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The most recent articles from a list of feeds I subscribe to.

Tim Cook told Apple staff at an all-hands that he's "deeply distraught" with the US' current approach to immigration and he will press the issue with lawmakers (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

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YC adds Canada back to its accepted countries of incorporation list, saying the initial decision was due to its top Canadian companies reincorporating in the US (Alex Riehl/BetaKit)

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Anthropic says it found Opus 4.6 "brings more focus to the most challenging parts of a task without being told to" and "thinks more deeply and more carefully" (Anthropic)

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OpenAI says GPT-5.3-Codex goes beyond an agent that can code "to an agent that can do nearly anything developers and professionals can do on a computer" (OpenAI)

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Anthropic says Opus 4.6 found 500+ previously unknown high-severity security flaws in open-source libraries with little to no prompting during its testing (Sam Sabin/Axios)

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OpenAI launches GPT-5.3-Codex, which it says runs 25% faster, enabling longer-running tasks, and "is our first model that was instrumental in creating itself" (David Gewirtz/ZDNET)

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Anthropic introduces "agent teams" in Claude Code as a research preview to launch multiple agents that work in parallel, and a Claude in PowerPoint plugin (Lucas Ropek/TechCrunch)

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Anthropic says Opus 4.6 supports a 1M context window in beta, scored 90.2% on BigLaw Bench, the highest for any Claude model, and boosts agentic capabilities (David Gewirtz/ZDNET)

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Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4.6, which it says can analyze company data, regulatory filings, and market information; Anthropic now has 300K+ business users (Rachel Metz/Bloomberg)

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Q&A with Elon Musk on plans for 1TW of space GPUs, Grok and human consciousness, Optimus, xAI's business plan, China's manufacturing win, DOGE, and more (Cheeky Pint)

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Meta confirms it is testing a standalone app for Vibes, its short-form video feed of AI videos, after "strong early traction", without sharing specific numbers (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)

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The US FCC grants Starlink competitor Logos clearance to deploy up to 4,178 low Earth orbit broadband satellites by 2035; Logos raised a $50M Series A in 2025 (Jason Rainbow/SpaceNews)

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DOJ files reveal how Jeffrey Epstein helped his Russian-born publicist Masha Bucher become a prominent VC who now boasts of early checks to 22 unicorns like xAI (Iain Martin/Forbes)

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US tech stocks fall sharply in intraday trading: the Nasdaq drops 1.8%+, S&P 500 1.5%+, GOOG 3%+, QCOM 7%+, and AMZN 3%+, amid a selloff in software stocks (Financial Times)

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DOJ files reveal Epstein's deep Silicon Valley relationships and how key insiders offered access to buzzy startups like Coinbase, long after his 2008 conviction (New York Times)

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Gemini exits the UK, EU and Australia and cuts 25% of staff, as the crypto exchange refocuses on the US due to foreign markets proving "hard to win" (Naga Avan-Nomayo/The Block)

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Duna, a European fintech making AI-powered identity and compliance tools for banks, raised a €30M Series A led by CapitalG, bringing its total funding to €40M+ (Tim Barnwell/Silicon Republic)

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Fundamental, which has developed an LTM to analyze structured data, comes out of stealth with $255M in funding, including a $225M Series A, at a $1.2B valuation (Russell Brandom/TechCrunch)

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Ukraine says Starlink terminals used by Russia on the battlefield have been deactivated via a verification process developed alongside SpaceX (Anna Pruchnicka/Reuters)

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OpenAI launches Frontier, an AI agent management platform that provides shared context, onboarding, and permission boundaries, for "a limited set of customers" (Robert Hart/The Verge)

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