• Lions and cheetahs and chimps, oh my: a spotlight on Africa's diverse wildlife
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• Milt Windler, NASA flight director who helped save Apollo 13, dies at 94
• The dawn of the age of the exoskeleton
• Apple changes full-disk access permissions to curb abuse from AI agents
• Someone got Doom in an SQL database
• Amazon’s $1B plan to combat data center backlash draws more backlash
• Patient-zero drill put health facilities to the test—40% of them failed
• Lyft settles landmark driver misclassification lawsuit for $272.5M
• The 2008 economic crisis changed the US's relationship with energy
• US arrests tech CEO accused of smuggling $300M in Nvidia chips into China
• Research roundup: 6 cool science stories we almost missed
• US military ends long-running program to spot nuclear missile launches
• This startup pays NYC residents to run air conditioners on free batteries
• Cybertruck sales in free fall as Tesla reports mediocre sales for Q3
• The 7-year-old Nvidia Shield TV is now $100 more expensive due to AI
• Rocket Report: SpaceX completes launch triple-header; Rocket Lab nets big contract
• TCL is right to question Samsung’s use of the term “Mini LED”
• Venus' mysterious haze is actually cosmic dust
• SpaceX describes surgical intervention before launch of latest crew mission
| • A look at Sean Parker's resurrection of Stability AI following Emad Mostaque's ousting, and its new focus on AI for music professionals, backed by major labels (Abram Brown/The Information)
• Change.org says it is investing $100M of its own money to rebuild its core petitions platform with AI and has launched an AI copilot beta for petition creators (Dan Primack/Axios)
• Q&A with Google SVP and DeepMind Institute co-director James Manyika on AI risks and why responsibility must be shared across industry, government, and society (Mishal Husain/Bloomberg)
• Sources: UK neobank Monzo is in talks with CVC and Advent to sell up to a 15% stake, after Nubank takeover talks collapsed over the ~£10B valuation Monzo sought (Laith Al-Khalaf/Financial Times)
• Sam Altman says OpenAI and Anthropic still hold fundamentally different worldviews on AI regulation, arguing that AI's benefits justify accepting some risks (Politico)
• Sources: Anthropic's stock match of employee charity gifts hit $660M+ in the six months through March, likely to reach billions post-IPO, diluting shareholders (Cory Weinberg/The Information)
• Sources: Schneider Electric is in advanced talks to buy US engineering software firm PTC for ~$20B, its largest acquisition; a deal could come as soon as Monday (Financial Times)
• Extracted system prompts show Meta's Muse compiles "a page for every person in the user's life", with facts, history, tips to improve relationships, and more (Wired)
• Sources: Apple and Google pitch state bills with self-attested age checks and no private lawsuits; Meta backs ones making app stores, not platforms, verify ages (Owen Dahlkamp/Politico)
• In an X reply, Elon Musk says that SpaceX will rename its AI unit SpaceXAI to SpaceXSI, following Trump's push to replace "artificial" intelligence with "super" (Chandni Shah/Reuters)
• DigitalBridge CEO Marc Ganzi says his data center investment group will become SoftBank's "third-party infrastructure arm" after SoftBank's ~$4B takeover closed (Financial Times)
• Sources: John Ternus has effectively become Apple's design chief, working in the studio several times a week; OLED touch-screen MacBook Pro will be much lighter (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
• Trump announces a new Super Intelligence Force, to be led by DNI Jay Clayton, along with FTC's Andrew Ferguson, DOD's Emil Michael, and OPM's Scott Kupor (Politico)
• A profile of Meta Chief AI Officer Alexandr Wang, who is the company's first senior executive from Gen Z and has succeeded in building hype for Muse (Meghan Bobrowsky/Wall Street Journal)
• Q&A with OpenAI VP of Hardware Richard Ho on its Jalapeño inference chip co-designed with Broadcom, using internal OpenAI models to design the chip, and more (Dr. Ian Cutress/More Than Moore)
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• The popular Apple features you won't be getting with the iPhone Duo
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• The upcoming touchscreen OLED MacBook Pro is reportedly 'significantly lighter'
• Five iPhone 18 Pro features you'll want to try the second you unbox it
• What does V-Sync actually do to your PC's frames per second?
• A fourth RuneScape game is under development using Unreal Engine
• What causes screen tearing and how can you fix it?
• Sony digital camera model numbers explained: Bigger isn't always better
• Trump announces an AI czar for his newly created 'Super Intelligence Force'
• How to disable or restrict your iPhone's Apple Intelligence features
• Here's what you should do if only one of your AirPods is working
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