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An interview with Google President of Android Ecosystem Sameer Samat, who says Google is “going to be combining ChromeOS and Android into a single platform” — On Gemini, Samsung, Galaxy AI, Glass, XR, and more — My conversation with Sameer Samat, Android's daddy...er …
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Bluesky: @codfather. Mastodon: @MishaalRahman@androiddev …. X: @lanceulanoff. Forums: Hacker News, r/Android, r/technology, r/google, r/chromeos, and Slashdot
| Yash Roy / Bloomberg: |
Republican House leaders expect to pass the GENIUS Act this week, sending Congress' first crypto legislation to the president, and vote on two more crypto bills — Republican House leaders anticipate passing an industry-friendly stablecoin regulatory bill this week, sending Congress's …
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Bitcoin hit an all-time high at $122,000+ on July 14, up ~30% since January 2025, after more than doubling in 2024; ether hit $3,000+, and altcoins are also up — Bitcoin breached $120,000 for the first time, with investor enthusiasm showing few signs of dimming as the US House …
More: Reuters, Reuters, Bitcoin Magazine, Coinmonks, GreenBot, CryptoPotato, Taipei Times, Yahoo Finance, Fast Company, Blockchain News, New York Times, Silicon Republic, crypto.news, BusinessLIVE, TechSpot, Daily Sabah, CoinDesk, The Block, Cointelegraph, Benzinga, and Al Jazeera
X: @mikko and @firstsquawk
| Matt Burgess / Wired: |
An Indicator analysis of 85 AI “nudify” websites: they average 18.5M monthly visitors, may make up to $36M annually combined, and rely on Big Tech's services — Millions of people are accessing harmful AI “nudify” websites. New analysis says the sites are making millions and rely on tech from US companies.
More: Indicator. Bluesky: @mantzarlis.com and @mantzarlis.com. Mastodon: @mattburgess@infosec.exchange. Threads: @gl3nw. Forums: r/artificial
| Riley Griffin / Bloomberg: |
Mark Zuckerberg says Meta is building several multi-gigawatt “clusters”, starting with Prometheus, a massive datacenter that is scheduled to come online in 2026 — Meta Platforms Inc. Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg said the company is building several massive data centers … | Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Amazon launches Kiro, an IDE that aims to bridge the gap between rapidly vibe-coded prototypes and production systems with specs, testing, and documentation — A new AI coding tool from Amazon uses agents to automatically create and update project plans and technical blueprints …
More: Kiro, PCMag, Forbes, SiliconANGLE, The New Stack, The Register, CNBC, Constellation Research, Analytics India Magazine, and DevOps.com. Forums: Hacker News
| Deborah Sophia / Reuters: |
The US DOD announces OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, and xAI have each won contracts with a $200M ceiling, aimed at enabling agentic AI national security workflows — OpenAI, Alphabet's Google (GOOGL.O), Anthropic and Elon Musk's AI firm xAI have won contracts aimed at scaling up adoption …
More: Washington Post, Chief Digital …, The Register, Livemint, Bloomberg, CNBC, Constellation Research, The Hollywood Reporter, Google Cloud Blog, Maginative, Nextgov/FCW, and Reuters
Bluesky: @spencercallaghan.ca, @colincarlson, and @hypervisible. X: @maxwelltani. Forums: r/politics
| Ian King / Bloomberg: |
Jensen Huang says China's military will avoid using Nvidia's AI chips, citing the risks associated with US export restrictions limiting the chips “at any time” — Addressing the largest concern Washington has cited in placing increasing restrictions on US technology exports to the Asian nation … | Naga Avan-Nomayo / The Block: |
Crypto asset manager Grayscale confidentially files draft IPO paperwork with the US SEC, offering few details; the DCG subsidiary manages $30B+ in BTC and ETH — - Grayscale's confidential filing signals the next major U.S. crypto IPO after Circle's debut and could gauge renewed investor demand.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Adobe Analytics: Amazon's four-day Prime Day event drove $24.1B in US e-commerce sales, up 30.3% YoY; generative AI traffic to US retail sites was up 3,300% YoY — Amazon's Prime Day, which leads to an overall boost to U.S. e-commerce thanks to competitive sales, saw a significant increase …
More: Yahoo Finance, Retail TouchPoints, Chain Store Age, Retail Brew, PCMag, and PYMNTS.com
| Farah Stockman / New York Times: |
Interviews with 12+ drone and military experts: the US lags China and Russia in manufacturing drones and training soldiers to use them and defend against them — A drone made by Neros, a start-up in El Segundo, Calif., took off during a military exercise in the Yukon Training Area in Alaska.Video by Ash Adams| Noor Al-Sibai / Futurism: |
An Internet Matters survey of 1,000 UK kids aged 9 to 17 finds 64% use AI chatbots; of those, 35% say chatting with a chatbot feels like talking to a friend — “Sometimes they can feel like a real person and a friend.” — Lonely children and teens are replacing real-life friendship with AI, and experts are worried.
More: Irish Independent, Windows Report, Neowin, and Internet Matters
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| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Anthropic now uses Canva's MCP server, letting Canva users manage designs via Claude's UI, following similar integrations with Figma, Notion, Stripe, and Prisma — The new integration allows Claude users to create, resize, and summarize Canva content using text prompts.
More: ZDNET
| Trisha Thadani / Washington Post: |
Tesla is set to face a Florida federal jury to defend allegations that Autopilot was at fault in a fatal 2019 crash, as it tests autonomous robotaxis in Austin — The trial could dissect Tesla's automated driving technology in public just as a more advanced version starts to ferry passengers on public roads.
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