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📱 Apple unveils iPhone 17, iPhone Air, new Airpods and more
👓 Amazon enters the AI smart glasses race
🏢 Microsoft mandates a return to office
💸 New web system lets sites charge AI firms
🚀 Oracle’s stock makes biggest single-day gain in 26 years
🤝 Microsoft now buys AI from OpenAI rival Anthropic
🎁 + 17 other news you might like
🔮 + 3 handpicked research papers and tools
📱 Apple unveils iPhone 17, iPhone Air, new Airpods and more LINK
Apple introduced the very thin iPhone Air with 27 hours of battery life, while the iPhone 17 Pro gets an A19 Pro chip and a camera "plateau" with three 48-megapixel Fusion cameras.
The base model 17 features a 6.3-inch display with ProMotion and an 18MP Center Stage camera that uses auto-reframing software to help keep subjects centered during dynamic shots.
The new AirPods Pro 3 have four times better active noise cancellation, support for Live Translate, an "optimized" shape for a snugger fit, and up to 8 hours of battery.
👓 Amazon enters the AI smart glasses race LINK
Amazon is reportedly developing two smart glasses projects, a consumer device codenamed ‘Jayhawk’ and an enterprise model named ‘Amelia’ for its logistics network, directly challenging Meta's market dominance.
The consumer-focused ‘Jayhawk’ glasses will feature a full-color display for one eye and deep Alexa integration for shopping, with a planned launch window between late 2026 and early 2027.
Meanwhile, the ‘Amelia’ model is designed for Amazon's delivery drivers, providing on-screen instructions to boost efficiency with an aggressive target launch of Q2 2026 for its own internal use.
🏢 Microsoft mandates a return to office LINK
Microsoft has ended its pandemic-era remote work flexibility, establishing a new policy that requires employees to return to the office for a minimum of three days every single week.
The company cites internal data showing face-to-face collaboration is essential for innovation in artificial intelligence, helping teams become more energized and deliver stronger results when working together.
This new mandate begins with a phased rollout for staff in the Puget Sound region living within a 50-mile radius, who are expected to work onsite by February 2026.
💸 New web system lets sites charge AI firms LINK
The new "Really Simply Licensing" protocol lets publishers add compensation terms directly to their robots.txt file, creating a clear payment requirement for any AI firms that want to use site content.
This system supports different royalty models, such as pay-per-crawl when a bot collects data, and pay-per-inference, which pays creators each time an AI uses their information for a response.
Early adopters like Reddit and Medium can enforce these rules with technical partners like Fastly blocking unapproved agents, or through legal action based on their intellectual property rights.
🚀 Oracle’s stock makes biggest single-day gain in 26 years LINK
Oracle's stock is poised for its biggest single-day surge since the dot-com boom, rallying 28 percent after hours despite the company missing its recent earnings and revenue marks.
This investor excitement ignores current results and is singularly focused on huge future growth from Oracle's booming cloud infrastructure business and a host of new artificial intelligence deals.
The software vendor expects its cloud infrastructure revenue to jump 77 percent to $18 billion this fiscal year, eventually climbing to a projected $144 billion in subsequent years.
🤝 Microsoft now buys AI from OpenAI rival Anthropic LINK
Microsoft will now pay for Anthropic's AI to help power features in Office 365 apps like Word and PowerPoint, ending its sole reliance on OpenAI for its productivity suite.
Company leaders reportedly believe Anthropic's latest model, Claude Sonnet 4, performs better than OpenAI’s for certain functions like creating aesthetically pleasing PowerPoint presentations.
The decision to diversify happens as OpenAI also pursues independence by developing its own AI chips and a jobs platform that could compete with Microsoft's LinkedIn.
Other news you might like
- The iPhone Air is a hint at the iPhone’s future, which could include foldablesLINK
- Apple’s N1 chip extends its custom silicon into Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and ThreadLINK
- Apple barely talked about AI at its big iPhone 17 eventLINK
- Spotify adds lossless streaming after 8 years of teasingLINK
- Robinhood launches social media platform for tradersLINK
- Nvidia unveils new GPU designed for long-context inferenceLINK
- Arm unveils new Lumex AI focused smartphone CPUs with some impressive statsLINK
- Zoox’s robotaxis are open for business in Las VegasLINK
- Apple’s biggest announcement today was Memory Integrity EnforcementLINK
- Meta Bets on ‘Buy Over Build,’ Inking $140M AI Image Deal with Black Forest LabsLINK
- Anthropic's Claude now lets users edit Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and PDFs in chatLINK
- Elon Musk's Neuralink says 12 patients have used its brain interface chips for 2,000 days and 15,000 hoursLINK
- Reddit is dropping subscriber counts on subredditsLINK
- SpaceX’s lesson from last Starship flight? “We need to seal the tiles.”LINK
- Google Pixel is now the fastest growing premium smartphone brand in the worldLINK
- US nuclear firm gets funding to bury mini reactors a mile underground, saving 80%LINK
- Smart ring maker Oura’s CEO addresses recent backlash, says future is a ‘cloud of wearables’LINK
Latest research and tools
R-Zero: Self-Evolving Reasoning LLM from Zero Data: this paper introduces a language model that teaches itself complex reasoning by generating its own training data, starting with no human examples.LINK
Vicinae: a native launcher for Linux providing fast, keyboard-first access to system actions, file searches, and a store for extensions inspired by Raycast.LINK
Deno Fresh 2.0.0: a modern web framework for building fast, reliable, and personalized web applications.LINK
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