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📱 Apple to become number one smartphone maker

🤝 Warner Music partners with Suno after settling lawsuit

🎙️ ChatGPT merges voice and text into one chat window

🤖 Nvidia says its GPUs are a 'generation ahead' of Google's AI chips

🎮 Musk proposes Grok 5 match against best League of Legends team

📉 HP to cut about 6,000 jobs in AI push

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• Counterpoint Research predicts Apple will hit a 19.4 percent market share in 2025, allowing the company to pass Samsung as the world's top phone maker thanks to ten percent year-over-year growth.
• The report claims sales of the iPhone 17 series are outpacing the industry, while consumers who purchased devices during the Covid-19 boom are finally entering a major upgrade phase this year.
• Current data suggests this lead will hold until 2029, driven by owners of used handsets switching to new units alongside the arrival of a foldable iPhone and the iPhone 17e.

• Warner Music Group settled a copyright lawsuit against the AI music startup and signed a pact to compensate artists while giving creators control over how their work gets used in generated tracks.
• This agreement includes WMG selling concert-discovery platform Songkick to Suno for an undisclosed amount, though the app will remain operational as a destination for fans seeking tickets to live shows.
• The company plans to launch licensed models next year that replace current systems, restricting audio downloads to paid accounts while letting free users only play or share songs made on the service.

• OpenAI updated the user interface so you can access ChatGPT Voice directly inside the main chat window, removing the need to switch over to a separate mode showing an animated blue circle.
• You can now watch answers appear as text and view visuals like images or maps in real time while you talk, rather than just listening to the audio in a blank screen.
• The change is rolling out now as the default on web and mobile apps, but anyone can return to the original experience by choosing that specific option under the settings menu.

• Nvidia broke its usual silence to claim its GPUs remain a “generation ahead” of custom silicon after reports surfaced that Meta might replace its hardware with Google’s Tensor Processing Units (TPUs).
• The chipmaker argues its general-purpose architecture offers more flexibility than specialized ASICs, even as Google proves its vertically integrated stack works by training the Gemini 3 model entirely on its own chips.
• Investors worry about a fracture in Nvidia’s market share because a potential deal would see Meta renting compute via Google Cloud starting in 2026 instead of buying H100 and Blackwell chips.

• Elon Musk wants to challenge the world's best League of Legends team with xAI’s Grok 5 in a match where the bot is restricted to standard camera feeds and human-speed clicking.
• Riot Games co-founder Marc Merrill said he is open to the exhibition, while T1 signaled that they are ready to participate by posting a GIF of Faker on X.
• Former pro Doublelift doubts the large language model can handle the deep synergy required to win, yet there is already interest in seeing an Optimus operate the mouse and keyboard.

• HP says it will cut between 4,000 and 6,000 staff members by the end of fiscal 2028 as the big tech firm shifts its focus toward using automation tools and agentic AI.
• The company estimates this restructuring move will save $1 billion across three years, though the changes are expected to incur around $650 million in costs as CEO Enrique Lores redesigns processes.
• Shares fell more than 5 percent after the earnings report, joining a list of businesses like Amazon and Cisco that laid off workers this year to drive artificial intelligence adoption.

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