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Who is John Ternus, the incoming Apple CEO?: Starting on September 1, Ternus will lead one of the world's most valuable companies, but if you're not a dedicated Apple enthusiast, you've probably never heard of this man, who has largely remained out of the spotlight until now. Read More

Tim Cook stepping down as Apple CEO, John Ternus taking over: The transition has been expected for some time and ends one of the longer and more impactful runs a CEO has had at any company. Cook had inherited a company that many industry watchers and enthusiasts struggled to separate from its famed founder. What he leaves behind is a $4 trillion business with annual revenue that has more than quadrupled on his watch. Read More

Blue Energy raises $380M to build grid-scale nuclear reactors in shipyards: By building reactors in shipyards, Blue Energy says it will tame nuclear power's cost problems, giving it access to cheaper financing. Read More

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Cash App is targeting a new kind of customer: 6-12 year olds: Tech companies are constantly on the hunt for new customers, and Cash App, the fintech company owned by Jack Dorsey's Block, believes it has found a promising new demographic: children. The company, which already offers financial services to teens, said this week that it is expanding its youth-focused services in an effort to build a relationship with Gen Alpha and the upcoming generation of adolescents in the U.S. The new program will let parents create financial accounts for children between the ages of 6 and 12. The children won't have access to the app, and these accounts will be managed by their parents, who will have the ability to deposit and monitor funds. The children, meanwhile, will receive a debit card linked to the accounts that they can use to spend the money. Image Credits: Cash App The accounts can also receive P2P payments from a small number of approved users (such as grandparents), and will be eligible to earn up to 3.25% in interest, the company says. The idea is to teach children about financial responsibility, according to Kristen Anderson, group product lead for Core Networks at Cash App. "Cash App has been serving teen accounts for a number of years, and we've seen through our customer base that there is just this desire to be able to bring kids into the experience earlier," Anderson told TechCrunch. Anderson described the new facility as a way for children to "learn about savings and savings goals," in conjunction with the app's Read More

Anthropic takes $5B from Amazon and pledges $100B in cloud spending in return: Amazon has made another circular AI deal: It's investing another $5 billion in Anthropic. Anthropic has agreed to spend $100 billion on AWS in return. Read More

It's not just one thing — it's another thing: This sentence construction ("It's not just this — it's that") has become so common in AI-generated writing that it's no longer just a clue that a piece of writing may be synthetic — it's almost a guarantee. Read More

Google rolls out Gemini in Chrome in APAC countries: Google is rolling out Gemini in Chrome in Australia, Indonesia, Japan, the Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, and Vietnam. The company is rolling this feature out to both desktop and iOS in all of these countries except Japan. Read More

Revolut eyes valuation of up to $200B in eventual IPO: Fintech giant Revolut, which secured a full banking license in the U.K. in March after years of waiting, was most recently valued at $75 billion in a secondary share sale. Read More