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Companies, including Google and Cisco, have reinstated in-person interviews for some roles to combat AI-driven cheating, with some using deepfake detection tech (Ray A. Smith/Wall Street Journal)

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Sources: DeepSeek R2's launch delay is due to training issues on Huawei Ascend chips, prompting a switch to Nvidia chips for training and Huawei's for inference (Financial Times)

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Microsoft Windows head Pavan Davuluri says the next Windows version will be more ambient, pervasive and multi-modal, with voice becoming more important (Zac Bowden/Windows Central)

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GPT-5 review: GPT-5-Thinking is a substantial upgrade over o3, Auto is only useful for free tier users, picking the right model still matters, and more (Zvi Mowshowitz/Don't Worry About the Vase)

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The Annals of Oligarchy, Defense Department Edition

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India-based ride-hailing app Rapido starts testing its food delivery service Ownly in Bengaluru, marking its first serious move to challenge Swiggy and Zomato (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)

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Lenovo reports Q1 revenue up 22% YoY to $18.8B, vs. $17.4B est., and net profit surged 108% YoY to $505M, vs. $307.7M est., despite challenges from US tariffs (Reuters)

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Perplexity Is on the Prowl to Buy Web Browsers

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TTP analysis: Google used an internal reorganization to reduce the amount it reported on US lobbying spending, likely by millions; Google disputes the claims (Ted Mann/Bloomberg)

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Google plans to spend $9B in Oklahoma over two years on cloud and AI infrastructure, including a new data center campus and an expansion of its Pryor facility (Jaspreet Singh/Reuters)

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xAI co-founder Igor Babuschkin, who led its engineering teams, says he is leaving the company to launch a venture firm that supports AI research and startups (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)

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Sources: Perplexity talked with The Browser Co. and Brave about buying them, offering ~$1B for Brave; OpenAI also discussed an acquisition with The Browser Co. (The Information)

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Tesla’s graphics are about to get Unreal

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Russia is "partially" restricting WhatsApp and Telegram calls, saying the apps are used "to deceive and extort money" and "in sabotage and terrorist activities" (Dasha Litvinova/Associated Press)

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App Store Promotion and X/Grok

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UIKit in iOS 26

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MacSurfer Is Back

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★ Max Read’s ‘A Literary History of Fake Texts in Apple’s Marketing Materials’

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Kodak says it’ll figure things out and won’t shut down

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Cisco reports Q4 revenue up 8% YoY to $14.67B, vs. $14.62B est., net income up 31% to $2.8B, and forecasts Q1 revenue above estimates (Juby Babu/Reuters)

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