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John Ternus Takes the Helm at Apple: What Cook’s Exit Really Means

Wireframe 3Sixty — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 14:04:23 +0000

Tim Cook’s final day as CEO was August 31. On September 1, hardware chief John Ternus formally took over. Cook left a final memo that invoked Steve Jobs. Ternus inherits a $4 trillion company, an unfinished AI story, and immediate pressure on hardware supply.

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Anthropic's $35 Billion Lambda Deal, and the Bitcoin Miner Holding the Building

Wireframe 3Sixty — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 14:02:52 +0000

Anthropic just signed its second mega cloud deal in two weeks, this time for $35 billion with Nvidia-backed Lambda. The company actually leasing the data center isn't Anthropic, and it isn't Lambda either — it's Nvidia itself, on a site built by a former Bitcoin miner. Here's why that unusual structure is quickly becoming the industry's default.

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OpenAI Cuts Off SpaceX’s Cursor: The Feud Just Got Concrete

Wireframe 3Sixty — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 14:34:38 +0000

OpenAI is winding down its model supply to Cursor after SpaceX’s $60 billion acquisition. The stated reason is trust. The timing and the language make clear this is no longer just personal history — it’s becoming operational policy.

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Apple's $1.6 Billion Secret: Inside the Q.ai Deal That's Quietly Reshaping Siri

Wireframe 3Sixty — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 14:31:57 +0000

A twelve-person, deliberately secretive startup in Ramat Gan built technology that can read words off your face before you've said them out loud. Apple just bought it for somewhere between $1.6 and $2 billion, in one of the largest acquisitions the company has ever made — and seven months later, the fingerprints are already showing up in how Apple talks about the next version of Siri.

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Inside the Memory Shortage That's Quietly Reshaping Every Laptop, Phone, and AI Chip Roadmap in 2026

Wireframe 3Sixty — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 14:51:12 +0000

DRAM prices have moved more in the past two quarters than in the previous decade combined. It's not a niche component story anymore. It's showing up in laptop prices, phone specs, and the entire on-device AI pitch tech companies have been selling you.

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The Top 10 Most Valuable Companies In The World 2026

Wireframe 3Sixty — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 14:49:11 +0000

Nine of the ten are American. Eight of the ten are technology companies. And the gap between #1 and #10 is now wider than the entire market cap of most G20 countries' stock exchanges combined. Here's who's actually on the list, and why the shape of it keeps getting stranger.

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Anthropic's $7 Billion Chip Bet, and the Rival Quietly Paying It $10 Billion a Year

Wireframe 3Sixty — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 14:47:30 +0000

Anthropic went far enough into buying a chip startup to attach a $7 billion price tag to it, then walked away. Around the same time, the company publicly criticizing Anthropic's approach to AI turned out to be one of its biggest customers, projecting up to $10 billion a year on Claude. Two separate stories, one obvious theme: nobody in this industry can afford to only be somebody else's rival anymore.

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Washington Just Told the World to Pick a Side in the AI Race

Wireframe 3Sixty — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 13:41:24 +0000

A draft letter from the State Department. A rival organization launched in Shanghai with 29 founding members. And a growing list of countries - some of them close US allies - sitting uncomfortably in the middle of both. Here's what's actually in writing, and what it means for anyone building on AI outside the US and China.

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Gamescom 2026: Five Days in Cologne, and the Year the Show Floor Sold Out

Wireframe 3Sixty — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 13:47:12 +0000

For the first time in its eighteen-year history, Gamescom ran out of exhibition space before the doors even opened. What that actually meant on the ground in Cologne this week — the reveals, the record crowds, the hardware quietly running underneath all of it — is worth more than a highlight reel.

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Fourteen Names, Eight Months: Inside OpenAI's Leadership Exodus

Wireframe 3Sixty — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 13:44:56 +0000

A list has been circulating this week naming fourteen OpenAI leaders who've left since January — COO, CRO, CMO, heads of robotics, science, safety, ethics, and more. We checked which of it holds up against actual reporting, which parts are getting rounded up for effect, and why a company heading toward an IPO would let this much of its executive bench turn over at once.

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Top 10 Startup Accelerator Programs in the World (2026 Terms, Ranked)

Wireframe 3Sixty — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 13:43:04 +0000

The global accelerator market is now worth over $6 billion, and the terms have never been more standardized, or more competitive to get into. Here's what each of the ten programs that actually matter offers, and who should apply to which.

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The Top 10 Y Combinator Startups Ever Built

Wireframe 3Sixty — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 13:41:44 +0000

One accelerator, four thousand-plus companies, and a top ten that alone accounts for roughly two-thirds of everything YC has ever returned. Here's the actual list, with the numbers behind each name.

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