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| Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI debuts GPT‑5-Codex, a version of GPT‑5 optimized for agentic coding in Codex and says it spends its “thinking” time more dynamically than previous models — OpenAI announced Monday that it's releasing a new version of GPT-5 to its AI coding agent, Codex.
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LinkedIn: Derrick Choi and Alexander Embiricos
Forums: Hacker News and r/OpenAI
| Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
macOS 26 Tahoe review: Liquid Glass has small regressions in usability and accessibility but the upgrade has enough iterative changes like automated Shortcuts — Liquid Glass brings translucent sheen to the typical batch of iterative changes. — The last time Apple gave macOS a fresh design was in 2020's macOS 11 Big Sur.
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Forums: Hacker News, r/apple, and Ars OpenForum
| Zachary McAuliffe / CNET: |
iOS 26 review: Liquid Glass is aesthetically pleasing, many quality-of-life upgrades, call screening is a true game changer, but the Games app feels unfinished — It's been a long three months since Apple announced iOS 26 at its Worldwide Developers Conference in June, but the wait is over.
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Threads: @filipe.esposito and @crumbler
| José Adorno / BGR: |
Apple launches iOS 26, iPadOS 26, macOS 26 Tahoe, watchOS 26, visionOS 26, and tvOS 26, featuring Liquid Glass design, new Apple Intelligence features, and more — After three long months of beta testing, Apple has made iOS 26, iPadOS 26, macOS Tahoe, watchOS 26, tvOS 26, and visionOS 26 available to all users.
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| Federico Viticci / MacStories: |
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Bluesky: @viticci.macstories.net and @viticci.macstories.net. Mastodon: @johnvoorhees@mastodon …. Forums: r/apple
| David Heaney / UploadVR: |
A now-removed unlisted video on Meta's YouTube channel shows Meta Ray-Ban glasses with a HUD shown to one eye, used for Meta AI and on-foot navigation — Meta's HUD glasses with sEMG wristband will in fact be Ray-Ban branded, a leaked clip which also depicts the HUD and wristband in action reveals.
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| David Heaney / UploadVR: |
The now-removed video from Meta also showed the rumored Oakley Meta Sphaera glasses with a centered camera, highlighting their use in skiing and running — As well as the Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses, the leaked video also reveals the design of the rumored Oakley Meta Sphaera glasses with a centered camera.| CNBC: |
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says the US and China have reached a “framework” deal for TikTok; Trump and Xi Jinping will meet Friday to discuss the terms — The U.S. and China have a reached a ‘framework’ deal for social media platform TikTok, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Monday.
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| New York Times: |
How UAE's $2B investment in Trump family's WLF is linked to the deal allowing the UAE's G42 to access AI chips, in which David Sacks played a key role — This summer, Steve Witkoff, President Trump's Middle East envoy, paid a visit to the coast of Sardinia, a stretch of the Mediterranean Sea crowded with super yachts.
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| Ashley Belanger / Ars Technica: |
Filing: the Internet Archive and major music labels settle a copyright infringement lawsuit against IA over its project to preserve early music recordings — A settlement has been reached in a lawsuit where music publishers sued the Internet Archive over the Great 78 Project … | Julie Bort / TechCrunch: |
Robinhood has filed an application with the SEC to launch a new publicly traded fund called “Robinhood Ventures Fund I” that will hold shares of startups — Robinhood announced Monday it has filed an application with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to launch …
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| Reuters: |
A study finds that six major AI chatbots can be easily tricked into creating phishing emails targeting elderly people, despite being trained not to — Major AI chatbots were happy to help. — Reuters and a Harvard University researcher used top chatbots to plot a simulated phishing scam …
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| New York Times: |
A new super PAC called the Fellowship PAC says it will spend $100M+ to support pro-crypto legislators; sources say Tether is expected to be one of the backers — The effort, called the Fellowship PAC, is the crypto industry's latest move to help elect legislators that will force through its interests in Washington.| Gerrit De Vynck / Washington Post: |
OpenAI releases the first detailed public study on how people use ChatGPT: 73% of chats were non-work related, practical guidance was the top use case, and more — OpenAI released the first detailed public study on who uses its chatbot and what they most often ask it to do.
