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July 29, 2025, 1:00 AM
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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 …
Emanuel Maiberg / 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  —  A second, major security issue with women's dating safety app Tea has exposed much more user data than the first breach …
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 …
Financial Times:
Athens-based defense tech startup Delian Alliance Industries, which makes its own hardware, software, and sensor fusion systems, raised a $14M Series A  —  Drone start-up Delian Alliance Industries mimics the vertically integrated approach taken by Tesla and Apple
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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 …

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Jon Passantino / Status:
Sources: before the layoffs, a group of wealthy DC locals asked Will Lewis whether WaPo would sell them its local and sports sections, but never got an answer

Hadas Gold / CNN:
Anthropic is running Super Bowl ads criticizing ads in chatbots, prompting a public response from OpenAI CEO Sam Altman defending plans for ads in ChatGPT

C.J. Robinson / Columbia Journalism Review:
A look at the FOIA system, as right-wing media networks flood it with robo-requests, the number of FOIA agents stays flat, and states opt for higher fees

More News

Marina Temkin / TechCrunch:
Julius AI, which acts like a data scientist by analyzing data and running predictive models from natural language prompts, raised a $10M seed led by Bessemer
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
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
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

Earlier Picks

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
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
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
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