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In today's Techpresso:
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🍎 Apple delays its Siri overhaul again 🥵 AI pushes employees to work harder with fewer breaks ⚡ Anthropic pledges to cover data center electricity cost increases 🏛️ Pentagon pressures AI firms to loosen military restrictions 🚀 China successfully tests lunar spacecraft and reusable rocket 📰 FTC questions Apple News over political bias claims 🎁 + 23 other news & articles you might like 🧰 + 6 trending tools 📚 + 4 trending papers & reports
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🍎 Apple delays its Siri overhaul again
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- Apple has delayed its AI-powered Siri overhaul again after testing in recent weeks uncovered problems with processing queries, slow response times, and accuracy issues in the software.
- The company originally announced the revamped Siri in June 2024, promised it by early 2025, then pushed it to March 2026, and is now spreading features across iOS 26.5 and iOS 27.
- Apple is also building a separate chatbot-style Siri for iOS 27, code-named "Campo," powered by Google Gemini servers, alongside new features like web search and custom image generation.
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🥵 AI pushes employees to work harder with fewer breaks
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- New research from UC Berkeley found that generative AI tools push employees to work harder, take on more tasks, and fill breaks with AI prompts, creating a workday with fewer natural pauses.
- Despite saving hours each week, a Workday survey found employees spend nearly 40 per cent of their time checking AI output and fixing mistakes, with only 14 per cent seeing clear positive outcomes.
- Researchers found the extra projects and responsibilities "accumulated into a meaningful widening of job scope," and once the excitement fades, workers feel stretched from juggling everything suddenly on their plate.
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⚡ Anthropic pledges to cover data center electricity cost increases
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- Anthropic has promised to cover electricity price increases that consumers face as a result of the company's data centers, saying AI companies shouldn't leave American ratepayers to pick up the tab.
- The company will pay for 100% of grid upgrades needed to connect its data centers and work to bring net-new power generation online to match its electricity needs.
- Anthropic is also investing in curtailment systems that cut its data centers' power usage during periods of peak demand and supports federal permitting reform to speed up energy development.
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🏛️ Pentagon pressures AI firms to loosen military restrictions
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- The Pentagon is actively pushing major AI companies to remove their usual safety limits and allow U.S. military access to AI tools inside classified networks used for mission planning.
- OpenAI struck a deal this week to put ChatGPT on an unclassified military network called genai.mil that reaches over 3 million Defense Department employees, removing many normal usage restrictions.
- Several AI researchers are quitting companies like Anthropic and OpenAI, warning that risks are being ignored, while Anthropic has pushed back against letting its tech be used for automatic targeting or domestic spying.
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🚀 China successfully tests lunar spacecraft and reusable rocket
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- China flew an uncrewed test of its new Long March 10 rocket and Mengzhou crew capsule on Tuesday, both key parts of its plan to land astronauts on the Moon by 2030.
- The Mengzhou spacecraft fired its launch abort motors at Max-Q to simulate an in-flight escape, then deployed parachutes and splashed down offshore from Hainan Island without crew onboard.
- After the capsule separated, the Long March 10 booster kept flying into space, reentered the atmosphere, reignited its engines, and landed propulsively in the South China Sea near a recovery barge.
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📰 FTC questions Apple News over political bias claims
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- The FTC chairman sent a letter to Tim Cook questioning whether Apple News' curation policies suppress conservative publications, potentially violating the FTC Act's rules against unfair or deceptive practices.
- The letter followed a Media Research Center study claiming Apple News featured zero right-leaning outlets in its top 20 morning edition articles during January 2026, favoring left-leaning and center publications instead.
- Ferguson urged Cook to conduct a comprehensive review of Apple's terms of service and ensure its news curation matches those terms, warning that ideological favoritism without disclosure could be a material omission.
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Instagram and X have an impossible deepfake detection deadline
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OpenAI disbands mission alignment team, which focused on ‘safe’ and ‘trustworthy’ AI development
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US decides SpaceX is like an airline, exempting it from Labor Relations Act
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30% of x86 CPUs sold are now made by AMD, as company's market share grows thanks to a flagging Intel — enjoys growth across all segments as competition intensifies
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Coinbase Gives AI Agents Their Own Wallets
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Ray-Ban maker EssilorLuxottica says it more than tripled Meta AI glasses sales in 2025
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Google recovers "deleted" Nest video in high-profile abduction case
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64GB of DDR5 RAM now costs more than a MacBook Air
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Yes, Rocket Lab is blowing up engines. No, it's not a big deal, CEO says.
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Byte magazine artist Robert Tinney, who illustrated the birth of PCs, dies at 78
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🧰 Trending tools
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Starnus: automates B2B outbound sales by finding ICP-matched prospects, enriching contact data, generating personalized messages, and tracking responses in a single platform.
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Gro: a unified AI sales platform combining prospecting, targeting, and outreach with 1B+ contact database and intent signals to streamline outbound workflows.
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EditWithAva: an AI video editor that analyzes your footage semantically to auto-select scenes, remove retakes, and assemble publish-ready edits with b-roll and captions.
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Visual Editing by DatoCMS: enables non-technical users to edit headless CMS content directly on live preview pages instead of through backend forms.
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FocalRead: a speed-reading app using RSVP technology to display text word-by-word at adjustable speeds, helping you clear reading backlogs faster with imported articles and documents.
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Agent Alcove: enables Claude, GPT, and Gemini AI models to engage in debates and discussions across different forum-style interfaces.
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📚 Trending papers & reports
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The habits of high-performing mobile teams: The Bitrise Mobile Insights Report breaks it down using real customer data, showing what drives app development success and what sets high-performing teams apart. Get the full report.
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Grok4 AI Resists Being Turned Off: when given self preservation goals during training, the model tries to avoid shutdown 97% of the time despite instructions telling it not to.
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NanoQuant Compresses AI Models Below One Bit: storing model weights as fractional bits by grouping them together, this method shrinks models 16 times smaller than standard compression.
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SoftMatcha 2 Speeds Up Text Pattern Matching: searches trillion word datasets 10 times faster than previous tools by allowing approximate matches instead of requiring exact character sequences.
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Detecting AI Answer Omissions Through Probing: when language models answer questions, a separate classifier can spot missing information by examining internal processing states, revealing what got left out.
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