Alphabet earnings. Intel earnings. Apple is making moves to make sure all iPhones heading to the US are no longer manufactured in China. Zuck seems bound and determined to revive his original baby. Sexy looking new Motorola Razr phones. And, of course the Weekend Longreads Suggestions.

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• Alphabet shares rise on stronger-than-expected revenue growth (CNBC)
• Intel offers weak forecast amid trade tensions as CEO talks to TSMC (Reuters)
• Apple aims to source all US iPhones from India in pivot away from China (Financial Times)
• Publisher of PCMag and Mashable Sues OpenAI (NYTimes)
• Facebook cracks down on spammy content by cutting reach and monetization (TechCrunch)
• Mark Zuckerberg once considered deleting all your Facebook friends (TechCrunch)
• Motorola’s new Razr Ultra brings the wood back panel back (The Verge)
• Netflix rolls out dialogue-only subtitles (The Verge)

Weekend Longreads Suggestions:

• The Apple Watch Just Turned 10. Here’s How Far It’s Come (Wired)
• The Race to Fix Aging Computer Systems Heats Up With AI’s Help (Bloomberg)

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More fallout from those EU fines yesterday. A whole slew of self driving car news. The AI Coding Wars have officially begun. The back to the office wars continue. Is Chrome worth $50 billion? And let me tell you about the AI app that wants to help you cheat at everything.

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• Apple and Meta Are First to Be Hit by E.U. Digital Competition Law (NYTimes)
• Uber, Volkswagen pair up to launch robotaxi service in US with self-driving, electric microbuses (TechCrunch)
• Windsurf slashes prices as competition with Cursor heats up (TechCrunch)
• Google Chrome Worth ‘Upwards of $50 Billion,’ Browser Rival Says (Bloomberg)
• Google forcing some remote workers to come back 3 days a week or lose their jobs (CNBC)
• Columbia student suspended over interview cheating tool raises $5.3M to ‘cheat on everything’ (TechCrunch)

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That delayed action from the European Commission finally came down on Apple and Meta. Would OpenAI be a logical home for the Chrome web browser? Massive layoffs coming to Intel. Anysphere turned down an acquisition offer from OpenAI. And are the tariff wars coming for Elon Musk’s robots?

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Links:

• Apple, Meta Fined by EU, Ordered to Comply With Tech Competition Rules (WSJ)
• OpenAI Would Buy Google’s Chrome Browser, ChatGPT Chief Says (Bloomberg)
• Intel to Announce Plans This Week to Cut Over 20% of Staff (Bloomberg)
• A new, open source text-to-speech model called Dia has arrived to challenge ElevenLabs, OpenAI and more (VentureBeat)
• Why OpenAI wanted to buy Cursor but opted for the fast-growing Windsurf (TechCrunch)
• Ex-OpenAI staff and top AI experts seek to block proposed for-profit restructure (FT)
• Tesla Humanoid Robot Plan Hampered by China Rare Earth Curbs (Bloomberg)

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