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Samsung says it is winding down its $2,899 Galaxy Z TriFold sales in South Korea and the US once it clears its inventory, after just three months on the market — Samsung Electronics Co. is winding down sales of its Galaxy Z TriFold smartphone after roughly three months on the market …
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Forums: r/GalaxyFold and MacRumors Forums
| David Gewirtz / ZDNET: |
OpenAI launches GPT-5.4 mini and nano, aimed at agents, coding, and multi-modal workflows, and offering near GPT-5.4-level performance at a much lower cost — ZDNET's key takeaways — GPT-5.4 mini runs more than twice as fast as GPT-5 mini. — New models aim at agents, coding, and multi-modal workflows.
More: OpenAI, Simon Willison's Weblog, Decrypt, The New Stack, CNET, 9to5Mac, Inc, Engadget, The Decoder, The Mac Observer, The Deep View, and iPhone in Canada
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| Tyler Wilde / PC Gamer: |
Nvidia says game developers “have artistic control over DLSS 5's effects”, following backlash alleging that the AI rendering tech alters the source material — The first demo for Nvidia's new AI rendering technique doesn't do much to combat the perception that generative AI homogenizes artwork.
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| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Google expands Personal Intelligence, which lets Gemini tailor its responses by connecting to Gmail and other Google services, from paid users to all US users — Google announced on Tuesday that it's expanding Personal Intelligence, its feature that allows its AI assistant to tailor …
More: The Keyword, The Verge, Thurrott, How-To Geek, MacRumors, Search Engine Land, 9to5Google, Engadget, Android Central, iPhone in Canada, Search Engine Journal, Tom's Guide, and Droid Life
LinkedIn: Vijay Narayanan and Charmaine D'Silva
| Anna Washenko / Engadget: |
Arizona sues Kalshi for allegedly operating an illegal gambling business and unlawfully facilitating betting on elections; Kalshi faces a similar suit in Nevada — It's also facing a similar lawsuit in Nevada. — Kalshi has been sued by Arizona's attorney general for operating … | Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
Amazon begins three-hour deliveries in ~2K US cities and towns and one-hour deliveries in hundreds of those areas, after 2025 pilots; 90K+ products are eligible — Amazon said Tuesday it's starting one-hour and three-hour deliveries in parts of the U.S., as the company continues to look for ways to satisfy impatient consumers.
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Memo: Satya Nadella says ex-Snap executive Jacob Andreou will lead Copilot for commercial and consumer clients; Mustafa Suleyman will focus on new AI models — Microsoft said Tuesday that it's bringing together the engineering groups for its commercial and consumer Copilot assistants, which have yet to gain broad adoption.
More: Microsoft, The Verge, iTnews, Thurrott, GeekWire, Windows Central, Mercury News, The Decoder, Reuters, The Information, Business Insider, Wall Street Journal, and Bloomberg. X: @manan
| Reuters: |
Mastercard agrees to acquire London-based stablecoin payments infra startup BVNK for up to $1.8B, including $300M in contingent payments, set to close in 2026 — Mastercard (MA.N) said on Tuesday it would buy stablecoin payments infrastructure firm BVNK for up to $1.8 billion.
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LinkedIn: Sam Boboev, Emily Goodman, Andrew G. Sugrue, and Jesse Hemson-Struthers
| Berber Jin / Wall Street Journal: |
In an all-hands, OpenAI CEO of Applications Fidji Simo described a strategy shift to refocus on coding and business users, urging staff to avoid “side quests” — A top leader urges staff not to be distracted by ‘side quests’ as the company plans shift of resources to coding, enterprise businesses
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Q&A with CEO Jim Lanzone on Yahoo being “very profitable”, its new AI search engine, focusing on sports content, including original video and podcasts, and more — Today, I'm talking with Jim Lanzone, who is the CEO of Yahoo. — It's basically impossible to sum up the Yahoo story … | Bloomberg: |
NetBlocks and Kentik: Iran further restricted what little internet connectivity remained to curb VPNs, possibly to forestall protests during Festival of Fire — Iran's internet, which has been heavily throttled by the regime since the outbreak of war, has gone even darker over the past 48 hours … | Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge: |
Intel unveils the Core Ultra 200HX Plus CPUs for high-end gaming laptops, offering an Intel Binary Optimization Tool to improve native performance in some games — The new flagship Core Ultra 9 290HX Plus is accompanied by a Core Ultra 7 270HX Plus.| Sam Clark / Politico: |
EU countries introduce sanctions on hacking groups, including Iran's Emennet Pasargad, which hacked magazine Charlie Hebdo in 2023, and two Chinese companies — Countries impose measures on Iranian, Chinese companies providing hacking services. — BRUSSELS — European Union countries … | Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News: |
Candex, which helps large companies pay small, one-time, or irregular vendors, raised a $40M Series C, bringing its total funding to more than $120M — For companies operating around the world, hiring vendors for one-off purchases in other countries can be a complicated process, eating up time and resources.| New York Times: |
Sources: China is penalizing people tied to Meta's $2B Manus acquisition, including by apparently restricting Manus executives from leaving China for Singapore — The country appears to be cracking down on people linked to the acquisition of Manus, a Singapore company with Chinese roots, as President Trump prepares to visit Beijing.| Mistral AI: |
Mistral releases Small 4, its first model to unify the reasoning, multimodal, and coding capabilities of its flagship Magistral, Pixtral, and Devstral models — Today, we are announcing Mistral Small 4. This model is the next major release in the Mistral Small family.
