Apple is betting John Ternus will bring back Jobs-era decisiveness at the worst possible time to be behind on AI

Summary: Bloomberg frames Apple’s CEO transition as a bet on “Jobs-era decisiveness,” with John Ternus expected to centralise decision-making and move faster on AI, where Apple’s models trail [...]

A new study just revealed which English-speaking country swears the most

A study of how often the f-bomb is dropped on social media shows which nation is the effin' king of cursing [...]

Inside the mind of a viral indie hacker

When the 29-year-old Samuel Rizzon is asked what he does, he answers with a single word: “developer.” While accurate, it’s a modest label for someone whose work has stretched well beyond writing [...]

CXMT soared 466% on day one to become China’s most valuable onshore company

China has a new most valuable listed company, and it makes the chips inside your phone. CXMT, formerly ChangXin Memory Technologies, closed its Shanghai debut up 466% on Monday, the South China Mornin [...]

SoftBank seeks a second $10bn loan against its OpenAI stake

SoftBank is seeking a further $10bn loan to fund its OpenAI stake, Bloomberg reported on Friday. It closed a loan of exactly that size, secured against the same asset, 22 days earlier. TNW has not ind [...]

Quant fund Qube is hiring human stock pickers to sit beside its algorithms

Qube Research & Technologies, one of London’s largest quantitative hedge funds, is doing something that would once have looked heretical for a firm built on code: it is hiring humans to pick st [...]

You Can Watch an Exclusive Avatar: Fire and Ash Scene on TikTok Right Now

Disney and TikTok partner on an immersive content hub for James Cameron's latest movie about the alien Na'vi. [...]

UN’s digital agency launches an initiative to make AI agents trustworthy

The United Nations’ digital agency has decided that AI agents are moving faster than anyone’s ability to trust them, and it wants to do something about it. On 9 July, the International Telecommuni [...]

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Whether you’re a true cord-cutter or you just want to watch the next season of Stranger Things when it drops, everyone’s on the lookout for streaming deals nowadays. Plenty have chosen VOD and liv [...]