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| Emily Mason / Bloomberg: |
PayPal unveils Pay With Crypto for merchants to accept bitcoin, ether, USDT, and more via Coinbase, OKX, and other wallets, rolling out in the coming weeks — PayPal Holdings Inc. will soon allow businesses to accept more than one hundred cryptocurrencies at checkout.
More: PayPal Newsroom, The Information, SiliconANGLE, Fortune, CoinDesk, Decrypt, iPhone in Canada, Gulf News, Coinspeaker, WinBuzzer, Mashable, The Block, crypto.news, Bitcoin Magazine, CoinJournal, Bitcoin Insider, Watcher Guru, The Crypto Times, Benzinga, CoinGape, Crypto Briefing, NewsBTC, and Coinpedia Fintech News
| Evelyn Cheng / CNBC: |
Z.ai, formerly known as Zhipu and which has raised $1.5B from Tencent and others, releases GLM-4.5, an open source AI model that's cheaper to use than DeepSeek — BEIJING — Chinese companies are making smarter artificial intelligence models that are increasingly cheaper to use …
More: Chat with Z.ai, PYMNTS.com, MarkTechPost, Reuters, Simon Willison's Weblog, implicator.ai, WinBuzzer, and Bloomberg
Bluesky: @simonwillison.net and @timkellogg.me
Forums: Hacker News, r/singularity, and r/technology
| Bloomberg: |
Samsung unveils a $16.5B chip deal with Tesla that runs through the end of 2033; Elon Musk says the deal is to make Tesla's next-gen AI6 chips in Taylor, Texas — Samsung Electronics Co. will produce AI semiconductors for Tesla Inc. in a new $16.5 billion pact that marks a win for its underperforming foundry division.
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Forums: r/teslamotors and r/hardware
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Chrome will debut AI-generated store reviews to US shoppers, where clicking an icon just to the left of the URL will show a popup with store reputation info — Google on Monday announced an update to its Chrome web browser that will introduce AI-generated store reviews to U.S. shoppers …
More: How-To Geek, Android Authority, and implicator.ai
Bluesky: @campuscodi.risky.biz, @lemmk, @caseynewton, and @frydawolff
| BBC: |
Google says it revised its Android Earthquake Alerts algorithm after it failed to send the highest-level Take Action warnings to 10M people in Turkey in 2023 — Google has admitted its earthquake early warning system failed to accurately alert people during Turkey's deadly quake of 2023.
More: 9to5Google, Moneycontrol, Android Police, Mashable, Android Authority, Livemint, Geographical, GZERO, The Hans India, Newser, Hürriyet Daily News, Turkish Minute, LBC, The Indian Express, The Independent, Business Standard, Daily Sabah, Financial Express, TechSpot, TechIssuesToday.com, and Neowin
Forums: Hacker News, r/Android, r/Turkey, r/technology, r/europe, and r/worldnews
| Zac Bowden / Windows Central: |
Microsoft Edge adds Copilot Mode, an experimental feature that tries to make browsing an agentic AI experience, even anticipating links to click, free for now — Copilot Mode in Microsoft Edge is a new experimental feature that transforms the browser into an agentic AI experience, but it's only free for a limited time.
More: Windows Blog, ZDNET, Thurrott, PCMag, GeekWire, Tom's Hardware, PCWorld, How-To Geek, The Verge, Reuters, Bloomberg Law, Neowin, MobileSyrup, iPhone in Canada, BGR, and Windows Latest
| Canalys: |
The US smartphone market grew 1% in Q2; the share of US smartphone shipments assembled in China shrank from 61% in Q2'24 to 25% in Q2'25, as India volume soars — New research from Canalys (now part of Omdia) reveals that United States smartphone shipments grew by 1% in Q2 2025 as vendors continued …
More: 9to5Google, Android Authority, PhoneArena, Reuters, Android Headlines, and Light Reading. Forums: r/Android
| Laura Dubois / Financial Times: |
The European Commission accuses Temu of breaching the DSA by failing to do enough to stop the sale of illegal products on its platform, in preliminary findings — European Commission says ecommerce group failing to do enough to tackle sale of illegal products| Alyson Krueger / New York Times: |
People are increasingly using generative AI to create digital vision boards, such as videos depicting their ideal futures, to help them achieve their goals — For some believers in manifestation, vision boards have become a little like movie trailers, as brought to you by A.I.
Bluesky: @karlbode.com and @carnage4life
| Danielle Abril / Washington Post: |
How the AI boom is reenergizing San Francisco, one of the slowest US cities to recover from the pandemic, with rising foot traffic and new commercial leases — The AI momentum isn't stopping and it's bringing workers, venture capital money and life back to San Francisco.| Ben Cohen / Wall Street Journal: |
At the International Mathematical Olympiad, 26 students got higher scores than DeepMind and OpenAI models, possibly the last time humans beat AI at the exam — Google DeepMind and OpenAI won gold medals at the math Olympics—but these American teenagers still got higher scores.| Dade Hayes / Deadline: |
Imax partners with Runway AI to screen 10 films selected as finalists in the company's AI Film Festival at 10 Imax locations across the US — Imax is teaming with tech firm Runway to present commercial screenings of selections from the company's AI Film Festival.
More: The Decoder, The Hollywood Reporter, WinBuzzer, and Livemint
| Zachary Small / New York Times: |
How the video game industry, which has used AI since the 1980s, is embracing AI-enhanced gameplay, worrying some developers as major studios cut employees — Game designers have used artificial intelligence since the 1980s. But digital characters demonstrating self-awareness is a far cry from the ghosts chasing Pac-Man.
More: The Economic Times
| Demetri Sevastopulo / Financial Times: |
Sources: the US freezes tech export curbs on China to avoid disrupting trade talks and help President Trump secure a 2025 meeting with President Xi Jinping — US officials have been warned to avoid tough moves against Beijing as Stockholm hosts third round of negotiations
More: Benzinga, Tom's Hardware, Watcher Guru, Noahpinion, implicator.ai, Engadget, and Reuters
X: @macaesbruno, @ft, @jchengwsj, and @fbermingham
Forums: r/politics, r/StockMarket, and r/wallstreetbets
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