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Alibaba's AI assistant Quark surpassed ByteDance's Doubao to become China's most popular AI app in March, with ~150M and ~100M MAUs globally, respectively (Ben Jiang/South China Morning Post)

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LiveKit, which offers open-source tools for building apps to transmit real-time audio and video, raised a $45M Series B; LiveKit also powers ChatGPT Voice Mode (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

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Sam Altman says ChatGPT users had doubled in the past few weeks and that "10% of the world uses our systems", which would peg the number closer to 800M users (Martine Paris/Forbes)

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Sources: Apple produced $22B worth of iPhones in India in the 12 months ended March 2025, up nearly 60% YoY, and now makes 20% of its iPhones in the country (Sankalp Phartiyal/Bloomberg)

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AI could transform medicine by helping doctors and medical students improve their empathy and bedside manner before they interact with real patients (Kate Pickert/Bloomberg)

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A look at the US Energy Department's Argonne National Lab, whose AI-based PRO-AID tool assists in nuclear reactor design and helps operators run nuclear plants (Belle Lin/Wall Street Journal)

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Science Saru’s The Ghost in the Shell series gets a new teaser trailer

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Warren Buffett’s 2024 Report to Berkshire Hathaway Shareholders

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Bungie re-reveals Marathon with short film and September release date

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How the Pentagon uses AI tools from Vannevar Labs, which got a DOD deal worth up to $99M, to scan open-source intelligence, write intelligence reports, and more (James O'Donnell/MIT Technology Review)

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Trump excludes smartphones, computers, chips from higher tariffs

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How to sign up for the Marathon alpha

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Bungie’s slick-looking Marathon shooter arrives on September 23rd

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Marathon may be made for PvP fans, but Bungie says there’s still plenty for the rest of us

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With Marathon, Bungie has a chance for the three-peat

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Smartphones and Computers Are Now Exempt From Trump’s Latest Tariffs

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UK government report: 43% of businesses faced a cyber breach or attack in the past year; phishing was the most common type, affecting 85% of those attacked (Connor Jones/The Register)

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Apple’s Mythic Quest has come to an end

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The best Nintendo Switch games for grown-ups

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How to solve the two pictures puzzle in Blue Prince

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