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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.
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  —  Intel chief executive Lip-Bu Tan pushed ahead …
Jason Snell / Six Colors:
Hands-on with macOS 26: the interface is a mess, like a poorly imported iOS design, but the power of Spotlight and Shortcuts will delight many longtime users  —  For many years, Apple's annual operating-system cycle seemed to be all about the iPhone, with the occasional bone thrown to the Mac or iPad.
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.
Dan Moren / Six Colors:
Hands-on with iOS 26: Liquid Glass is impressive but can also be distracting, Camera redesign is solid, Call Filtering feature in the Phone app is great, more  —  iOS 26!  It feels like just last year we were here discussing iOS 18.  How time flies.  —  After a year that saw the debut …
Richard Lawler / The Verge:
Starlink experienced a network outage for about 2.5 hours on Thursday; NetBlocks reports that connectivity dropped to “16% of ordinary levels”  —  SpaceX's satellite internet service experienced a ‘network outage’ that cut off internet for users around the world.
Shane Hickey / The Guardian:
A UK court sentences a 21-year-old student who created phishing kits that mimicked government, bank, and charity websites, linked to £100M of fraud  —  Ollie Holman created kits that mimicked charity and bank webpages so criminals could harvest victims' personal details
Forums: Slashdot
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.
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 …
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 …
Financial Times:
Analysis: US and UK entry-level graduate job listings have plunged since 2022, but there's only tentative evidence of AI-related disruption in some occupations  —  Tech is blamed for destroying entry-level roles but economic uncertainty and offshoring are playing a part
More: FlowingData.  Bluesky: @shlead, @mims, @dannygroner, and @jessefelder.  LinkedIn: Benjamin Stevenin
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.

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Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Arkansas PBS severs ties with the PBS network, the first state public TV system to do so since Congress cut CPB funds, citing the annual $2M+ membership cost

Financial Times:
OpenAI hopes the Disney deal boosts Sora, which has high costs and limited traction; Sensor Tower: users average 13 minutes per day on Sora vs. 90 on TikTok

Sam Roberts / New York Times:
Arthur L. Carter, who started a Connecticut newspaper in 1981, bought and sold The Nation, and founded the New York Observer in 1987, has died at 93

More News

Meir Orbach / CTech:
Aidoc, which uses AI to help doctors make real-time clinical decisions, raised $150M led by General Catalyst and Square Peg, bringing its total funding to $370M
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

Earlier Picks

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
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
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
Deadline:
At an All-In Podcast summit, President Trump said forcing AI firms to pay for each copyrighted work is “not doable”, calling for “common sense” AI and IP rules
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