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| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
In a memo, Satya Nadella addresses the “enigma” of layoffs while “Microsoft is thriving”, saying the transition into the AI era “might feel messy at times” — Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella addressed the growing internal unease inside the tech giant Thursday morning …
More: Microsoft, Business Insider, The Information, Thurrott, CNBC, Windows Central, Dexerto, Fortune, The Verge, Neowin, WinBuzzer, and GamesRadar
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Sources: OpenAI plans to launch GPT-5 in early August, with the main and mini versions available via ChatGPT and the API, and the nano version via the API only — OpenAI's open language model is still arriving ahead of GPT-5. … Earlier this year, I heard that Microsoft engineers …
More: PYMNTS.com, Windows Central, The Economic Times, Reuters, WinBuzzer, iPhone in Canada, Axios, Android Headlines, implicator.ai, and Crypto Briefing
Forums: Hacker News, r/accelerate, and r/singularity
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Apple releases the first public betas of iOS 26, iPadOS 26, macOS Tahoe 26, watchOS 26, and tvOS 26, with its new Liquid Glass design language — The public betas for iOS 26, macOS Tahoe 26, watchOS 26, and more are here. … Apple has officially released the first public betas for its next major software updates.
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X: @betaprofiles and @durreadan01
Forums: r/watchOSBeta, Slashdot, and Ars OpenForum
| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Intel cancelled planned fab projects in Germany and Poland, and will consolidate its testing and assembly operations in Vietnam and Malaysia — Intel reported second-quarter results on Thursday that beat Wall Street expectations on revenue, as the company's new CEO Lip-Bu Tan announced significant cuts in chip factory construction.
More: The Verge, Reuters, Wall Street Journal, and Yahoo Finance
| Michael Acton / Financial Times: |
Intel reports Q2 revenue flat YoY at $12.9B, vs. $11.9B est., a $2.9B loss due to restructuring and impairment charges, and forecasts Q3 revenue above estimates — US chipmaker posts positive revenue and forecast as it cuts jobs — US chipmaker Intel reported better than expected revenue … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google launches Web Guide, an AI-powered Search Labs experiment that organizes Google Search results by grouping pages related to specific aspects of the query — Google on Thursday is launching a new AI-powered feature called Web Guide for organizing Google Search results.
More: The Keyword, The Verge, Ars Technica, 9to5Google, Engadget, How-To Geek, Android Police, Android Authority, Neowin, Search Engine Journal, and Travel Technology …. Bluesky: @ernie.tedium.co
| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Indie open gaming marketplace Itch.io abruptly deindexes NSFW content from its browse and search pages after payment processors raised concerns, following Steam — The gaming marketplace is bowing to pressure from payment providers, much like Valve and Tumblr before it.
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Forums: r/pcmasterrace, r/centrist, r/Steam, r/gamedev, r/pcgaming, r/pcgaming, and r/Games
| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Google's lead for Home and Nest Anish Kattukaran apologizes for Assistant reliability issues on home devices and announces “major improvements” later this year — Google Assistant has, especially in the context of the smart home, been crumbling over the past couple of years.
More: HotHardware, Droid Life, Android Central, Android Headlines, iPhone in Canada, PCWorld, Pocketables, PCMag, T3, Android Authority, and Neowin
| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Google launches its virtual clothes try-on feature, letting users upload photos of themselves, in the US and updates price alerts to let users specify an amount — Google announced on Thursday that it's launching a new AI feature that lets users virtually try on clothes.| Annmarie Hordern / Bloomberg: |
At an AI summit, President Trump says he considered breaking up Nvidia before aides told him that doing so was “very hard” and “I learned the facts here” — President Donald Trump said he considered attempting to break up Nvidia Corp. to increase competition … | Deadline: |
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Forums: r/Piracy, r/singularity, and r/inthenews
| Emanuel Maiberg / 404 Media: |
Google's AI Overviews, which a recent Pew study shows reduce clickthrough rates, are further eroding traffic to original publishers by linking to aggregators — Yesterday the Pew Research Center released a report based on the internet browsing activity of 900 U.S. adults which found …
More: The Guardian, The New Stack, BGR, Pivot to AI, stupidDOPE, Fortune, Mashable, The Indian Express, Search Engine Journal, Business Standard, Search Engine Roundtable, and The Decoder
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Forums: r/technology, r/degoogle, and r/ukpolitics
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Amazon updates its color screen Kindle Colorsoft with a cheaper 16GB model for $250 and a kids-focused bundle with one year of Kids Plus for $270, available now — The new Colorsoft costs $30 less and comes with half the storage than the model Amazon released last year.
