Igor Bonifacic / Engadget:
Pocketpair says Nintendo and Pokémon Company are seeking ~$65K in damages in their lawsuit and lists the three patents the studio is accused of infringing — No, Nintendo probably isn’t going easy on the studio. — Nintendo and the Pokémon Company are seeking approximately $65,700 …
UnifyApp, which lets companies build their own AI chatbots by connecting their SaaS apps and data, raised a $20M Series A, around six months after a $11M seed (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)
Marina Temkin / TechCrunch:
UnifyApp, which lets companies build their own AI chatbots by connecting their SaaS apps and data, raised a $20M Series A, around six months after a $11M seed — These days, it seems like every company either wants to or is already offering an AI product or service.
Apple has added a High Power performance mode, previously reserved for Max and Ultra chips, to the M4 Pro in both the Mac mini and in the new MacBook Pro (Andrew Cunningham/Ars Technica)
Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica:
Apple has added a High Power performance mode, previously reserved for Max and Ultra chips, to the M4 Pro in both the Mac mini and in the new MacBook Pro — First Mac mini redesign in almost 15 years highlights how good the insides are. … The Mac mini will celebrate its 20th birthday in January.
AI startup founders and VCs hope that a Trump administration will lead to lighter regulations and the return of real acquisitions, not “contorted” ones (Forbes)
Forbes:
AI startup founders and VCs hope that a Trump administration will lead to lighter regulations and the return of real acquisitions, not “contorted” ones — Practitioners expect more acquisitions and less oversight in a Trump administration expected to repeal Biden’s executive order.
Some TikTok staff and users see Trump as a possible savior from the ban; others question whether Trump even cares about the app now that the campaign is over (Alexandra S. Levine/Bloomberg)
Alexandra S. Levine / Bloomberg:
Some TikTok staff and users see Trump as a possible savior from the ban; others question whether Trump even cares about the app now that the campaign is over — Trump has signaled he’s against a possible ban of the viral video-sharing app — Some TikTok staff and creators …
With Elon Musk’s ascension in Trump’s orbit, tech leaders on the right hope to steer the second Trump administration, bringing a startup ethos to the government (Elizabeth Dwoskin/Washington Post)
Elizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post:
With Elon Musk’s ascension in Trump’s orbit, tech leaders on the right hope to steer the second Trump administration, bringing a startup ethos to the government — With Elon Musk’s ascension in Trump-world, tech leaders on the right see an opportunity to bring a start-up ethos to the federal government.
Kuo: Apple plans to upgrade the wide-angle lens in the high-end iPhone 18 in 2026 to a variable aperture camera (Ming-Chi Kuo)
Ming-Chi Kuo:
Kuo: Apple plans to upgrade the wide-angle lens in the high-end iPhone 18 in 2026 to a variable aperture camera — Key Growth Drivers for Sunny Optical’s Apple Orders in 2025-2026: — 1. Lens Supply Allocation to Rebound Significantly from ~5% in 2024 to 15-20% in 2025
Sources: TSMC told Chinese customers it would no longer manufacture AI chips at advanced process nodes of 7nm or smaller as of this coming Monday (Financial Times)
Financial Times:
Sources: TSMC told Chinese customers it would no longer manufacture AI chips at advanced process nodes of 7nm or smaller as of this coming Monday — World’s biggest contract chipmaker acts to ensure it is in line with US restrictions on Chinese access to latest processors
Mercury Research: AMD’s desktop CPU market share, in units, grew from 19.1% in Q3 2023 to 28.7% in Q3 2024 and from 19.5% to 22.3% for mobile in the same period (Mark Hachman/PCWorld)
Mark Hachman / PCWorld:
Mercury Research: AMD’s desktop CPU market share, in units, grew from 19.1% in Q3 2023 to 28.7% in Q3 2024 and from 19.5% to 22.3% for mobile in the same period — AMD’s desktop CPU market share jumped nearly 10 percent in the last year, an analyst reported Thursday, on the heels …
Sony reports Q2 revenue up 9% YoY to ~$19.45B, operating profit up 73% YoY to ~$2.96B vs. ~$2.18B est., and PS5 sales of 3.8M units, down from 4.9M a year ago (Takashi Mochizuki/Bloomberg)
Takashi Mochizuki / Bloomberg:
Sony reports Q2 revenue up 9% YoY to ~$19.45B, operating profit up 73% YoY to ~$2.96B vs. ~$2.18B est., and PS5 sales of 3.8M units, down from 4.9M a year ago — The Tokyo-based company said it now expects net revenue of ¥12.71 trillion ($83.2 billion) in the year to March, up slightly from its previous forecast.
