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Jay Peters / The Verge:
Valve unveils the Steam Frame, a VR headset that can stream games from a PC or run Windows and Android games locally, expected to launch in 2026 for under $999  —  Valve is about to launch a new virtual reality headset, and with it, a comprehensive new approach to what a VR device should be.
UploadVR:
Valve's Steam Frame hands-on: the back-mounted battery and 185g visor make it very comfortable and game streaming is stable, but the display has poor contrast  —  UploadVR's Ian Hamilton and David Heaney went hands-on with Steam Frame at Valve HQ.  —  If you missed it, Valve …
Andrew E. Freedman / Tom's Hardware:
Valve unveils a new Steam Machine, a cube-shaped gaming PC with SteamOS, a semi-custom AMD Zen 4 CPU and AMD RDNA 3 GPU, and 16GB of RAM, expected in early 2026  —  Valve is promising 4K gaming at 60 FPS with FSR  —  Valve rattled the gaming industry in 2022 with the launch of the Steam Deck …
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Valve unveils the second-gen Steam Controller, with a puck that serves as both a low-latency wireless connector and a charging station, launching in early 2026
Brody Ford / Bloomberg:
Satya Nadella says Microsoft has access to “all” of OpenAI's custom AI chip work and plans to use it to help develop its own in-house chip  —  Microsoft Corp. plans to use access to OpenAI's development of custom AI semiconductors to help its own chip effort.
Sebastian Herrera / Wall Street Journal:
Microsoft unveils an AI “super factory”, a new class of hubs built for AI training, in Atlanta as part of its Fairwater network of data centers  —  Tech giant is building out huge data centers among most advanced in the world as it rushes to meet demand for AI computing power
Dwarkesh Patel / Dwarkesh Podcast:
Q&A with Satya Nadella on business models for AGI, Copilot, Microsoft AI, the hyperscale business, the OpenAI partnership, capex, sovereign AI efforts, and more
OpenAI:
OpenAI rolls out GPT-5.1 Instant, which is “warmer” and “more conversational”, and GPT-5.1 Thinking, “easier to understand and faster”, starting with paid users  —  We're upgrading GPT‑5 while making it easier to customize ChatGPT.
Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority:
Google says it will allow “experienced users” to install Android apps from unverified developers, following backlash against new sideloading restrictions  —  Google will allow ‘experienced users’ to install Android apps made by unverified developers.  —  •  —  TL;DR
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Apple launches Digital ID in Apple Wallet, letting iPhone and Apple Watch owners in the US carry a copy of their passport, which can be used at TSA checkpoints  —  iPhone and Apple Watch owners in the United States will now be able to carry a copy of their U.S. passport on their device …
Blake Brittain / Reuters:
OpenAI asks a US federal judge to reverse an order that required it to turn over 20M anonymized ChatGPT chat logs in the NYT's copyright suit, citing privacy  —  OpenAI asked a federal judge in New York on Wednesday to reverse an order that required it to turn over 20 million anonymized ChatGPT chat logs amid …
Jess Weatherbed / The Verge:
Google launches Cameyo by Google, after acquiring the software virtualization company in June 2024, to help organizations run legacy Windows apps on ChromeOS  —  Cameyo by Google makes it easier to run Windows-based apps on Chromebooks. … After acquiring software virtualization company Cameyo last year …
Zoe Thomas / Bloomberg:
Waymo becomes the first robotaxi provider to offer driverless rides on freeways, available 24/7 in San Francisco, Phoenix, and Los Angeles for users who opt in  —  Waymo will become the first robotaxi provider in the US to offer driverless rides on highways, a milestone that positions …
Stephanie Stacey / Financial Times:
FanDuel and CME Group plan to launch FanDuel Predicts, a prediction market app, in December, bypassing restrictions in US states where gambling is illegal  —  Partnership with CME Group will allow betting group to offer contracts structured as peer-to-peer trades
William Gallagher / AppleInsider:
An Apple-funded study on the EU DMA: developers didn't pass on App Store fee savings to EU users, keeping prices the same or increasing them on 91% of products  —  A study backed by Apple claims to show that the Digital Markets Act is not lowering prices for App Store users, even when the company is forced to lower its fees.
MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC:
Anthropic plans to spend $50B on a US AI infrastructure buildout, starting with Texas and New York data centers in partnership with Fluidstack, opening in 2026  —  Anthropic announced plans Wednesday to spend $50 billion on U.S. artificial intelligence infrastructure buildout, starting with custom data centers in Texas and New York.
Salvador Rizzo / Washington Post:
US Attorney Jeanine Pirro launches a federal investigative task force to crack down on overseas crime organizations behind crypto scams targeting Americans  —  U.S. victims were defrauded of $9.3 billion in cryptocurrency scams last year, many of them operated by crime networks in Southeast Asia, officials said.
Oliver Whang / New York Times:
A look at Cybathlon, an event by ETH Zurich where researchers team up with people with disabilities in a competition to test brain-computer interfaces  —  Owen Collumb was paralyzed in 1993, when he was 21 years old.  A tire on his motorbike blew out and he fell into a ravine, breaking a single bone in his spine.
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Luz Ding / Bloomberg:
Sources: Alibaba is renaming its AI app Tongyi to “Qwen”, aiming to make it more like ChatGPT, and adding agentic-AI shopping features for platforms like Taobao  —  Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. is preparing an overhaul of its main mobile AI app in coming months to help …

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Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Arkansas PBS severs ties with the PBS network, the first state public TV system to do so since Congress cut CPB funds, citing the annual $2M+ membership cost

Pamela McClintock / The Hollywood Reporter:
Disney's Zootopia 2 surpasses $1B at the global box office, the fastest PG-rated film to do so after just 17 days in release

Sam Roberts / New York Times:
Arthur L. Carter, who started a Connecticut newspaper in 1981, bought and sold The Nation, and founded the New York Observer in 1987, has died at 93

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Ari Levy / CNBC:
Cisco reports Q1 revenue up 8% YoY to $14.88B, vs. $14.77B est., net income up 5% to $2.86B, and forecasts Q2 revenue above est.; CSCO jumps 5%+

Earlier Picks

Ari Levy / CNBC:
Coinbase plans to move its incorporation from Delaware to Texas, saying Delaware “once provided companies with consistency” but now has “unpredictable outcomes”
Chris Bryant / Bloomberg:
Michael Burry's warning that hyperscalers are underestimating AI chip depreciation shows that tech investors may have forgotten how much depreciation can hurt
Financial Times:
Google files a lawsuit in the SDNY against China-based hackers who it says run the Lighthouse platform for “phishing services”, ensnaring 1M and stealing $1B+
Robert Hart / The Verge:
Google unveils Private AI Compute, a cloud platform providing a “secure, fortified space” to run AI tools on devices, similar to Apple's Private Cloud Compute
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