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<span class="title" style="font-size: 24px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=beb1bc27df&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">A look at Apple's plans to enhance satellite connectivity in its products, Siri's Gemini upgrade, new 2026 Macs, a Health+ service, and the future of Fitness+</a></span>
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<a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=74f3273475&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">Apple has no intention of publicizing the Gemini partnership or the fact that Siri will, in part, rely on a rival's technology. Internally, the company refers to the Google-built model as AFM v10 — short for the 10th version of its Apple Foundation Models </a>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 24px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=2f7b6f94e9&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">China suspends export restrictions for a year on five critical minerals to the US, including gallium and germanium, used to make certain types of semiconductors</a></span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=5dcc722a03&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">The Alpha Arena experiment gave six frontier models $10K each to trade crypto derivatives over two weeks: losses ranged from Qwen3 Max's $652 to GPT-5's $5,679</a></span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=488409d856&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Google introduces Nested Learning, a new ML approach for continual learning that views models as nested optimization problems to enhance long context processing</a></span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=db05845f96&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">An account of working at Cursor for 60 days: a largely in-person culture, few scheduled meetings, aggressive recruiting, heavy internal product testing, more</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Brie Wolfson / </span><span class="pub_name">Colossus</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=367ced2639&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Vast Data, which develops data storage tools, inks a $1.17B AI deal with CoreWeave; Vast Data, valued at $9.1B in 2023, said it reached $200M ARR by Jan. 2025</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Krystal Hu / </span><span class="pub_name">Reuters</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=5efd761cf8&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">As US schools adopt AI, a look at the growing use of AI-powered monitoring tools like GoGuardian to scan students' chatbot conversations for signs of self-harm</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Janne Knodler / </span><span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=e6df858fd6&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">A look at Dominari Holdings and Yorkville Advisors, two little-known boutique banks that have helped finance the Trump family's flurry of crypto deals this year</a></span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=b158d9a170&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Procurement Sciences, whose AI software helps its customers find and build proposals for government contracts, raised a $30M Series B led by Catalyst Investors</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Chris Metinko / </span><span class="pub_name">Axios</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=938867d116&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Zurich-based DeepJudge, which builds customized search indexes for law firms that plug into AI tools like ChatGPT, raised a $41M Series A at a $300M valuation</a></span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=ac01ac6706&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Israel-based RAAAM, whose “GCRAM” on-chip memory tech aims to deliver up to 10x power savings relative to high-density SRAM, raised a $17.5M Series A led by NXP</a></span>
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