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🩺 Apple Watch Blood Oxygen returns after 18 month absence
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- Following an 18-month ban in the United States, the Blood Oxygen feature returns to Apple Watch Series 9, 10, and Ultra 2 models through iOS 18.6.1 and watchOS 11.6.1.
- The Apple Watch now only measures the raw data before transmitting it to a paired iPhone, where the Health app will handle the final calculation and show the reading.
- You can no longer see the results directly on your wrist, as the redesigned feature requires you to view your Blood Oxygen readings inside the Respiratory section of the Health app.
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🤖 Apple plots expansion into AI robots, home security and smart displays
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- Apple is developing a tabletop robot with a screen on a motorized limb for FaceTime calls, which is planned to have its own personality and run a new OS called Charismatic.
- The company is also working on a battery-powered home security camera, code-named J450, that uses facial recognition and infrared sensors for security and automating connected home devices.
- A simpler smart home display is also in the works, featuring a seven-inch square screen with a widget-focused interface that scans faces to show personalized layouts upon a person's approach.
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🚪 xAI co-founder leaves to launch AI safety firm
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- Igor Babuschkin, an original co-founder of Elon Musk's startup xAI, has departed the company to launch a new investment firm dedicated to artificial intelligence safety research.
- His new firm, Babuschkin Ventures, will support safety research and back startups developing AI and agentic systems that are intended to be secure and beneficial for humanity.
- At xAI, he built foundational tools to manage model training and later led engineering for the startup's infrastructure, product, and applied AI projects before his recent exit.
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🕣 DeepSeek delays new model over Huawei chip failure
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- Chinese AI startup DeepSeek delayed its R2 model after failing to complete a training run on Huawei’s Ascend chips, forcing the company to switch back to Nvidia hardware.
- Huawei's Ascend processors are now only used for the less demanding task of inference, a significant setback for the hardware after proving unable to handle the computationally intensive training.
- The company's turn to Huawei's hardware was a direct result of U.S. sanctions on Nvidia's H20 chips, underscoring the struggle to build software stacks on unproven domestic hardware.
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🛰️ Starlink rival announces $1.5 billion satellite plan
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- Texas startup AST SpaceMobile announced a $1.5 billion plan to launch 45 to 60 satellites by 2026, aiming to create a space-based cellular broadband network for mobile phones.
- The firm has already tested its technology with the BlueWalker 3 prototype, making the first 5G phone call from space to an unmodified Samsung Galaxy S22 on the ground.
- Its large satellites have drawn complaints from rival SpaceX, which has raised concerns to the FCC about the sustainability of low Earth orbit and the hardware's tennis court-sized array.
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🛒 Amazon expands perishable grocery delivery to 2000 cities
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- Amazon is expanding its same-day delivery service for perishable grocery items to over 2,300 US cities by the end of the year, up from the 1,000 cities currently served.
- Prime members get free delivery on grocery orders over $25, and all customers can now buy fresh foods like meat and seafood in the same cart as regular Amazon items.
- The company uses a specialized, temperature-controlled fulfillment network for these deliveries, with every item passing a six-point quality check before being sent out in recyclable, insulated bags.
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