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Apple Announces Plans to Begin Assembling Mac Mini in U.S. This Year
Apple has announced that Foxconn will begin assembling some Mac mini computers at a factory in Houston, Texas later this year. In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, Apple’s operations chief Sabih Khan said U.S. assembly of some Mac mini units is part of the company’s previously-announced commitment to invest $600 billion in the read more
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A Meta AI security researcher said an OpenClaw agent ran amok on her inbox | TechCrunch
The now-viral X post from Meta AI security researcher Summer Yue reads, at first, like satire. She told her OpenClaw AI agent to check her overstuffed email inbox and suggest what to delete or archive. The agent proceeded to run amok. It started deleting all her email in a “speed run” while ignoring her commands read more
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What to Expect From the iPhone 17e Launching in March 2026
We’ve got just over a week to go until Apple’s “Special Experience” on March 4, and we’re expecting to see the iPhone 17e announced during the week of the event. The iPhone 17e will be the first update to the new low-cost iPhone 16e that Apple unveiled in February 2025. Design The iPhone 17e will read more
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With AI, investor loyalty is (almost) dead: At least a dozen OpenAI VCs now also back Anthropic | TechCrunch
With OpenAI on the verge of finalizing a new $100 billion round, and Anthropic just closing its own monster $30 billion raise, one thing is clear: The concept of investor “loyalty” is only hanging on by a thread. At least a dozen direct investors in OpenAI were announced as backers in Anthropic’s $30 billion raise read more
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Apple Launches New Sales Coach App
Apple today debuted a new Sales Coach app for the iPhone and the iPad, replacing the former SEED app. Designed for Apple Store and Apple Authorized Service Provider (AASP) employees, Sales Coach provides training resources and information useful for Apple device sales. Sales Coach is available for Apple Store and AASP employees worldwide, and Apple read more
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France Returns Looted ‘Talking Drum’ to the Republic of Côte d’Ivoire
In a ceremony held on Friday at the Musée Quai Branly in Paris, France officially returned a drum known as the “talking drum” or Djidji Ayôkwé, to the Republic of Côte d’Ivoire. The news was reported by French newspaper Le Monde. The ten-foot-long, 940-pound drum has a single-piece soundbox slit in half longitudinally. Extending out read more
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Reading a Biography of a Mountain
Books Newsletter Mount Rushmore, originally known as Six Grandfathers, gets its own biography, plus Sarah Bond on museums’ approach to polychromy and whiteness. At its best, an artist biography lingers long after we’ve read it, continually reshaping our orientation toward a maker and their life. But what might a biography of a mountain look like? read more
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We Tested Duffel Bags for Weeks. These Are Our Favorites
This is not a true duffel bag so much as “the world’s first true wide-mouth packing system,” as Rux calls it, but it is nevertheless an impressive piece of equipment from a company known for its modular gear-toting systems. Not unlike a foldable version of the popular 70L storage container, the Duffel box starts completely read more
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Chipping Away at the Facade of Mount Rushmore
Gutzon Borglum and a superintendent inspecting work on the face of Washington on Mount Rushmore on May 31, 1932 (image public domain via the Library of Congress) On July 4, 2020, weeks after Minneapolis police murdered George Floyd and many Americans began reconsidering the memorials and monuments that mythologize our national narratives, President Donald Trump read more
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Everything New in iOS 26.4 Beta 2
Testing on the iOS 26.4 update is continuing, and Apple released the second beta today. The main new feature is an expansion of RCS encryption testing, but there are a few other small tweaks. End-to-End Encryption RCS Testing With the second beta of iOS 26.4, Apple is testing end-to-end encryption for text messages sent between read more
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Guide Labs debuts a new kind of interpretable LLM | TechCrunch
The challenge of wrangling a deep learning model is often understanding why it does what it does: Whether it’s xAI’s repeated struggle sessions to fine-tune Grok’s odd politics, ChatGPT’s struggles with sycophancy, or run-of-the-mill hallucinations, plumbing through a neural network with billions of parameters isn’t easy. Guide Labs, a San Francisco startup founded by CEO read more
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Artists Rally for Jamaica and L.A. With a Hollywood Auction During Art Week
The art world loves a party. This time it’s putting that energy to work. On February 26, during L.A. Art Week, CORE (Community Organized Relief Effort) and TBA21 Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary will launch“Get Up Stand Up: Artists for Jamaica and Los Angeles,” a benefit auction aimed at long-term recovery efforts after Hurricane Melissa in Jamaica read more
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Met Gala Reveals 2026 Dress Code: ‘Fashion is Art’
Last November, the Metropolitan Museum of Art’sCostume Institute revealed that theme for this May’s Met Gala, is “Costume Art,” a capacious conceit that positions the museum’s five-millennia spanning collection in dialogue with the dressed body (never mind its nonrepresentational holdings). The Met Gala dress code has now been announced, and it pairs neatly: airy to read more
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How to Tell the Story of Extraction in Appalachia
Features Fia Backström explores this nexus of environmental degradation, disaster capitalism, and intergenerational poverty through embodied, compassionate, and durational research. Fia Backström, still from “Toxicology Report” (2025), HD Video, color, sound (image courtesy the artist) The Swedish artist and writer Fia Backström began traveling to the Appalachian region of Buffalo Creek, West Virginia, in 2017. read more
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Newly Unearthed Documents Propose That the Eastern Island Head Was Not Stolen
A British archaeologist has proposed a revised account of the excavation of Hoa Hakananaiʻa, the moai better known as the Easter Island Head, arguing that its removal was not a unilateral act of imperial extraction but a collaborative effort between British explorers and Indigenous Rapa Nui islanders that ultimately led to its voyage to England. read more
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Google's Cloud AI lead on the three frontiers of model capability | TechCrunch
As a product VP at Google Cloud, Michael Gerstenhaber works mostly on Vertex AI, the company’s unified platform for deploying enterprise AI. It gives him a high-level view of how companies are actually using AI models, and what still needs to be done to unleash the potential of agentic AI. When I spoke with Michael, read more
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Ancient Egyptian Tombs, Some Full of Pottery and Jewelry, Discovered at Qubbet Al-Hawa
A research team from Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) has announced new discoveries at Qubbet Al-Hawa, a well-known archaeological site in southeast Egypt, near the city of Aswan. The Upper Egyptian site is known for its sprawling necropolis. This latest mission, as reported in Ahram, focused on rock-cut burial shafts and chambers, most notably read more
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Newsmakers: Enzo, a Small Art Fair, Could Have a Big Impact on the LA Market
Editor’s Note:This story is part ofNewsmakers, an ARTnews series featuring conversations with the figures shaping how the art world is changing right now. This year sees the introduction of two new major fairs: Art Basel Qatar earlier this month and Frieze Abu Dhabi in November. Those enterprises will almost certainly have an important impact on read more
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Particle's AI news app listens to podcasts for interesting clips so you you don't have to | TechCrunch
An AI news app called Particle, from former Twitter engineers, can now keep up with news breaking on podcasts as well as news published on the web. Just ahead of its recent Android release, Particle has introduced a feature called Podcast Clips, which finds the most interesting and relevant moments across many different types of read more
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Spotify rolls out AI-powered Prompted Playlists to the UK and other markets | TechCrunch
After initially testing its AI-powered “Prompted Playlist” feature in New Zealand and recently launching in the U.S. and Canada, Spotify announced on Monday that it’s rolling out the tool to Premium subscribers in the U.K., Ireland, Australia, and Sweden. The Prompted Playlist feature allows users to create custom playlists by simply describing what they want read more
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