More: Mistral AI, The Register, The Decoder, Simon Willison's Weblog, TestingCatalog, and MarkTechPost
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Forums: Hacker News, r/LocalLLaMA, r/MistralAI, r/LocalLLaMA, and Lobsters
| Greg Bensinger / Reuters: |
At an all-hands, Andy Jassy said he expects AI to help AWS reach $600B in annual sales by 2036, double his prior estimate; AWS had revenue of $128.7B in 2025 — Amazon O> CEO Andy Jassy said during an internal all-hands meeting he expects artificial intelligence could help cloud computing …
More: Benzinga and Dow Jones Newswires
| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
Q&A with Jensen Huang on Nvidia's CUDA core, reasoning and coding, CPUs' role in accelerated computing, Groq, China and the doomers, Nvidia's nature, and more — This week's Stratechery Interview is running early this week, as I had the chance to speak in person with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang …
More: Data Center Knowledge, Yahoo Finance, and Key Context
| Carrie Budoff Brown / Politico: |
Q&A with Ted Sarandos on his visit to Brussels, Netflix's European investments, EU regulation, YouTube, TikTok, WBD, Trump's Susan Rice criticism, AI, and more — Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos arrives in Brussels on Tuesday with a clear message for EU regulators ahead of a looming review … | Lucas Ropek / TechCrunch: |
World launches AgentKit, a software development tool that enables sites to verify that a real human is behind the purchasing decisions of AI shopping agents — World, co-founded by Sam Altman, is dedicated to creating what it calls “proof of human” tech—ID verification tools …
More: Gizmodo, Unchained, CoinDesk, Decrypt, The Block, Cointelegraph, Crypto Briefing, and The Defiant
| Bloomberg: |
Baidu is integrating OpenClaw with its Xiaodu devices to work as voice-controlled remotes, joining Tencent and Alibaba in racing to capitalize on agentic AI — Baidu Inc. is betting on the breakout success of OpenClaw to offset a decline in its core business.| The Information: |
Sources: OpenAI signed a deal with AWS to sell its AI services to US government agencies for both classified and unclassified work, amid the Anthropic-DOD spat — OpenAI on Friday signed a new contract with Amazon Web Services to sell its AI to U.S. government employees for both classified … | Belle Lin / Wall Street Journal: |
IBM closes its $11B deal for data streaming company Confluent; IBM CEO Arvind Krishna says he expects IBM will maintain or grow its head count over five years — Deal will help companies access their data for AI agents, says IBM CEO Arvind Krishna, as he brushes off AI's risk to IBM's business
More: Bloomberg Law, Capital Brief, IBM, and Bloomberg
LinkedIn: Alex Widrick, Tessa Hillin, and Harshitha C
| Natasha Mascarenhas / Bloomberg: |
Enterprise AI automation startup Standard Template Labs raised a $49M seed co-led by Iconiq and CRV, a source says at a $300M post-money valuation — The deal is Iconiq's first-ever startup incubation. — Standard Template Labs, founded by former Datadog Inc. President Amit Agarwal … | Ben Weiss / Fortune: |
PayPal expands access to its PYUSD stablecoin from the US and the UK to 70 countries in total, including Colombia, Panama, Peru, Singapore, Uganda, and Malawi — PayPal is dramatically expanding the map of countries where users can send and receive its branded stablecoin.
More: PayPal Newsroom, Benzinga, The Business Times, The Crypto Times, Blockonomi, CoinDesk, The Crypto Basic, The Block, and Cointelegraph. LinkedIn: John Williams
| Samantha Subin / CNBC: |
Gecko Robotics secures a $71M US Navy contract to use robots to slash repair time for dated ships, as the US races to reindustrialize its aging defense systems — Gecko Robotics, a Pittsburgh-based robotics startup, on Tuesday announced a $71 million deal with the U.S. Navy to cut … Sponsor Posts
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