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Apple says it was caught off guard by surging AI-driven demand for its Mac lineup. The company is now warning customers it will be supply-constrained on the Mac Mini, Mac Studio, and Mac Pro through next quarter — a rare admission that even Apple's supply chain didn't see the AI hardware wave coming in time.
Shifting gears to the road, the Tesla Semi has finally entered mass production — seven years after Elon Musk first unveiled the long-haul electric truck on a Las Vegas stage. That gap between promise and production line tells a familiar story in the EV world, where ambition routinely outruns manufacturing reality, though the milestone itself is genuinely significant for electric freight.
And on the science side, a new Stanford study is challenging a foundational assumption in neuroscience — that group brain scan averages tell us something meaningful about individual behavior. Researchers found those averages can actually obscure how any one person's brain works, which has real implications for how we build AI systems trained on aggregated human data.
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