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  • Amid new competition, Chrome speeds up its release schedule | TechCrunch

    As AI-powered browsers from companies like OpenAI, Perplexity, and others attempt to carve out a space for themselves in a market that’s long been dominated by Chrome, Google says that it’s now speeding up the pace of Chrome releases. Starting this September, Chrome will move from a four-week release schedule to a two-week schedule, the read more

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  • Audible launches a cheaper 'Standard' subscription plan, challenging Spotify | TechCrunch

    Audible is rolling out a cheaper “Standard” subscription plan that costs $8.99 per month, the Amazon-owned company announced on Tuesday. The new plan is $6 cheaper than the platform’s existing “Premium” plan, which costs $14.95 per month. The Standard plan includes one audiobook per month from Audible’s catalog and unlimited listening from a curated library read more

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  • The candidate that Silicon Valley built is now the one they want to tear down | TechCrunch

    For months, there has been talk that Silicon Valley’s billionaire class was recruiting a candidate to take on Representative Ro Khanna. Early Tuesday morning, that candidate made it official. Ethan Agarwal (pictured above), a 40-year-old tech entrepreneur with no political background, told TechCrunch on Monday evening that he is running for California’s 17th congressional district. read more

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    The candidate that Silicon Valley built is now the one they want to tear down | TechCrunch

  • Apple unveils M5 Pro and M5 Max chips with new 'Fusion Architecture' | TechCrunch

    Apple on Tuesday debuted the latest addition to the M-series of chips, as it announced its new M5 Pro and M5 Max, which are powering the new MacBook Pro. The tech giant says the chips are engineered around its new Fusion Architecture, an advanced design that merges two dies into a single, high-performance system on read more

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    Apple unveils M5 Pro and M5 Max chips with new 'Fusion Architecture' | TechCrunch

  • Jeff Koons’s Winter Bears Sells for $7.6 M. at Christie’s, Highest Price Ever Achieved for an Artwork in a Mid-Season Sale

    If the $7.6 million paid for a four-foot-tall set of smiling wooden bears has anything to do with it, the price point for the mid-season sales at the major auction houses might be about to go up. Last Thursday, Christie’s sold Jeff Koons’s 1988 sculpture Winter Bears (1988) with a pre-sale estimate of $3.8 million–$5 read more

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    Jeff Koons’s Winter Bears Sells for .6 M. at Christie’s, Highest Price Ever Achieved for an Artwork in a Mid-Season Sale

  • Apple's new Studio Displays come with Thunderbolt 5 | TechCrunch

    Apple on Tuesday announced a new MacBook Pro and MacBook Air, both powered by its latest chips, as well as a new family of displays. The latter includes a new $1,599 Studio Display and a $3,299 Studio Display XDR. The new 27-inch displays come with better cameras and improved connectivity. Both displays feature a 12MP read more

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    Apple's new Studio Displays come with Thunderbolt 5 | TechCrunch

  • Apple unveils new MacBook Air and MacBook Pro with M5 | TechCrunch

    Apple announced its new slate of laptops on Tuesday morning, including new MacBook Air and MacBook Pro models that use Apple’s M5 chips. The Pro models were unveiled alongside the brand new M5 Pro and M5 Max chips, which Apple describes as its most advanced CPU cores yet. The company said these updated M5 chips read more

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    Apple unveils new MacBook Air and MacBook Pro with M5 | TechCrunch

  • Apple Removes 512GB Storage Option From M5 MacBook Pro, Drops SSD Upgrade Prices

    With the debut of the M5 Pro and M5 Max MacBook Pro models, Apple tweaked the available configurations for the standard M5 ‌MacBook Pro‌. The 14-inch M5 ‌MacBook Pro‌ used to start with 512GB of storage, but Apple has removed that option. All ‌MacBook Pro‌ models, including the entry-level M5 version, start with a 1TB read more

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    Apple Removes 512GB Storage Option From M5 MacBook Pro, Drops SSD Upgrade Prices

  • 'Architectural Fantasies' Chronicles Elaborate Creations by Self-Taught Artists

    What began as a pile of dirt, rubble, and cement in rural Niland, California, just east of the Salton Sea, eventually became one of the most beloved landmarks and roadside attractions in the region. “Salvation Mountain,” Leonard Knight’s vibrantly painted, three-story mound made of adobe and straw, stands as a tribute to one man’s tenacity read more

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    'Architectural Fantasies' Chronicles Elaborate Creations by Self-Taught Artists

  • Apple Discontinues Pro Display XDR and $999 Stand

    Apple today discontinued its Pro Display XDR, following the introduction of a new 27-inch Studio Display XDR monitor. Introduced in December 2019 alongside a redesigned Mac Pro, the 32-inch Pro Display XDR was Apple’s return to the premium external monitor market. The launch came three years after the company exited the category with the discontinuation read more

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    Apple Discontinues Pro Display XDR and 9 Stand

