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APPLE WWDC 2025: THE 13 BIGGEST ANNOUNCEMENTS

Apple showed off a sleek design refresh for its operating system, new features for the iPhone, iPad, Mac, and AirPods, and more at its annual Worldwide Developer Conference keynote. This page rounds up the biggest announcements from the event. There are big changes in store across Apple's platforms. Apple's new operating systems, which are now named by year, are now available as developer betas and will be available to all users this fall.

OPENAI HITS $10 BILLION IN ANNUAL RECURRING REVENUE FUELED BY CHATGPT GROWTH

OpenAI has hit $10 billion in annual recurring revenue (ARR). The figure includes sales from the company's consumer products, ChatGPT business products, and OpenAI's API, but excludes licensing revenue from Microsoft and large one-time deals. OpenAI had around $5.5 billion in ARR last year - it is targeting $125 billion in revenue by 2029. The company currently supports 500 million weekly active users, with three million paying business users.

DOCTORS COULD HACK THE NERVOUS SYSTEM WITH ULTRASOUND

Focused ultrasound stimulation (FUS) is a technique that involves using sound waves to reduce inflammation in targeted areas of the body. It could help with many disorders, including diabetes, obesity, arthritis, heart disease, and certain cancers. The technology offers a precise and safe way to provide healing treatments for a wide range of both acute and chronic maladies - without surgery, and potentially at home with a wearable device. This article discusses in-depth how FUS works and its potential applications.

XROBOTICS' COUNTERTOP ROBOTS ARE COOKING UP 25,000 PIZZAS A MONTH

XRobotics' countertop robot, xPizza Cube, can make up to 100 pizzas an hour. Roughly the size of a stackable washing machine, the xPizza Cube can be retrofitted to work with pies of different sizes and styles. A unit can be leased for $1,300 a month for three years. XRobotics recently raised a $2.5 million seed round - it will use the capital to produce more units and install more robots for customers.

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APPLE ANNOUNCES FOUNDATION MODELS FRAMEWORK FOR DEVELOPERS TO LEVERAGE AI

Apple's Foundation Models Framework is a new API that allows third-party developers to build apps that leverage Apple's on-device large language models. It enables developers to build AI-powered features that work offline, protect privacy, and incur no inference costs. The framework is available for testing starting today through the Apple Developer Program. A public beta will be available through the Apple Beta Software Program next month.

CONTAINER

container is a tool for creating and running Linux containers as lightweight virtual machines on macOS. It consumes and produces OCI-compliant container images, so developers can pull and run images from any standard container registry. Developers can also push images to those registries, and run the images in any other OCI-compliant application. container is optimized for Apple silicon.

LLMS ARE CHEAP

Generative AI is relatively cheap, especially when compared to search APIs. While inference was very expensive at the start of the AI boom, it has since gotten a lot cheaper. The real cost problem will be from the backend services that AI agents will want to access.

ONE MAN ARMIES

This post contains a list of one-person (or mostly one-person) projects. The list includes Stardew Valley, Linux, the first scientific map of the Atlantic Ocean, Rollercoaster Tycoon, and jQuery. Each entry names the project's creator. The list shows how incredible things can be made by a single person. If you care enough about your ideas, they might be worth trying.

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SOMO

somo is a human-friendly alternative to netstat for socket and port monitoring on Linux.

THE CODE REVIEW FRUSTRATION

Treating vibe code as precious is a productivity killer.

A BIT MORE ON TWITTER/X'S NEW ENCRYPTED MESSAGING

From a cryptographic perspective, XChat, X's new end-to-end encryption messaging protocol, isn't great - there's no forward secrecy and user private keys are stored at X.

THE SIGNALFIRE STATE OF TALENT REPORT - 2025

Tech's talent gap has widened - entry-level hiring is collapsing and geographic power centers are evolving fast.

AI'S METRICS QUESTION

Measuring AI use is difficult because the term 'AI' can refer to many different things.

SILICON VALLEY'S QUEST TO REMOVE FRICTION FROM OUR LIVES

Silicon Valley's real sin is that it is removing long-existing frictions too hard and fast, causing hidden costs to pop up faster than society can patch them.