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📉 Apple just delayed the iPhone Air 2 indefinitely
👀 Meta AI chief plans to leave to launch startup
🧠 Intel CTO and AI boss quits to join OpenAI
🚀 Anthropic is on track to profit faster than OpenAI
💰 Wikipedia tells AI companies to stop scraping and start paying
👋 Meta is killing off the external Facebook Like button
🎁 + 12 other news you might like
🔮 + 3 handpicked research papers and tools
📉 Apple just delayed the iPhone Air 2 indefinitely LINK
Apple reportedly notified engineers and suppliers that the iPhone Air 2 is off the schedule indefinitely, a rare move that postpones its launch alongside the new iPhone 18 Pro.
This decision is linked to lower-than-expected sales of the first model, causing partners Foxconn and Luxshare to halt or dismantle their existing iPhone Air production lines completely.
The now-delayed device was planned to be lighter with a larger battery capacity and was also set to include the vapor chamber cooling system from the iPhone 17 Pro.
👀 Meta AI chief plans to leave to launch startup LINK
Yann LeCun, Meta's chief artificial intelligence scientist, is reportedly planning to leave the company and is now in early talks to raise funds for his own AI startup.
He is reportedly in early talks to raise funds for the new venture, which will be focused on the specific research area of advancing work on world models.
LeCun's plan to leave follows a recent organizational change at Meta where he now reports to Alexandr Wang, the former CEO of Scale AI hired by the company.
🧠 Intel CTO and AI boss quits to join OpenAI LINK
Sachin Katti, who served as Intel's chief technology officer and head of artificial intelligence, has officially departed the chipmaker to accept a new position with ChatGPT developer OpenAI.
Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan will now personally oversee the company's artificial intelligence and Advanced Technologies Groups, taking direct control of the team following the high-level executive's departure.
At OpenAI, Katti will be designing and building the compute infrastructure needed to power the firm's artificial general intelligence research and scale its applications for widespread use.
🚀 Anthropic is on track to profit faster than OpenAI LINK
Anthropic's financial road map shows the startup expects to break even for the first time in 2028, driven by business users adopting its Claude chatbot for coding tasks.
By contrast, OpenAI forecasts its operating losses will swell to about $74 billion that same year due to ballooning spending on computing costs, delaying profitability until at least 2030.
OpenAI’s aggressive plan requires investing far more in chips and data centers and doling out more stock-based compensation in a high-risk strategy to set the pace of the AI boom.
💰 Wikipedia tells AI companies to stop scraping and start paying LINK
Wikipedia wants AI developers to stop scraping its encyclopedia and instead use the paid Wikimedia Enterprise platform, which provides content at scale without severely taxing the organization's servers.
The encyclopedia discovered AI bots were scraping its website while trying to evade detection, causing high traffic even as its "human page views" declined by 8% year-over-year.
The foundation is also telling generative AI providers to provide attribution for its content, ensuring that the human contributors who create and enrich the encyclopedia receive proper credit.
👋 Meta is killing off the external Facebook Like button LINK
Meta announced its external Like and Share buttons will be discontinued for third-party sites, with the social plugins set to disappear from the internet on February 10, 2026.
After the discontinue date, any remaining plugins will "gracefully degrade" on websites by automatically rendering as a 0x0 invisible element, requiring no immediate action from site admins for removal.
The company explained that the tools reflect an "earlier era of web development" as their usage has naturally declined over time while the digital landscape and Meta's business has evolved.
Other news you might like
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- Google is cracking down on apps that secretly drain your batteryLINK
- OpenAI loses music copyright battle in German courtLINK
- US data centers sit dark as electrification lagsLINK
- Apple has “no plans” to bring ads to Apple TVLINK
- Meta's Omnilingual ASR brings speech recognition to 1,600 languagesLINK
- AI PowerPoint-killer Gamma hits $2.1B valuation, $100M ARR, founder saysLINK
- Lovable says it’s nearing 8 million users as the year-old AI coding startup eyes more corporate employeesLINK
- Rumor suggests Apple could kill Dynamic Island with under-display cameraLINK
- Tesla prepares to expand Giga Texas with new Optimus production plantLINK
- Retina-Implanted Chip and AR Restore Sight to Those With Vision LossLINK
- The 'worst-selling Microsoft product of all time' sold just 11 times, and eight people returned it — why you've never heard of OS/2 for the Mach 20LINK
Latest research and tools
pico2-swd-riscv: a tool for debugging RP2350 RISC-V cores on one Raspberry Pi Pico by using another Pico as a probe.LINK
master-thesis: a research paper presenting a method for achieving high-performance 2D graphics rendering on a computer's central processor.LINK
The physics of news, rumors, and opinions: this paper uses models from physics to describe how information spreads through social groups.LINK
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