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In today's Techpresso:

🔄 Apple to rename its operating systems

🚫 Trump bans sales of chip design software to China

⚖️ Meta faces breakup threat as FTC monopoly trial ends

🧠 DeepSeek updates its R1 AI reasoning model

👀 Nvidia CEO warns that Chinese AI rivals are now ‘formidable’

💥 Musk reportedly tried to block OpenAI UAE AI deal

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🔄 Apple to rename its operating systems LINK
  • Apple is going to change how it names its operating systems, ditching version numbers to instead mark them by year, similar to cars, Bloomberg reports.
  • Future software versions will align with the year after release, meaning upcoming updates like iOS 26, iPadOS 26, macOS 26, watchOS 26, tvOS 26, and visionOS 26.
  • Apple plans to officially announce this strategy at WWDC on June 9th, seeking more consistent software version numbers, as current ones like iOS 18 and watchOS 12 vary.
🚫 Trump bans sales of chip design software to China LINK
  • The Trump administration told US companies supplying electronic design automation software to stop selling these services to Chinese groups, enacting a new export control.
  • The Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security issued this directive via letters to electronic design automation groups including Cadence, Synopsys, and Siemens EDA.
  • This measure aims to stymie China's development of leading-edge artificial intelligence chips by restricting access to essential American software for semiconductor design.
⚖️ Meta faces breakup threat as FTC monopoly trial ends LINK
  • The Federal Trade Commission's monopoly trial against Meta has ended, with the agency pushing for a breakup to end its alleged control in "personal social networking services".
  • Judge James Boasberg denied Meta's attempt to dismiss the case mid-trial and will take months to decide if the Instagram and WhatsApp acquisitions violated antitrust law.
  • Meta and the FTC will file follow-up briefings over summer, after which Judge Boasberg aims to rule "expeditiously" on the purchases, potentially before this year concludes.
🧠 DeepSeek updates its R1 AI reasoning model LINK
  • Chinese startup DeepSeek has released an updated version of its R1 reasoning AI model, which it calls a minor upgrade, on the developer platform Hugging Face.
  • The updated R1 weighs in at 685 billion parameters, with its configuration files and weights posted to Hugging Face but without a model description.
  • Under a permissive MIT license for commercial use, the large R1 model likely needs modification to run on typical consumer-grade hardware due to its size.
👀 Nvidia CEO warns that Chinese AI rivals are now ‘formidable’ LINK
  • Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang stated Chinese competitors evolved, making firms like Huawei quite formidable after US restrictions on AI chip exports affected sales of H20 AI chips.
  • Huang highlighted these rivals are rapidly increasing their capabilities and production volume, benefiting from the void left by American companies in that key region.
  • Despite US policy aiming to limit access, Huang emphasized local firms find alternatives, underscoring the country's significant AI researcher population and importance.
💥 Musk reportedly tried to block OpenAI UAE AI deal LINK
  • Elon Musk reportedly used President Trump's name as leverage with G42 executives to block OpenAI's AI data center deal in Abu Dhabi, WSJ said.
  • Musk warned G42 executives their Stargate UAE project would not get White House approval unless his own AI startup, xAI, was included in the partnership.
  • Despite Musk’s reported objections and his push for xAI, the Trump administration proceeded with and officially announced OpenAI’s data center agreement with G42.

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Trending research and tools

Typed-FFmpeg: a Python tool offering a typed interface to FFmpeg, simplifying complex filter graph creation with visual editing and auto-completion. LINK
Edamagit: Magit for VSCode that shows all available Magit actions in the command palette and lets users choose which side its windows open. LINK
RsyncUI: a macOS graphical tool that simplifies using rsync to synchronize data by managing tasks and their settings. LINK
The anomalous magnetic moment of the muon in the Standard Model: an update: this paper provides an updated theoretical calculation for the muon's anomalous magnetic moment based on the Standard Model. LINK
Diffusion vs. Autoregressive Language Models: A Text Embedding Perspective: the paper compares diffusion and autoregressive language models by analyzing their text embeddings. LINK
Breaking the Sorting Barrier for Directed Single-Source Shortest Paths: it describes a new, more efficient method for finding the shortest routes from one point in a network where connections are one-way. LINK

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