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Apple expands its American Manufacturing Program, bringing in Bosch, Cirrus Logic, TDK, and Qnity Electronics to make components in the US for sale worldwide (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC)
MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC:
Apple expands its American Manufacturing Program, bringing in Bosch, Cirrus Logic, TDK, and Qnity Electronics to make components in the US for sale worldwide — Apple announced a significant expansion of its American Manufacturing Program on Thursday, bringing four new partners — Bosch …
The European Parliament votes to delay EU AI Act deadlines, including pushing compliance for high-risk AI systems back to December 2027, and to ban nudify apps (Robert Hart/The Verge)
Robert Hart / The Verge:
The European Parliament votes to delay EU AI Act deadlines, including pushing compliance for high-risk AI systems back to December 2027, and to ban nudify apps — The proposals would push back looming deadlines for watermarking AI-generated content and high-risk AI systems.
WhatsApp rolls out features and updates: an AI tool to suggest replies based on a user's conversations, the ability to touch up photos with Meta AI, and more (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
WhatsApp rolls out features and updates: an AI tool to suggest replies based on a user's conversations, the ability to touch up photos with Meta AI, and more — WhatsApp is rolling out a slew of new features and updates, including one that generates AI-powered suggested replies based on your conversations.
Mistral launches Voxtral TTS, an open-source enterprise text-to-speech model that supports nine languages, including Hindi and Arabic, based on Ministral 3B (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Mistral launches Voxtral TTS, an open-source enterprise text-to-speech model that supports nine languages, including Hindi and Arabic, based on Ministral 3B — French AI company Mistral released a new open-source text-to-speech model on Thursday that can be used by voice AI assistants or in enterprise use cases like customer support.
Defense tech startup Shield AI raised $2B at a $12.7B valuation, up from $5.3B after raising $240M in March 2025; half of its business is autonomous software (Michael J. de la Merced/New York Times)
Michael J. de la Merced / New York Times:
Defense tech startup Shield AI raised $2B at a $12.7B valuation, up from $5.3B after raising $240M in March 2025; half of its business is autonomous software — The company, which develops autonomous military technology, also plans to buy a maker of simulation software as interest in next-generation defense soars.