Apple turns to Google to power AI upgrade for Siri.

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Apple turns to Google to power AI upgrade for Siri. Apple disclosed a multi-year deal to license Google’s Gemini foundation models for new AI features across Siri and other services. The agreement shifts Apple’s core generative-AI layer to an external supplier and follows questions about the company’s slower internal AI progress.

Apple’s decision to embed Google’s Gemini concedes its in-house AI lags and places Google code on roughly 2 billion active iOS devices. Having dumped Intel (2020) and Google Maps (2012), this multi-year reliance reverses Apple’s own-everything playbook. Google gains new Siri data troves, raising antitrust risks.

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Nvidia Rubin's rack-scale encryption signals a turning point for enterprise AI security. Nvidia introduced the Vera Rubin NVL72 system, a rack-scale platform that encrypts all CPU, GPU and NVLink traffic, bringing confidential computing to 72 H200 GPUs and 36 Grace CPUs in a single enclosure. The design allows cryptographic verification of the entire training environment.

Nvidia Rubin's $4.63 million move signals shifting capital allocation in the AI landscape.

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Tracking the flow of capital and influence that shapes the tech landscape

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Brazil orders Meta to suspend policy banning third-party AI chatbots from WhatsApp. Brazil’s competition authority CADE ordered Meta’s WhatsApp to suspend new terms that ban third-party AI chatbots from its Business API and opened a formal probe into whether the policy unlawfully favours Meta AI and excludes rivals such as OpenAI.

Brazil antitrust keeps WhatsApp’s 2B-user pipe open for third-party bots, denying Meta a lock-in moat and preserving reach for OpenAI $80B, Anthropic $18B, Perplexity $3B. Regulatory heat caps platform rent-seeking, buying independent LLMs time while IPO exits stay frozen.

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Infrastructure & Power

The physical backbone of AI: compute, data centers, supply chains, and the geopolitics of energy

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Trump Administration Nears Trade Deal With Taiwan. The Trump administration is close to a trade agreement with Taiwan that would cut tariffs and includes a commitment from TSMC to build additional semiconductor manufacturing plants in the United States, directly reshaping global chip supply chains.

Tariffs are easy; electrons are scarce. A single TSMC fab needs ~200 MW—power for 150 k homes—and 3 yr to build, while the U.S. grid has just 5 GW spare through 2026. Fabs will now compete with AI datacenters and residents for the same megawatts.

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This AI spots dangerous blood cells doctors often miss. A University of Cambridge team reported a generative AI model that classifies abnormal blood cells with higher accuracy and consistency than expert haematologists and can flag its own uncertainty. The system detected subtle signs of diseases such as leukemia, suggesting potential for faster, more reliable diagnostics.

Cambridge’s CytoDiffusion AI spots leukemia-suspect blood cells more accurately than human reviewers and even flags its own uncertainty, cutting the risk of missed or equivocal diagnoses. Early lab validation on routine smears means software roll-outs in hospital labs could begin within 2-4 years, benefiting anyone undergoing blood‐film screening for hematologic cancers.

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Canucks LOSS 3-6 vs Montréal. Vancouver Canucks loss against the Montréal Canadiens with a final score of 3-6. Road game at Centre Bell.

Elias Pettersson’s power-play marker—his first goal in seven games—pulls him even with Filip Hronek for the team scoring lead at 28 points, yet the fact Vancouver’s other tallies came from late-call-up Max Sasson and mid-season add Evander Kane shows how far Rick Tocchet is reaching for offense while the blue line bleeds 27 goals on this 0-5-0 road trip. Tonight’s seventh straight defeat buries the Canucks 10 points outside the West’s final wild-card spot with more games played than every team they’re chasing, fast-tracking management’s decision on whether this roster fights on or sells before the break.

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Elias Pettersson got the Canucks on the board, but Montréal answered back. Noah Dobson capitalized to seal it. The story? Montréal capitalized on opportunities while Vancouver struggled to find answers. Work to do.

Top Moments: 🔥 Noah Dobson (PPG) 🚀 Elias Pettersson ⚡ Evander Kane

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GAME DAY: Canucks vs Ottawa TONIGHT at 4:00 PM. Vancouver Canucks face the Ottawa Senators tonight at 4:00 PM. Road game at Canadian Tire Centre.

Vancouver’s four-game slide has less to do with finishing and everything to do with the 22 goals they’ve allowed on this trip, so tonight’s litmus test in Ottawa is whether the Hronek-Buium pairing and whichever netminder starts can finally arrest the bleed; if they can’t, the conversation shifts from “push for a wild-card run” to “who’s on the trade-deadline block” before the team even boards the flight to Columbus.

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