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What’s happening:
💰 Samsung just out-earned Nvidia and Apple
🎨 Meta launches Muse Image, its first in-house model
💼 Claude Cowork launches on web and mobile
🤖 Chinta restricts foreign access to top AI models
🏭 Apple to spend $30 billion for ‘Made in America’ chips
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💰 Samsung just out-earned Nvidia and Apple ↗️LINK
Samsung guided to a record quarterly operating profit near 89.4 trillion won, about $58 billion. That tops the latest quarterly operating profit of both Nvidia, near $54 billion, and Apple, near $36 billion.
AI data-center demand tightened memory supply and pushed HBM and DRAM prices sharply higher. Samsung's profit did not climb because it sold far more chips. It climbed because pricing power surged.
Investors shrugged anyway. Samsung shares still closed nearly 7% lower, as the market had already priced in a historic quarter and now questions how long the AI memory boom can keep prices this high.
🎨 Meta launches Muse Image ↗️LINK
Meta Superintelligence Labs released Muse Image, its first in-house image generator, free inside Meta AI. It opened at No. 2 on Arena's text-to-image and editing leaderboards, trailing only OpenAI's GPT Image 2.
Rather than mapping a prompt straight to pixels, Muse Image works agentically, using web search and coding tools and pairing with Muse Spark to plan each image before it renders the result.
Meta spent years renting image tech from partners like Midjourney. Now it owns the whole stack, and a teased Muse Video preview already sits at No. 3, so the renting era looks finished.
💼 Claude Cowork launches on web and mobile ↗️LINK
Anthropic brought Claude Cowork, its Claude Code-style agent for general knowledge work, to web and mobile on Tuesday. It rolls out first to Max subscribers, with other paid plans following in coming weeks.
Sessions sync across devices, so users start a task at their desk, check progress on their phone, and grab the output later. Claude can also run scheduled tasks in the background with no device online.
Anthropic also released data from 1.2 million sessions across 600,000 organizations. Business operations led at 33.4% and content work at 16.4%, while coding, the tool's original pitch, made up just 8.7%.
🤖 Chinta restricts foreign access to top AI models ↗️LINK
Reuters reports China's Ministry of Commerce spent the past month meeting Alibaba, ByteDance, and Z .ai about restricting foreign access to their strongest models, including ones not yet released.
The talks target Alibaba's Qwen, ByteDance's Doubao, and Z .ai's GLM-5.2, and cover both open and closed models. Officials also floated funding limits and treating AI theft as a national security crime.
Officials have decided nothing yet, and any rules might apply only to future models. Still, these systems won global users precisely by being cheap and open, the exact openness Beijing now weighs closing.
🏭 Apple to spend $30 billion on US-made chips ↗️LINK
Apple signed a multiyear deal expected to top $30 billion for Broadcom to design and make more than 15 billion U.S.-made wireless connectivity chips, its largest American Manufacturing Program commitment yet.
The deal includes a $1.5 billion expansion of Broadcom's Fort Collins, Colorado plant and feeds Apple's $600 billion U.S. pledge, made last year under tariff pressure from the Trump administration.
These chips handle Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and cellular signals, not the iPhone's main processor, which TSMC still makes abroad. Apple says the deal supports "hundreds" of jobs, a modest figure beside the $30 billion.
Today’s Poll:
Vote and find out about the result tomorrow.
Yesterday’s Poll Result:
Do you think Meta actually designed its apps to addict young users?
A) Yes - 97% 🏆
B) No - 3%
Reader’s opinions:
“Its all about monetization which is driven by share price so every one who has ever bought shares in Meta or any other the other platforms needs to realise they have created these monsters. Looking forward ot their demise.”
“Not initially. But once the data showed engagement equals revenue, the design became intentional. Infinite scroll, autoplay, and variable reward notifications exist to keep people hooked. Meta’s own leaked internal research showed they knew Instagram was harming teens and kept those features anyway. The original intent may have been neutral, but once they saw the profit, addiction became the business model.”
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