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    WWDC 2025 live blog: a fresh new look at iOS, macOS, and more

    Software redesigns, some new names, and probably more AI. Probably.

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    We’re at Apple Park!

    We were just driven around the spaceship in a golf cart that may or may not have had party speakers. The keynote is scheduled to start in less than an hour. More to come soon.

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    “More than 50 people” are making over $1 million a year on Substack.

    CEO Chris Best drops that fact onstage at The Information’s “Future of Influence” event in Los Angeles. He also says Substack was “accidentally cash flow positive” in the first quarter of this year, but isn’t planning to be profitable soon. “We’re focused on growth,” he says. “It turns out that when you do that, it makes the business grow really well, too.”

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    Google found a way to make virtual meetings suck less
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    Project Starline is now Google Beam and shipping to offices later this year.

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    Google I/O 2025 live blog: Gemini takes center stage

    Does Google have what it takes to reinvent itself?

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    OpenAI’s next “low-key research preview” is Codex, an AI coding agent.

    Sam Altman and other company leaders hyped the announcement yesterday on X by teasing it as their next “low-key research preview,” which is how ChatGPT itself was first described. You can watch OpenAI demo Codex below and read more about it in this week’s Command Line.