The Daily Index — Friday, April 11, 2025 · TLDR Index

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THIS IS HOW APPLE'S BIG SIRI SHAKE-UP HAPPENED, PER REPORT

Apple experienced a major internal shake-up related to Siri last month. The company's struggles in AI were partly tied to its militant stance on user privacy and also poor leadership. Members of the Siri team at Apple were surprised at the features that the company demoed at WWDC last year as they didn't even have working prototypes. There seems to be more optimism within Apple that Siri is in good hands now.

9to5mac.com · 3 min

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AI 50: AI AGENTS MOVE BEYOND CHAT

Companies are using AI agents and reasoning models to take on real enterprise workflows. Startups are moving from AI that merely responds to prompts to AI that solves problems and completes entire workflows, producing real business results. Startups focused on robots have made meaningful strides as they integrate models built using transformers with hardware. Companies this year will prove that AI can be trusted with meaningful workloads and deliver real results - next year, enterprise gains will start spilling into everyday life.

sequoiacap.com · 3 min

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MIRA MURATI'S AI STARTUP IS REPORTEDLY AIMING FOR A MASSIVE $2B SEED ROUND

Thinking Machines Lab recently emerged from stealth and has no product or revenue, but it does have dozens of high-profile AI researchers in its ranks.

techcrunch.com · 1 min

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HOW A $2,000 'MADE IN THE USA' PHONE IS MANUFACTURED

The Liberty Phone, made by a company called Purism, is almost completely made in the USA - it costs $2,000, with specs that reviewers say are pretty outdated.

404media.co · 28 min

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THE RISE OF AI ‘REASONING' MODELS IS MAKING BENCHMARKING MORE EXPENSIVE

Reasoning models, which are supposed to be more capable than their non-reasoning counterparts in specific domains, are much more expensive to benchmark, making it difficult to independently verify claims.

techcrunch.com · 4 min

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TESLA UNVEILS NEW CHEAPER, BUT NERFED ‘LONG RANGE' CYBERTRUCK

The RWD Cybertruck has a longer range but lesser suspension and no rear screen for the backseat.

electrek.co · 2 min

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DOORDASH STARTS ROBOT DELIVERIES IN LA AND CHICAGO

DoorDash partnered with Coco Robotics to provide sidewalk deliveries sourced from over 600 participating merchants in Los Angeles and Chicago.

engadget.com · 1 min

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AN INTERVIEW WITH GOOGLE CLOUD PLATFORM CEO THOMAS KURIAN ABOUT BUILDING AN ENTERPRISE CULTURE

Thomas Kurian was President of Product Development at Oracle, where he worked for 22 years, before he joined Google to lead its cloud division in 2018.

stratechery.com · 35 min