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🕶️ Apple tests four smart glasses designs 🤖 Meta is building an AI clone of Mark Zuckerberg 🇨🇳 China erases US lead in AI per Stanford report 🔨 Anthropic plots Lovable challenger, leak suggests 📚 Internet Archive faces existential legal threat ☁️ OpenAI blames Microsoft for limiting cloud partnerships 🎁 + 13 other news & articles you might like 🧰 + 6 trending tools 📚 + 2 trending papers & reports
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🕶️ Apple tests four smart glasses designs
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- Apple is currently testing four different smart glasses designs and could sell its first pair in 2027, with a possible unveiling later this year, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman.
- The four designs include large and slim rectangular frames, plus larger and smaller oval or circular frames, with color options like black, ocean blue, and light brown.
- The glasses won't have any displays but will let users take photos and videos, answer phone calls, play music, and interact with the long-promised Siri upgrade.
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🤖 Meta is building an AI clone of Mark Zuckerberg
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- Meta is developing an AI clone of CEO Mark Zuckerberg, built as a photorealistic 3D character that can talk with employees and give them feedback in his place.
- The character is being trained on Zuckerberg's mannerisms, tone, public statements, and recent thinking on company strategies so workers might feel more connected to the founder.
- This project is separate from a previously reported "CEO agent" tool meant to help Zuckerberg retrieve information quickly, and is part of Meta's broader push into AI.
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🇨🇳 China erases US lead in AI per Stanford report
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- Stanford's 2026 AI Index Report shows China has closed the AI performance gap with the U.S., with models from both countries now constantly trading places at the top of benchmarks.
- Over 90 percent of notable AI models come from private companies, and firms like Google, Anthropic, and OpenAI have stopped disclosing dataset sizes, training duration, and training code.
- Generative AI adoption has outpaced personal computers, the internet, and smartphones, with 53 percent of the world's population now using it regularly, though public trust remains low.
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🔨 Anthropic plots Lovable challenger, leak suggests
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- Leaked images suggest Anthropic is building a vibe-coding app builder inside its Claude chatbot, which would compete directly with Swedish startup Lovable in the fast-growing no-code development space.
- The screenshots posted to X show an in-chat tool that lets users generate applications like AI chatbots, photo albums, and landing pages from simple prompts typed into Claude.
- Lovable raised $330m last December at a $6.6bn valuation, and its head of growth Elena Verna recently said she views Big Tech companies as more threatening than rival startups.
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📚 Internet Archive faces existential legal threat
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- The Internet Archive and its Wayback Machine face a growing legal and access crisis as major news organizations, including USA Today Co. and The New York Times, block its web crawler from archiving their stories.
- Over 100 working journalists, including Rachel Maddow and Taylor Lorenz, signed a letter of support organized by the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Fight for the Future, defending the Wayback Machine's role in preserving reporting.
- News organizations say they are blocking crawlers broadly to fight scraping bots, with The Guardian citing concerns over potential misuse by AI companies of content sets crawled for preservation purposes.
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☁️ OpenAI blames Microsoft for limiting cloud partnerships
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- OpenAI's new revenue chief, Denise Dresser, said in an internal memo that the company's Microsoft partnership has limited its ability to reach enterprise customers on rival cloud platforms like Amazon's Bedrock.
- Dresser highlighted "staggering" inbound demand since OpenAI announced its Amazon deal in February, as the company fights to catch Anthropic's Claude model, which multiple industry figures described as dominating enterprise AI.
- The memo also attacked Anthropic's strategy as built on "fear" and "restriction," claiming the rival made a "strategic misstep" by not acquiring enough compute, while OpenAI's own infrastructure ramp is "materially ahead."
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iPhone 18 Pro Deep Red Color Likely as Android Rivals Prep Same Shade
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Anthropic brings Claude into Microsoft Word, and legal contract review leads its use cases
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X says it’s reducing payments to clickbait accounts
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AI’s next big chip bet may be biological
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Chinese EV exports jump 124% amid energy crunch
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Linux didn't approve AI kernel code. It made the human submitter the fuse.
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Rockstar got hacked again, but says it’s no big deal
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As AI use increases at work, many employees still choose not to use it: Gallup poll
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Musk betrays X by creating Instagram and TikTok accounts
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UK financial authorities assess potential risks of Anthropic’s new AI model: Report
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‘The Meta Brand Is Not Something People Want to Put Anywhere Near Their Face,’ Says Snapchat CEO
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🧰 Trending tools
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boringBar: a taskbar-style dock replacement for macOS that displays only current Space windows, enables Space switching via scrolling, and includes app pinning.
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Krisp Accent Converter for YouTube: converts spoken accents in YouTube videos to a neutral pronunciation in real-time, helping viewers better understand content from speakers with unfamiliar accents.
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Luma Agents: automates video, image, and audio production workflows with shared context across teams, reducing manual coordination and accelerating creative campaign output.
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Cleo Labs: automates compliance research for physical products by scanning 19,000+ global regulatory authorities to identify materials, labeling, certification, and customs requirements across markets.
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ContextPool: a persistent memory system for AI coding assistants that automatically stores context from previous sessions to eliminate redundant debugging and repeated explanations.
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showmd: a macOS Quick Look extension that renders Markdown files with proper formatting, collapsible YAML frontmatter, and dark mode support directly in Finder preview.
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📚 Trending papers & reports
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> Competitive pressure between companies drives them to automate jobs excessively even when they know it destroys consumer demand, and only a tax on automation can prevent this collective harm.
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> Large language model agents increasingly rely on external memory stores, reusable skills, and interaction protocols rather than model weights alone, transforming difficult cognitive tasks into forms that models can solve more reliably.
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