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| Dominic Preston / The Verge: |
The Wireless Power Consortium launches faster Qi2 25W wireless charging, with “major Android smartphones” finally adopting the standard alongside the iPhone — But will Android support go further than the magnet-free Qi2 Ready? … The Wireless Power Consortium (WPC) …
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| Raphael Satter / Reuters: |
Microsoft says the “Storm-2603” group is now deploying ransomware via vulnerable SharePoint server versions, as the estimated number of victims hits 400+ — A cyber-espionage campaign centered on vulnerable versions of Microsoft's (MSFT.O) server software now involves the deployment … | Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Google will officially deprecate links generated with its goo.gl URL shortener on August 25, 2025; the company stopped generating goo.gl URLs in March 2019 — Links created with Google's URL shortener will return a 404 error starting August 25th. … Google will officially deprecate links generated …
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| Financial Times: |
Analysis and sources: $1B+ of Nvidia's AI chips were shipped to China in the three months after President Trump tightened chip export controls in May — Roaring black market for US semiconductors operates despite efforts to curb Beijing's high-tech ambitions
More: Tom's Hardware, New York Post, Blaze Media, South China Morning Post, Benzinga, Cryptopolitan, CNBC, New York Times, and Analytics India Magazine
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| Isabelle Bousquette / Wall Street Journal: |
Walmart consolidates its AI agents into four “super agents”, for customers, staff, engineers, and sellers/suppliers, using Anthropic's Model Context Protocol — Walmart built so many AI agents, things started to get confusing. Now the retail giant is looking to simplify.
More: Fortune, Reuters, MediaPost, Barron's Online, AfroTech, Sourcing Journal, and PYMNTS.com
| Natasha Mascarenhas / The Information: |
Sources: Elad Gil is raising a fund of ~$1.5B that could grow to $2B based on investor interest, making it one of the largest fundraising hauls for a solo GP — Venture capital firms are under pressure to make rapid-fire decisions about big checks in the frenzied world of artificial intelligence investing …
X: @nmasc_
| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
T-Mobile's Starlink-powered satellite service T-Satellite is now generally available as a standalone subscription for US users, not just T-Mobile customers — The service only supports texts and location sharing over satellite for now, but more features are on the way.| Bethan Staton / Financial Times: |
Pinterest is increasingly filled with AI interior design images, often featuring unrealistic or impossible details, complicating users' search for inspiration — In a world on high alert for fake news, AI-designed interiors seem small fry. But they are fuelling the fire of everyday paranoia| Hanh Truong / Silicon Valley Business Journal: |
C3.ai founder and CEO Thomas Siebel steps down due to health issues related to an autoimmune disease that resulted in visual impairment in early 2025 — C3.ai is seeking the next leader to steer its ship, as CEO and founder Thomas Siebel steps down due to health-related concerns.| Iain Martin / Forbes: |
A profile of Swedish AI coding startup Lovable, which became the fastest-growing software startup ever, reaching $100M+ in annualized revenue in eight months — ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE | For decades coders have rushed to ship the minimum viable product. Lovable CEO Anton Osika (right) …
Forums: r/BuyFromEU
| Reuters: |
Sources and a document: China aims to build a national network to sell surplus computing power and address an oversupply caused by a three-year data center boom — China is taking steps to build a network to sell computing power and curb the unwieldy growth of data centres after thousands …
More: Tom's Hardware
| Kyt Dotson / SiliconANGLE: |
Trunk Tools, which provides AI services to organize construction documentation, raised a $40M Series B led by Insight, bringing its total funding to $70M — Trunk Tools Inc., an artificial intelligence-powered platform for construction teams, today announced it has raised $40 million …
More: AlleyWatch, Trunk.Tools, Unite.AI, Business Insider, and Commercial Observer
| Zack Abrams / The Block: |
In Yuga Labs vs. Ryder Ripps, an appeals court rules that NFTs are “goods” that can get trademark protection but sends the case back to a lower court — - The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals issued a mixed ruling in the longstanding case between Yuga Labs, creators of the Bored Ape Yacht Club … | Russell Brandom / TechCrunch: |
The Laude Institute, a nonprofit that runs the K Prize multi-round AI coding challenge, says a Brazilian prompt engineer won with just 7.5% of the right answers — A new AI coding challenge has revealed its first winner — and set a new bar for AI-powered software engineers.
More: Konwinski Prize on Kaggle, Konwinski Prize, Konwinski Prize on Kaggle, and nextbigwhat
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| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Figma makes its prompt-to-app coding tool Figma Make available to all users, after initially launching it in beta for Full Seat users earlier in 2025 — Figma Make is out of beta and no longer reserved just for Figma's full-access subscribers. … Figma Make, the prompt-to-app coding tool … | Richard Nieva / Forbes: |
Sources: Cognition, which makes the coding assistant Devin, is in talks to raise $300M+ at a $10B valuation; it was reportedly valued at $4B in March — The deal, backed by Founders Fund and Khosla Ventures, comes as the startup announced it is buying up the remains of rival Windsurf. — SaveComment| Sri Muppidi / The Information: |
Source: Founders Fund and Dragoneer have committed to investing $1B+ each in OpenAI's second, $30B installment of its $40B round announced in March — As OpenAI tries to raise a record-breaking $40 billion in equity funding this year, it's getting help from more of its existing investors.Sponsor Posts
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