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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Google unveils the $899+ Pixel 11, $1,099+ 11 Pro, and $1,299+ 11 Pro XL, with a Tensor G6, new Gemini features, Magic Capture to pick the best frames, and more — For the last few years, Google's Pixel has been a showcase of new AI features, with few hardware changes from the previous year's devices.
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| Jessica Conditt / Engadget: |
Google unveils the $1,899+ Pixel 11 Pro Fold, with a stronger hinge, inner and outer displays that are 20% brighter, Tensor G6 chip, and an updated 48MP camera — Fly like a (Tensor) G6. — The Pixel 11 Pro Fold is the ultimate evolution in Google's latest line of mobile devices …
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| David Imel / The Verge: |
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| Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: |
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| xAI: |
SpaceXAI releases Grok 4.6, saying it matches GPT-5.6 Sol on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, and prices it at $2/1M input and $6/1M output tokens — Grok 4.6 builds on Grok 4.5 with a particular focus on long-running agents and more ambitious interactive and visual work. — Try for free
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| Samantha Kelly / Bloomberg: |
Google introduces an insulin-resistance trend feature that uses AI, an accelerometer, and other sensors, launching first on the Pixel Watch 5 and Fitbit devices — Alphabet Inc.'s Google Inc. is bringing a new set of health features to its wearables, including one that tracks insulin resistance over time … | Victoria Song / The Verge: |
Google unveils the $399 Pixel Watch 5 with a satin pyrite case finish, offline Gemini, proactive AI suggestions, better GPS maps, and insulin resistance trends — The $399 Google Pixel Watch 5 isn't about the hardware. Sure, there's a new satin pyrite case finish, a few new strap colors, and a Steph Curry Special Edition.
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| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Google says Android's AirDrop-like Quick Share will now let some devices exchange files and contact info when tapped together, starting with the Pixel 6 and up — The Quick Share update makes it easier to share contact info and files between Pixel devices, and soon, Samsung phones.
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| Tom Wilson / Financial Times: |
Researchers say suspected Chinese hackers used open-source AI agents to build an autonomous hacking tool that compromised Taiwanese government websites in July — AI agents ran simultaneous reconnaissance and break-ins in display of new phase of cyberwarfare.
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| Will Sattelberg / 9to5Google: |
Google says the Pixel Buds Pro 2 will get new features, including dynamic ANC and sleep sync, via a software update in September, and adds a new Olive color — It's been a couple of years since Google rolled out a new set of Pro-branded earbuds, and while it's still not ready to debut …
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| Bloomberg: |
Tencent reports Q2 revenue up 11% YoY to ~$30.4B, above ~$30B est., driven by surging WeChat advertising and resilient game spending, and net income of ~$8.3B — Tencent Holdings Ltd. more than doubled spending on AI projects and computing to about $7.8 billion last quarter … | Dominic Preston / The Verge: |
Google plans to launch the $29 Pixel Tag on November 11, with a four-pack priced at $99, matching AirTag 2's pricing, offering UWB, Find Hub support, and more — The $29 tracker combines UWB with Bluetooth channel sounding. … More than two years after launching its own device-tracking network …
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| Rebecca Torrence / Bloomberg: |
Sources: AI coding startup Cognition is in early talks with investors to raise $1B+ at a $40B+ valuation, after raising $1B at a $26B valuation in May — Cognition AI is in early talks with investors for a new funding round that may boost the coding startup's valuation by more than 50% …
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| Sherry Qin / Wall Street Journal: |
Foxconn reports Q2 revenue up 41% YoY to ~$78.4B, with cloud and networking products contributing 50%+ for the first time, and net profit up 35% YoY to ~$1.86B — Net profit for the three months ended June rose 35% from a year earlier — Foxconn Technology Group reported another strong quarter … | Will Knight / Wired: |
Researchers find that feeding a frontier model's encrypted reasoning traces to a weaker model from the same provider can make it output the traces in plaintext — Researchers devised a way to extract “reasoning traces” from Claude, GPT, and Gemini. What they found, they say …
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| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
SpaceXAI rolls out AI agent app Grok Bot in beta on macOS, iOS, Windows, and Linux, initially for SuperGrok Heavy, Cursor Ultra, and Cursor Teams Premium users — SpaceXAI and Cursor are in the process of becoming a single company, but first, the two firms are releasing an all-new iPhone and Mac app called Grok Bot.
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| Prakhar Srivastava / Reuters: |
AI code review startup CodeRabbit raised a $143M Series C co-led by Atomico and Smash at a $1.5B valuation, after raising a $60M Series B in September 2025 — AI code review startup CodeRabbit said on Wednesday it had raised $143 million in a funding round that valued it at $1.5 billion.
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| Ben Dummett / Wall Street Journal: |
Stockholm-based AI coding startup Lovable raised $400M at a $13.3B valuation, up from $6.6B in December 2025, becoming one of Europe's most valuable startups — New funding round catapults AI company into the ranks of Europe's most valuable startups — Artificial-intelligence startup Lovable …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Some health and fitness obsessives are using AI for hyperpersonalized training, building dashboards and tools to analyze their sleep, workouts, diet, and more — From marathon training to tracking office angst, health obsessives are linking their data to chatbots to build hyperpersonalized coaches| Juro Osawa / The Information: |
Former Alibaba star researcher Junyang Lin launches Shanghai-based Pragmatik Labs to build digital and physical AI agents; Pragmatik hit a $2B valuation in June — Former Alibaba star researcher Junyang Lin announced that he had started a new AI company, confirming The Information's earlier reports.
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| Belle Lin / Wall Street Journal: |
AT&T says open models currently power ~25% of its overall AI usage, and expects that to rise to 70%-80% over time; AT&T uses an average of 45B AI tokens per day — The telecom company is staking its future on open models, both to control token cost and protect its proprietary data| Sumedha Mukherjee / Reuters: |
FlightAware withdraws its Kalshi lawsuit, after alleging Kalshi used its data to let users bet on flight cancellations; Kalshi no longer names it as a source — Flight-tracking company FlightAware withdrew its lawsuit against Kalshi on Tuesday, a day after it filed the suit that accuses … | Wall Street Journal: |
The NYC Council sent letters to Polymarket, Kalshi, Coinbase, and Gemini Titan as it investigates alleged deceptive marketing practices and targeting minors — Probe targets the marketing practices of four prediction markets with operations in the city — The New York City Council …
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| Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: |
Skan AI, which is building a “context graph of work” by observing staff using enterprise software, raised a $63M Series C co-led by Cathay Innovation and Dell — Skan AI, a startup that builds what it calls a “context graph of work” by observing how employees actually perform …
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| Kate Knibbs / Wired: |
A look at AI news website RuntimeWire, which costs $100/day to run and “beat” human reporters to OpenAI's Black Hat disclosure, favoring quantity over quality — Last week, an AI newsroom beat mainstream journalists—including WIRED—to a story about OpenAI and hacking. It's just the beginning.
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| Kai Nicol-Schwarz / CNBC: |
A look at the challenges facing incoming Google DeepMind head Koray Kavukcuoglu, who joined DeepMind in 2012 and will oversee Gemini and frontier AI research — DeepMind's new boss is set to face intense pressure to close the AI performance gap with OpenAI and Anthropic.
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