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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.
More: Windows Blog, PYMNTS.com, ZDNET, Engadget, XDA Developers, TechCrunch, Inc, SiliconANGLE, Android Headlines, WinBuzzer, Yahoo Finance, Windows Report, Thurrott, MarkTechPost, Tom's Guide, Adweek, Neowin, MobileSyrup, Mashable, Bloomberg, PCWorld, The Verge, GeekWire, iPhone in Canada, Tom's Hardware, Lifewire, BGR, PCMag, Maginative, How-To Geek, The Decoder, and Windows Latest
| 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 …
More: Wired, VentureBeat, Engadget, WinBuzzer, and Implicator.ai
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| 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, SiliconANGLE, Simon Willison's Weblog, The Hill, Bloomberg, NewsBytes, WinBuzzer, Reuters, BGR, MarkTechPost, Tech in Asia, Implicator.ai, and PYMNTS.com
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Forums: Hacker News, r/singularity, and r/technology
| 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 Verge, Fortune, The Information, ZyCrypto, WinBuzzer, SiliconANGLE, The Defiant, Cointelegraph, CoinJournal, Mashable, Tech.co, Coinspeaker, CoinGape, The Block, iPhone in Canada, Crypto Briefing, Bitcoin Insider, crypto.news, NewsBTC, The Crypto Times, CoinDesk, Coinpedia Fintech News, The Daily Hodl, Bitcoin Magazine, Gulf News, Decrypt, Benzinga, and Watcher Guru
| 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| 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 …
More: The Keyword, The Verge, CNET, Engadget, Social Media Today, Android Central, Android Authority, Implicator.ai, and How-To Geek
Bluesky: @frydawolff, @campuscodi.risky.biz, @lemmk, @sambiddle.com, and @caseynewton
| 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: The Verge, CNET, 9to5Google, Android Authority, Android Headlines, Moneycontrol, The Decoder, Turkish Minute, Livemint, Financial Express, Mashable, Geographical, Android Police, TechSpot, Newser, The Hans India, LBC, The Indian Express, Business Standard, Daily Sabah, The Independent, GZERO, Hürriyet Daily News, TechIssuesToday.com, and Neowin
Forums: Hacker News, r/Android, r/Turkey, r/technology, r/europe, and r/worldnews
| 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: Patently Apple, 9to5Google, AppleInsider, The Register, Android Police, 9to5Mac, iClarified, Android Authority, Light Reading, PhoneArena, Reuters, and Android Headlines
Forums: r/GooglePixel and r/Android
| Thomas Brewster / Forbes: |
Fable, a startup offering AI-generated security training for employees, comes out of stealth having raised $31M, a source says at a $120M valuation — With a $31 million raise, Fable is aiming to take on multi-billion companies with its AI-generated security training targeted at employees who need it.| 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.
More: Financial Times, The Verge, SiliconANGLE, CNBC, Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Yahoo Finance, Motley Fool, Tom's Hardware, Engadget, Axios, Benzinga, Barron's Online, Investor's Business Daily, Austin American-Statesman, Shacknews, PC Gamer, The Hill, Business Insider, TechSpot, The Information, HotHardware, Proactive, Tech Times, electrive.com, The Register, Maginative, RCR Wireless News, iPhone in Canada, Patently Apple, Taipei Times, Nairametrics, TechCrunch, ZeroHedge News, The Decoder, SammyGuru, The Guardian, PCMag, Business Today, TESLARATI, Watcher Guru, SamMobile, Morningstar, Inc., Daily Sabah, KVUE-TV, Korea Joongang Daily, Fortune India, The Korea Herald, Coinpedia Fintech News, The Economic Times, Nikkei Asia, Digit, Analytics India Magazine, KED Global, Automotive World, and DigiTimes
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Forums: r/teslamotors, r/musked, r/hardware, and r/technology
| Taylor Soper / GeekWire: |
Seattle-based Dropzone AI, which offers AI agents that act as Security Operations Center analysts, raised a $37M Series B led by Theory Ventures — GeekWire's startup coverage documents the Pacific Northwest entrepreneurial scene. Sign up for our weekly startup newsletter …
More: Dropzone AI Blog, FinTech Global, InfoRiskToday.com, SiliconANGLE, FinSMEs, and VC News Daily
| Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: |
Harmonic, an AI math startup co-founded by Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev, unveils its model Aristotle, saying it achieved gold medal performance on the 2025 IMO — Harmonic, an AI startup co-founded by Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev, announced Monday the beta launch of an iOS and Android chatbot app …
More: Harmonic
| John Kingston / FreightWaves: |
Flexport announces it is selling Convoy's tech to DAT Freight & Analytics, after acquiring the digital freight startup's tech stack in late 2023 — Third recent deal at DAT has potential to transform its ability to put together carriers and shippers; legacy Convoy brokerage business staying with Flexport
More: TechCrunch, PYMNTS.com, Flexport, Truck News, Business Wire, Transport Topics, and GeekWire
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