Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple ramps up work on AI wearables with cameras and Siri, including smart glasses, AirPods, and a pendant that can be worn as a necklace or pinned  —  Apple Inc. is accelerating development of three new wearable devices as part of a shift toward artificial intelligence-powered hardware …

Anthropic:
Anthropic launches Claude Sonnet 4.6 with improvements in coding, computer use, instruction following, and more; it features a 1M token context window in beta  —  Claude Sonnet 4.6 is our most capable Sonnet model yet.  It's a full upgrade of the model's skills across coding, computer use …

Mayor Zohran Mamdani will be able to appoint six members to the Rent Guidelines Board, giving him a majority of appointees to deliver his signature campaign proposal of a rent freeze for rent-stabilized apartments. Alex Armlovich, a member of the board who was appointed by Mayor Eric Adams to a four-year term that runs through […]

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Anna Heim / TechCrunch:
Mistral buys Paris-based Koyeb, which simplifies AI app deployment at scale and manages AI infrastructure, in its first acquisition; Koyeb raised $8.6M to date  —  Mistral AI, the French company last valued at $13.8 billion, has made its first acquisition.  The OpenAI competitor has agreed …

Edward Ludlow / Bloomberg:
Mesh, founded by ex-SpaceX staff to mass produce optical transceivers that convert optical signals to electrical signals, raised a $50M Series A led by Thrive  —  Mesh Optical Technologies, a startup working on hardware used to move data at high speeds within data centers …