Ford confirms it is sticking with Apple CarPlay
Matthew Mountjoy / mobilesyrup - Ford’s chief financial officer, Sherry House, has confirmed that Apple CarPlay will remain available in its vehicles. According to iPhone in Canada, House said that many Ford drivers enjoy CarPlay, and that Ford reportedly wants to preserve the experience…
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TCL’s New Paper-Like Tablet Has a Bunch of AI in It
James Pero / gizmodo - The Note A1 Nxtpaper throws a lot of AI features at the wall.
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Sam Altman Offers $555K Salary To Fill Most Daunting Role In AI
BeauHD / slashdot - OpenAI is offering a $555,000 salary (plus equity) to recruit a new "head of preparedness," a high-pressure role tasked with anticipating and mitigating extreme AI risks. "This will be a stressful job, and you'll jump into the deep end pretty much immedia…
Editor: I'm not sure $555K is actually a competitive base if you have to live in the Bay Area. And - I wonder what valuation the equity component of comp is based on - you need to really believe in the upside here.
AI Preparedness Hiring
Sam Altman's Future Strategy
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Apple's Developer Academy Costs $20,000 Per Student, Taxpayers Footing Millions of the Bill [Report]
iclarified - Apple's Developer Academy in Detroit is drawing attention for its steep operating costs and the heavy burden it places on public funding, raising questions about whether the program delivers enough value for the investment. An in-depth review of the initi…
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China outlines rules to regulate human-like AI companion apps
Mike Wheatley / siliconangle - China’s internet regulator issued new draft rules on Saturday that aim to regulate the use of artificial intelligence “companions,” which are defined as systems that interact with humans and display “human-like traits and behavior.” The new rules, called …
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Former IBM CEO and savior Louis Gerstner dies aged 83
Mike Wheatley / siliconangle - Louis Gerstner, the former Chief Executive Officer credited with saving IBM Corp. from bankruptcy, has died aged 83, the company revealed on Sunday. Gerstner (pictured) served as Chairman and CEO of IBM from 1993 to 2002, taking over during one of the dar…
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More original AirPods test colors revealed
appleinsider - A new leak has added to the list of colors Apple is known to have tried out before releasing its all-white AirPods charging cases back in 2016.Purported test colors for 2016's original AirPods charging cases — image credit: KosutamiIt is an unbelievable n…
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CES 2026: Everything we expect from the year's biggest tech event
Sanuj Bhatia / pocket-lint - From AI-powered fridges to powerful new laptops and chips, here's everything we're expecting from CES 2026.
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Before Electric Vehicles Became Political, There Was the Toyota Prius
Lawrence Ulrich / nytimes - The political polarization of battery-powered cars may have started when Toyota released its first hybrid model 25 years ago.
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Xiaomi’s S25 Ultra rival features a DSLR-like physical zoom ring paired with a 200MP zoom camera
digitaltrends - The Xiaomi 17 Ultra isn’t just chasing higher megapixels. It’s rethinking how smartphone zoom should feel with a physical zoom ring wrapped around a massive 200MP periscope camera.The post Xiaomi’s S25 Ultra rival features a DSLR-like physical zoom ring p…
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ServiceNow to Acquire Cybersecurity Startup Armis for About $7.75 Billion
Nicholas G. Miller / wsj - ServiceNow agreed to acquire cybersecurity startup Armis for about $7.75 billion in cash in a move intended to take advantage of growing demand for AI security.
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Apple’s First Foldable iPhone Still Aims to Kill the Crease
Nehal Malik / iphoneincanada - Apple’s long-rumoured foldable iPhone may still be a little less than a year away, but new details suggest the company is continuing to push hard on one of the category’s biggest pain points: the visible display crease. According to a new report from MacR…
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ChatGPT gets tone controls: OpenAI adds new personalization options
Matthias Bastian / the-decoder - OpenAI now lets users customize how ChatGPT communicates.The article ChatGPT gets tone controls: OpenAI adds new personalization options appeared first on The Decoder.
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Swiss Glucose-Monitoring Startup Liom Raises €13.9 Million In Series A Round
Kailee Rainse / startuprise - Schwyz-based Liom, a developer of a non-invasive glucose-monitoring wearable and biomarker monitoring solutions, has secured a €13.9 million (CHF 13 million) extension to its Series A financing round. The round was led by existing investors, with new part…
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Enlightra Raises $15M To Develop Energy-Efficient AI Data Centre Lasers
Kailee Rainse / startuprise - Enlightra, a deeptech startup focused on developing chip-scale multiwavelength lasers for next-generation data transmission, has raised $15 million in funding. Investors include Y Combinator, Runa Capital, Pegasus Tech Ventures, Protocol Labs, Halo Labs, …
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Imprint becomes latest Irish-founded unicorn with $150m Series D raise
Ann O’Dea / siliconrepublic - New York-based fintech Imprint, co-founded by Irishman Daragh Murphy, has hit a $1.2bn valuation with its latest $150m Series D raise.Read more: Imprint becomes latest Irish-founded unicorn with $150m Series D raise
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DoorDash Integrates App With OpenAI’s ChatGPT to Facilitate Grocery Shopping
PYMNTS / pymnts - A growing number of consumers will be able to shop for groceries in OpenAI’s ChatGPT, check out on DoorDash, and have their orders delivered from local grocery stores in as little as an hour. This experience is enabled by the new DoorDash app in ChatGPT, …
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China reportedly has a prototype EUV machine built by ex-ASML employees
Anna Washenko / engadget - A report from Reuters claims that scientists in China have created a prototype of a machine that could eventually be used to produce semiconductor chips capable of powering artificial intelligence. Sources told the publication that a team in Shenzhen comp…
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OpenAI in Talks with Amazon for $10 Billion Investment: Report
Jon Swartz / techstrong - OpenAI is in preliminary discussions to raise at least $10 billion from Amazon.com Inc., according to a report in The Information, citing sources familiar with the matter. The potential deal would value the ChatGPT creator at more than $500 billion and in…
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Apple leaks reveal iPhone Fold specs, a tabletop robot, new MacBooks, and more
techspot - According to a Weibo post by well-known tipster Digital Chat Station, Apple's foldable iPhone will do away with Face ID and bring back Touch ID. However, instead of using a 3D ultrasonic under-display sensor, Apple is said to be opting for a side-mounted …
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