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| Elissa Welle / The Verge: |
A Google executive says users increasingly want “contextual answers and summaries”, but Google is not going to abandon the model that provides “10 blue links” — When asked about a new lawsuit over AI Overviews, Google said users increasingly want the AI summaries.
More: 9to5Google, Sherwood News, Chrome Unboxed, TheDesk.net, Awful Announcing, Mediaweek, New York Post, and Mashable
| Bloomberg: |
In a preliminary probe, China rules that Nvidia violated anti-monopoly laws by acquiring Mellanox in April 2020, as the US and China negotiate tariffs in Madrid — China ruled that Nvidia Corp. violated anti-monopoly laws with a high-profile 2020 deal, ratcheting up the pressure on Washington during sensitive trade negotiations.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Spotify adds new features globally that let free users search for and play any song they want; the company reported 433M ad-supported MAUs out of 696M in Q2 — Following its long-awaited launch of lossless streaming for paid subscribers, Spotify is upgrading its service for free users, too.
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X: @spotifynews and @eldsjal
LinkedIn: Marty Zelenko, Megan Walsh, and Anna Lundström
Forums: r/revancedapp and r/truespotify
| Josh Sisco / Bloomberg: |
Sources: US FTC is probing if Ticketmaster does enough to stop bots from illegal resales, focusing on its compliance with a law against automated ticket resales — Live Nation Inc.'s Ticketmaster is being probed by the US Federal Trade Commission over whether it's done enough to keep bots … | PYMNTS.com: |
Doctronic, which uses generative AI for health guidance and offers video visits with licensed doctors, raised a $20M Series A led by Lightspeed Venture Partners — Doctronic raised $20 million in a Series A funding round to expand its services and grow the adoption of its artificial …
More: Doctronic, Lightspeed Venture Partners, and Axios
| Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: |
Filing: the SEC settles a lawsuit accusing crypto exchange Gemini of failing to register the Gemini Earn lending program before offering it to retail investors — The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission agreed to settle a lawsuit that accused an exchange run by billionaire twins Tyler …
More: Decrypt, Cointelegraph, Bitcoinist.com, Blockonomi, BeInCrypto, and The Block
| Sohee Kim / Bloomberg: |
Disney and Webtoon announce a new digital platform with 35K+ Disney comics; Disney plans to acquire a 2% equity interest in Webtoon; WBTN jumps 70%+ after hours — Walt Disney Co. is bringing all of its marquee comics to a new digital platform and app in partnership with Webtoon Entertainment Inc. … | Anthropic: |
An Anthropic report details how Claude usage varies by country and US state, finding 36% use it for coding, 77% of business uses involve automation, and more — Introduction AI differs from prior technologies in its unprecedented adoption speed. In the US alone, 40% of employees report using AI at work …
More: Anthropic, Bloomberg, Cautious Optimism, Techstrong.ai, Tomasz Tunguz, Implicator.ai, Fortune, Entrepreneur, Axios, Axios, and Axios
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LinkedIn: Peter McCrory, Heiko Hotz, Prof. Ahmed Banafa, and Lucie-Aimée Kaffee. Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to. Forums: Slashdot
| Adamya Sharma / Android Authority: |
Qualcomm announces the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5, its next flagship mobile chipset, before its 2025 Snapdragon Summit, and Xiaomi says its 17 series will use it — Qualcomm has officially announced its next flagship mobile chipset, the “Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5.”
More: Qualcomm, Android Headlines, How-To Geek, Chrome Unboxed, and CNET
X: @bengeskin and @imhassan. Bluesky: @quinnypig.com. Mastodon: @bradlinder@fosstodon.org. Forums: r/hardware
| Will Knight / Wired: |
Sources: OpenAI is recruiting AI researchers to work on humanoid robots and is training AI algorithms that are better able to make sense of the physical world — The company behind ChatGPT is putting together a team capable of developing algorithms to control robots and appears …
Bluesky: @natashabernal
| Harshita Mary Varghese / Reuters: |
CoreWeave says it has signed a new $6.3B order with Nvidia that guarantees Nvidia will purchase any cloud capacity not sold to customers through April 13, 2032 — CoreWeave (CRWV.O) said on Monday it had signed a new order with Nvidia (NVDA.O) with an initial value of $6.3 billion …
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