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Apple releases the first public betas of iOS 27, iPadOS 27, macOS 27 Golden Gate, watchOS 27, and tvOS 27, marking the public debut of the new Siri AI — Try the new Siri AI and system-wide performance improvements. — Adventurous early adopters, your moment has arrived …
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| Jason Nelson / Decrypt: |
Anthropic research based on ~310K anonymized Claude conversations shows how Claude's expressed values and behaviors vary across models and languages — Claude doesn't behave the same way in every conversation. According to new research published Monday, AI giant Anthropic found …
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| Zac Bowden / Windows Central: |
Microsoft announces a Windows 11 search overhaul that prioritizes local results, removes promotional web content, and more, rolling out to Windows Insiders — Windows 11's search user experience is getting a big update, with Microsoft moving to prioritize local results, remove promotional content, and much more.
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| Ben Casselman / New York Times: |
Nearly 200 economists, including 15 Nobel laureates and Anthropic's Jack Clark, sign a letter titled We Must Act Now, warning of rapid AI-led job displacement — Nearly 200 economists signed a letter calling for policymakers to do more to understand and respond to potential A.I. disruptions.
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| TechCrunch: |
Sources: Nous Research, the startup behind Hermes, an open-source agent and OpenClaw rival, is raising $75M+ at a $1.5B valuation led by Robot Ventures — Nous Research, the startup behind the open-source Hermes agent, is finalizing a new round of funding led by Robot Ventures … | Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Singapore-based and Alibaba-backed video generation startup PixVerse says it closed a Series C extension to raise $439M total for the round, valuing it at $2B+ — Singapore-based video-generation startup PixVerse said today that it has closed its Series C extension, with a total of $439 million raised in the round.
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| Riley Griffin / Bloomberg: |
Meta says it will spend an extra $40B on its nearly 4,000-acre data center campus in Louisiana, aiming for 5GW+ of compute, pushing its total spend beyond $250B — Meta Platforms Inc. has committed to spending an additional $40 billion on its sprawling data center campus in Louisiana …
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| Zijing Wu / Financial Times: |
Sources: Nvidia intensified due diligence and cut its authorized AI chip customers in Singapore, Malaysia, and Japan by 50%+ to prevent China diversions — Tougher vetting in Singapore, Malaysia and Japan reflects Washington's push to close export-control loopholes
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| Politico: |
The EU blacklists Russian intelligence group members it says were responsible for spying on and hacking targets across the EU and Ukraine from as early as 2010 — Moscow's Federal Security Service is behind the cyber espionage and sabotage campaigns, EU says.
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| Shilpi Jain / Counterpoint Research: |
Global smartphone shipments fell 11% YoY in Q2 to the lowest Q2 levels since 2013 amid the DRAM and NAND shortage; Samsung returns to #1 with a 24% market share — - Global smartphone shipments fell 11% YoY in Q2 2026 reaching the lowest second-quarter levels since 2013 as the DRAM and NAND shortage intensified.
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| Benjamin Guggenheim / Washington Post: |
Sources: Trump admin and industry groups have discussed streamlining releases of US open models of equal or lesser capability than leading Chinese open models — Plus, data centers could end up consuming less energy than we expect. — Exclusive: The Trump administration and the AI industry … | Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Source: OpenAI still believes it is on track to unveil its first device in 2026 and release it in 2027; Apple's lawsuit may complicate hiring and supply chains — Apple Inc.'s lawsuit accusing OpenAI of systematically stealing its intellectual property threatens to disrupt …
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| Gene Maddaus / Variety: |
A coalition of 12 states led by California files an antitrust lawsuit to block Paramount's WBD merger, alleging it lessens competition in three markets — A coalition of 12 states filed an antitrust lawsuit on Monday to block the merger of Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros. …
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| Evelyn Cheng / CNBC: |
In the wake of China's “embodied AI” push, there's an urgency among China's 100+ humanoid startups to launch IPOs; LimX Dynamics raises $200M in a pre-IPO round — BEIJING — Humanoid startup LimX Dynamics is getting ready to go public, just over four years after it was founded during the pandemic.
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