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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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Stripe apologizes for customer service agents claiming LGBTQ products were banned

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Is Amazon testing a cheaper color Kindle?

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Microplastics are everywhere — including in the air around plastic treaty negotiations

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Sources: the US Navy and Air Force may cancel two nearly complete HR software projects to give firms like Salesforce and Palantir a chance to win similar work (Alexandra Alper/Reuters)

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Apple’s plan for AI could make Siri the animated center of your smart home

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Another Pixel 10 leak points to wireless Qi2 charging

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Sources: Perplexity is seeking new funding at a $20B post-money valuation, up from a reported $18B in its latest fundraising round in July (Business Insider)

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New York sues Zelle, claiming that security lapses led to $1B in consumer fraud losses; the US CFPB dropped a similar case in March (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters)

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Sources: Apple AI plans include robots, such as a tabletop one in 2027, a conversational Siri, a smart speaker with a display in 2026, and home security cameras (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

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Starlink Mini users just lost their beloved pause feature

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