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Tesla driver in fatal Texas crash pressed accelerator 100%, NTSB confirms: The safety board confirmed Tesla's account of the crash, which the company shared days after it happened last month. Read More

Amid hardware legal battle, OpenAI releases a $230 keyboard for Codex: OpenAI, which is in the middle of a legal battle with Apple over hardware trade theft allegations, just released a light-up keyboard designed to be paired with its agentic coding app. Read More

Apple Intelligence approved for launch in China with Alibaba and Baidu: The deal, which was rumored to be in the works last year, marks an important step for Apple's AI ambitions in a key market. Read More

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Morning Must-Reads

Moonshot's upcoming Kimi 3 is expected to close the gap with Anthropic's Opus 4.8: The FT reports Kimi K3 will be the largest open AI model from China, with a parameter count between 2 trillion and 3 trillion. Read More

Lululemon backs nylon-recycling startup Syntetica in $30M Series A: Syntetica, a French startup that has developed a novel approach to recycling nylon, has already obtained big-name partners and investors. Read More

Microsoft patches bug in video game Age of Empires II: The vulnerability in the decades-old game could have allowed hackers to take over victims’ computers with a malicious game invite. Read More

Daniel Ek's body-scanning startup Neko Health raises another $700M: Neko Health has developed proprietary body-scanning technology, which it couples with bloodwork, to assess a person's health. Read More

Why Greylock capped its new fund at $1.5B when it says it could have raised more: By keeping the number of investments to about 25 per fund, Greylock aims to remain what it calls "the most important partner" to its founders. Read More

Last but Not Least

Microsoft is reportedly training salespeople to talk down OpenAI and Anthropic: Microsoft is looking to sell its in-house AI models as more efficient and cost-effective than its competitors' models. Read More