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3 May 2026 Vol 19

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The State of AI: Is China about to win the race? 

Yet those same constraints have pushed Chinese companies toward a different playbook: pooling compute, optimizing efficiency, and releasing open-weight models.…

Dia’s AI browser starts adding Arc’s ‘greatest hits’ to its feature set

The AI web browser Dia is drawing inspiration from its predecessor, Arc, an earlier experiment in modernizing the web browsing…

The Best Delivery Thanksgiving Meal Kits (2025)

All of it came shrink-wrapped in its own sections, in little bamboo and/or cardboard boats set into a reusable acacia…

OpenAI and Amazon ink $38B cloud computing deal  

OpenAI isn’t done securing the AI infrastructure it needs to rapidly scale agentic workloads. The ChatGPT-maker on Monday said it…

The Best iPhone Privacy and Security Settings to Change on Your Apple Device (2025)

Next is advertising. Apple Advertising is more focused on privacy than other platforms, blocking ads from tracking you across websites…

Microsoft’s $15.2B UAE investment turns Gulf State into test case for US AI diplomacy

Microsoft will invest $15.2 billion in the United Arab Emirates over the next four years, the company announced Monday at…

The Download: gene-edited babies, and cleaning up copper

The news: A West Coast biotech entrepreneur says he’s secured $30 million to form a public-benefit company to study how…

Redmagic’s liquid-cooled gaming phone starts at $749

The Redmagic 11 Pro is the first phone (outside of a OnePlus concept design, at least) to feature true liquid…

What to Do in Chicago If You’re Here for Business (2025)

Chicago always has something to prove. When it went up against New York for the 1893 World’s Fair, a New…

This startup wants to clean up the copper industry

This is far from the first attempt to use a water-based, chemical approach to processing copper. Today, some copper ore…