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Bloomberg:
Elon Musk announces Terafab, an Austin-based project run by Tesla and SpaceX to manufacture robotics, AI, and space data center chips for Tesla, xAI, and SpaceX  —  Elon Musk said his Terafab project — a grand plan to eventually manufacture his own chips for robotics, artificial intelligence …

Bloomberg:
Speaking at a Beijing forum, Tim Cook praised Apple's partners and developers in China, a week after Chinese state media labeled the App Store “monopolistic”  —  Apple Inc. Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook commended Chinese developers and the company's partners in the country …

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Cloaked, which offers security and privacy services such as VPNs, raised a $375M Series B in a mix of equity and growth funding, for enterprise expansion  —  Consumer-facing security tools often focus on one kind of modality, such as password protection, VPNs, or identity management.

Allison Johnson / The Verge:
Hands-on with Gemini task automation on mobile: it's super impressive despite being very slow and failing at some tasks; it can order food, book Ubers, and more  —  It took nine minutes to order my dinner, but it still feels like the future. … I've been testing out Gemini's new task automation …