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In today's Techpresso:
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📱 Threads has overtaken X in daily users 💥 Asus may have made its last phone 📈 NYSE develops 24/7 blockchain trading platform for stocks 🖥️ xAI launches world's first 1GW AI training cluster 🤖 Tesla confirms Dojo 3 development has resumed 📉 Thinking Machines faces investor scrutiny after talent exodus 🎁 + 15 other news & articles you might like 🧰 + 6 trending tools 📚 + 1 trending papers & reports
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📱 Threads has overtaken X in daily users
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- Meta's Threads app has passed Elon Musk's X in daily mobile users, with 141.5 million people using Threads on iOS and Android compared to 125 million on X, according to market intelligence firm Similarweb.
- The growth appears driven by cross-promotions from Facebook and Instagram, a focus on creators, and new features like interest-based communities, DMs, long-form text, and disappearing posts rather than recent X controversies.
- X still leads on the web with around 145 million daily visits compared to just 8.5 million for Threads, and X remains ahead in the U.S. market, though that gap has narrowed significantly over the past year.
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💥 Asus may have made its last phone
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- Asus chairman Jonney Shih announced the company will stop making new smartphones, effectively ending both its Zenfone and ROG Phone product lines after years in the mobile market.
- Shih said Asus is entering a period of "indefinite observation" of the smartphone market, leaving open the possibility of returning someday while promising to support existing phone users.
- The company released only two phones in 2025, the Zenfone 12 Ultra and ROG Phone 9 FE, neither of which launched in the US, following a quiet period after 2023.
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📈 NYSE develops 24/7 blockchain trading platform for stocks
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- The New York Stock Exchange is building a blockchain-based platform that would allow investors to trade tokenized stocks and ETFs around the clock with instant settlement.
- The platform would combine NYSE's Pillar matching engine with blockchain post-trade systems, letting trades be funded and settled in real time using stablecoins instead of the current one-day cycle.
- ICE, the NYSE's parent company, is working with banks like BNY and Citibank to support tokenized deposits at its clearinghouses, helping members move money outside normal banking hours.
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🖥️ xAI launches world's first 1GW AI training cluster
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- xAI has launched Colossus 2, the world's first gigawatt-scale AI training cluster, with Elon Musk announcing on X that the supercomputer is now operational and will be upgraded to 1.5 GW in April.
- The 1-GW power load exceeds San Francisco's peak electricity demand, and xAI plans to reach 2 GW total capacity after purchasing a third building called "MACROHARDRR" in Memphis last December.
- Unlike OpenAI and Anthropic, which rely on Microsoft and Amazon for data centers, xAI is building its own facilities, funded by a recently completed $20 billion Series E funding round.
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🤖 Tesla confirms Dojo 3 development has resumed
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- Tesla has confirmed it is restarting development of its Dojo3 supercomputer project after Elon Musk said the AI5 chip design is now "in good shape" following last year's shutdown.
- During Tesla's Q2 2025 earnings call, Musk said the company is considering merging the Dojo3 chip with the AI6 design, moving away from its earlier approach of building everything in-house.
- Tesla paused Dojo in 2025 after losing top engineers including Milan Kovac and David Lau, while also facing lower sales, growing competition, and political backlash tied to Musk's statements.
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📉 Thinking Machines faces investor scrutiny after talent exodus
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- Thinking Machines Lab, the AI startup led by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, is facing serious questions from investors after firing a co-founder and losing several researchers to OpenAI in a single week.
- CEO Murati fired co-founder Barret Zoph during an all-hands meeting for poor performance and talking to competitors, and two researchers quit via Slack before the meeting ended.
- The company is trying to raise money at a $50 billion valuation, but investors are now "rattled" after five employees left this week, with four returning to OpenAI.
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OpenAI hostname hints at a new ChatGPT feature codenamed "Sonata"
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OpenAI Could Run Out of Cash by Mid-2027 Amid Record Infrastructure Spending
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🧰 Trending tools
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Noodle Seed: a no-code platform that helps businesses get discovered in AI chatbot conversations by optimizing their presence for AI-generated recommendations and responses.
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Updatest: a macOS dashboard that consolidates updates from Homebrew, Mac App Store, Sparkle, Electron, and GitHub Releases into one interface.
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Compound Interest Calculator Collection: a suite of 60+ financial and utility calculators built by a non-developer using AI coding tools like Claude and Windsurf.
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pdfwithlove: browser-based PDF toolkit that processes files entirely client-side without uploading to servers, including merge, split, compress, and conversion features.
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Tofu Maps: a frictionless web tool for quickly collecting and sharing location pins on a custom map without requiring signup or complex setup.
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Internet Makes Music: a collaborative pixel-based music sequencer where strangers place pixels together to create shared compositions in real-time without ads or tracking.
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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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Binary fuse filters cut memory use in half: researchers created a data structure that checks set membership using 9 bits per item versus 18 for previous filters.
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