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- The New York Times Apple Reclaims Its Crown as the World's Most Valuable Company Apple retakes the most-valuable-company title from Nvidia — the AI trade widening out past the obvious winners. [title reconstructed, NYT blocks fetch — verify]
- The New York Times Daniel Ek's Neko Health Raises $700 Million to Crack the U.S. Market Full-body scan startup at a $7B valuation, backed by Zuckerberg and half of Hollywood, betting the US wants a $300 physical. [title reconstructed, NYT blocks fetch — verify]
- The New York Times Flyover No More: Central Ohio Becomes Hub for Tech and Manufacturing Anduril, Intel, and Meta all building in Central Ohio at once — what a tech hub looks like when it isn't the Bay Area.
- The New York Times How AI Is Already Shrinking Silicon Valley's Workforce What AI is actually doing to the junior and mid-level engineering ladder in the Bay Area, not the hypothetical version. [title reconstructed, NYT blocks fetch — verify]
- The New York Times Inside IBM's Bet That AI Consulting Can Revive Big Blue IBM's AI consulting backlog nearly doubled in nine months — the unglamorous version of the AI boom, sold to enterprises that just want it to work. [title reconstructed, NYT blocks fetch — verify]
- Article Seattle startup Replify acquired by ABC Fitness to bring agentic AI to more gyms and wellness centers A 12-person Seattle AI-receptionist startup folds into a 2,000-person fitness-tech company — acquisition as distribution.
- Article Startup Spotlight: MediaPact wants to reinvent digital ads for the AI era A non-technical solo founder built and shipped the whole ad marketplace with Claude Code — the build story is as interesting as the product.
- The New York Times The Billion-Dollar Company With Two Employees and a Stack of AI Tools A two-person company projecting $1.8B in sales, entirely AI-tooled — and an FDA warning letter that landed six weeks before the profile ran. [title reconstructed, NYT blocks fetch — verify]