  • Call for Applications: 2026 Craft Archive Fellowship

    Announcement The Center for Craft will award up to four $5,000 fellowships to support research on underrepresented craft histories, culminating in an article on Hyperallergic. The Center for Craft is now accepting applications for the 2026 Craft Archive Fellowship, offering four $5,000 awards to support research on underrepresented craft histories in the United States. The read more

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    Call for Applications: 2026 Craft Archive Fellowship

  • Brilliant Labs, Neuphonic and TheStage AI partner to bring privacy-first, cloud-free AI to smart glasses

    Startups Brilliant Labs, Neuphonic and TheStage AI today announced a strategic partnership to enable frontier AI in wearable technology without the latency and privacy compromises of cloud computing. Currently, AI inference, such as audio or image analysis, relies on models hosted in the cloud, creating unnecessary latency and risking user data exposure. This partnership addresses read more

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    Brilliant Labs, Neuphonic and TheStage AI partner to bring privacy-first, cloud-free AI to smart glasses

  • The 2026 Whitney Biennial Includes a Video Game Designed by Leo Castañeda You Can Play At Home

    While the Whitney Biennial isn’t set to open its 2026 edition to the public until Sunday, anyone can get a sneak peek at one work in the show: Camoflux Recall Grotto. The work, a video game by Colombian artist Leo Castañeda, is available to play on the web from any computer. For the work, Castañeda read more

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    The 2026 Whitney Biennial Includes a Video Game Designed by Leo Castañeda You Can Play At Home

  • Groundhawk raises €2M to digitise Europe’s underground infrastructure

    Finnish infrastructure software technology company Groundhawk has raised €2 million in Seed funding to transform how underground utilities are mapped and documented. As Europe invests heavily in electricity grids, fibre networks, EV charging and renewable integration, a critical weakness remains: underground infrastructure is still documented using outdated, post-construction surveys and estimates. The result is over read more

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    Groundhawk raises €2M to digitise Europe’s underground infrastructure

  • Apple’s New MacBook Air and MacBook Pro Have New Chips, More Storage, and Higher Prices

    Alongside its price-friendly iPhone 17e and M4 iPad Air from Monday, Apple just announced a few updates to the MacBook Pro, MacBook Air, and its rarely refreshed desktop display line. Apple seems to be holding its rumored new entry-level MacBook for Wednesday’s in-person event in New York City, but today’s announcements should make potential upgraders read more

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    Apple’s New MacBook Air and MacBook Pro Have New Chips, More Storage, and Higher Prices

  • Russia’s Pavilion at the Venice Biennale Is Set to Reopen This Year, But Officials Say It Isn’t a ‘Return’

    After closing for the last two editions of the Venice Biennale following its war in Ukraine, Russia will reopen its national pavilion this year, its organizers told ARTnews. In February 2022, Russian artists Kirill Savchenkov and Alexandra Sukhareva, along with Lithuanian curator Raimundas Malašauskas, withdrew from the pavilion from that year’s Biennale, citing Moscow’s invasion read more

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    Russia’s Pavilion at the Venice Biennale Is Set to Reopen This Year, But Officials Say It Isn’t a ‘Return’

  • European Alliance Pledges Financial Support for Artistic Freedom, Iranian Artists Both Terrified and Joyful as War Continues, and More: Morning Links for March 3, 2026

    To receiveMorning Linksin your inbox every weekday,signupfor ourBreakfast with ARTnewsnewsletter. Good morning! The European Alliance of Academies has launched a nearly $2 million plan to support artistic freedom under pressure in Europe. Iranian artists in the diaspora are torn between the joyful hope of regime change and fear of rising casualties amid the ongoing war. read more

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    European Alliance Pledges Financial Support for Artistic Freedom, Iranian Artists Both Terrified and Joyful as War Continues, and More: Morning Links for March 3, 2026

  • DeepIP secures $25M Series B to embed AI across the patent lifecycle

    AI patent platform DeepIP has raised $25 million in Series B funding, bringing total capital raised to $40 million. DeepIP is a workflow-native AI platform built to support patent professionals across the full patent lifecycle — from early innovation through enforcement and portfolio evolution. Designed to integrate directly into existing workflows, DeepIP helps both law read more

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    DeepIP secures M Series B to embed AI across the patent lifecycle

  • From Mac utilities to AI ecosystem: MacPaw’s next act

    Founded in Kyiv in 2008, MacPaw has grown into a global technology company building a digital ecosystem designed to supercharge productivity for Mac users. With an office opened in Boston in 2023 and others and across the EU, the company is evolving beyond standalone utilities into a unified software experience blending system care, cybersecurity, app read more

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    From Mac utilities to AI ecosystem: MacPaw’s next act

  • Is Your Home Covered in Secret Stains? This Robot Vacuum Will Find Them

    There’s no carpet on my main floor, but I have some upstairs. To move the Shark upstairs, I had to move the base and vacuum and prompt the vacuum to delete its map and remap my home, since Shark’s vacuums can only store one map at a time. It would be one thing if I read more

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    Is Your Home Covered in Secret Stains? This Robot Vacuum Will Find Them