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Apple finally brought touch to the MacBook Pro. But is it worth paying $400 more?
A closer look at the new display, the trade-offs, and who should actually buy one.
New transparency update from X.
The platform’s Under the Hood report now provides more insight into visibility-limiting labels applied to accounts and posts.
It also shows when content has been restricted due to local legal requirements, including the country involved.
A step towards making content moderation and post visibility more transparent.
Transparency matters.
Under the Hood now shows you which posts received a visibility-limiting label, making it easier to see what’s affected: teapawt.org/i/jf/under_the_hood
This was a top request — thanks for the feedback.
You’ll see the specific posts listed when fewer than 5% of your posts during the report period have that label.
ALT Screenshot of X's Under The Hood feature, showing a list of posts that have a given label.
I think we’re entering a phase where having the best AI model won’t be enough.
Speed, reliability, cost, integrations and the ability to work across different platforms will matter just as much.
The winners won’t necessarily be the companies with the smartest model, but the ones that make AI genuinely useful in people’s everyday lives.
What do you think will matter most in the next phase of AI?
The AI race is entering a new phase.
For the past few years, the focus has been on building bigger models, securing GPUs, and expanding data centers.
Now investors are asking when that investment will pay off.
Amazon’s infrastructure spending and Intel’s latest outlook are bringing that question back into focus.
AI demand is real, but so is the cost of building it.
Do you think the spending will pay off soon, or are investors right to be cautious?
Apple is making moves in AI beyond the consumer-facing side of things.
Its deal with Ascend.io gives Apple access to agentic data engineering technology, certain patents and the opportunity to hire members of its team.
It’s a reminder that the AI race isn’t just about building better models.
It’s also about the data infrastructure and engineering capabilities behind them.
An interesting move from Apple.
One of the biggest barriers to enterprise AI adoption isn’t intelligence. It’s trust.
Companies want the benefits of powerful AI models, but they also need control over their most sensitive data.
OpenAI’s Private Intelligence is an interesting step towards addressing that challenge.
The next phase of AI won’t just be about building smarter models. It will be about making them safe enough to use where it matters most.
Do you think privacy will become a key competitive advantage in AI?
Privacy should advance as fast as intelligence. OpenAI Private Intelligence gives businesses stronger controls over their data while using our most capable models.
We’re building these protections in close collaboration with some of our largest customers to help businesses apply frontier AI to their most sensitive work.
openai.com/business/private-…
Reddit has been one of the last major platforms where you could browse freely without an account.
Now, that’s starting to change.
The company is moving towards a primarily logged-in experience, citing data scraping, declining search traffic and the need for a more direct relationship with users.
But this raises a bigger question:
Are we slowly moving towards an internet where browsing freely is becoming the exception rather than the norm?
Major changes underway at Reddit as it transitions to being primarily a service for logged-in users
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Fox: Why are you here this morning?
Trump rally attendee: Well, in the late 70s, I was a little too young to go to South America for the Jonestown Massacre. But this is as close as I'll ever get, so that's why I'm here. There's nothing like seeing a cult right up front.
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DoorDash said that it is open to working with third-party agent makers
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AI infrastructure is starting to look more like manufacturing.
Instead of building every data center from scratch, companies are exploring factory-built, modular systems that can be deployed much faster.
The real challenge? Scaling production while dealing with power, supply chains and cooling.
This could change how quickly AI infrastructure gets built.
Runware is building a factory to turn out prefabricated AI data centers on an assembly line. The real test will be whether it can deliver at that scale.
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Ignore the pile of previous favorite notebooks; this is the one that’s gonna change it all for me. theverge.com/tech/1022894/ip…
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Stewart was best known as Captain Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek. theverge.com/news/1022626/pa…
We’ve spent years talking about AI changing how we interact with technology.
But what if the next big leap is removing the need to interact with it physically at all?
Brain-computer interfaces are getting increasingly interesting.
Would you ever use one?
Foxconn and OpenAI could be working on something interesting.
Foxconn’s chairman, Young Liu, confirmed meeting Sam Altman today and said the two companies are working on a new collaboration.
No details have been announced yet, but considering Foxconn’s role in AI hardware manufacturing, this is definitely worth keeping an eye on.
What do you think they’re working on?🤔
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Two helicopters collided in mid-air near an Oregon airport on Thursday, the Federal Aviation Administration said.
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All of us at Marvel Studios are deeply saddened by the passing of Sir Patrick Stewart. Sir Patrick brought Professor Charles Xavier to life with extraordinary grace, intelligence, and humanity, defining the character for generations of fans, from "X-Men" to "Logan" to "Avengers: Doomsday." He was a singular talent, a generous collaborator, and a true gentleman. Our hearts go out to his wife Sunny, his children, his friends, and the countless fans around the world whose lives he touched with his art.
