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Will Shanklin / Engadget:

Apple releases the first public betas of iOS 27, iPadOS 27, macOS 27 Golden Gate, watchOS 27, and tvOS 27, marking the new Siri AI's first public launch — Try the new Siri AI and system-wide performance improvements. — Adventurous early adopters, your moment has arrived …

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Demis Hassabis / @demishassabis:

Demis Hassabis proposes a US-based Standards Body for “Frontier-class” AI, modeled after the FINRA; labs would voluntarily share models 30 days before release — This is a pivotal moment in human history. Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), a system that exhibits …

More: The Verge, Axios, The Decoder, Financial Times, and Business Insider

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Amy Thomson / Bloomberg:

IBM reports preliminary Q2 revenue of $17.2B, below $17.9B est., as CEO Arvind Krishna says customers are shifting spending to chips; IBM falls 20% pre-market — International Business Machines Corp. shares slid after the company reported preliminary second-quarter sales that fell short of expectations …

More: Reuters, Benzinga, Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, CNBC, IBM, and Yahoo Finance

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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 …

More: Anthropic, The Decoder, Digit, Digital Trends, Gizmodo, and Blockchain.News

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Trishla Ostwal / Adweek:

eMarketer: chatbots like ChatGPT and Google AI Mode will generate less than $1B in ad revenue in 2026; OpenAI projected $2.5B in ChatGPT ad revenue this year — OpenAI is projecting $100 billion in ad revenue by 2030. Emarketer puts the ceiling for the entire chatbot ad market in U.S at just $5.41 billion.

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Forums: Hacker News and r/BetterOffline

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Kiranjeet Kaur / IDC:

China's smartphone shipments fell 4.3% YoY to 66M units in Q2, the fifth consecutive quarter of decline, amid a memory shortage; Huawei and Apple grew shipments — What Happened in China's Smartphone Market in Q2 2026? — China's smartphone shipments came in at roughly 66 million units …

More: MacRumors, Nikkei Asia, XimiTime, Reuters, Bloomberg, Dow Jones Newswires, and Android Authority

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

Zijing Wu / Financial Times:

Sources: DeepSeek is in preliminary talks with investors about raising new funds at a ~$71B valuation, after raising ~$7B at a ~$52B valuation at the end of May — Unusually swift pace of capital injection comes as Chinese AI start-up seeks to build out infrastructure

More: The Information, Bloomberg, and Reuters. X: @zijing_wu

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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Forums: r/microsoft, r/windows, r/Windows11, and Slashdot

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

More: Tom's Hardware, Reuters, Wccftech, Benzinga, The American Conservative, and Sweden Herald

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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.

More: Tech Funding News, The Decoder, FinSMEs, Ventureburn, TNGlobal, DealStreetAsia, Pulse 2.0, The SaaS News, RuntimeWire, and Tech in Asia

Lauren Feiner / The Verge:

New York Governor Kathy Hochul signs a moratorium blocking new permits for hyperscale data centers exceeding 50MW for up to one year, the first state to do so — But a version approved by state lawmakers could go even further. … New hyperscale data centers can't set up shop in New York …

More: Washington Post, DatacenterDynamics, Engadget, Reuters, Axios, The Hill, Forbes, CBS News, Associated Press, The Boston Globe, New York Times, Politico, Gothamist, New York Post, and The City Reporter

Martha Muir / Financial Times:

Google agrees to buy 100% of the initial output from the Steel River Energy Center's 1.6GW solar project in Arkansas when it becomes operational in 2029 — Deal signals continued demand for renewable energy despite Trump administration's efforts to end tax credits and stall plans

More: DatacenterDynamics and reNEWS. Forums: r/climate

Aaron Smith / Pew Research Center:

Survey: 57% of US women and 47% of men ages 18 to 29 say they get health and wellness information from influencers; women say they see such content more often — Although health providers are the most common place Americans turn for information about their health, social media influencers and podcasts also play a major role.

Lucas Ropek / TechCrunch:

Nikita Bier says X made a “tweak to boost visibility of your posts to your mutuals”, or those who users follow back, to avoid replies becoming a “battleground” — X has made a “tweak” to its algorithm to boost the visibility of posts to users' “mutuals” …

More: 9to5Mac, Engadget, Digital Trends, The Indian Express, and Social Media Today

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Sources: the White House directed FBI Director Kash Patel to personally oversee the probe into NYT reporting about Air Force One, before subpoenas were issued

Max Goldbart / Deadline:

The BBC reports license fee payers fell 539K YoY to 23.3M in 2025-26, the biggest fall since 2020-21; license fee income rose £36M to £3.9B after the fee uplift

Brooks Barnes / New York Times:

Lionsgate's Michael crosses $1B at the global box office, its first film to reach the milestone, per Rentrak, reviving Hollywood's last major independent studio

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Michael J. de la Merced / New York Times:

AI drug design startup Chai Discovery raised $400M led by Index at a $3.8B valuation, as it positions its Chai models as AI infrastructure for pharmaceuticals

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Kirsti Knolle / Reuters:

The European Commission approves €659M in German state aid to support four first-of-a-kind chip facilities in Germany, saying they will strengthen EU autonomy

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Samuel Axon / Ars Technica:

A look at AI world models, including how they work, what they can do, and what's still unsettled, as startups led by tech leaders like Yann LeCun raise billions

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Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:

Researchers detail “context bombing”, where defenders use prompt injections to trigger guardrails of attackers' LLMs, cutting AI hacking success rates by ~90%

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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

More: Reuters, Nikkei Asia, and The Information

Benjamin Guggenheim / Washington Post:

Sources: the Trump admin and industry groups discuss streamlining the releases of US open models of equal or lesser capability than leading Chinese open models

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Nilay Patel / The Verge:

Q&A with Xinzhou Wu, head of automotive at Nvidia, on Nvidia's chips and AI models for autonomous driving, lidar's usefulness for Level 4 autonomy, and more

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David DiMolfetta / Nextgov/FCW:

Doc: DHS analysts twice dismissed signs of intruders inside the DHS' network, first detected in May, as harmless activity before confirming a breach in June

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Gene Maddaus / Variety:

A coalition of 12 US states led by California files an antitrust lawsuit to block Paramount's WBD merger, alleging it lessens competition in three markets

Lily Mae Lazarus / Fortune:

London-based Valarian, which allows companies to use US cloud providers for AI workloads but retain control of their data, raised a $50M Series A led by NEA

More: Ventureburn, Pathfounders, FinSMEs, SecurityWeek, Tech Funding News, Valarian, The SaaS News, Pathfounders, The Next Web, and Telegraph

Ben Weiss / Fortune:

Gauntlet, which helps institutions and crypto companies allocate their digital assets, raised a $125M Series C from Japanese financial conglomerate SBI Holdings

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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

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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

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

Barbara Moens / Financial Times:

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen says after the summer the bloc is set to propose a “social media start date for minors” with “gradual access”