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Sources: Apple plans to send ~200 people from its Siri team, a group internally known as a laggard, to an AI coding bootcamp
From The Information. View the full context on Techmeme.

Sources: Intel has begun testing production of "low-end/legacy iPhone, iPad, and Mac processors"; Apple thinks TSMC's resources will continue tilting toward AI (@mingchikuo)
https://x.com/mingchikuo/status/2054987772289810884

郭明錤｜Ming-Chi Kuo (@mingchikuo) on X
AI Is Reshaping Advanced-Node Resource Allocation: Apple, Intel, and TSMC in a Three-Way Shift

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Shoe company Allbirds, which sold last week for $39M after its valuation fell from $4B+ in 2021, says it aims to become an AI compute provider; BIRD jumps 800%+
By Bryce Elder / Financial Times. View the full context on Techmeme.

Akamai acquires Israeli cybersecurity startup LayerX Security, which develops a browser-based platform to secure employee use of AI tools, for ~$205M in cash (Meir Orbach/CTech)
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/byinuqxkme

Akamai acquires Israeli AI browser security startup LayerX for $205 million in cash
Deal expands Zero Trust strategy as enterprises struggle to control AI use. 

US-based Credo, which specializes in data center connectivity, agrees to acquire Israeli chip company DustPhotonics in a cash-and-stock deal worth up to $1.3B (CTech)
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/d9pizceo2

Credo to acquire Israeli chip startup DustPhotonics for up to $1.3 billion
The Israeli company's photonic chip technology enables faster, lower-cost data transfer in next-generation AI clusters.

Sources: a Snap-Perplexity AI search deal calling for Perplexity to pay Snap $400M has fallen apart; Snap is set to announce significant layoffs on Wednesday (Alex Heath/Sources)
https://sources.news/p/snap-crucible-moment

Snap's crucible moment
Mass layoffs land tomorrow, the Perplexity deal is dead, and Specs are launching soon. Also: OpenAI has a cyber model too, Apple can tell Elon what to do, and Anthropic expands its unusual board.

Anthropic redesigns Claude Code on desktop, adding a sidebar for managing multiple sessions, a drag-and-drop layout, an integrated terminal, and a file editor (Claude)
https://claude.com/blog/claude-code-desktop-redesign

Standard Kernel, which is making AI-powered GPU optimization software, raised a $20M seed led by Jump Capital, with General Catalyst and others participating (Clinton Nwachukwu/Ventureburn)
https://ventureburn.com/standard-kernel-raises-20m/

Standard Kernel Raises $20M to Automate GPU Software Optimisation
Standard Kernel Raises $20M to automate GPU kernel generation, maximising performance and efficiency across AI workloads.

An interview with SemiAnalysis CEO Dylan Patel on logic, memory, and power bottlenecks in scaling AI compute, Nvidia securing TSMC N3 allocation early, and more (Dwarkesh Patel/Dwarkesh Podcast)
https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/dylan-patel