Open Links In New Tab
Mobile Archives Advertise Site News
Techmeme
July 28, 2025, 5:55 PM
Mediagazer memeorandum WeSmirch
Home River Leaderboards About Events Newsletter

Top News

Zac Bowden / Windows Central:
Microsoft Edge adds Copilot Mode, an experimental feature that tries to make browsing an agentic AI experience, even anticipating links to click, free for now  —  Copilot Mode in Microsoft Edge is a new experimental feature that transforms the browser into an agentic AI experience, but it's only free for a limited time.
Evelyn Cheng / CNBC:
Z.ai, formerly known as Zhipu and which has raised $1.5B from Tencent and others, releases GLM-4.5, an open source AI model that's cheaper to use than DeepSeek  —  BEIJING — Chinese companies are making smarter artificial intelligence models that are increasingly cheaper to use …
Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch:
Anthropic to debut new rate limits for Claude Pro and Max on Aug. 28, likely curbing <5% of users, saying some run Claude Code “continuously in the background”  —  Anthropic says its rolling out new weekly rate limits for Claude to curb usage among subscribers who are running …
Canalys:
The US smartphone market grew 1% in Q2; the share of US smartphone shipments assembled in China shrank from 61% in Q2'24 to 25% in Q2'25, as India volume soars  —  New research from Canalys (now part of Omdia) reveals that United States smartphone shipments grew by 1% in Q2 2025 as vendors continued …
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Chrome will debut AI-generated store reviews to US shoppers, where clicking an icon just to the left of the URL will show a popup with store reputation info  —  Google on Monday announced an update to its Chrome web browser that will introduce AI-generated store reviews to U.S. shoppers …
Emily Mason / Bloomberg:
PayPal unveils Pay With Crypto for merchants to accept bitcoin, ether, USDT, and more via Coinbase, OKX, and other wallets, rolling out in the coming weeks  —  PayPal Holdings Inc. will soon allow businesses to accept more than one hundred cryptocurrencies at checkout.
Bloomberg:
Samsung unveils a $16.5B chip deal with Tesla that runs through the end of 2033; Elon Musk says the deal is to make Tesla's next-gen AI6 chips in Taylor, Texas  —  Samsung Electronics Co. will produce AI semiconductors for Tesla Inc. in a new $16.5 billion pact that marks a win for its underperforming foundry division.
BBC:
Google says it revised its Android Earthquake Alerts algorithm after it failed to send the highest-level Take Action warnings to 10M people in Turkey in 2023  —  Google has admitted its earthquake early warning system failed to accurately alert people during Turkey's deadly quake of 2023.
Bloomberg:
EssilorLuxottica says sales of Ray-Ban Meta more than tripled year-over-year in the first half of 2025, and it expects “a very fast ramp-up” of Oakley Meta  —  EssilorLuxottica SA posted better-than-expected revenue in the second quarter, as the world's biggest eyewear maker showed strong gains …
Thomas Brewster / Forbes:
Fable, a startup offering AI-generated security training for employees, comes out of stealth having raised $31M, a source says at a $120M valuation  —  With a $31 million raise, Fable is aiming to take on multi-billion companies with its AI-generated security training targeted at employees who need it.
Laura Dubois / Financial Times:
The European Commission accuses Temu of breaching the DSA by failing to do enough to stop the sale of illegal products on its platform, in preliminary findings  —  European Commission says ecommerce group failing to do enough to tackle sale of illegal products
Ben Cohen / Wall Street Journal:
At the International Mathematical Olympiad, 26 students got higher scores than DeepMind and OpenAI models, possibly the last time humans beat AI at the exam  —  Google DeepMind and OpenAI won gold medals at the math Olympics—but these American teenagers still got higher scores.

Sponsor Posts

Google:
Try Gemini 3 Pro  —  Google's newest and most intelligent AI model that helps you bring any idea to life
Shopify:
Transform ML Experimentation with Tangle  —  Save months of compute time with Tangle, built by Shopify.  Try this open-source platform to simplify ML workflows, ensure reproducibility, and seamlessly share with collaborators.
Zoho:
Contract Signed.  Project Ready.  Tasks Created.  —  Every project begins with a promise; a contract that outlines the deliverables, the timelines, and the terms.  But for most businesses …
Bitrix24:
Bitrix24 powers the next generation of high-performing businesses  —  Chat, projects, CRM, and automation — all in one place.  Replace dozens of tools so your team moves faster, collaborates smarter, and grows effortlessly.
IDrive:
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data  —  Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Box data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.
Sponsor Techmeme

Featured Podcasts

Access:
 Is Roblox making the internet better or worse? We asked the CEO
A show about the tech industry's inside conversation, hosted by tech reporter Alex Heath and founder whisperer Ellis Hamburger.
Subscribe to Access.
Decoder with Nilay Patel:
 Anthropic's quest to study the negative effects of AI is under pressure
A show from the Verge about big ideas - and other problems.
Subscribe to Decoder with Nilay Patel.
Lenny's Podcast:
 Why LinkedIn is turning PMs into AI-powered "full stack builders" | Tomer Cohen (LinkedIn CPO)
Interviews with world-class product leaders and growth experts to uncover actionable advice to help you build, launch, and grow your own product.
Subscribe to Lenny's Podcast.
Great Chat:
 Code red: our favorite tech rivalries
A podcast mostly about tech. Brought to you weekly by Angela Du, Sally Shin, Mac Bohannon, Helen Min, and Ashley Mayer.
Subscribe to Great Chat.
Big Technology Podcast:
 How An AI Model Learned To Be Bad — With Evan Hubinger And Monte MacDiarmid
The Big Technology Podcast takes you behind the scenes in the tech world featuring interviews with plugged-in insiders and outside agitators.
Subscribe to Big Technology Podcast.
Channels with Peter Kafka:
 PBS Lost a Billion Dollars. Now what? With CEO Paula Kerger
Media and tech aren't just intersecting - they're fully intertwined. To understand how those worlds work, Peter Kafka talks to industry leaders, upstarts and observers.
Subscribe to Channels with Peter Kafka.
Add your podcast here
 

About This Page

This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 5:55 PM ET, July 28, 2025.

The most current version of the site as always is available at our home page. To view an earlier snapshot click here and then modify the date indicated.

From Mediagazer

Bloomberg:
Sources: WBD begins exclusive talks with Netflix to sell its film and TV studios and HBO Max; Netflix is offering a $5B breakup fee if the deal isn't approved

The Guardian:
Ireland, Spain, Slovenia, and the Netherlands exit Eurovision after Israel received an all-clear to compete; the BBC and Germany's SWR plan to participate

James Faris / Business Insider:
Kalshi strikes a deal with CNBC that will integrate Kalshi's prediction data into CNBC's channel, site, and app starting in 2026, days after striking a CNN deal

More News

Earlier Picks

Demetri Sevastopulo / Financial Times:
Sources: the US freezes tech export curbs on China to avoid disrupting trade talks and help President Trump secure a 2025 meeting with President Xi Jinping
Mediagazer memeorandum WeSmirch
Home River Leaderboards About Events Newsletter