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The Apple Watch is 11 years old and losing momentum. Screenless rivals are winning the next phase.

Apple Watch innovation has stalled as Whoop, Oura, and Fitbit Air redefine wearables. Key health execs are leaving. Oura has filed for IPO.

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The Ansel Adams trust says is had nothing to do with AI-colorized version of his photo.

The version of “Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico” was exhibited and put up for sale by Danziger Gallery at the Association of International Photography Art Dealers’ Photography Show. The trust demanded the removal of the photo and, in a statement, accused the gallery’s owner, James Danziger, of exploiting the Ansel name to promote his own AI-colorization venture:

Hackers are learning to exploit chatbot ‘personalities’

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Whatever the mirror test tells us, beluga whales pass it

The white whales join the short, contested list of animals that see themselves.

McKinsey wants job candidates to practice interviews with AI, not pricey coaches

McKinsey has built an AI tool to help candidates prepare for their interviews, and discourage them from using external prep services.

Former Citadel quants raised $78M for the AI operating system Wall Street's wealth managers didn't have

Moment raised $78M led by Index Ventures to build AI agent infrastructure for wealth management. Edward Jones and LPL are clients.

AI is killing the cheap smartphone. The memory that powers your phone now goes to data centers instead.

Memory makers redirected wafers from phones to AI chips. LPDDR prices surged 250%. India’s sub-$100 phone market collapsed 59%.

DeepSeek made its 75% discount permanent. The AI price war just escalated.

DeepSeek permanently cut V4 Pro prices by 75%, to $0.87 per million output tokens. It undercuts GPT-5, Gemini, and Claude.

Fashion designer Jeremy Scott gets a huge cheer after ripping up his AI-written commencement speech

Fashion designer Jeremy Scott told graduates that AI can't replicate their humanity during a commencement speech at the Kansas City Art Institute.

Author Steven Rosenbaum sounds like he’s trapped in a toxic relationship with AI.

The Future of Truth has at least six quotes that appear to be fabricated by AI. After initially taking “full responsibility,” he’s now pointing a finger at the chatbots, telling The Atlantic that they “fucked up the book.” In a separate interview with Ars Technica, he said he still plans to use AI in his writing, adding:

SpaceX's Starship V3—still a work in progress—mostly successful on first flight

SpaceX has more to prove before flying Starship all the way to low-Earth orbit.