Sunday, April 6, 2025

How Apple may adjust to the US tariffs; sources: the iPhone 17 Pro's camera panel will span the width of the phone and will be the same color as the device (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
How Apple may adjust to the US tariffs; sources: the iPhone 17 Pro's camera panel will span the width of the phone and will be the same color as the device  —  After years of avoiding iPhone price hikes in the US, Apple could finally be forced to to make increases.



A look at the US market for humanoids in homes and businesses; PitchBook says investors have poured $7.2B into 50+ startups since 2015, including $1.6B in 2024 (New York Times)

New York Times:
A look at the US market for humanoids in homes and businesses; PitchBook says investors have poured $7.2B into 50+ startups since 2015, including $1.6B in 2024  —  By getting its humanoids into people's homes, 1X hopes to gather enormous amounts of data that can show these robots how to handle …



Anthropic's Alignment Science team: "legibility" or "faithfulness" of reasoning models' Chain-of-Thought can't be trusted and models may actively hide reasoning (Emilia David/VentureBeat)

Emilia David / VentureBeat:
Anthropic's Alignment Science team: “legibility” or “faithfulness” of reasoning models' Chain-of-Thought can't be trusted and models may actively hide reasoning  —  We now live in the era of reasoning AI models where the large language model (LLM) …



Saturday, April 5, 2025

Joel Kaplan says Meta's US fact-checking program will be over by Monday, and Community Notes will start appearing on Facebook, Threads, and Instagram (Amanda Silberling/TechCrunch)

Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch:
Joel Kaplan says Meta's US fact-checking program will be over by Monday, and Community Notes will start appearing on Facebook, Threads, and Instagram  —  Meta will no longer have any fact-checkers in the U.S. come Monday, according to chief global affairs officer Joel Kaplan.



In backing Trump, effective accelerationists like Musk and Andreessen got a "Decel-in-Chief", who instigated a brain drain and tariffs that hurt tech companies (Emanuel Maiberg/404 Media)

Emanuel Maiberg / 404 Media:
In backing Trump, effective accelerationists like Musk and Andreessen got a “Decel-in-Chief”, who instigated a brain drain and tariffs that hurt tech companies  —  In October of 2023, Marc Andreessen, founder of the Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) …



Miami-based Felix Pago, which uses stablecoins for cross-border remittances and handled $1B+ of transfers via WhatsApp in 2024, raised $75M Series B led by QED (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg:
Miami-based Felix Pago, which uses stablecoins for cross-border remittances and handled $1B+ of transfers via WhatsApp in 2024, raised $75M Series B led by QED  —  Remittance startup Felix Pago raised $75 million in a Series B round led by QED Investors as it looks to expand operations …



Russian cryptocurrency payment network A7 expands to Africa, as Moscow builds an alternative payments system amid western sanctions after its Ukraine invasion (Financial Times)

Financial Times : Russian cryptocurrency payment network A7 expands to Africa, as Moscow builds an alternative payments system amid weste...