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Apple names John Ternus CEO. Tim Cook's machine gets an engineer.

Apple names John Ternus CEO. Tim Cook's machine gets an engineer.

Apple has named John Ternus to replace Tim Cook as CEO, but the real transition is less clean than a handoff. Cook moves to executive chairman, Srouji takes a larger hardware role, and Ternus inherits a company rich from Cook's operating machine but exposed on AI. The first test is not whether Apple can praise its own succession plan. It is whether an engineer can make Siri, sensors, and new devices feel like one answer.

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Anthropic Cutoff Exposes OpenClaw's Automation Cost Problem
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Anthropic Cutoff Exposes OpenClaw's Automation Cost Problem

Anthropic's April cutoff for Claude subscriptions in third-party agent tools has made OpenClaw's hidden cost clearer: the software is free, but always-on automation can turn simple jobs into metered loops with context, tools, memory and security risk attached. Most teams should start with scripts, workflows or one targeted model call before reaching for a persistent agent.

Harkaram Grewal · 11 min read ·
Repo Radar: 5 GitHub Projects Worth Your Week
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Repo Radar: 5 GitHub Projects Worth Your Week

Repo Radar looks at five fast-moving GitHub projects: Hermes Agent, OpenScreen, Google AI Edge Gallery, DeepTutor, and Multica. The pattern is clear. Open source is moving from code libraries into full products for agents, local AI, screen demos, and learning workflows.

Marcus Schuler · 9 min read ·
Intermediate Tutorial: Build Useful Chrome Skills for Gemini Workflows
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Intermediate Tutorial: Build Useful Chrome Skills for Gemini Workflows

Chrome Skills turn repeated Gemini in Chrome prompts into reusable browser workflows. This intermediate tutorial shows how to confirm access, save useful prompts, compare selected tabs, build a research verification Skill, and keep the library from becoming clutter. It also explains where the rollout is limited, why selected tabs matter, when a saved prompt is too risky for confidential work, and how to test outputs before trusting them.

Harkaram Grewal · 16 min read ·
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Apple turns 50 with record revenue but no AI strategy of its own. John Ternus is the likely next CEO. He inherits the gap.

Kimi K2.6 did not release a coding model. It opened the control room.
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Kimi K2.6 did not release a coding model. It opened the control room.

Kimi K2.6 looks like another open-source coding model launch. The sharper move is Moonshot's push to make the agent coordinator the valuable layer: 300 agents, 4,000 steps, and a control system around long-running software work. That threatens closed labs on cost and orchestration, but leaves enterprises staring at versioning, provenance, and trust. The scoreboard is only the doorway; the real fight is who owns the room where agents take orders.

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