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July 28, 2025, 9:26 PM

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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.
Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch:
Anthropic to debut new rate limits for Claude Pro and Max on Aug. 28, likely curbing <5% of users, saying some run Claude Code “continuously in the background”  —  Anthropic says its rolling out new weekly rate limits for Claude to curb usage among subscribers who are running …
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 …
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Chrome debuts AI-generated store reviews to US shoppers, letting users click an icon left of the URL to 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 with the aim …
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.
404 Media:
A second security breach at Tea exposes more than 1.1M user messages, dating from early 2023 to as recently as last week, many containing sensitive information  —  The more than one million messages obtained by 404 Media are as recent as last week, discuss incredibly sensitive topics …
Bloomberg:
EssilorLuxottica says sales of Ray-Ban Meta more than tripled year-over-year in the first half of 2025, and it expects “a very fast ramp-up” of Oakley Meta  —  EssilorLuxottica SA posted better-than-expected revenue in the second quarter, as the world's biggest eyewear maker showed strong gains …
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
Pankaj Mishra / Livemint:
Sources: Coinbase is in advanced talks to acquire CoinDCX, potentially valuing the Indian crypto exchange at less than $1B, below its 2022 $2.15B valuation  —  US cryptocurrency giant Coinbase is in advanced discussions to acquire India's CoinDCX as the local crypto exchange recovers from a $44 million hack …
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.
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 …

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