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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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| Bloomberg: |
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 …
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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, 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: Prime Day's four-day event drove over $24B in US e-commerce sales, up 30.3% YoY; traffic from generative AI sources 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, MediaBrief, 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
Bluesky: @lauridonahue, @amandascott2023, @therisingtithes, and @charleswlogan. Mastodon: @dcoderlt@ohai.social
| 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
| Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
The European Commission says France, Spain, Italy, Denmark, and Greece will test an age verification app meant to protect kids online — France, Spain, Italy, Denmark and Greece will test a blueprint for an age verification app to protect children online, the European Commission said on Monday … Sponsor Posts
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