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Apple has reportedly trained a custom artificial intelligence model specifically for the Chinese market, developed in partnership with Alibaba. It's a striking collaboration given the rising tensions between Washington and Beijing, and it signals just how far Apple is willing to go to maintain its foothold in one of its most important markets.
Closer to home, an art project called Ground Truth is turning Citi Bikes into instruments of empathy. Riders in rent-burdened New York City neighborhoods find their bikes physically harder to pedal, the resistance calibrated to reflect local housing costs. It's a rare piece of design that makes an abstract crisis feel genuinely physical.
And Namecheap, one of the web's largest hosting providers, suffered a significant outage after a cooling failure at its Phoenix data center. Services were down for several hours, leaving customers furious and websites dark across the globe. The company acknowledged the failure publicly, telling users simply, we failed you today. The issue took roughly fifteen hours to fully resolve.
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