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Apple replacing Alan Dye with Stephen Lemay may fix Jony Ive's mistake by restoring the Jobsian "design is how it works" ethos in Apple's UI design (John Gruber/Daring Fireball)

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Paris-based CRM unicorn Brevo, formerly known as Sendinblue, raised €500M, says it surpassed €200M in ARR in 2025, and now has 600K+ customers (Anna Heim/TechCrunch)

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The European Commission opens a new antitrust investigation into Meta over its rollout of AI features in WhatsApp; the probe will not fall under the DMA (Barbara Moens/Financial Times)

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OpenAI is testing training LLMs to produce "confessions", or self-report how they carried out a task and own up to bad behavior, like appearing to lie or cheat (Will Douglas Heaven/MIT Technology Review)

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Nvidia says GB200 Blackwell AI servers, which pack 72 chips in one unit, boost performance 10x over H200 servers for MoE models like Moonshot's Kimi K2 Thinking (Stephen Nellis/Reuters)

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A profile of Databricks co-founder Andy Konwinski, who pivoted from Jehovah's Witness to helping solve "species-level" problems by funding AI research (Biz Carson/Bloomberg)

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The Trump administration orders enhanced vetting of H-1B applicants and their families for past work in "censorship", including fact-checking and online safety (Humeyra Pamuk/Reuters)

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Seattle-based Gradial, which makes AI tools that automate enterprise marketing workflows, raised a $35M Series B led by VMG Partners at a $350M valuation (Taylor Soper/GeekWire)

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Sources: Sam Altman reached out to at least one rocket maker, Stoke Space, last summer for OpenAI to secure a controlling stake; the talks are no longer active (Berber Jin/Wall Street Journal)

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Intel shelves plans to spin off or sell a stake in its networking division NEX, after deciding that the business is more likely to succeed as an internal unit (Bloomberg)

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Snowflake and Anthropic announce a multi-year $200M deal to make Anthropic's Claude models available on Snowflake and deploy AI agents across enterprises (Kelly Cloonan/Wall Street Journal)

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The US DOJ has indicted two Virginia brothers, Muneeb and Sohaib Akhter, for allegedly deleting 96 US government databases while working as Opexus contractors (Sam Sabin/Axios)

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React discloses an unauthenticated remote code execution flaw in React Server Components; Wiz says 39% of cloud environments contain vulnerable instances (The Hacker News)

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Reddit CEO Steve Huffman says the company is "moving away" from r/popular, the default feed for new users, and will replace it with more personalized feeds (Jay Peters/The Verge)

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Jensen Huang says "we don't know" if China would accept Nvidia's H200 AI chips even if the US relaxed export controls, following a meeting with President Trump (Bloomberg)

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Google launches Workspace Studio, a no-code tool to create, design, manage, and share AI agents, for users on Business and Enterprise Workspace plans (Abner Li/9to5Google)

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Mark Zuckerberg announces a new creative studio in Meta's Reality Labs led by Alan Dye, who will be joined by Apple design lead Billy Sorrentino (Mark Zuckerberg/@zuck@threads.com)

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Snowflake reports Q3 product revenue up 29% YoY to $1.16B, and forecasts Q4 adjusted operating income margin below estimates; SNOW drops 7%+ after hours (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)

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Salesforce reports Q3 revenue up 8.6% YoY to $10.26B, vs. $10.27B est., and forecasts Q4 revenue above estimates; CRM jumps 5%+ after hours (Jordan Novet/CNBC)

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Microsoft says "aggregate sales quotas for AI products have not been lowered", following a report that some units lowered sales growth targets for AI products (Reuters)

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