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Apple Just Showed Us Rare Prototypes—Even Tim Cook Hasn’t Seen Them | WSJ
For Apple’s 50th anniversary, Tim Cook takes the WSJ through a fascinating, rarely seen archive of company prototypes. It is a surprisingly candid look at hardware history, especially when Cook admits he was among the early testers who realized keys would scratch the plastic iPhone screen in their pockets, triggering a frantic “man on the moon” project to switch to glass just months before launch.

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The channel 美投侃新闻 delivered an excellent breakdown of Warren Buffett’s current philosophy in 美股大反弹！信号来了？巴菲特坐等股灾？苹果的大机会！黄金砸出了黄金坑！, unpacking why Berkshire Hathaway is sitting on a record $370 billion in cash as they patiently await a systemic market pullback. The same video brilliantly outlines Apple’s potential AI monetization strategy: instead of building models, they might simply act as the App Store tollbooth for third-party AI agents, taking a 30% cut. On the geopolitical front, Gas prices in the US have reached $4 for the first time since 2022 | FT #shorts notes how the Iran-Israel conflict is creating a historic interruption to global energy supplies just ahead of the US elections. A secondary short, Why the closure of the Strait of Hormuz is about more than just oil | FT #shorts, points out that a blockade would also devastate the global supply of helium—which is critical for semiconductors—as well as fertilizer.

Learning & Ideas

How to Change Someone’s Perspective | Buenos Aires | TED Idea Search is a gripping documentary-style look behind the scenes of a TED event, featuring a standout talk on how Gen Z uses “brain rot” and shared internet culture as a surprisingly effective diplomatic bridge in political conflicts. For a fascinating historical deep-dive, check out 袁Sir聊伊朗犹太人：波斯是犹太的再生父母 #lifeano漫聊 #中东战争, where Yuan Sir traces the long, tolerated history of Jews in Iran back to Cyrus the Great freeing them from Babylon. If space is more your speed, a NASA astrobiologist expertly debunks internet myths and discusses the Fermi Paradox and the Trappist-1 system in GQ Taiwan’s 外星人存在嗎？NASA科學家揭秘：最可能宜居的星球其實離地球很近！.

Tech & AI

CNBC’s deep dive Apple Turns 50 — Here’s What’s Next In The Age Of AI questions whether Apple’s late-mover strategy of partnering with Google’s Gemini to overhaul Siri is a genius move or a dangerous dependency that cedes control. Meanwhile, Apple is facing pushback from developers in Perspective: Apple’s crackdown on vibe coding apps for blocking updates to apps like Replit, which allow ordinary people with no experience to “vibe code” software using only plain English AI prompts. Finally, I Used An AI Tool To Do My Taxes – Here’s Where Experts Say I Went Wrong is a stark warning about using chatbots like ChatGPT to file your returns, as the models are often trained on outdated tax codes and will confidently hallucinate bad financial advice.

Everything Else

Need a palate cleanser? Auto Focus drops a hilarious, deadpan review of the The Greatest Car Ever Made.—the Little Tikes Comfort Coupe—praising its 17-pound “carbon tub” equivalent plastic build and 360-degree front steering. And for the domestic warriors, Costco 4月上新❤️ Costco Must-Buys for April 2026 provides a thoroughly entertaining walkthrough of seasonal items, ruthlessly reviewing everything from Dyson vacuums to high-protein chickpea pasta.