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Fitbit Edge review: notable upgrade over the Charge 6 for GPS and heart rate, Google Health app is an improvement, but lacks software polish and NFC payments (Ray Maker/DC Rainmaker) [11d]
OpenAI announces three breakthroughs in computer science, math, and physics, including that the Exponential Time Hypothesis, a longstanding conjecture, is false (OpenAI) [11d]
Broadcom arranges a $63B deal with BofA, Blackstone, Citi, and Morgan Stanley to finance the purchase of chips for Anthropic via a new special purpose vehicle (Lynn Doan/Bloomberg) [11d]
Intel agrees to acquire Tel Aviv-based quantum computing startup Classiq; Classiq has raised more than $200M in funding and has about 130 employees (Ian King/Bloomberg) [11d]
Anthropic's IPO outlines an unusual succession plan: confidential, ranked lists of up to ten successors per founder, subject to approval from five cofounders (Anna Tong/Forbes) [11d]
Sources: Hong Kong-based stablecoin payments company RedotPay plans a US IPO filing by year-end and is in talks for a pre-IPO round at a $4B to $5B valuation (Olga Kharif/Bloomberg) [11d]
Sources: DoorDash is in advanced talks to acquire Instacart, and the deal could be completed as soon as this week (Heather Haddon/Wall Street Journal) [11d]
Apple releases iOS 27.2, with Siri AI enhancements for recalling past conversations, understanding more personal context, supporting five new languages, more (Juli Clover/MacRumors) [11d]
Anthropic's S-1 shows a governance structure that suits a "fun quirky little mission-driven worker cooperative" seeking to raise billions as a public company (Matt Levine/Bloomberg) [11d]
OpenAI releases GPT-6.1 Terra, touting "fast and capable computer use at scale" and clearer, more natural writing, priced at $1/1M input and $5/1M output tokens (OpenAI) [11d]