- Documents and sources: Abu Dhabi's Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan backed a $500M investment for a 49% stake in WLF, four days before Trump's inauguration
[Wall Street Journal] - Sources: Apple execs question if it has the ingredients to win in AI-first era, new MacBook Pros are about to launch, Apple considers clamshell foldable iPhone
[Mark Gurman / Bloomberg] - A look at China's âgenius classâ system, which picks ~100K gifted teens annually for elite science-focused schooling; its alumni span ByteDance, PDD, and more
[Zijing Wu / Financial Times] - Inside Physical Intelligence, a startup co-founded by Stripe veteran Lachy Groom that is building general-purpose robotics foundation models and has raised $1B+
[Connie Loizos / TechCrunch] - A look at iOS 26's call-screening feature, which some compare to an executive assistant filter unwanted calls, as others complain it makes people hard to reach
[Andrew Zucker / Wall Street Journal] - A researcher says an exposed Moltbook database could have let anyone take control of the site's AI agents and post anything; the database has since been secured
[Matthew Gault / 404 Media] - India to exempt foreign companies from being taxed when providing equipment to their contract manufacturers in the country, a rule change Apple lobbied for
[Reuters] - India proposes zero taxes for foreign cloud providers through 2047 on services sold outside the country as long as they run workloads from Indian data centers
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