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In today's Techpresso:
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🇪🇺 Apple calls for changes to anti-monopoly laws 👀 Intel seeks an investment from Apple 🔎 Google launches real-time AI voice search 🤔 Apple responds to 'scratchgate' concerns 💥 Meta poaches OpenAI scientist to help lead its AI lab 🤝 Microsoft adds Anthropic AI models to Copilot 🎁 + 18 other news you might like 🔮 + 3 handpicked research papers and tools
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🇪🇺 Apple calls for changes to anti-monopoly laws
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- Apple is delaying features like live translation through AirPods and iPhone screen mirroring in Europe, blaming the Digital Markets Act’s rules on interoperability with products made by rival companies.
- The live translation service is specifically blocked because the DMA would require giving other headphone brands access to conversation data, which the company claims creates a serious privacy problem.
- The iPhone maker warns its list of delayed EU features will get longer and has threatened to stop shipping some products to the bloc entirely unless the legislation is repealed.
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👀 Intel seeks an investment from Apple
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- Intel is in early talks with Apple, seeking an investment in its chipmaking business just days after securing a $5 billion commitment from its AI chip industry rival Nvidia.
- An agreement could revive Intel's struggling foundry by securing Apple as a top-tier customer, years after the iPhone maker dropped the company for its own custom-designed central processing units.
- For Apple, the potential deal offers a way to diversify its chipmaking supplier base beyond Taiwan and bring more of its manufacturing operations back to America, offsetting geopolitical risks.
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🔎 Google launches real-time AI voice search
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- Google launched Search Live in the U.S., letting you ask questions aloud to an AI that uses your phone’s camera to understand and discuss what you are currently seeing.
- The system uses a technique called “query fan-out” to also look for answers to related topics, giving you a more comprehensive response instead of answering one specific question.
- You can now search by pointing your camera at an object and speaking, with the AI designed to back up its answers by providing links to other web resources.
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🤔 Apple responds to 'scratchgate' concerns
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- Apple says marks on in-store iPhones are not scratches but "material transfer" from MagSafe retail stands, explaining the residue can be wiped away without any damage to the phone.
- For the camera plateau, Apple's defense is that its anodized aluminum edges are durable but will still show scratches from normal wear, similar to its other products.
- A teardown expert pinpointed a "spalling" problem where layering the anodization layer causes it to easily flake away instead of deforming, explaining why the camera edges scratch.
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💥 Meta poaches OpenAI scientist to help lead its AI lab
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- Yang Song, a researcher who led OpenAI's strategic explorations team, is now the research principal at Meta Superintelligence Labs, reporting to another former OpenAI scientist, Shengjia Zhao.
- Song’s new manager is Shengjia Zhao, an OpenAI alum who Meta appointed as chief scientist in July after he threatened to go back to his previous employer, WIRED reported.
- The new hire’s past work includes a technique that helped inform OpenAI’s DALL-E 2 image generation model, while his recent research focused on processing large, complex datasets.
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🤝 Microsoft adds Anthropic AI models to Copilot
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- Microsoft is adding Anthropic's AI models as an alternative to OpenAI inside some Microsoft 365 Copilot services, marking a major shift away from its exclusive partnership for its tools.
- The Researcher reasoning agent can now use Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.1, while Copilot Studio will allow customers to select both Claude Sonnet 4 and Opus 4.1 for agentic tasks.
- While the main Microsoft 365 Copilot continues to run on OpenAI models, Frontier Program customers can already access Claude in Researcher, with more integrations planned for the future.
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SonyShell: a Linux tool that connects to a Sony camera over a network to automatically download new photos and optionally run a script on each file.
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Rails Fork Proposal: an open letter calling for a new version of the web framework, to be developed independently from its creator due to his controversial public statements.
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Strategic Bluffing in Competitive Scrabble: a new analysis shows that playing a fake word is a viable high-risk, high-reward strategy that is most effective against opponents who are uncertain of the official dictionary.
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