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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
| 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
| 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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| José Adorno / BGR: |
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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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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 … | 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.
More: Blockworks, Bitcoin Insider, The Crypto Times, BeInCrypto, Blockonomi, and Cointelegraph. X: @fellowship_pac
| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Nothing raised a $200M Series C led by Tiger Global at a $1.3B valuation, taking its total funding to $450M+, and says it had $1B in total sales in early 2025 — Smartphone startup Nothing announced today that it closed its Series C round of $200 million, which was led by the investment firm Tiger Global.
More: Financial Times and Reuters
| Mauro Orru / Wall Street Journal: |
Google plans to invest £5B in the UK on AI, energy, R&D, and more over the next two years, and expects to add 8,000 jobs a year at businesses across the country — The company said the investment would add more than 8,000 jobs a year at businesses across the U.K.
More: Reuters, Sky News, Yahoo Finance, BBC, and City A.M.
| 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
| Nikkei Asia: |
Shanghai-based, US-listed lidar maker Hesai jumped 7.7% in its Hong Kong debut, giving the company a ~$4.5B market cap after raising ~$514M from the IPO — HONG KONG — Hesai Group, China's leading producer of laser sensors for cars, got off to a roaring start in its Hong Kong Exchange debut on Tuesday morning.
More: South China Morning Post, Financial Times, Blockchain.News, and Bloomberg
| 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
| 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, Bitcoinist.com, Blockonomi, BeInCrypto, The Block, and Cointelegraph
| 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. … | Bloomberg: |
Sources: Jack Ma has returned to Alibaba's campuses after disappearing from public view during China's 2020 tech crackdown, influencing Alibaba's pivot to AI — China's most recognizable entrepreneur is back, making bold bets and pushing AI. — During China's yearslong crackdown on the tech sector … | Tyler Katzenberger / Politico: |
How California reached a deal to let ride-hailing drivers unionize while reducing insurance requirements for Uber and Lyft, ending years of costly legal fights — Their accounts shed new light on how the deal came together: how the talks started, who was in the room, and the lengths they went … | 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
| 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
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