Good Evening!
For those of you still posting on Bluesky, today’s news is for you.
Here are the 7 things you missed today:
1. 📱 iPhone Just Had its Best Quarter Ever
Another win for Apple: its signature iPhone device had its best quarter ever, thanks partially to a surge of sales in regions like China and India. The company sold $85 billion worth of iPhones during its first quarter, up from $69 billion in the same period last year. (TechCrunch)
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3. 🔌 Anthropic Added Agentic Plug-ins to Cowork
Anthropic’s latest release is getting a new release Cowork, Anthropic’s agentic tool launched earlier this month, has a new plug-ins feature to make the non-coder translator even more powerful for enterprise users. The plug-ins are designed to automate “specialized” tasks within a company’s various departments. (TechCrunch)
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5. 🏭 Eli Lilly is Planning a $3.5Bn Manufacturing Plant in PA
Good news for Pennsylvania. Pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly announced its plans to spend more than $3.5 billion to build a manufacturing plant in the state’s Lehigh Valley to make its next-generation obesity drugs. It’s the fourth facility in a string of new planned U.S. investments by the pharma leader. (CNBC)
6. 🇨🇳 China Approved DeepSeek’s Purchase of Nvidia H200 Chips
More big news this week for Nvidia. China has given its top AI startup DeepSeek approval to buy the chip leader’s H200 artificial intelligence chips with regulatory conditions that are still being finalized. The deal would add onto the recent Chinese purchase of more than 400,000 H200 chips to ByteDance, Alibaba, and Tencent. (Reuters)
7. 🦋 Bluesky Released its First Transparency Report
Remember Bluesky? It’s still kicking, and it’s released its first transparency report. The report documented actions taken by its Trust & Safety team and the results of other initiatives, but also notes that, during the past year, users made 1.41 billion posts on the platform which represented 61% of all posts ever made on Bluesky. (TechCrunch)
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