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The company is also preparing to overhaul iPadOS to make its tablets more like Macs. iPhones made in China have been exempted from tariffs. Apple will not move production back to the US - instead, it is going all-out on India as its US production source. It would be impossible to move iPhone manufacturing back to the US. OpenAI Is Reportedly Preparing to Launch GPT-4.1 (2 minute read) OpenAI is readying GPT-4.1 and a full version of its o3 reasoning model for release soon. GPT-4.1, a revamped version of GPT-4o, will launch along with smaller mini and nano versions. While OpenAI is still not yet profitable, it is currently valued at $300 billion. ChatGPT was the most downloaded app on app stores last month. 🚀 Science & Futuristic Technology World's first interactive 3D holographic display (3 minute read) A team of Spanish engineers has created a 3D hologram that can be physically interacted with. The technology allows users to control holographic objects using common phone gestures. Users testing the system were faster and more confident when manipulating objects compared to existing methods. A video showcasing the technology is available in the article. Experimental drug looks to be gastric bypass surgery in pill form (4 minute read) The popularity of GLP-1 drugs for weight loss has led to companies competing to make new and improved anti-obesity medications. Boston-based Syntis Bio has created a daily pill that mimics the effects of gastric bypass without actual surgery. The drug is designed to redirect the absorption of nutrients from the beginning of the small intestine to its end, changing how the body absorbs food and leaving people feeling fuller from eating less. Early data from animals and a small group of humans shows that the pill is safe and may be able to suppress hunger. 💻 Programming, Design & Data Science Reach millions of tech decision-makers with TLDR (Sponsor) Advertising in TLDR puts your brand in front of tech leaders when they're most engaged. Easily target millions of developers, PMs, and executives with our 10 interest-based newsletters. See how TLDR can drive results for your brand. Datastar (GitHub Repo) Datastar uses the simplicity of server-side rendering and the power of a full-stack SPA framework to build reactive web applications. It is only 14.5 KB but it can provide the functionality of both Alpine.j and htmx. Developers can easily add custom plugins to the core. There are official software development kits available to help developers get up and running quickly. No code is dead. Long live vibe coding (1 minute read) No- and low-code abstractions promised to democratize software creation, but the technology didn't even come close to replacing code or traditional programming. A decade later, vibe coding is showing that prompt-to-code workflows are possible. Large language models allow people to create actual code not locked into proprietary runtimes. They can generate code written to open standards, leverage industry best practices, and deploy to open infrastructure. 🎁 Miscellaneous What's Wrong With Apple? (8 minute read) It's been a decade since the release of Apple's most recent commercial successes - the Apple Watch and AirPods. The company's services lag behind rivals in subscriptions and half of its sales still come from the iPhone. Vision Pro sales were disappointing, but it was the company's issues with Apple Intelligence that exposed the dysfunction within the organization. There seems to be a breakdown of leadership, communication, and internal processes at Apple. Sam Altman at TED today (3 minute read) OpenAI's user base has doubled in just the past few weeks. The company plans to release a powerful open-source model near the frontier in response to DeepSeek. It is becoming much less restrictive on speech harms and taking a more permissive stance due to feedback that people don't want censorship. Sam Altman says that having a child changed a lot in him - but he doesn't think his kids will ever be smarter than AI. ⚡ Quick Links ChatGPT became the most downloaded app globally in March (2 minute read) ChatGPT installations jumped 28% from February to March to reach 46 million new downloads. Google lays off hundreds of people from inside its Platform and Devices division (1 minute read) The layoffs were announced earlier this year and employees had been offered buyouts rather than being immediately laid off. The xAI–X merger is a good deal — if you're betting on Musk's empire (4 minute read) Investing in any one of Elon Musk's companies isn't about a quick return on investment, it's about buying into Musk's empire. A Realistic AI Timeline (9 minute read) The first AGI will be dumb and largely underperform on all benchmarks, disappointing almost everyone, but it will be the first non-human system where you can meaningfully apply a measure of IQ. OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever's Safe Superintelligence reportedly valued at $32B (1 minute read) Safe Superintelligence, an AI startup led by OpenAI co-founder and former chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, has raised an additional $2 billion in funding at a $32 billion valuation. Mastodon Exit Interview (14 minute read) Mastodon is an instantiation of an open standard called ActivityPub, a way to asynchronously distribute data so that the data is available locally. Love TLDR? Tell your friends and get rewards! 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