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In today's Techpresso:
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👍 The TikTok deal is done 🚗 Tesla is finally doing unsupervised robotaxi rides 💼 Amazon to cut 14000 jobs 🤖 Tesla to sell humanoid robots by late 2027 👀 Apple hardware chief gains expanded role in CEO race 🎮 Epic and Google signed secret 800 million dollar deal 🎁 + 18 other news & articles you might like 🧰 + 6 trending tools 📚 + 4 trending papers & reports
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👍 The TikTok deal is done
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- TikTok announced it has completed a joint venture deal that will allow the short-form video app to keep operating in the United States, with ByteDance retaining 19.9% of the new entity.
- The TikTok USDS Joint Venture will be run by former operations head Adam Presser as CEO, governed by a seven-member board with an American majority, and backed by investors including Silver Lake, Oracle, and MGX.
- TikTok's content-recommendation algorithm will now be hosted in Oracle's American data centers, and the new structure also keeps sibling apps like CapCut and Lemon8 running in the country.
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🚗 Tesla is finally doing unsupervised robotaxi rides
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- Tesla has started running a small number of robotaxi rides in Austin without human safety monitors inside the vehicles, mixing them with cars that still have monitors onboard.
- The company's robotaxis have crashed about eight times in five months even with safety monitors present, and Tesla operates only a few dozen vehicles in Texas with a waitlist.
- Waymo has driven over 100 million miles with fully driverless cars and completed 14 million paid rides in 2025, while Tesla's 7.4 billion miles come from driver-supervised Full Self-Driving.
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💼 Amazon to cut 14000 jobs
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- Amazon is planning to cut around 14,000 corporate jobs starting next week, marking another major round of layoffs as the company pushes to become leaner and more focused on AI.
- The cuts are part of a larger effort to eliminate about 30,000 corporate roles, roughly 10% of the company's office workforce, targeting teams in technology, human resources, marketing, and finance.
- CEO Andy Jassy and other leaders say Amazon is automating repetitive tasks with AI tools and shifting resources toward high-growth areas like AI development and cloud infrastructure.
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🤖 Tesla to sell humanoid robots by late 2027
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- Tesla plans to start selling its Optimus humanoid robots to regular customers by the end of 2027, according to CEO Elon Musk speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
- Musk said the robots will have very high reliability, very high safety, and a wide range of functionality by then, allowing owners to ask them to do basically anything.
- Tesla already has Optimus robots doing simple tasks in its factories, and the company expects them to handle more complex tasks within those industrial settings by the end of this year.
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👀 Apple hardware chief gains expanded role in CEO race
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- Apple has given hardware chief John Ternus control over design teams, making him a top candidate to one day replace CEO Tim Cook, who turned 65 in November.
- Tim Cook quietly asked Ternus to manage Apple's design teams at the end of last year, adding one of the company's most critical functions to his existing hardware role.
- Cook has led Apple since 2011, and the decision to expand Ternus' responsibilities signals the company may be preparing for an eventual leadership change at the top.
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🎮 Epic and Google signed secret 800 million dollar deal
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- Epic Games and Google have signed a secret deal worth 800 million dollars over six years, with Epic paying Google, involving joint product development, marketing, and partnerships around Unreal Engine, Fortnite, and Android.
- The deal was revealed during a court hearing about the antitrust settlement, with Judge Donato questioning whether this partnership led Epic to soften its demands and reach a settlement announced in November.
- Epic CEO Tim Sweeney described the agreement as related to the "metaverse," saying both companies are "separately building product lines" with plans to "work together," though exact details remain secret.
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AI is already writing almost one-third of new software code, study shows
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Google DeepMind CEO is ‘surprised’ OpenAI is rushing forward with ads in ChatGPT
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Google now offers free SAT practice exams, powered by Gemini
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Waymo continues robotaxi ramp up with Miami service now open to public
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Microsoft announces winapp, the new Windows app development CLI
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The Drama at Thinking Machines, a New A.I. Start-Up, Is Riveting Silicon Valley
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🧰 Trending tools
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isometric.nyc: an interactive isometric pixel art map rendering New York City's buildings and streets in a retro game-style visualization.
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Tonkotsu: a workflow tool that lets developers manage AI coding agents by making key decisions while delegating implementation tasks, reducing configuration overhead.
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PayPing: a subscription tracking tool that helps you identify and manage recurring charges by monitoring your bank transactions for forgotten or unwanted subscriptions.
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Kids Cash Register: a pretend point-of-sale app that lets young children simulate store transactions to learn basic money concepts through imaginative play.
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Qwen3-TTS: a multilingual text-to-speech model supporting 10 languages with voice cloning from 3-second samples and low-latency streaming for real-time applications.
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Forge Agent: automates PyTorch model optimization by deploying 32 AI agents to generate and benchmark CUDA/Triton kernels, achieving multi-fold inference speedups over torch.compile.
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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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Room Temperature Superconductor Claim in Lanthanum Scandium Hydride: researchers report a material conducts electricity without resistance at 25°C when compressed to 218 gigapascals, requiring extreme pressure equipment.
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Vibe Coding Kills Open Source: developers who rely on AI assistants to write code without deep understanding create unmaintainable projects that collapse when original authors leave.
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Simple pattern matching beats complex AI models: comparing text snippets to find similar examples often works better than neural networks for classification tasks, using less computing power.
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Distributed FFT Using Task Scheduling in Julia: splitting Fourier transform calculations across multiple computers speeds up processing by assigning work chunks based on which machine finishes first.
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