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In today's Techpresso:
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📡 US bans all new foreign-made network routers 🖥️ Anthropic lets Claude control your Mac to complete tasks 🍎 Apple announces Apple Business 🤖 Jensen Huang claims AGI has already been achieved 🎮 Epic Games cuts over 1,000 jobs amid Fortnite decline 📄 OpenAI flags Microsoft dependence as IPO risk 🎁 + 13 other news & articles you might like 🧰 + 6 trending tools 📚 + 3 trending papers & reports
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📡 US bans all new foreign-made network routers
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- The FCC has ordered a ban on importing all new consumer routers made in foreign countries, saying the devices create cybersecurity risks tied to China-backed hacking groups like Volt, Salt, and Flax Typhoon.
- China controls around 60% of the consumer router market, but the FCC did not provide evidence showing that U.S.-made routers are more secure than those developed overseas.
- Salt Typhoon and Flax Typhoon have exploited routers made by both foreign and American companies, including Cisco, to hack networks, run botnets, and target thousands of devices worldwide.
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🖥️ Anthropic lets Claude control your Mac to complete tasks
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- Anthropic announced that Claude can now take control of your Mac to complete tasks like sending files, clicking around your screen, and typing — if you subscribe to Claude Pro or Max.
- Claude connects to apps like Google Calendar or Slack, but when no connector exists, it manually operates your computer by scrolling, clicking, and typing, always asking for permission first.
- Anthropic warns the feature is new and may contain errors, suggests avoiding apps that handle sensitive data, and says some of those apps are disabled by default as a safeguard.
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🍎 Apple announces Apple Business
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- Apple announced Apple Business, a free all-in-one platform that combines device management, productivity tools, and customer outreach into a single service replacing Apple Business Essentials, Apple Business Manager, and Apple Business Connect.
- The platform includes built-in MDM, new "Blueprints" for zero-touch deployment, Managed Apple Accounts with cryptographic separation between personal and work data, and integrated email, calendar, and directory services.
- Apple Business launches April 14 in over 200 countries, and existing data from the three discontinued services will automatically migrate, while Business Essentials customers will stop being charged monthly device management fees.
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🤖 Jensen Huang claims AGI has already been achieved
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- NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang told Lex Fridman on his podcast that he believes AGI has already been achieved, pointing to agentic tools that could theoretically build and run a viral app.
- The claim matters because OpenAI's partnership with Microsoft includes escape clauses tied to AGI, though their contract defines it as an AI model generating $100 billion in profit.
- Microsoft has been preparing for a possible split by restructuring its AI division to focus on its own models, while tensions grow over OpenAI's latest funding round and competing partnerships.
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🎮 Epic Games cuts over 1,000 jobs amid Fortnite decline
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- Epic Games is cutting over 1,000 jobs on Tuesday, driven by a downturn in Fortnite engagement that started in 2025, which left the company spending significantly more than it was earning.
- CEO Tim Sweeney said the layoff, combined with over $500 million in cost savings from contracting, marketing, and closing open roles, would put Epic in a more stable place.
- Laid-off workers will receive four months of severance pay, with longer-tenured employees getting more, and U.S. employees will keep healthcare coverage for six months after the layoff.
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📄 OpenAI flags Microsoft dependence as IPO risk
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- OpenAI identified its heavy reliance on Microsoft as a business risk in a financial document shared with investors, noting that Microsoft provides "a substantial portion" of its financing and compute.
- The document also flagged risks including a global chip shortage, potential disruption to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company from regional conflict, and roughly $665 billion in compute spend commitments through 2030.
- OpenAI disclosed at least 14 lawsuits from ChatGPT users or families blaming its products for mental illness leading to suicide or injury, plus three separate lawsuits from Elon Musk or xAI.
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Ads are coming to Apple Maps, as Apple expands its business offerings
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Someone has publicly leaked an exploit kit that can hack millions of iPhones
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Amazon's Zoox to debut robotaxis in Austin, Miami later this year
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Kalshi joins Polymarket in sweeping user bans to head off insider trading
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Amazon faces further AWS disruption in the Middle East from Iran conflict
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Meta acqui-hires Dreamer's entire team to bolster its lagging AI agent ambitions
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Alibaba reveals new AI chip designed for 'agents'
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Delve halts demos, Insight Partners scrubs investment post amid ‘fake compliance’ allegations
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Agile Robots becomes the latest robotics company to partner with Google DeepMind
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Nintendo slashes Switch 2 production by 30% following weak holiday sales
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🧰 Trending tools
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Claude Computer Use: an AI assistant that can control your computer by viewing the screen, moving the mouse, and typing to automate tasks requiring visual interaction.
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Kitty Points Leaderboard: tracks and displays user engagement rankings on Product Hunt through a gamified points system for contributions and community participation.
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Cekura: automated QA platform for conversational AI that simulates, evaluates, and monitors voice agents throughout development and production with CI/CD integration.
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jared.so: an AI assistant that integrates with Slack and 10,000+ tools to proactively complete tasks by monitoring conversations and understanding team context.
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Drift: a terminal-based tool that generates complete robotics simulations from text prompts, handling ROS setup, simulators, and control loops while tracking system states.
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ProofShot: a CLI tool that lets AI coding agents capture browser screenshots, videos, and console logs to verify UI changes without manual inspection.
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📚 Trending papers & reports
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> Game theory textbook provides 165 solved exercises covering strategic decision making, from basic Nash equilibrium to advanced topics like auction design and repeated games, available as free open access resource.
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> An AI agent autonomously designed and executed a particle physics analysis on real Large Hadron Collider data, matching human expert results while reducing analysis time from months to days.
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> An AI agent autonomously designed and verified a working 1.5 GHz RISC-V processor capable of running Linux, handling the entire chip design process without human intervention.
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