development job postings on Indeed have grown by ~15% since the launch of Claude Code in February 2025, while overall job postings fell by 7% (Guillermo Gallacher/Indeed Hiring Lab)

US software development job postings on Indeed hav...

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How members of the extremist group Boko Haram are using AI chatbots to design explosives, fix or upgrade weapons, and brainstorm attack ideas (New York Times)

How members of the extremist group Boko Haram are ...

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SK Hynix's historic US stock market listing is a bet that the AI boom is breaking the memory chip industry's decades-long boom-and-bust cycle (Bloomberg)

SK Hynix's historic US stock market listing is a b...

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An analysis of 1M+ social media posts from April 24 to June 30: ~25% of longform posts with 250+ words were fully AI-generated; on LinkedIn, the figure was 41% (Max Spero/Pangram Labs)

An analysis of 1M+ social media posts from April 2...

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Sources detail the Trump admin's heavy-handed intervention to aid Intel, including pushing it to expand local capacity and pressuring Apple to use Intel's fabs (Robbie Whelan/Wall Street Journal)

Sources detail the Trump admin's heavy-handed inte...

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Sources: activist investor Elliott has built a large stake in car insurance software maker CCC, which is exploring a potential sale and has a ~$3.5B market cap (Bloomberg)

Sources: activist investor Elliott has built a lar...

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