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A look at Pretext, a new JS library that solves the problem of calculating multi-line text height without touching the DOM, enabling highly dynamic layouts (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Weblog)

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Mistral secures $830M from seven banks to build its own AI data centre

The Next Web

Emails, texts, and NTSB reports show Waymo and an Austin school district struggled for months to train robotaxis to stop for school buses as required by law (Aarian Marshall/Wired)

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Chinese photonic chipmaker Yuanjie reports 2025 revenue up 138.5% YoY to ~$87M and data center revenue up 719% to ~$56.9M, ahead of its April 1 Hong Kong IPO (Wency Chen/South China Morning Post)

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PwC: 76 mainland Chinese companies listed on Hong Kong Stock Exchange in 2025, up from 30 in 2024, despite the city's waning appeal to international investors (Sylvia Chang/BBC)

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Some UK defense tech startups consider relocating to the US due to the UK's military spending delays, as some executives say the UK sector is at a "standstill" (Financial Times)

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An analysis of four large private-credit funds finds an average of ~25% software share exposure, above the ~19% disclosed, amid investor concerns on SaaS stocks (Wall Street Journal)

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Inside the rise and fall of OpenAI's Sora, which worked apart from OpenAI's research team, as the company shuts down Sora and redirects compute to other tasks (Wall Street Journal)

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All the latest in AI ‘music’

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Some iOS developers say the App Store review process is taking significantly longer, up to multiple weeks, with an influx of vibe-coded apps as the likely cause (Business Insider)

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Midjourney CEO David Holz says the company's revenue "significantly surpassed" $200M in 2023, and has "gone up" since then, despite its declining web traffic (Jemima McEvoy/The Information)

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Pro-AI group Innovation Council Action, praised by David Sacks, plans to spend $100M+ in the US midterms to drive deregulation and support Trump's AI agenda (Alex Isenstadt/Axios)

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Bluesky’s new app is an AI for customizing your feed

The Verge - All Posts

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The Talk Show: ‘You’re Going to Have the Niggles’

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Version History: ‘The Macintosh’

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The Verge: ‘Rank the Best Apple Products From the Last 50 Years’

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Red Rooms makes online poker as thrilling as its serial killer

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A look at Coinbase One and other insurance-like plans for crypto users that typically exclude coverage for many kinds of account hacks, including phishing scams (Bloomberg)

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Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen were primarily designed for girls and the elderly

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