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| Andrew Romero / 9to5Google: |
Samsung unveils the $2,100+ Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra, featuring its “most advanced foldable design”, a Flex Titanium display, a 5,000mAH battery, and Android 17 — The “Ultra” moniker is alive and well, but it now applies to the Galaxy Z Fold series.
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| David Imel / The Verge: |
Samsung Z Fold 8 Ultra hands-on: its new Flex Titanium tech makes the crease practically nonexistent and the specs match the S26 Ultra's, but it costs $100 more — While we wait for Apple's rumored foldable iPhone, Samsung is polishing a design it already has on the market.
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| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
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| Max Buondonno / The Shortcut: |
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| Director Michael Kratsios / @mkratsios47: |
White House OSTP Director Michael Kratsios says “we have information that Moonshot AI distilled Anthropic's Fable for the development of its K3 model” — We have information that Moonshot AI distilled Anthropic's Fable for the development of its K3 model. To do this they developed a sophisticated internal platform to conduct large scale distillation against U.S. models, allowing them to quickly switch between multiple methods of
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| Maggie Eastland / Bloomberg: |
White House OSTP Director Michael Kratsios says Moonshot AI “acquired GB300-equipped servers and has accessed GB300s in Thailand, likely to train its AI models” — A White House official accused China's Moonshot of improperly using US AI models and Nvidia Corp. chips to create …
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| OpenAI: |
OpenAI says its models chained vulnerabilities across its research environment and Hugging Face's infrastructure to find a solution for the ExploitGym benchmark — Last week, Hugging Face disclosed a new kind of security incident(opens in a new window) after they detected and contained …
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| Ina Fried / Axios: |
OpenAI says its models, including GPT-5.6 Sol and “an even more capable pre-release model”, breached Hugging Face while OpenAI tested their cyber capabilities — OpenAI said Tuesday that models it was testing escaped their sandbox and compromised parts of AI platform Hugging Face's production infrastructure last week.
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| Shakeel Hashim / Transformer: |
OpenAI's Hugging Face breach is the first known example of a misaligned AI escaping containment and carrying out a hack on a third party, a clear warning shot — OpenAI's latest models broke out and hacked Hugging Face. It's the first known example of a misaligned AI escaping containment with real-world consequences
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| Wall Street Journal: |
AMD and Anthropic sign a server deal for tens of billions; Anthropic will buy up to 2GW of MI450 chips from H1 2027, and AMD will invest up to $5B in Anthropic — The 2-gigawatt deal covers tens of billions of dollars' worth of chips, as AMD plans to invest up to $5 billion in Anthropic
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| Chris Welch / Bloomberg: |
Samsung teases its smart glasses, developed with Google, Warby Parker, and Gentle Monster, and says they will have a nine-hour battery life and privacy features — Samsung Electronics Co. showcased the smart glasses it developed in partnership with Alphabet Inc.'s Google … | Dina Bass / Bloomberg: |
OpenAI plans to spend $30B+ on a massive new data center in Georgia, securing 3.2GW of energy, with several hundred MWs set to come online starting in 2028 — OpenAI plans to spend tens of billions of dollars on a massive new data center near Savannah, Georgia as part of the ChatGPT maker's push …
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| Business Insider: |
OpenAI introduces OpenAI Presence to help companies better connect AI agents to their internal systems and automate customer support, sales, and other tasks — OpenAI is launching a new product that could help the company take another step beyond the ultra-competitive business of making AI models.
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple is set to debut new versions of every Mac, including long-awaited iMac updates, a revamped MacBook Pro, and a new Neo, across the fall and 2027 — Apple Inc. is readying an overhaul of its Mac line, seeking to capitalize on demand for powerful laptops and desktops fueled by the artificial intelligence boom.
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| Jez Corden / Windows Central: |
Xbox expands its backward compatibility program to PC, starting with four classic original Xbox games, offering 4X resolution scaling, V-Sync support, and more — Conker, Crimson Skies, Fuzion Frenzy, and Blinx head to Xbox PC for the first time, complete with Xbox achievements, and more are on the way.
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| Amrith Ramkumar / Wall Street Journal: |
Memo: the White House OSTP plans to redirect federal research funding from universities to individual scientists and AI use, reshaping a ~$200B annual budget — The overhaul will reshape $200 billion in spending a year and favors individual scientists to outpace China
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| Victoria Song / The Verge: |
Samsung unveils the Galaxy Watch 9 and Watch Ultra 2, moving from its Exynos chips to the Snapdragon Wear Elite and hiking prices by $30 to $380 and $50 to $700 — It's a year of refinement for the Galaxy Watch. With the new Galaxy Watch 9 and Galaxy Watch Ultra 2, which are being announced today …
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| Damien Wilde / 9to5Google: |
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| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Meta updates WhatsApp's CarPlay and Android Auto integrations to include message playback, replies, and more, let users sign up from its iPad app, and more — WhatsApp is rolling out a suite of new features, including a revamped Apple CarPlay and Android Auto experience as part …
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| Alexandra Bruell / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Reddit, Politico, and others weigh cutting Google's access to their content for AI as traffic drops; Reddit signed a $60M/year deal with Google in 2024 — Reddit, Politico and others are weighing how—or even if—they can work with the tech company as AI tools supplant traditional searches
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| Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: |
Neuralink co-founder Max Hodak's Science Corp wins EU approval for Prima, a bionic eye that treats age-related macular degeneration using an implant and glasses — Decision will allow Science Corp to treat patients with retina implants in coming months — A US start-up has received …
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| Riley Griffin / Bloomberg: |
Meta names Assaf Keren, a former chief security officer at Qualtrics and a former CISO at PayPal, as its next CISO, succeeding Guy Rosen, who will leave in 2026 — Meta Platforms Inc. tapped a veteran cybersecurity executive to serve as its next chief information security officer …
LinkedIn: Assaf Keren
| Wall Street Journal: |
Anthropic commits another $20M to Public First Action, after giving $20M earlier in 2026; PFA says it is a counterweight to the a16z-backed Leading the Future — WASHINGTON—The artificial-intelligence startup Anthropic is doubling its spending on the midterm elections to $40 million …
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| Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Roundtable: |
A US judge dismisses Google's lawsuit against web scraping service SerpApi, saying plain and aggregated search results are not protected under copyright law — Last December, Google sued SerpApi over scraping its search results, and now a court has granted SerpApi's motion to dismiss the case.Sponsor Posts
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