• Cook Out, Ternus Named Apple CEO
  • Johny Srouji elevated to chief hardware officer immediately
  • Cook becomes executive chairman; board approved unanimously
  • The Verge, Apple Newsroom, TechCrunch
• Amazon Invests $5B in Anthropic; $100B AWS Deal
  • Amazon's total Anthropic investment now reaches $13B
  • Deal locks in up to 5GW of new training compute
  • TechCrunch, Anthropic, The Information
• Vercel Confirms Breach; Customer Credentials Stolen
  • Attack traced to employee's compromised Context AI app
  • Hackers listing stolen data online for $2M
  • TechCrunch, The Register, The Information
• GitHub Copilot Freezes Signups, Raises Prices
  • Week-over-week costs have nearly doubled since January
  • Pro, Pro+, Student tiers paused; Opus removed from Pro
  • The Information, The Register, Techmeme
• Google Forms Coding Strike Team; Brin Prods DeepMind
  • Brin told DeepMind staffers to aggressively pivot on agents
  • Dedicated team assembled to close gap with top coding models
  • The Information, Techmeme

• Kimi K2.6 Released With Open-Source Agent Swarms
  • State-of-the-art on SWE-Bench Pro and OSWorld-Verified
  • Long-horizon execution and agent swarm capabilities included
  • Kimi
• Alibaba Drops Qwen3.6-Max-Preview to Strong Reception
  • Preview model available now via qwen.ai and API
  • 613 Hacker News points and 322 comments on launch
  • Qwen
• OpenAI Chronicle Builds Codex Memory From Screenshots
  • Research preview for Pro subscribers on macOS only
  • Screen captures feed context into Codex coding agent
  • Techmeme
• Deezer: 44% of Daily Music Uploads Now AI-Generated
  • ~75,000 AI tracks uploaded daily; 2M+ flagged per month
  • 85% of AI song streams detected as fraudulent, demonetized
  • Ars Technica, The Verge

• Project Prometheus Nears $10B Raise at $38B Valuation
  • Includes $6.2B initial raise closed in November
  • Bezos-backed AI startup at $38B post-money per FT
  • Techmeme
• Polymarket in Funding Talks at $15B Valuation
  • Prediction market platform seeking fresh capital round
  • $15B figure from sources cited by The Information
  • The Information
• CuspAI Raising $200M+ Toward $1B Valuation
  • UK startup applies AI to discover new materials
  • Discussions ongoing per Bloomberg sources
  • Techmeme

• Tesla Hid Thousands of Fatal Autonomous Driving Incidents
  • Data leak exposes systemic coverup per French investigation
  • $243M verdict issued to victims in first court ruling
  • Hacker News / RTS
• EU Forces Replaceable Phone Batteries From 2027
  • Rules approved in 2023 but taking effect next year
  • USB-C also required; aimed at cutting electronic waste
  • Hacker News / The Olive Press
• Palantir's NHS Contract Faces UK Government Exit
  • £330M deal leaves NHS with no software ownership
  • MPs, unions, and campaigners pressuring ministers to cancel
  • The Register

• FAA Grounds Blue Origin After New Glenn Orbit Failure
  • Booster landed successfully; payload placed in wrong orbit
  • AST SpaceMobile's BlueBird satellite failed to reach target
  • Engadget, The Register, Techmeme
• SK Hynix Starts Mass-Producing Next-Gen AI Memory Module
  • 192GB SOCAMM2 LPDDR5X designed for Nvidia Vera Rubin
  • Mass production now underway per Korea Herald report
  • Techmeme
• Huawei Launches World's First Wide Foldable Phone
  • Pura X Max: passport-style foldable, launched in China
  • Beats Samsung and rivals to wide-format foldable market
  • The Verge

• TSMC Earnings, New N3 Fabs, The Nvidia Ramp
  • TSMC leadership may not fully believe the AI growth story
  • Thompson's analysis of chip supply and platform power shifts
  • Stratechery
• Figma's Woes Compound With Claude Design
  • Claude Design adds new pressure to an already-struggling Figma
  • AI-native tools dismantling the SaaS design category
  • Martin Alderson
• Quantum Computers Won't Crack 128-Bit Symmetric Keys
  • Asymmetric crypto (ECDH, RSA) is vulnerable; AES is not
  • Filippo Valsorda corrects a key widespread crypto misconception
  • Filippo Valsorda