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📱 Apple plans major iPhone redesigns for three consecutive years
🖥️ Meta's new display could change the future of screens
⚖️ Musk sues Apple and OpenAI over AI deal
✂️ TSMC removes Chinese tools from its 2-nm factories
🚀 Perplexity to give media giants share of AI search revenue
🎁 + 9 other news you might like
🔮 + 4 handpicked research papers and tools
📱 Apple plans major iPhone redesigns for three consecutive years LINK
The three-year design overhaul begins with the iPhone 17 Air, a thinner and lighter model that will have a smaller battery and no physical SIM card slot this September.
In 2026, Apple is expected to launch its first foldable iPhone, a book-style device featuring five cameras, an in-house C2 modem, and Touch ID instead of Face ID.
For the iPhone’s 20th anniversary in 2027, the company plans a glass-centric model with curved glass created to perfectly match the Liquid Glass interface for the iOS operating system.
🖥️ Meta's new display could change the future of screens LINK
Meta has developed a 2 mm-thin flat laser display that uses a photonic integrated circuit and a mini LCoS panel to deliver brighter, higher-resolution images with a wider color range than conventional screens. The approach eliminates bulky optical components, but challenges remain, including laser speckle and inefficient power use since the display cannot adjust brightness locally. Once these hurdles are addressed, the technology could reshape the future of displays, enabling lighter and more immersive AR glasses as well as improving the performance of smartphones, tablets, and televisions.
⚖️ Musk sues Apple and OpenAI over AI deal LINK
Elon Musk's companies xAI and X are suing Apple and OpenAI, alleging the pair colluded in an anticompetitive scheme to maintain monopolies in the smartphone and generative AI markets.
The complaint alleges the iPhone maker is deprioritizing rival chatbots like Grok in its App Store rankings while favoring OpenAI by integrating ChatGPT directly into the device software.
The legal action asks a federal court to stop the partnership's “unlawful conduct,” arguing competitors will suffer anticompetitive consequences if the alleged behavior is allowed to continue.
✂️ TSMC removes Chinese tools from its 2-nm factories LINK
TSMC is removing all Chinese manufacturing equipment from its new 2-nanometer production lines, driven by fears of potential US sanctions linked to the proposed Chip EQUIP Act.
The company is also reviewing its entire supply chain for materials and chemicals to further reduce Chinese components in both its Taiwan and US factories for advanced production.
This effort differs from the 3-nm process where technical risks prevented swapping out Chinese tools, but TSMC is now making the change as it ramps up 2-nm manufacturing.
🚀 Perplexity to give media giants share of AI search revenue LINK
Perplexity announced a new subscription program called Comet Plus that gives users access to premium content from trusted publishers and aims to compensate journalists for their contributions.
The company is funding a revenue sharing program with $42.5 million, which will deliver 80 percent of the subscription revenue to publishers while Perplexity keeps the remaining 20 percent.
This new model arrives after Perplexity was sued by News Corp. publishers and threatened with legal action by the BBC over alleged copyright infringement and content scraping.
Other news you might like
- iPhone 17 Pro May Be Able to Wirelessly Charge AirPods, Apple WatchLINK
- Telegram founder Pavel Durov says case going nowhere, slams French govLINK
- Why Apple Isn't Making New AirPods Max Anytime SoonLINK
- Grok 2.5 model becomes open-source, as xAI's Grok 3 to follow soonLINK
- Brave discovers a security flaw in Perplexity’s Comet browserLINK
- Elon Musk argues lidar and radar make self driving cars more dangerousLINK
- Netflix Tells Filmmakers How They Can (and Can't) Use Generative AILINK
- Sam Altman and UK government minister reportedly discussed giving ChatGPT Plus to all Brits for freeLINK
- Meta Has Already Won the Smart Glasses RaceLINK
Latest research and tools
Agent-C: an ultra-lightweight AI agent that connects to AI models to run commands on a computer.LINK
ContextForge MCP Gateway: a gateway that unifies various AI services and APIs into a single endpoint, simplifying access and management for AI applications and clients.LINK
musl-cross: a project that builds simple and lightweight cross-compilation toolchains using the musl C library.LINK
VuIO: a cross-platform DLNA/UPnP media server that streams your video, audio, and image files to compatible devices, with features for organizing music collections and managing playlists.LINK
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