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Apple will debut a ~$2,000 foldable iPhone Duo Wednesday, seeking to revive its innovator image. Google announced €13B+ in Finnish data centers, its largest European AI investment. Legal AI startup Harvey raised $550M at a $15.6B valuation. Anthropic refused UK AISI pre-release testing for Mythos 5.1, worrying Britain about US protectionism. Lyft launched Waymo robotaxis in Nashville, and a Singaporean pleaded guilty to $245M crypto laundering.
OpenAI released ChatGPT Images 2.5, and denied claims it rushed an unreleased Navier-Stokes proof after seeing another researcher’s work. AI coding startup Cognition raised $2B at a $48B valuation, with about $900M annualized revenue. The US backed NextEra’s $1.9B loan to restart an Iowa nuclear plant for Google’s AI data centers. The UK announced plans to require Apple and Google to stop kids accessing nude images.
bzip3, a BZip2 successor, claims higher compression ratios on text and code than xz or Zstandard. More than half of 2,300 Rust developers surveyed skip debuggers, favoring print and dbg! macros. A MariaDB/InnoDB prototype with B-link-style concurrent page splits raised insert throughput 5.23x in split-heavy tests. Linux kernel engineers got a detailed guide to jump labels and x86 runtime patching.
Nitter, the privacy-focused Twitter/X alternative, said it will keep operating after receiving cease-and-desist letters from X Corp. NetBSD released 9.5 as the final 9-branch update, ending support for all NetBSD-9.x and urging users to upgrade to 10.2 or 11.0. Elsewhere, a modder got Windows CE running on a Nintendo 64, and Trynix now lets you run over 310,000 historical Nix packages in a browser via WebAssembly.
A federal lawsuit says Waukesha County deputies used Flock cameras over 100 times to track a Navy veteran who recorded a traffic stop. New reporting reveals 3M concealed PFAS in Americans’ blood for decades; a UCSF researcher tied tobacco giants’ food brands to today’s ultra-processed diets. OpenLake beat NVIDIA AIStore in MLPerf storage with 6.72 GiB/s writes and 11.55 GiB/s reads.
Claude spent 11 days producing the first computer-checked proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem, formalizing 29,500 theorems in Lean. OpenAI and Anthropic suffered outages without explaining causes. GitHub’s HydraFusion orchestrates models to match Claude Opus 5 at up to 67% lower cost. An adult studio linked a Meta Reality Labs exec to pirating nearly 20,000 files. Allison Guerriero, who exposed an FBI official’s Russia ties, was found dead.