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Japan earmarks up to ~$5.4B in additional aid for chipmaker Rapidus, which aims to begin mass production of 2nm chips in 2027, a highly ambitious target (Bloomberg)

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Study: 79% of 475 AI experts believe current public perceptions of AI do not match R&D realities, while 76% said scaling current approaches will not yield AGI (Isaac Schultz/Gizmodo)

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South Korea-based Wrtn, a free-to-use AI platform with 5M+ users aggregating LLMs like GPT-4, Stable Diffusion 3, and Claude 3, raised a $56M Series B extension (Yoolim Lee/Bloomberg)

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After Trump signed an EO to end the government's DEI programs, tech firms like Google are rebranding DEI efforts, using terms like "learning" or "hiring" (CNBC)

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Sources: Foxconn plans to assemble 25M to 30M iPhones in India in 2025, up from ~12M in 2024, and is conducting production trials at its new Bengaluru plant (Dia Rekhi/The Economic Times)

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Sources detail tensions between Apple and Elon Musk's SpaceX over expanding satellite cellphone services; Apple discussed linking iPhones to SpaceX satellites (Wall Street Journal)

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Global foldable smartphone shipments increased by just 2.9% YoY in 2024, and shipments are expected to decline by about 4% YoY in 2025 (Counterpoint Research)

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Many LinkedIn users put part-time job-level effort to maintain their pages; LinkedIn: 85% of FTSE 100 CEOs have a presence on the platform, up from 12% in 2023 (Bethan Staton/Financial Times)

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Vertu Is Still Selling Phones, Which Suggests Someone Is Still Buying Them

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Keach Hagey Reports on the Backstory Behind Sam Altman’s Firing and Quick Rehiring at OpenAI in 2023

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Apple's current enterprise offerings are built for single machines and have complex virtualization rules, saddling high-end users with inefficient remote setups (Ernie Smith/Tedium)

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Ohio Dad Makes This Scary, Desperate Request to Police in Shootout Following 13-Year-Old Daughter's Alleged Murder

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No Way!! These 15 Fan-Favorite Companies Likely to Close Down...For Good!

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★ ‘The Studio’ Is Fantastic So Far

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Ethereum is struggling to keep the interest of investors and developers, having fallen out of step in an industry transformed by the embrace of Donald Trump (Bloomberg)

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MacOS 15 Sequoia’s Annoying-as-Hell ‘Turn On Reactions’ Menu Bar Prompt

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Wow! Cardi B Goes Off About the Scary Messages Her Ex Offset is Allegedly Sending Her

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Google says it is rolling out Gemini 2.5 Pro Experimental to all Gemini users, after initially launching the model for Gemini Advanced subscribers on March 25 (Abner Li/9to5Google)

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A look at the RainbowEx crypto Ponzi scheme, which ensnared 16,000 people in San Pedro, Argentina; different versions of the scam have emerged around the world (New York Times)

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