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Uber didn’t wait for New York to approve ride-hailing apps. They got drivers on the streets and users on the app.
And from a $1.25M seed round in 2010, they turned into a $195 billion behemoth.
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🚶♂️ Meta just hired Apple’s head of foundation models
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- Ruoming Pang, the engineering manager for the core models team behind “Apple Intelligence,” has departed the company to join competitor Meta in a multi-million-dollar deal.
- The exit underscores turmoil inside Apple's AI division, where morale was hurt by discussions to use outside technology from other companies to power a future Siri.
- This poach reveals significant technical vulnerabilities, as Apple's advanced Siri features are delayed until 2026 for a complete “V2” architectural rebuild from the ground up.
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🔒 OpenAI activates military-grade security to protect its AI models
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- OpenAI implemented a "deny-by-default" internet policy and uses information "tenting" to restrict employee access and stop leaks of its foundational model technologies.
- The company installed biometric fingerprint scans and hired a former Palantir CISO and a retired U.S. Army General to oversee its cyber and data defense.
- These security upgrades follow allegations that Chinese rival DeepSeek used a technique known as “distillation” to copy OpenAI’s models and build its own system.
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📈 Threads is nearing X’s daily app users
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- Threads' worldwide daily active users on mobile apps reached 115.1 million, getting closer to X's declining figure of 132 million daily actives.
- However, X maintains a clear advantage on the web, with 145.8 million average daily web visits worldwide compared to just 6.9 million for Threads.
- In the U.S. market specifically, X still leads on mobile with 22.9 million daily active users, ahead of the 15.3 million reported for Threads.
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📱 Apple tones down Liquid Glass after user complaints
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- Apple's third developer beta for iOS 26 tones down the Liquid Glass effect, making the translucent, glass-like elements in navigation bars less pronounced.
- Liquid Glass is a dynamic material that adds depth to the interface by reflecting its surroundings on app icons, widgets, controls, and other components.
- Following this change, some testers expressed disappointment on social media, feeling the reduced visual flair takes away the futuristic feel of previous beta releases.
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💰 OpenAI fights Meta with $4.4 billion stock pay
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- OpenAI is defending against Meta by increasing its stock-based compensation to $4.4 billion, a figure that represents 119 percent of its revenue from last year.
- Meta poached eight researchers with reported nine-figure offers after its own Llama 4 “Behemoth” model failed performance benchmarks, prompting a period of internal panic.
- The rival formalized its raid by creating Meta Superintelligence Labs, forcing OpenAI leadership to promise in a leaked memo they were “recalibrating comp” to retain talent.
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🙏 Cursor apologizes for unclear pricing changes
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- The company behind the coding tool Cursor apologized for poorly communicating a pricing change that switched its Pro plan from 500 fast responses to a credit system.
- Pro users quickly depleted their new $20 worth of usage, especially with expensive Claude models, resulting in some being unexpectedly charged for additional costs they did not anticipate.
- Anysphere is now refunding affected subscribers, explaining the change was necessary to pass along the high cost of running the latest and more expensive AI models.
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