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• Apple enjoyed a long run at the top of the tech supply chain.
• Now, this prized position is being usurped by AI companies and cloud giants.
• These new AI players are becoming more important customers for chipmakers and other suppliers.

For over a decade, Apple sat at the center of the tech supply chain

• Google cofounder Larry Page bought property in Florida amid California's proposed billionaire tax.
• Page purchased luxury Miami properties before the Billionaire Tax Act could impact his assets.
• Miami's rise as a tech hub has attracted the ultrawealthy like Page and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.

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• Life-long Californian, Marissa Chiechi, moved from Los Angeles to Alexandria, Virginia, in 2023.
• Chiechi relocated for her then-boyfriend, now husband, after his new job brought him to the East Coast.
• While she did feel lonely at first, the move made her a stronger person, she said.

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Marissa

Claude Cowork, Anthropic's AI assistant for taking care of simple tasks on your computer, is now available for anyone with a $20 per month Pro subscription to try. Anthropic launched Cowork as an exclusive feature for its Max subscribers, who pay a minimum of $100 per month for more uses of Claude's expensive reasoning models and early access to experimental features. Now Claude Cowork is

If you follow Anthropic, you're probably familiar with Claude Code. Since the fall of 2024, the company has been training its AI models to use and navigate computers like a human would, and the coding agent has been the most practical expression of that work, giving developers a way to automate rote programming tasks. Starting today, Anthropic is giving regular people a way to take advantage of

OpenAI plans to start testing ads inside of ChatGPT "in the coming weeks." In a blog post published Friday, the company said adult users in the US of its free and Go tiers (more on the latter in a moment) would start seeing sponsored products and services appear below their conversations with its chatbot. "Ads will be clearly labeled and separated from the organic answer," OpenAI said, adding any

• OpenAI is officially preparing to test ads in ChatGPT.
• The move comes as the AI company looks to increase revenue amid $1.4 trillion in spending commitments in the coming years.
• CEO Sam Altman once portrayed ads as "a last resort" business model for the company before softening his stance.

Netflix famously backtracked on its stance

Although X removed Grok’s ability to create nonconsensual digitally undressed images on the social platform, the standalone Grok app is another story. It reportedly continues to produce “nudified” deepfakes of real people. And now, Ashley St. Clair, a conservative political strategist and mother of one of Elon Musk’s 14 children, has sued xAI for nonconsensual sexualized images of her that Grok